was looking through my screenshots again and noticed this gem:
Rare example of Jamil speaking nicely about Azul in front of others! Imagine him calling Azul "NRC's top businessman" to his face, without including a barb of some sort... and, of course, there's the fact that he knows Azul's psyche so intimately, and is willing to demonstrate this in front of others. Even Jade said that waking Azul would mean forcing him to "reject this happy dream"; Jamil was the only one to voice why this dream isn't actually happy for him.
(this was still, ofc, on the heels of Jade's dream):
anyways, just throwing this one in here too, because it's one of my favorite jamiazu interactions, and I can't just leave it out of a b7 dream conversation. purely because there was no reason for it to exist, and yet it does. I've never been able to work out Jamil's angle here, because why is he flirting back.
(the last bit sounds so much like duo magic that part of me expected it to be the lines for OB Jamil. wouldn't be the first time duo lines were said in-game! still, no complaints about what it ended up being 🙂↕️)
That first screenshot... it's such a compelling parallel to the book four conversation at the edge of the desert, where Azul is able to articulate why Jamil is unhappy and is the first to express urgency in pulling him out of the overblot. There we see how Azul understands Jamil's unhappiness, here we see how Jamil understands Azul's happiness. In both cases they're the mouthpiece to explain to the audience the character motivations of the other. It truly feels like a balancing of the scales.
(Jamil implying Azul always acts like a sketch comedy actor was so funny. Yeah, he's ridiculous...)
Truly the only reasons Jamil could have for that final exchange are 1) he just enjoys their banter and 2) he felt like Azul could use some reassurance/encouragement (albeit delivered in a sarcastic, condescending way). I like to think it's a bit of both. He just enjoys doing this nonsense with Azul (e.g. the entirety of Tapis Rouge, although he was never this nice); it's a pleasant development in their relationship, showing how they play off each other without animosity these days. I mean, look at their faces:
They are relishing this. As I said, Jamil recognized that this sort of exchange would serve as a pick-me-up for Azul, who was very embarrassed by his dream, even if he only expressed that in 7.5 (to Jamil!). And it did cheer him up: look at him, raring to go.
On the other hand: "Hmph. It's not like this is farewell forever." <- He had no reason to say this specifically. Obviously Azul knows that, he just brought up wanting to fight with Jamil, he was NOT asking a "when will we be reunited 🥀" question that warrants the sort of assurance one gives when sending a child to school or a lover to war. "It's not like this is our only chance to fight together" would have been a much more fitting response, but the fact that he didn't say that leads me to believe his mind was elsewhere. You'll have to forgive me for my blatant and shameless conjecture: I don't think Jamil wanted to leave him. The line was more for himself than Azul...
