[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!

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Comments

[photoshooter]

Only when it comes to food. Of course, they think when anyone comes in here, it's feeding time. Were you looking for a quiet place to eat?

[Somehow, he manages to keep herding the chickens away from Violet, even when they start to lose interest in his leafy offerings.]

The ladies stay cooped up in here, so the rest of the garden should be safe. Long as you're not scared of bees.

[shiritai]

[ You'd think she'd take the first opportunity given to turn tail and flee from the feathery menaces but Violet stays right where she is. She's eyeing the birds sort of cautiously, but she looks a little curious too. She knows what chickens are of course, but she's never actually encountered one or seen it up close. ]

Yes. The observation deck and the roof were already occupied and I would rather not make the trip back to my room if it could be avoided.

[ She just wants somewhere quiet to eat her lunch where she isn't gonna get shanked for having her guard down! Geez! Is it too much to ask! ]

Do these chickens belong to you?

[photoshooter]

Haha, I wish! Nah, they belong to the whole station. Or maybe to Bottom? Bottom's the one who handles most of the stuff on this floor. I just hang out here a lot.

[When the chickens have been more or less ushered away from Violet, he sits among them, settling his egg in his lap and continuing to break off bits of vegetable matter to keep the chickens pecking at the ground and not at his friend.]

I like taking care of them. Really sets my mind at ease.

[shiritai]

[ ... Even if the chickens don't really belong to him, he does look sort of at like he belongs with this little flock. Finally, Prompto Argentum has found his feathery people. ]

You seem very at home with them. And they, you.

[ She watches him feed the chickens for a moment and then slowly stoops down as well, still holding the bread close to her chest. ]

You said the bread wasn't good for them. Would they become ill if they had any...?

[photoshooter]

I don't think so. They just shouldn't eat too much of it, they'll get fat. Just like people, you know?

[B R E A D M A K E S Y O U F A T.

Words of wisdom from Prompto "Ramona Flowers" Argentum.]

[shiritai]

But occasionally is fine.

[ She nods to herself, looking a little thoughtful and then carefully breaks off a chunk of bread. She makes to hold it out, the way someone would feed something like a dog but then she pauses. ]

Is it easier for them to eat from the floor?

[photoshooter]

It's safer for your fingers. The way they peck, it'll end up on the floor, anyway.

[Says a man who may or may not have needed fifty thousand Band-aids the first week he started getting used to the chickens.]

[shiritai]

[ Violet nods. ]

It's safer for the chickens, too.

[ She doesn't bother to explain precisely what she means by this and instead breaks the bread into a few more, smaller chunks before scattering it on the floor for her new feathery acquaintances to peck at. ]

Here. You can have some of this, but not the whole loaf... ladies...?

[ S--she's still addressing the chickens so politely... ]

[photoshooter]

[What an absurd and baffling thing to say! Prompto forgets it immediately in the face of how cute this is. The ladies flock to Violet, clucking as chickens do, and eagerly peckpeckpeck at the floor. Prompto laughs as he is promptly and properly abandoned in favor of mothafuckin' bread crumbs.]

Look at you, making friends so fast! I think you're their favorite now.

[He's not bothered by this, grinning and rubbing his egg.]

You wanna name one of them? They're a lot easier to tell apart now they're getting bigger.

[shiritai]

I can?

[ She looks a little surprised, or at least as surprised as Violet ever looks. She drops her gaze to the happily clucking flock of chickens and even though her face doesn't really do all that much different, you can practically see the P4 flowers blooming around her head. ]

What sort of name would be appropriate for a chicken...

[photoshooter]

Any kind! If one of them reminds you of something, or they've got a personality that sticks out, then you could name them after that.

[If she's got flowers, he's got smiling suns and stars.]

I'll take a picture and write the name on it so everyone can know that's their name. Maybe it'll encourage other people to give them names, too!

[shiritai]

[ It's honestly comical, the serious look she gets on her face while she's staring down at the chickens. A name's important and she can't just toss one out willy nilly, even for a chicken.

She looks up at Prompto, squints for a moment and then cups her chin as she looks back at the chickens. ]

But that could prove to be confusing...

[ well it's definitely confusing when you don't follow that up with any explanation, violet. ]

[photoshooter]

What would?

[???]

[shiritai]

If I were to name one of the chickens after something I was reminded of, then we would have two Promptos here at the station, which has the potential to cause confusion.

[ 🤷 ]

[photoshooter]

Wh--hey!

[(｀△´＋）（;≧皿≦）(Ò ‸ Ó ╬)!!]

Are you saying I look like a chicken?!

[shiritai]

Yes.

[ She doesn't even miss a fucking beat. ]

The style of your hair greatly resembles the plume of feathers on their rear ends.

[photoshooter]

--!

[Prompto opens his mouth, but no words come out, just an indignant, undignified squeak. Speechless, he looks at her, looks at the chickens, points to the chickens, points to himself, and then whines, covers his face, and flops dramatically onto his back.]

Viiiii, you're killing me here.

[His hair does not look like a kingatrice butt!]

[shiritai]

[ There he go... Violet just tilts her head. ]

Did I say something wrong?

[ She has the decency to sound a touch troubled at least, but she pretty clearly doesn't see what the problem is, despite having just killed a man in cold blood without even blinking. ]

[photoshooter]

It's fashion! Fashion. Why's everyone gotta compare my hairstyle to animals' butts all the time?

[He raises his hands to gesture emphatically in the air, then lets his arms fall limply to the ground again. After a moment, one of the chickens hops up to roost peacefully on his chest.]

[shiritai]

So the resemblance was not intentional?

[ She... she thought he just really, really liked chickens... ]

[photoshooter]

[-9999 HP. FINISH HIM.]

I never even heard of chickens before I got here. We don't have them on Eos.

[shiritai]

So the resemblance is merely an accident...

[ She stares at him for a moment, laying there like Violet's just put a knife into him and then her lips purse a bit in a way that makes her look concerned. ]

Is it an unhappy accident?

[photoshooter]

[After a beat, he sits up.]

Vi, nobody wants to look like an animal's rear end. Even if the animal's reeeeeeeeeally cute.

[shiritai]

... ah.

[ Her brow creases and her her mouth tightens into a little line. That means she's gone and inadvertently insulted him, by the sounds of it.

She can't give him a proper bow of apology while they're both on the ground like this, but she can neatly fold her hands in her lap and lower her head. ]

Then... I sincerely apologize for making the comparison. My intent wasn't to offend, but that was the outcome and I'm sorry.

[photoshooter]

[He sighs.]

Aww, don't worry about it. Noct makes the same joke all the time. Except he calls it a chocobo butt, since it's yellow. And since we don't have chickens.

[Prompto thinks about it a little longer, then leans towards her, lowering his voice plaintively.]

Does it really look that much like a chicken butt?