#also i love that charles's hypothetical situation is mad power drilling ghost

[kickingtheladder]

Edwin: In that extremely specific incident, you will hit the mad driller with your cricket bat.

Charles: Look, I've been your best mate for thirty years so I know you don't like to try new things but it would make me feel a lot better if one of these decades you really did learn to defend yourself.

EDWIN CAN'T CONTEMPLATE A WORLD IN WHICH CHARLES WILL NOT BE THERE TO DEFEND HIM. He has SO MUCH FAITH in Charles I'm fine I just need a minute hang on

MEANWHILE Charles is determined to always be there to defend Edwin but is also painfully aware that sometimes you a) try to defend someone and you end up dying instead, and b) sometimes you can't defend even yourself so he wants to know that in the event of his failure Edwin won't be defenseless. But he can't TELL Edwin that out loud (emotional honesty, what's that, have we tried being repressed instead?) so instead he's trying to gentle Edwin into it by joking about it (and also by deploying his extremely charming smile)

Anyway this whole scene is just so delightful. They're so comfortable with each other! They're in their shirtsleeves! They're so fondly amused by each other! There is SO much physical contact! Their faces! We learn so much about them and their relationship!