Between realizing halfway through eating his breakfast burrito that he could really only taste the tortilla and then discovering some weird program that can't be deleted on his phone -- and that's with the Wall software on his device -- he just kind of needs things to be normal for once, thanks. Which is why he's still going to the gym. He's going to punch his cares away. Like any decent human being.
On his way through the gym though, he passes the treadmills and catches sight of someone. A really, really scrawny someone who looks like he could really use the workout. He looks weirdly familiar, is the thing. And, well, going to the gym is as much a social outing as anything, so Gladio thinks nothing of striking up conversation, in a completely normal way.]
You know there are settings other than "grandma's afternoon stroll", right?
[Seriously, is the guy jogging or shambling?
Gladio is lowkey checking the guy out, not because he's checking the guy out, but he's seriously trying to place him. His hands are in his hoodie pockets as he looks the guy over. Gladio, meanwhile, definitely looks way more filled out than he did as a teen. He was never small, exactly, but he didn't start caring about keeping in shape until the tail end of when he knew Noctis.
Though the judgmental tone would definitely be familiar, considering how much he picked on the kid. So he may or may not be jogging some memories himself.]
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Between realizing halfway through eating his breakfast burrito that he could really only taste the tortilla and then discovering some weird program that can't be deleted on his phone -- and that's with the Wall software on his device -- he just kind of needs things to be normal for once, thanks. Which is why he's still going to the gym. He's going to punch his cares away. Like any decent human being.
On his way through the gym though, he passes the treadmills and catches sight of someone. A really, really scrawny someone who looks like he could really use the workout. He looks weirdly familiar, is the thing. And, well, going to the gym is as much a social outing as anything, so Gladio thinks nothing of striking up conversation, in a completely normal way.]
You know there are settings other than "grandma's afternoon stroll", right?
[Seriously, is the guy jogging or shambling?
Gladio is lowkey checking the guy out, not because he's checking the guy out, but he's seriously trying to place him. His hands are in his hoodie pockets as he looks the guy over. Gladio, meanwhile, definitely looks way more filled out than he did as a teen. He was never small, exactly, but he didn't start caring about keeping in shape until the tail end of when he knew Noctis.
Though the judgmental tone would definitely be familiar, considering how much he picked on the kid. So he may or may not be jogging some memories himself.]