Working to Exhaustion

Gladio isn’t stupid, he knows Ignis won’t use this unexpected downtime for, you know, downtime. Instead, he’ll just get started on something else, or find even more work to do or something. By now, Gladio has witnessed this kind of thing often enough that he knows no amount of reasoning, bargaining or even pleading is going to do anything. People think him stubborn, but by the Six, they’ve never met Iggy.

There’s really nothing for him to do but watch and wait until Ignis inevitably crashes and burns.

And so, it barely comes as a surprise when Noct calls him in near-hysterics just two days later, babbling that “Gladio, something’s wrong with Ignis!” and Prompto, in the background, says something that sounds like “panic attack”. Barely a surprise because the only part of this that truly is surprising is that Ignis is apparently worse off than Gladio thought if he didn’t even manage to slink away like a dying cat in order to suffer his nervous breakdown away from the kids like he usually does.

Whumptober day 26: Working to Exhaustion