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[photoshooter]

You're older than me?!

[He's startled, sure, and then the other shoe drops, and he turns a fluorescent shade of flustered pink.]

Oh. Th...thanks. [aaaaaaaaaaaaa] I. I don't get that a lot, heh.

[whichcraft]

By a year! Jeez, it's not like I'm pushing retirement age.

[Wow. Who knew a human being could turn that color of awkward. SCIENCE.]

What don't you get a lot? That you look twenty-five?

[#innocent]

[photoshooter]

W-well, yeah! Gladio calls me "kid" sometimes and he's only twenty-three. If I were twenty-five I'd be older than the whole party!

[whichcraft]

S'not my fault you have a mature swagger. And a deep, manly voice. And like...I don't know, what else do twenty-five-year-olds have. Quarter-life crises?

[photoshooter]

[Snrk.]

"A deep, manly voice."

[Says Robbie Daymond, pitching his voice up an octave.]

Let's see, twenty-five... I guess they also have jobs they hate? And their own apartments? [Gasp!] And a dog! I will totally have my own dog by twenty-five. I'll rescue him from the pound and I'll name him Lucky and he'll be my stalwart companion always.

[whichcraft]

Oh, yeah? What kind of dog? Like a mutt dog or a specific type of dog?

["Lucky", she files away for a later question. People don't name things without reasons; it should be interesting to see what Prompto comes up with for his.]

[photoshooter]

I'll know when I look into his eyes and see that his home's gonna be in my heart.

[His heart, which both of his hands are covering now as he stares up into the rosy, dog-smelling future.]

[whichcraft]

You sound like the absolute worst person to shop for on a birthday. "What do you want? I'll know it when I see it!"

[She laughs, at the joke and at his beatific posture both.]

[photoshooter]

[He cackles.]

Oh no, I'm way easy to shop for. My friends have gotten me camera accessories and chocobo merchandise for the last five years running. But a pet is different! You gotta know. ...Don't you? I've never had my own pet.

[whichcraft]

I mean...yeah, I guess. It's not like you can just take a pet back if it's not the right size or shape or color, the way you could a sweater or something.

[Hmmm.]

What are you going to do if the right dog doesn't look like a "Lucky"?

[photoshooter]

I can't name him Spot, Noct already named his chocobo Spot. And what kind of rescue dog isn't a Lucky, really?

[He thinks about it, then adds piously:]

Works for a girl dog, too.

[whichcraft]

That's a really cute name for a girl dog, actually. Cuter than for a guy dog, if you ask me.

[photoshooter]

Mayyybe I should get two dogs! Girl Lucky and Boy Lucky. That won't get confusing.

[whichcraft]

From the same litter? Or different kinds?

[photoshooter]

Probably different kinds if they're both rescues, right?