Byron has two concepts of himself. The negative one is “like classic Bruce Banner but worse,” the positive one is “professional asskicker.” That positive concept of himself has already taken quite a beating from his berserker episodes, but not like this. Now he is surrounded by people doing the thing he did best, the thing he can’t do any more.

And to put the cherry on top of it, Gravedust is doing combo moves with E-Merl instead of Frigg and they’re better than what Byron had in mind.

ICYMI, the alt text is a reference to a much older webcomic with arguably similar subject matter, from a time before just everyone had done the “RPGs but real but also not” kind of comic.