[VIDEO] 📷 UN: quicksilver80

[photoshooter]

Look!

[Without further preamble, Prompto holds his phone camera back to show what he's got cradled in the crook of his other arm: an egg that looks bigger than a chicken itself, so he for sure didn't get it from inside the station.]

It's a chocobo egg! Chocobo, I just know it! And I did the trick with the shell and the light and there's a baby inside, it's alive!

[He sets the phone down standing up and hugs the egg carefully and happily to his chest, grinning fit to split his face.]

I'm gonna be the best. Chocomom. Ever! I gotta introduce them to the girls downstairs, catch me there if you wanna say hi to baby in person!

[And for those who prefer more action-based interaction, Prompto will, in fact, be in the floor 2 chicken room, his egg held protectively in his lap with an arm always around it while he feeds and chatters to the chickens.

He's also taped a note to the chicken room door:]

ADOPT A CHICKEN!

Chickens are cute and don't grow very big, unlike basilisks and cockatrices. We lay the eggs you eat for breakfast and cook with! So please don't think about cooking us! We love you! Give us names and love us, too!

♩ є(･Θ･｡)э ♩ ⋋(◍’◊’◍)⋌ ♩ є(･Θ･｡)э ♩ ⋋(◍’◊’◍)⋌ ♩ є(･Θ･｡)э ♩ ⋋(◍’◊’◍)⋌ ♩ є(･Θ･｡)э ♩ ⋋(◍’◊’◍)⋌ ♩ є(･Θ･｡)э ♩

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[founderinglight]

[For a long moment after seeing the video, all Izunia can think is that it's too bad that Prompto never knew Ardyn before the Scourge and all of everything.

Then he shakes his head at the image and takes a deep breath, and makes his way down to where he's sure Prompto will be hanging out, if he isn't with Noctis. (Sometimes even when he is.)]

I see our little friends are starting to get fairly large.

[action]

[photoshooter]

I know, right? Look at them, I think they're all different kinds. Do you think they make different eggs?

[just assume it's action from here everyone]

[founderinglight]

At a certain point, an egg is an egg. They seem to be largely the same species.

[He bends to run a hand down the growing feathers of one of the larger chickens.]

I wonder if they have any other kind of bird they keep as livestock here?

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[riderofcharlemagne]

[That video was probably one of the cutest things ever. Moving down to the chicken room, and seeing the note on the door, that settles in right up there next to it.

Astolfo gives knock to announce his presence, then pushes the door open anyway.]

Hi hi-! Let's see the baby!

[photoshooter]

Hey, Astolfo! Here, c'mere.

[He waves him over, grinning, egg in his lap since he's sitting on the floor, as usual.]

You don't have chocobos in your world, right? Man, we guys from Eos are lucky.

[riderofcharlemagne]

Nope!

[He settles down on the floor next to Prompto and gives the egg a wave.]

No idea what they are, some kind of large bird I'm guessing?

CHICKEN TIME

[shiritai]

[ So Violet just came down here so she could have some dinner away from all the hustle and bustle of the rest of the station and she figured there wouldn't be anyone else down here. Which would be a solid plan, but Violet's eating bread, and there's chickens in here and it... well, it doesn't work out.

Which is how Violet Evergarden, Auto Memoir Doll and merciless tool of warfare has ended up herded into a corner by a whole flock of chickens who are all clucking and fluttering their wings busily at her to get her to please drop some of that bread, thank you. Poor Violet, on her part, actually looks quite perturbed by all this. ]

Excuse me... please let me through.

[ She's addressing them so politely as she tries to step over them, bless her heart. But every time she lifts her foot, the chickens flutter around even more excitedly and there's just nowhere to put it so she can actually move. She's trapped. Goodbye, Violet. ]

[photoshooter]

Girls? Where--oh.

[Oh no, Vi. Prompto doesn't want to laugh when she looks so disconcerted, but it's so funny. He wanders over, calm when she and the chickens aren't and smiling. Everything's gonna be daijoubu.]

They want your dinner. Come on, ladies, bread's not good for you. Don't you want some niiice, yummy veggies instead?

[He transfers Big Eggo into one arm so he can scatter some vegetable scraps for the chickens, leading them away from poor Miss Evergarden. Sure, veggies aren't as immediately exciting as bread, but when it's a contest between bread they can't have and veggies already on the floor, they soon cluck and run for the noms of least resistance.]

