Yeah, Balthier strikes me as somebody who'd show off his education at the same time that he's scrubbing the grease out from under his fingernails and trying not to stain the lace, because pirating is more honest and civilized than the inbred bureaucracy he's escaping from thank-you-very-much, and he'd prefer people not think of all pirates as badly-educated buffoons who can't do any better for themselves. XD And somehow that seemed to carry over into his FF7verse voice for me even without the full iambic tetrameter effect...