"i came here to laugh at you"

“I’m not touching you, Garlond. Look. Look. I’m not touching you. That’s how effective I made the gyroscopic leveling gimbal on this thing. Look.”

“…”

“Look, see?”

“Not touching you, Garlond. Oi oi, look. See? Look, I’m not.”

“…”

“Not touching you. See?”

“Oi, Garlond. Look. I’m not touching you. Look. See? Still not touching you.”

“…”

“See? Look. Not touching you. Oi. Look. See?”

And another friendly reminder that he was explicitly badly wounded protecting those two other people to the point where the Void seeped into his wounds and nearly turned him into crystal from the inside out. Which was likely painful and slow.

And a third reminder that he very nearly did not make it out of the Void due to exhaustion and his injuries, and the only reason he did was because of Cid.

(Addendum that he very clearly throws his aether reader – an obvious metaphor for his clinging to the idea of besting Cid – away at the end of that arc, and never brings the subject of who’s better up again.)

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