Sebek and Silver (pt1)

Sebek and Silver have known one another for “about 10 years” because they trained together under Lilia from the time they were children. They say that there weren’t many children their age back home Sebek says that Silver was the only boy his age that he knew at all, but he insists they are not friends.

Sebek has an angry voice line about Silver giving him dumbbells on his birthday, assuming that Silver is trying to insinuate that Sebek does not train enough.

When Kalim asks if Sebek knows Silver Sebek explains, “I was taught by Lilia, alongside Silver. As loath as I am to admit it, he is my fellow pupil”.

Silver leaves the campfire alone during Vargas Camp to help a missing group of students because no one volunteers to go with him. Ruggie asks Sebek if he is sure he doesn’t want to go with Silver since “you two are always together” and Sebek insists they are not. “We simply happen to work together often as Malleus’ guards. He makes for a more competent guardsman than the rest of the rabble, at least.”

This is a very rare instance of Sebek making a comment that almost sounds like he is complimenting Silver, as—in general—Sebek seems to never not be competing with him. When they are reunited during Spectral Soiree Silver says he is relieved to see that Sebek is largely unscathed and Sebek responds, “I could hardly allow myself to fare worse than you”, and during Vargas Camp he agrees with Silver’s decision to complete their most time-consuming task first. Sebek insists, however, “Silver’s argument did not persuade me. I had the same idea from the start.”

Silver says, “Then we’re on the same page” and Sebek yells, “We most certainly are not!” Silver compliments Sebek repeatedly during Vargas Camp, telling him he does “nice work” getting mud out of his clothes and he has a “good eye” but Sebek always follows with “I wasn’t expecting praise from Silver” and “That’s the very least one should expect of Malleus’ personal guard!”

Sebek is often trying to scold Silver, telling Silver that he needs to work on his attention to detail during Vargas Camp. This scolding often comes in reaction to Silver complimenting Sebek, such as when Silver says that Sebek always does so well in class that he should “take a leaf from your book”. Sebek responds, “If I graced you with a leaf from my book you’d probably just fall asleep on it. These facts are rudimentary in the extreme.”

When Silver thanks Sebek for during the event and volunteers to take over Sebek’s cleaning duties so that Sebek can rest, Sebek responds, “At least you show proper respect…I suppose I can trust you with some menial chores.””