Scenting

I had this idea jotted down: "Shackled character cuddling up to a person bringing their meal"

the moment of 'is this an attack?'

...it definitely isnt

im going for sliiight ABO

onesmolhurt

ooo scenting!!!

Kaciart

yesss

like maybeeee

Prom is the only one with those atributes

A product of the testing

And its like scent is stronger in certain parts

Him shoving his face in the armpits gets old really fast

Gladio is afraid of crushing his skull

From the kneejerk reaction of slamming your arm down

Minumi

awwehfkgh ' HE'S A PRISONER THO 

what if 

he's non-verbal 

; A; 

Kaciart

oohhh yesss

Maybe he just wasnt taught

Minumi

or ; A; 

he was taught NOT to speak T AT

Kaciart

OMGGGG

ALSO

What if the words he HAD were all *awful*

Minumi

LIKE 

WHAT

Kaciart

XD

Its like angst uno

Minumi

xDDD

DRAW FOUR ANGST

Kaciart

'ill see your selective mutism and raise you ENFORCED 

But like uhhh

Isolation chamber??

All his words are punishments

so he can ask for them

alsoooo

Imagine him doing this with Niff guards

and getting smacked away

But its worth it for the bit of contact

Minumi

imagine him making little prrup sound T 0T

Draiad

and you know the touch he gets here is the first genuinely kind

even if its wary

Minumi

like a happy tick 

how did they find him?

was it an accident 

Kaciart

yeah im feeling like infiltrating a lab

They bring him for questions

Probably thought he was a prisoner in there in a sense

They freed him from a cell

But they still have to take care

Minumi

oohhh maybe they found him during one of his punishments in insolation? 

Kaciart

So theyre going to question him

ohhhhh

Minumi

so he'd be extra touch starved and clingy

Kaciart

yessss

i keep imagining Gladio moving to step in when he sees Prom going under Iggys arms

And then hes just baffled

Ignis trying not to spill the food

ALSO

8D

What if all his feeding was by tube

Minumi

would he even know how to eat properly? 

Kaciart

Thats what i was thinking

Like he'd be all 'this is nice 8D'

And let the food sit there

Minumi

probably trained that only "real" people eat 

would be confused when they bring it but don't eat it themselves 

Kaciart

When are you gonna shove the tube up my nose 8D

Minumi

like might even think he was being punished 

since they didn't bring a tube for him to eat 

Kaciart

ohhhhhh savage

What if he liked the smell of some more than others

Sweaty Gladio fresh from training makes him sneeze

Too MUCH

'Hes saying you smell Gladdy'

Ignis is always clean and probably uses cologne which Prom isnt that fond of

So he'd be like

*motorboats* this spot is good

Noct would be the fave

Lazy boy avoids working up a sweat

just warps away in training

Draiad

I can just picture him burrowing into one of their shirts while they're still in it

Kaciart

yessssssss

OMG

IMAGINE

One of them leaves a sweater behind

They took it off while there and forgot to pick it up

and the next day its in Proms bed

Minumi

curled around it, doing his little prrups T AT

Draiad

his now

never getting that back

onesmolhurt

until it smells just like him and then they can wear it again. to smell it up again

Kaciart

I imagine his room has a two way mirror

And he has an uncanny ability to know when someones watching

He'll just turn and look

Minumi

like those kids psychology rooms

adds a little to the creep factor 

like imagine they see him as acting quite animalistic 

but looking very human 

Kaciart

Probably sniffs the air

Can tell who's coming

i imagine his senses are way better than the others

Minumi

ooh that made me think 

if he realized it was Noct on the other side of the glass

rushing to it, and smushing against it excited 

Kaciart

I saw exactly thattt

rubbing his cheek off it

Minumi

Noct conflicted

he's like a pet, but NO he's a human being ... but is he???

like feels WRONG to treat him like an animal 

but at the same time, prom doesn't seem to know better

OMEGHHNGH 

WHAT IF THEY HAVE TO NAME HIM???

Kaciart

I was thinking that

Like when they ask him his name

he shows the tatt

Minumi

i mean at the facility why would he have anything other than a number 

Kaciart

oohhh

Imagine them going back to try and find files on Prompto

Looking for the number

Not the 3 but like

guards sent specifically to go through it

And they probably find all kinds of footage

Imagine if its early on

And they havent figured out why he wont eat

But once they get this information they realise, he's not doing it intentionally and theyve been starving him

And taunting him

Also the horrors that would be documented

I feel like it would be a bit like mowgli

Theyre also able to look far enough back ot see it was a human child that was experimented on

imagine Regis dropping by

Standing behind the glass and Proms like

'sniff sniff' Not Noctis but could be

I WONDER

Would age play a factor in how he reacts 

The people who hurt him were almost exclusively older

Guards could be younger

But the main damage was done by older people

Minumi

i was gonna ask, was ardyn ever part of the picture

Draiad

oh god minu if he was and distantly noct and regis smelled like him 

Kaciart

I imagine he was

Maybe not hands on but passing through

OMG Drai

But Ardyn wanted to be kept informed of progress

So maybe he never laid hands on Prompto so Prom would have a very odd view of him

Like he can smell his interest and enjoyment of whats happening

I also

Keep imagining Proms need for touch being taken advantage of by the guards