>>4134Yup! Char could have chosen happiness. He had all the chances to kill Garma during their academy days, but poignantly did not.
It's even more explicit in the novel, where Sayla mentions that Char used to write her letters, where it seemed like he was forgetting about revenge, and genuinely making friends with Garma.
>>4135Yes, this! I also like to think that they did have a lot of genuine moments, it's just that the story didn't leave room to show it. The Origin manga is very dense, and cute slice-of-life hardly appears, it's pretty much all suffering and hardship (Even if it's a good story).
There's a cute scene in the manga where Garma asks Char if he was intentionally throwing a test for Garma's benefit, and Char laughing in response. This shows both of them being familiar with each other, Garma has realised by now that Char is a schemer, while Char finds Garma's perceptiveness and lack of self-esteem to be endearing. So he laughs. Notably, he doesn't seem to see Garma's perceptiveness as a threat, despite Garma basically having uncovered his modus operandi.
To cap the Charma off, here's a screencap from Super Robot Wars. Most of us know Gihren's Greed Garma, where
Char goes all pissy on Garma asking to be friends again, but the Super Robot Wars one is more interesting imo, because Quattro in Zeta is very looking back on his past with maturity and some self-awareness. And his reaction to Garma's being alive, comes across as startlingly genuine.