[ It's not unusual for many of the people brought here to be unused to casual affection, even amoung their friends and families. Shino wasn't amoung that number, being someone who was used to being touched from a young age due to his chronically poor health, but he's not obtuse to how it's a difficult hurdle for many.
So while he waves off the statement about not forgetting his help, he doesn't mean anything by it. More like, why wouldn't he help? ]
It's fine, it's fine. You'll do the same in the future, I'm sure.
[ Pay it forward isn't a concept he knows of in that manner, but the mentality of someone who would is something he can recognise. He gestures for them to stop at a crosswalk, one of the more bizarre things he's run into here: you can't cross roads when and where you like in certain parts of the city without getting in trouble with the Moon Knights. It's so weird! But after months of this, he's adapted. Laws here might be nonsensical and foreign in logic, but they're still things to try to respect, as an unwilling guest or otherwise.
That said, he then holds out his hand to Link, casual as can be, the whole of his body language relaxed. ]
It's that way for most of us. [ True. For him, not a truth, but it's true for most people. ] People feel all different ways about it, but it's something to get used to, and get comfortable with. In whatever way makes the most sense for you. Wanna try?
[ Yes, he's just offering his hand over, but he also ended up ribbon tied to random strangers for an hour not long after he showed up. Even for him, that'd been a whole different level of bizarre. ]
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So while he waves off the statement about not forgetting his help, he doesn't mean anything by it. More like, why wouldn't he help? ]
It's fine, it's fine. You'll do the same in the future, I'm sure.
[ Pay it forward isn't a concept he knows of in that manner, but the mentality of someone who would is something he can recognise. He gestures for them to stop at a crosswalk, one of the more bizarre things he's run into here: you can't cross roads when and where you like in certain parts of the city without getting in trouble with the Moon Knights. It's so weird! But after months of this, he's adapted. Laws here might be nonsensical and foreign in logic, but they're still things to try to respect, as an unwilling guest or otherwise.
That said, he then holds out his hand to Link, casual as can be, the whole of his body language relaxed. ]
It's that way for most of us. [ True. For him, not a truth, but it's true for most people. ] People feel all different ways about it, but it's something to get used to, and get comfortable with. In whatever way makes the most sense for you. Wanna try?
[ Yes, he's just offering his hand over, but he also ended up ribbon tied to random strangers for an hour not long after he showed up. Even for him, that'd been a whole different level of bizarre. ]