I've just realized something about Gilan
I think, and I believe most of the fandom agrees, that Gilan exudes sheer chaotic energy. Something about that man guarantees he is a menace when he wants to be. But, interestingly, whenever we see Gilan put into stressful situations in the series, Gilan keeps his shit together better than Halt does! He may be more expressive, but he takes far less drastic actions and covers all of his legal bases more thoroughly. By this I mean that Gilan, in that one short story I have forgotten the name of, gathered evidence and attempted to go through legal channels, where as Halt at roughly the same time period is straight up forging documents. Halt is way less afraid of getting in legal trouble, and therefore kinda just Does Shit, and Gilan doesn't.
This leads me to two conclusions
One, which is actually reasonable: Since we primarily see Gilan through the perspective of a young, impressionable apprentice who is almost always in a very scary situation, Gilan holds himself to a higher standard when around Will than when he is with his mentor. This leads to him looking more responsible to the audience than he actually is.
Two, which is much much funnier: Gilan saw past Halt's blank demeanor and actually realized how batshit insane he can be and went "Nope, not doing that", and now specifically tries to be more reasonable than his mentor. This is in direct contrast to Will, who picked up those behaviors immediately and simply does the same thing as Halt but with a massive smile on his face
