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Final Fantasy X-2, Gippal and Baralai
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Baralai, currently wandering around the camp in a handstand (for lack of anything better to do), yelped out a laugh and nearly fell over. His hands dotted rapidly over the ground for a moment before he stabilized again. "Hello, Gippal the ass!" he sang in answer, one foot kicking forward and down to bounce off the top of Gippal's head. Gippal grabbed that foot before it could get away, and Baralai was forced to drop the other leg backward in order to keep his balance.

Gippal stared in fascination at Baralai, balanced on his hands, his legs now scissored apart in mid-air. In the spirit of experimentation (what Al Bhed doesn't love to experiment?) Gippal forced Baralai's ankle down. Baralai let his other leg drop behind him, keeping the weight even. He ducked his head to grin at Gippal, his dark-skinned face upside-down between his elbows, and his headband fell off. Baralai swayed backward and forward again, catching the headband between two fingers.

"You guys," Paine said in disapproval from the other side of the campsite, pointing the sphere camera at them. "You realize that if you break him, you'll have to pay for him, right?"

"But I'd own him then, right?" Gippal said, absolutely fascinated. He pushed Baralai's ankle down a little further. Baralai's legs were a single perfectly straight line in mid-air now, his toes pointed like a dancer's, the fabric of his normally-loose pants pulled tight in the middle... Gippal quickly became fascinated with that.

"Those don't go down much further, Gip," Baralai said, his voice a little thick from all the blood rushing to his head.

"Really? Let's try something else, then!" Gippal burst into a perfectly lunatic grin and threw Baralai's ankle away from him as hard as he could. Baralai's hands--such tiny hands--spun frantically on the ground and Gippal was forced to throw himself backward to evade Baralai's other foot as it flew around in a sudden and deadly circle. "Like a helicopter!" Gippal said in awe, propping himself up on his elbows and watching Baralai revolve in a frantic and ultimately unstable circle.

"What's a--oof--helicopter?" Baralai said, finally losing his battle with gravity and collapsing into a sand-covered pile a few feet away from Gippal. "Whoa, woozy..."

"Nothing," Gippal said. "Machina."

"Did you just call me a machina? Take that back, filthy heathen."

"Crazy Yevonite."

"Boys," Paine said, as if that was the worst insult of all.