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Dissolving into laughter, Noctis shook his head and gave Ash a gentle shove, making sure to be careful so he didn't jar the egg in his lap too much.

"You're an idiot!" he said playfully, a fond look on his face as he let out a sigh through his laughter. "You'd be the first singing member of the Kingsglaive or something like that. I'd pay to see the looks on some of the higher ranking members faces."

Ash laughed as he's shoved, fluidly shifting back as he was.

"Well, I beat the higher members didn't get a cooked breakfast from you did they? It's not like we'll be in the middle of a fight and I'll bust out my guitar and like, start singing about how we're going to wreck their lives. Or try to make things weird by looking our enemies in the eye and singing 'When I Think About You, I Touch Myself'. That's a real song back home, I swear to God, I didn't make that up!"

"I'm not allowed to cook most of the time so no one has ever had to eat breakfast made by me," Noct admitted, blushing a bit as he laughed again. "Bullshit. There's no way that's a real song!"

Ash gave him a look and sat up, retrieving his guitar. He strummed it, checking it was in the right sort of key for this song. And then he sat on the bed, folded his legs under him and began to play. Haze Conflict, completely unaware of what his trainer was about to perform, curled up beside his leg and enjoyed the melody. And he began to sing. When he think the chorus...of course he'd look to Noctis and sing it with nothing but confidence, even waggling his eyebrows at him.

Fortunately for Noctis, he had to ad-lib in the middle of the second verse.
"You're the one who makes me come runnin'
You're the sun who makes me shine
When you're around, I can't remember
The rest of the lyrics-"

Oh my god.

Leave it to Ash to actually bust out his guitar and sing this apparently real song. Noctis starts laughing as soon as his friend starts, both arms curling around the egg as he tries to contain himself.

"See you're totally making it up!" he managed to get out, shaking his head out of amusement as he looked over at Ash. "That's terrible, you know that right? You have some really weird music in your world, Ash."

"It's totally real I swear!" He held up his hands defensively, laughing as well. He ended up bending over the guitar with his laughter. "I just can't remember it entirely! I haven't heard it in a while. But yeah, I mean. We got so many types of music I could never play it all to ya. But there's tons of hilarious songs like that. Clearly that one should be my debut single here in Johto."

But he was still snickering. He's not really gonna do that.

"Yeah, clearly. You'd be a hit!" Noctis teased. Though, honestly, a song like that would probably go over pretty well. Hilarious stuff like that usually does. "You just might want to be careful considering how many little kids run around this place like they don't have a care in the world. The last thing anyone needs is them singing your terribly wonderful songs."

"I got songs that are suitable for kids! Heh, I mean. There's a bunch Dad used to sing to me when I couldn't sleep. And he taught me a couple of songs in Irish actually. I taught those to my Pokemon too."

None of them were singing anything daft...yet. Some where definitely gonna end up picking up on those songs too in time. He lowered his gaze to the guitarstroking along the strings. "Some of them are a bit daft, like a nonsense song about seaweed. But others are a bit more...well they've got actual meaning to 'em. But nobody here knows Irish except for me I think."

"Irish huh? I'd like to hear some of those sometime." He'd heard a couple different languages since he got here and it was kind of fascinating, in a way. You didn't really run into a lot of that where he's from. There were people with varying accents but different languages?

Well, the Astrals had their thing but that was the Astrals.

"You'd like to hear some of those songs or just the language?" For him the idea of not having a ton of foreign languages was just as strange. How could that happen? The world was so vast and history being what it was, it seemed inevitable that people would end up using different words for things.

And being raised by a man from rural Ireland, his dad had been determined to use it. Hell it was Oisin's first language - English was his second one.

"Both?" Noctis admitted before laughing. "We don't really have a lot of different languages back home so coming here and learning that it was a thing in so many worlds..it's really cool."

And hey, just because he hadn't paid a whole lot of attention in school most of the time didn't mean learning wasn't something he enjoyed.

"It's kind of amazing that your home didn't have a mess of languages. I don't even know how many there are back home. More than I could ever count!"

He put aside his guitar. "Let's just start with a few words. So; 'Dia dhuit. Is é mo ainm Ash.' means 'Hello, my name is Lucy'."

"The only real difference is some people have accents depending on where they live but everyone still speaks the same language," he mused, curious about whether or not there had been different languages at one point. It's not something that had ever come up in his studies.

Noctis wasn't sure he was going to be able to pronounce what Ash had said at all but he can't help but squint at his friend with a faint grin.

"You definitely said Ash, not Lucy."

"Ah, you're too smart for that. So at least you know one word in Irish!" Congrats Noctis, you know that Ash's name is Ash in Irish! He grinned and carried on.

"If I call you 'chara' that means 'friend'. But the Irish put their sentences together differently. Like, instead of describing something before the thing, you it after. So if I wanna call you my best friend, it's 'chara is fearr.' The description comes after what you're describing."

Playfully rolling his eyes, Noctis gently elbowed his companion.

"Jerk," he muttered before frowning slightly. "Wait, why though? Put the description after the thing, I mean."

That just seemed weird to him but, well, he also has no basis outside of his own language.

Ash shrugged. "It's the same in French and a bunch of other languages apparently. Mind you I sucked at French so don't ask me anything about that." And if that seemed weird, he's gonna have a fun time when Ash gets onto gendered pronouns!

"When I was little and still learning both languages, I'd get them mixed up sometimes and say shit like 'I'm gonna wear my jumper red'. Still sometimes do get mixed up at times, cos my head's thinking in one language and out it comes. And there's words in Irish that don't have an English word to go with them. So, one of them is aduantas. You know when you're in a new situation or surrounded by new people you don't know too well, and you're kinda nervous and anxious about it? That feeling is aduantas."

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