There you go, there's enough for everyone, you don't have to bully poor Vi. You okay, Vi?

[shiritai]

[ Violet stays stock still, back pressed into the corner until the last of the chickens have fluttered away to hoover up all that delicious salad. Once she seems assured that she isn't about to be pecked to death, she finally unglues herself from the wall, but her shoulders are still all wound up. She looks pretty spooked! ]

I'm uninjured. [ but she's also clutching her food close to her chest like one of the chickens might come flying at her to snatch it clean from her hands if she doesn't. ] Are they always this persistent?

[ They're so fluffy but their faces are so sharp... ]

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[dubiouslychthonic]

[Somehow Jetshard's not even surprised that the kid's got his hands on an unhatched specimen of his favorite animal. The fact that he's just... carrying it around, loose, is a little concerning, though.

Time to go put her imperially mandated expertise to decidedly imperially unsanctioned use, she supposes.]

Quite a find you've turned up, there.

[photoshooter]

You don't even know.

[At the very least, he seems determined to do his very best to keep the egg warm and safe, sitting as he is now on the floor with every part of him wrapped gently around it.]

There must be a really big hole between Eos and here, if me and Izunia and Noct and this little guy-slash-girl have all fallen through.

[dubiouslychthonic]

And a lucky break for the chick, that you found it before it could catch a chill.

[He seems to have settled in with it; she goes over and goes to one knee nearby. Carefully, because the chickens seem pretty intent on getting underfoot.] May I see it?

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[nightcure]

[ Naturally, Noct is here, and he's helping feed the chickens. Every so often, he looks at the egg. ]

Man, who would've thought this place had chocobos?

[photoshooter]

I don't think they do, actually.

[Prompto's rubbing the egg as carefully as he would handle an actual human baby.]

It must've fallen through the Fissures like we did. Poor thing. Remember the black one we found for Wiz back then? The one whose mom...

[He trails off, then cuddles up more to the egg, even placing his cheek against the shell and sighing.]

We did some good stuff, you know?

[nightcure]

Huh... Little guy is lucky it's all safe. You're gonna be the best chocomom, Prompto.

[ Noctis leans forward gently pressing a hand against the shell. ]

Yeah. Helping all those people, making them smile... it was good.

un: purrista

[beguiledcard]

[ Chocobo? That sounds... soooort of familiar? It's similar to a creature in one of the game series he enjoys playing, back home. Huh. ]

Any ideas on what to name it?

[photoshooter]

Don't even know if it's a boy or a girl yet!

...Oh no! I don't know if I'll be able to tell!! I gotta pick a name that works for both! ヽ(●ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ●)ﾉﾟ That's so much harder!!!

[beguiledcard]

Well, I was originally going to suggest picking a boy and girl name, and then waiting to see...

But that's a very good point.

Maybe... somebody around here would be able to figure this out for us? One of the androids?

[ AKIRA WHY WOULD ONE OF THE ANDROIDS BE ABLE TO TELL SOMETHING LIKE THIS... ]

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[stormkingofshepherds]

[Well, that gets a wistful smile from this Pokemon trainer.] Do you know how long it'll be until it hatches?

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[photoshooter]

No clue. I could see the baby inside, but I think it has to get a lot bigger before it's ready to hatch. Last one we found only took a few days, but I guess that's just how long it took for Wiz to hear about it before he got hold of us.

[stormkingofshepherds]

[He nods.] I suppose you're going to be keeping it close? That should help it stay warm, and I guess it'll make it easier for it to imprint on you as well.

[newlawtolight]

[She looks at the note, tracing the very strange sigils on the bottom of it, before entering.

Oh. Those are chickens then, huh.

She slowly comes over and leans in, staring at a particularly fat one.]

Eggs, hm?

[photoshooter]

[Poor Letty, always putting these bright JRPG souls on edge. Prompto hugs his chocobo egg closer to himself and watches her watch his chicken friends.]

Uh-huh. Eggs. ...You like eggs?

text; Robin

[matchmakes]

Looks like I'll get to see a baby Chocobo sooner than I anticipated, then.

[photoshooter]

Sure will!!! ヾ(≧∪≦*)ノ〃ヾ(≧∪≦*)ノ〃ヾ(≧∪≦*)ノ〃 I dunno when we're expecting but it shouldn't be too long now!