[The one time that Ardyn is not trying to play Prompto like a fiddle is the one time where the strings snap. The boy is on his feet, looking at him with a defiance he's never seen from him before. White hot anger and frustration rolls his way, and while Ardyn does not shudder from such a reaction, he also hadn't expected it to be so heated. Was Prompto so sensitive to think that he was purposefully trying to raise his hackles this time? He had merely spoken a fact of life (proven to himself thousands of years ago), and if it settled ill in the other, how exactly was that his fault?
Purposefully or not, he'd still normally take a small ounce of pleasure in Prompto's displeasure. But his words are patronizing, speaking on his (lack of) humanity, and once again.... if there's something that Ardyn hates the most, it's others presuming to know him.
He could make a more honest remark about how it was equally hard to forget what he was like before he became immortal, in the same way it was easy to remember. A substantial part of himself dead and rotted, left behind several lifetimes ago. But the memory of all that he's lost is poignant. He hasn't forgotten, and he has to make very little effort to remember, like what Prompto is sarcastically suggesting.
And so, a cut for a cut. He's better at that than honesty anyway.]
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Purposefully or not, he'd still normally take a small ounce of pleasure in Prompto's displeasure. But his words are patronizing, speaking on his (lack of) humanity, and once again.... if there's something that Ardyn hates the most, it's others presuming to know him.
He could make a more honest remark about how it was equally hard to forget what he was like before he became immortal, in the same way it was easy to remember. A substantial part of himself dead and rotted, left behind several lifetimes ago. But the memory of all that he's lost is poignant. He hasn't forgotten, and he has to make very little effort to remember, like what Prompto is sarcastically suggesting.
And so, a cut for a cut. He's better at that than honesty anyway.]
And what would you know about being human?