Even while Gladio struggles, even while Ignis attacks the creature clinging to him...it's impossible for Gladio to miss that Iggy is attacking the damn thing with his teeth, and equally impossible not to fall in love with Ignis a little more for that. How could anyone else have a better partner than this? Who else would bite a tentacle like a feral animal to save him?
It's not something he lets distract him, of course - he can hardly afford, or manage, to be distracted from what's currently happening. It's just a little side note that, even under the circumstances, almost makes him laugh.
No doubt from Iggy's efforts, he feels the grip on the tentacle around his neck weakening, and without even thinking consciously about it, he changes his tactics. Iggy's damaged it, which means it has weak points now, a fact he incorporates instinctively as his hand closest to where Iggy wounded it shifts its grip to closer to where the wound(s) are. Then, rather than trying to pry it away from his neck - he simply holds the tentacle at those two separate points and pulls, with terrific force, in opposite directions.
The creature makes a horrible shrieking sound as, at one of the points of injury Iggy has inflicted on it, Gladio manages to rip part of its tentacle right off. It's hard to tell if it actually loses its grip because of this, or whether it lets Gladio go intentionally trying to get away, but it falls off him onto its back, legs flailing wildly as it tries to right itself.
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It's not something he lets distract him, of course - he can hardly afford, or manage, to be distracted from what's currently happening. It's just a little side note that, even under the circumstances, almost makes him laugh.
No doubt from Iggy's efforts, he feels the grip on the tentacle around his neck weakening, and without even thinking consciously about it, he changes his tactics. Iggy's damaged it, which means it has weak points now, a fact he incorporates instinctively as his hand closest to where Iggy wounded it shifts its grip to closer to where the wound(s) are. Then, rather than trying to pry it away from his neck - he simply holds the tentacle at those two separate points and pulls, with terrific force, in opposite directions.
The creature makes a horrible shrieking sound as, at one of the points of injury Iggy has inflicted on it, Gladio manages to rip part of its tentacle right off. It's hard to tell if it actually loses its grip because of this, or whether it lets Gladio go intentionally trying to get away, but it falls off him onto its back, legs flailing wildly as it tries to right itself.