
a knock-down drag-out fight
Based on that tweet going around a little while ago, it’s totally something Gladio would do…..
“Through the years”
Or, the Gladnis thing that has been sitting in my folder for at least a month, that I’ve been screaming about with a friend on Twitter since then (they got to see the first sketches, lol) and that I’ve finally finished at 5 am today.
And now I have feels again.
This might have been inspired by something I said to a friend of mine.
And also because I’m a silly human and this is the first thing I’ve thought of during that scene in Brotherhood ep 4 in which Gladio casually leans against the doorframe while watching Ignis baking the mysterious dish for Noct
Aranea and Gladio living in a constant passive-aggresive friendly-foes war on trying to get Ignis’ heart and attention like
- Gladio tries to hurry on defeating all enemies when he sees Aranea’s airship nearby.
- ‘Quickquickquick we don’t need her, I’m strong enough, Ignis will see asjdgh’
- Aranea ‘accidentally’ landing nearby Ignis.
- Gladio ‘accidentally’ pushing Ignis many feet away future times he sees Aranea trying to land at his side.
- ‘Sorry, Iggy. I was saving your life’
- Gladio and Aranea unnecessarily aggressively fighting enemies trying to prove who’s stronger (ofc making sure Ignis’ watching).
- ‘Five down on my side!’, ‘Yeah, that’s cute, I defeated 7′, ‘You liar, ofc not, I was counting’, ‘Good to see you worry so much about my skills’, ‘I AM NOT WORRIED’
- Both subtly making the other stumble and fall during fights.
- Aranea swings her lance and ‘accidentally’ hits Gladio on the head.
- Gladio throwing Noct to an enemy and ‘accidentally’ missing and hitting Aranea instead (mostly when she’s nearby Ignis).
- Ignis is in danger.
- ‘I’M COMING IGGY’, ‘NO, YOU STICK TO YOUR PRINCE, I’LL GO’, ‘NO, NOCT CAN HANDLE HIMSELF’, ‘YOU’RE HIS SWORN SHIELD, STAY AT HIS SIDE WHILE I ATTEND IGNIS’, ‘FUCK NO’, ‘I INSIST’.
- While both fight each other on it, Noctis helps Ignis up to his feet.
- Gladio using Ignis’ love and loyalty for Noctis to his favor.
- ‘She’s bad, forget her. I’ve almost given my life ten times for Noct and she almost kills him once’.
- Aranea sassing him like
- ‘You almot die ten times and I almost kill you all once. That proves who’s the strongest here, huh?’
- ‘I AM THE SWORN SHIELD, OLDEST SON OF THE AMICITIA HOUSE, ANCIENT FAMILY OF THE STRONGEST WARRIORS OF LUCIS, I AM THE STRONGEST’
- ‘I’m Aranea. Pleasure.’
- Gladio raging when he sees Ignis and Aranea talking together because
- ‘I can’t compare to those levels of sass’
it’s over 9,000- ‘I handle a lance, so do you, Specs guy. We have a lot in common.’
- Gladio dropping his doublehand sword to start fighting with a lance.
- ‘I handle EVERYTHING, bitch’.
- Aranea approaching Ignis post fight like
- ‘I feel a bit exhausted. I heard you’re some sort of medic as well. Mind giving me a potion, pretty face?’
- Gladio throwing himself to the ground like
- ‘AAAAGH, IGNIIIIS, THEY SHOT ME. I’M HURT. PLS COME HELP MEH’
- Gladio subtly smirking at Aranea while Ignis checks him.
- Gladio carrying Ignis out of the blue (ignoring his complaints) and smirking at Aranea.
- ‘I can carry him and he loves it’
- Aranea so upset cause she’s so strong but can’t carry Ignis (or hasn’t tried).
- ‘My love for Ignis is so big my body became this muscular out of love’.
- ‘Yeah but I’ve got these’
- Aranea bragging her boobs to Gladio
- Gladio so upset because everybody loves boobs and she’s got x10 than him.
- Gladio bragging about how he’s known Ignis for a lifetime.
- Aranea sassing him like ‘Yeah and everybody gets tired of the old stuff. So move aside and give a turn to the new things, will you?’
- ‘I have a hella rad tattoo’
- ‘I lead an entire army’
- ‘I sleep with him every night in a small sized tent’
- …’dammit’.
Bonus (not so headcanon but still):
- Ignis turns out to be asexual.

art by saku_ff15.
Gladiolus is named after the Latin word for “sword”. Because of this, the gladiolus flower meaning is strength, remembrance, integrity.
It also symbolizes infatuation. By giving a gladiolus to someone, the giver sends the message “you pierce my heart” to the receiver, because of the flower’s pointed shape.