Gladio well duh, yes, he has tats AND scars. Guy is known for his tat and scars! He has a MASSIVE bird of prey tattooed across his back, arms and chest. A symbol of his role as Shield.
He has scars, most notably one across his eye, earned saving Noctis from a drunk with a knife, and one across his forehead and a HUGE one across his chest from his battle with Gilgamesh.
Or whether Gladio deliberately denied himself medical attention. Or the very basic of attention to clean the wounds and such, but nothing to actually heal him. Why else would he have scars like that?
Aerith has very few scars, but she has a couple. Because she's NOT a prim, delicate little princess that lets others do things for her. She's happy to get down and get her hands dirty!
And come on, it might me headcanon-y of me to think this way, but you KNOW she was a little daredevil as a kid and probably climbed trees and rocks and dug in the ground with her bare hands and ran everywhere!
I've seen kids. My niece shattered her wrist running into a wall. My brother cut his head open slipping off a rock. lol. Kids do dumb stuff. I think Aerith, for all her wisdom, probably does a LOT of dumb stuff!
Swearing. Gladio swears. Yes, he says 'fuck', not as often as he'd like, but he does. Aerith............... I think you'd have to be in a REALLY dire situation for her to drop the f-bomb! But I think it's in her vocab, just something rarely used.
ive always assumed that potions have a period of time where they have to be used to avoid leaving a scar, but i have no basis for that really. just seemed a convenient reason. and iirc gladio kept the scar bc he was proud it was his first?
That was another option I was leaning into. The idea he, not just liked them, but liked the reminder of them. It'd make sense given his personality. A physical representation of both his strength and his weakness.
Right now he'd be like okay I get it where is the mistletoe but under normal circumstances the brain would short-circuit for a moment because what just happened and also why
You are very welcome! ^^ I won't lie, I had considered that tag for a few days while my brain was trying to reboot and that was the best outcome! I'm glad it worked!
Doing all the things!