Excuse you, they're typically gentle giants! ...When you don't have a handful of their favorite snack in your pocket. Which he did at the time. Don't ask why. Though that gets Noct to lift up his head, and stare. Slightly. Wh-?

"Sweet Shiva," he quietly exclaims, before smirking a little and falling right back into Lucian. "Much as we talk about the stars, we Eosians don't really get much of a chance to think 'bout what lies beyond the outer atmosphere back home. But the large differences in terrain and cultures were always interesting." He paused. "Well, except maybe the marshes. Could do without the Marlboro."