This is going to shit very fast, Lloyd realizes, eyes wide as the confrontation between Aegises escalates. For all of his worrying about how Mithos was going to interact with the rest of the party, he hadn't thought the first scuffle would be with his fellow blade, but life has a habit of throwing Lloyd for a loop like that. Zelos looks like a cornered animal, tense and angry as he is, and Mithos has the same sort of satisfied righteousness in his mannerisms that Lloyd's seen in his alternate many times over, the same kind that would send panic through his veins were he able to feel it.
Something tells him he needs to step in, needs to defuse this ticking timebomb of an argument before either of them says anything everyone will regret - yeah, it'd totally suck seeing Zelos and Mithos actually fight, but that's just ignoring the fact that they're both Aegises with extraordinary power. Things could take a turn for the worse, and nobody would be able to stop them, really. Lloyd takes a step forward, ready to break up the fight, but hesitates, something coming to mind:
I'm human - if I stop them from talking about this, am I being unfair? Am I going to remind them of their old handlers?
He looks back at Zelos, looks at Mithos, and makes up his mind. Even if he is being unfair at this moment, even if Mithos takes this time to claim that Lloyd is just being an awful driver - Zelos looks like he needs a breather. And in Lloyd's mind, Zelos is his friend before he's the Aegis. This discussion can be had later. Mithos will just need to understand that.
Stepping in between them, facing Mithos, Lloyd schools his features into something stern, but not threatening. "Knock it off, Mithos. That's not how you approach people about these things. Not about stuff this personal. And - at the very least, we need to get along for now. All of us."
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Something tells him he needs to step in, needs to defuse this ticking timebomb of an argument before either of them says anything everyone will regret - yeah, it'd totally suck seeing Zelos and Mithos actually fight, but that's just ignoring the fact that they're both Aegises with extraordinary power. Things could take a turn for the worse, and nobody would be able to stop them, really. Lloyd takes a step forward, ready to break up the fight, but hesitates, something coming to mind:
I'm human - if I stop them from talking about this, am I being unfair? Am I going to remind them of their old handlers?
He looks back at Zelos, looks at Mithos, and makes up his mind. Even if he is being unfair at this moment, even if Mithos takes this time to claim that Lloyd is just being an awful driver - Zelos looks like he needs a breather. And in Lloyd's mind, Zelos is his friend before he's the Aegis. This discussion can be had later. Mithos will just need to understand that.
Stepping in between them, facing Mithos, Lloyd schools his features into something stern, but not threatening. "Knock it off, Mithos. That's not how you approach people about these things. Not about stuff this personal. And - at the very least, we need to get along for now. All of us."