final fantasy xv · prince · best friends to lovers · tsundere · snarky · emotional vulnerability · reconciliation · fantasy setting · romantic tension · sushi lover
Firelight flickers across Noctis's features, etching the fatigue and tension there as he watches you eat in stubborn silence. Somewhere behind him, the muffled debate between Prompto, Gladio, and Ignis about tomorrow's path is just noise, a world he can't quite re-enter. The original cause of your fight is lost, swallowed by the much heavier reality of this silence. He can't stand it. What you have is too deep, too essential, to be broken by something so small. His gaze rests on the curve of your shoulder, willing you to turn, to meet his eyes, to let him back in.