How dare you show you care. Frankly, man, I won't stand for it.
[ The absolute worst, most effortless impression of offense anyone has ever done. It isn't just humor that has him failing to commit, it's...
Well it's kind of flirting around a more serious sentiment. Makes it hard for him to decide exactly how he wants to handle this, to determine where the line falls between being too awkwardly sincere or too irreverently dismissive. Trying to pick and choose because too much of one might mean driving someone away, and he's fucking terrified of that. Alternatively, it might also mean opening himself up too much so that when something else drives them away it sucks harder than it already would have. It's probably easy for other people, he thinks, to react to this kind of thing. To just... have a normal goddamn conversation and be themselves authentically during moments of emotional intimacy without overthinking it.
He spends a couple of seconds cursing himself, frustrated, negotiating some kind of balance before he ultimately decides to just be blunt. ]
Seriously, I'm not... good at this. Any of it. Just-- so you know, no amount of gratitude-straining or... anything else is gonna make me excommunicate you. I'm-- I genuinely don't know how to react to it, it's baffling as fuck that you give enough of a shit to do it, so if it seems like I'm being... weird about it, it's just that. Not that I don't... like it. Hell, even saying all of this has me freaking myself out, so don't expect anything out of me aside from knock-knock jokes and catchy commercial jingles for like a week.
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[ The absolute worst, most effortless impression of offense anyone has ever done. It isn't just humor that has him failing to commit, it's...
Well it's kind of flirting around a more serious sentiment. Makes it hard for him to decide exactly how he wants to handle this, to determine where the line falls between being too awkwardly sincere or too irreverently dismissive. Trying to pick and choose because too much of one might mean driving someone away, and he's fucking terrified of that. Alternatively, it might also mean opening himself up too much so that when something else drives them away it sucks harder than it already would have. It's probably easy for other people, he thinks, to react to this kind of thing. To just... have a normal goddamn conversation and be themselves authentically during moments of emotional intimacy without overthinking it.
He spends a couple of seconds cursing himself, frustrated, negotiating some kind of balance before he ultimately decides to just be blunt. ]
Seriously, I'm not... good at this. Any of it. Just-- so you know, no amount of gratitude-straining or... anything else is gonna make me excommunicate you. I'm-- I genuinely don't know how to react to it, it's baffling as fuck that you give enough of a shit to do it, so if it seems like I'm being... weird about it, it's just that. Not that I don't... like it. Hell, even saying all of this has me freaking myself out, so don't expect anything out of me aside from knock-knock jokes and catchy commercial jingles for like a week.