A.N.: Written for the kink meme:

Gen or Noct/Any, NO ONE IS STRAIGHT
Noct realizes he's not straight, and has a hard time coming out. He finally decides to tell a friend... Who turns out to also be LGBTQIA.
So is everyone else he tells.
Give me Noct coming out to everyone (his dad? Bros? Ravus? Luna?) and they are ALL not straight (or cis.) All of them. And Noct was just too clueless to realize it.

Disclaimer: Don't own Final Fantasy XV

Chapter 5 – Gladiolus

When Noctis was nineteen, he told Gladiolus.

"That was a really dumb thing to do, you know."

"I'm your Shield. I was protecting you. It's kind of in the job description."

Noctis rolled his eyes. "He didn't attack me. He didn't even attack you! You were the aggressor in this situation."

"He was a bully, nothing more."

"I can protect myself against bullies."

"Bullies with knives? When I'm around?" Gladiolus shifted the ice pack over his left eye. "That's my department."

"He wasn't gonna pull a knife on me!"

"You don't know that!"

"He was just saying stuff! It wasn't even offensive."

"He called you a girl!"

Noctis sighed, and looked away.

A moment passed.

"Noct?"

Noctis didn't reply.

"Noct, talk to me. Was he right? Shit, am I misgendering you? Are you trans?"

Noctis held up his hand. "Stop! I-I'm not trans. I'm… genderfluid."

Gladiolus sat back in his seat. "Oh. How long have you known?"

Noctis shifted. "Since I was five."

Gladiolus paused. "So… are you a girl today?"

Noctis sighed. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his sylleblossom pendant. "I was this morning, when that guy… said I was. I'm not right now."

"Is it really that erratic?"

Noctis shook his head. "Most of the time, I'm male. I'm only female some of the time, but it usually lasts a whole day. It's rare I change in the middle of the day, but I've had it happen before."

Gladiolus gave a small nod. "So you wear that when you're female?" He inclined his head towards the pendant in Noctis' hands.

"Yeah."

"Okay. I'll look out for it, then." Gladiolus cleared his throat. "Thank you for telling me."

"I was gonna tell you. But the only other person I told face-to-face when I'd actually planned to before was my father. Turns out it's kinda hard to tell people. The words just… won't come out.

"Ignis knows. Prompto doesn't. It never really come up with Prompto, and I'm pretty sure he'll just accept it."

"Did you think I wouldn't?"

Noctis looked Gladiolus in the eye. "To tell you the truth, I had no idea."

Gladiolus looked away. "I'm sorry you felt like that. You shouldn't have to worry about telling my anything."

"Well, I'm not anymore."

Gladiolus chuckled. "Good to know that. And, seeing as we're sharing, I'll come out to you. I'm pansexual."

Noctis nodded. "Fair enough. Though I did kinda guess you weren't straight when you snogged Iggy at my birthday party."

Gladiolus chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah… that was weird. Won't be doing that again. Besides…" He cleared his throat. "I've got someone."

Noctis smirked. "Oh? And who might that be?"

Gladiolus gave a wry smile. "Oh. You know me."