#— ɪ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀsᴋ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴇ ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴄᴋʟᴇssɴᴇss ᴛᴏ ᴀ ᴍɪɴɪᴍᴜᴍ ( verse // undetermined. )

[descientia]

@avulsusprinceps —

“Your wish is my command.”

( random sentence starters // still accepting )

- — — Oh, Ignis smirks. And it isn’t ( entirely ) because he relishes the thought, but because he advises Noct on far more things than Noct ever heeds, and that rather leaves Ignis with the feeling that Noct never acts in accordance with Ignis’s wishes. At least, no more frequently than a broken clock displays the correct time, if even that frequently.

- — — Which is fine. He is the liege, and Ignis the sworn, after all.

- — — But playing at that going the other way around, even verbally, even in jest ( as Ignis is certain he must mean it, for surely Noct is not under the impression that he actually listens to Ignis even half of the time— ) pulls at the corners of Ignis’s lips and causes his eyes to glimmer dangerously with the temptation to say so many smart-assed things in reply.

- — — He stays them. Mostly. The punctuated words that he does choose — and the look that accompanies them — say enough.

- — — “Would that were so.”

[descientia]

@battleshot —

❛ I’m not joking with you this time. ❜

( random sentence starters // still accepting )

- - — There are times when one is relieved to learn that another’s comments were made in jest, and times when such is concerning.

- - — Though Ignis has been trained nearly since birth to receive such things with grace and humility, he likes receiving compliments. He really does. Whether it is on his cooking, or his sartorial tastes, or his intelligence, or any other of the number of myriad things that he strives ( and has striven ) to do exceptionally well, compliments are almost always received with demure words of polite gratitude that only barely misdirect from the truth of a self-satisfied smirk.

- - — When they are followed by a postscript such as that, however…

- - — Ignis pauses for a moment, and frowns.

- - — “Were you joking before?”

[descientia]

"Shout out to the people that don't know what the opposite of in is!"

- — —  “ Incredibly outrageous. ”

[descientia]

❝ Just relax. Stop torturing yourself. ❞

Life Is Strange sentence memes // still accepting

- — —  “ I am not torturing myself, ” he insisted. “ I am merely taking responsibility. ” A grave and serious responsibility which he had taken willingly onto his shoulders and proven insufficient at carrying out. It did not matter what the excuse was ( poor luck? sloppiness? the wrong decision at the wrong time, echoing throughout the tenuous strings of fate with all the delicacy of a butterfly’s wings? ); all that mattered was the outcome, which was as immutable as the stark fact of culpability.

- — —  Ignis had the decency to bow his head in contrition. “ You entrusted me with a duty, I accepted that duty, and I failed. I am sorry. ”

- — —  He handed the dead houseplant back to her.

[descientia]

"Broken puppets for sale. No strings attached."

- — —  “ Do you think me a dummy, Noct? ”

[descientia]

“why didn’t you tell me?”

five word prompts // still accepting

- — —  “ You would have reacted poorly. ” To his credit, he didn’t bother denying it.

[descientia]

“I’m not short. I’m fun-size.”

small/tall starters // still accepting

“ Do enlighten me on all the fun I’m afraid I’m missing out on. ”