You Know Those Research Expeditions They Did In The 1800s? With The Tall Ships? That Kinda Thing. But

a scrap idea about a prince or whatever and he ends up in an arranged marriage with a knight from one of the fa/rie courts and is totally unprepared for how…..agressive fa/rie children are

When I think of Gladio as pregnant, I think of him hardly showing at all, like no one knows he’s pregnant (Even Gladio). It’s a surprise to everyone when he gives birth. His second pregnancy though, he is HUGE. There is no way he can hide it. His t-shirts can’t even cover most of his stomach 

ok but this is actually the bEST IDEA EVER LMAO??

With the first one

Then with the second one

"We need to find Noct.” He sounded slightly disappointed, “Because if we don’t, I can’t protect you… Or our child…”

🎁 for @charactersyoudontknow, who just keeps on delivering (pun intended). this fic in particular lit a fire under my ass and made me want to experiment with storyboard-ish drawing. you can read 'Trying to Keep Up' here (and check out their other works too)!

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Take care of it Jimbo

we neeeeeed to see gladio’s reaction to when he goes into labor w his first kid (playing off of the “he refused to accept he was pregnant” idea haha)

Oh and I know the PERFECT set up for this

Imagining that Gladio is absolutely in DENIAL™ and doesn't even question that it could be what is possibly slowing him down and making it more dangerous to continue on this journey with Noctis—no no

He feel he needs to prove himself and face GILGAMESH in order to secure that he is fit to protect the prince—sole surviving heir of the throne.

Meanwhile he'd been (poorly) hiding that he could be pregnant and so when he deviates from the group, he hikes out with Cor to the fighting grounds.

Though thankfully he maybe only gets like partially through the first section before:

Contraction hits—water breaks.

So the man is wholly reliant on the Immortal Cor to help him through. (Who may or may not have some prior experience of his own, up to you to decide)

But it happens fast.

Guy's already pushing before he even says ONCE that he's pregnant 🥴

bringing in the changing of the seasons with harvester and john

usually the harvester is this barely understandable figure that only john can see properly, all the seasons at once pressed down into a form, the roots from the earth curling and twisting like bone and muscle and sinew, but sometimes

he sticks around in a form more recognizable as a man, gets down in the dirt on his knees, and helps deliver the upcoming harvest with his own hands

The Yiling Laozu’s New Development, Courtesy of Hanguang-Jun

gonna be a long night

concepts charts from Reno’s drive