#I was going to pick something amusingly trivial for the compliment to be about but figured that's up to Prom 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?”