"I'd never ask you to give it up and I could never hate you, Iggy." The endearment is noticed, the sound of Ignis' voice, soft and maybe even affectionate quietly tumbled over in his mind and filed away to ease inevitable future anxieties.

"You're not losing anything. I'm not asking you to. I swear. We've all given up enough for our duties. Especially here, you should be happy while you can." He understands, thinks he understands. That Ignis would give up his chance at happiness outside their duty to Noct just because Gladio was mad at him left his mind reeling. There was no reason for that. None at all. Of course he would never ask that of him.

He wasn't losing anything and Gladio would make sure of that.