Green eyes noted the wistful smile and felt badly for the boy inside of the man in front of him. Ignis didn't even have too much to say about his own father and so King Regis had become that to him. And no one, not even Tony got away with badmouthing the man.

Ignis smiled sympathetically with a nod, having dealt with something similar with Noct, the anger, the resentment, but through it all there was love and admiration. Tidus wasn't Noctis by any stretch of the imagination, but in that there were similarities between them.

"Well now you're here at least for the time being. And even if it isn't at the sport you're so good at playing, you've put your energy into a much bigger job, one that makes you a big star to those you unselfishly assist."