soluus replied to your post: When I finally go back and re-read what is going...
Moreover Cor had also journeyed alongside Regis; they’re implied to have been friends. In the eyes of an Insomnian, he was pushed aside for just foreigners. Essentially. Everyone always gave the Kingsglaive shit for not being natives of the city.
It bothers me that they really could’ve played on that idea more, at least so that the actual protest of the King’s decision seemed more valid. Square is way too afraid to actually address a theme like that, but, they had enough guts to address with Petra and Nyx’s interaction.
And Petra is a Crownsguard, so I always wondered if Cor was like that too. Is he as prejudiced and xenophobic? For my headcanon I like to think not as severely, because he seems to spare people (like Loqi and Aranea, who he’s supposedly fought before -- or maybe Loqi and Aranea just always pull out before they die), I think Cor has been in the profession too long, but still, being replaced by someone younger and more skillful is always just gonna give you some kind of feeling, and he must’ve felt that way about the Kingslgaive.