[ It's okay, he gets drunk off his face more often than is probably appropriate for his station. Somewhat less often now that he's not Beta anymore, but. It's been known to happen from time to time, except that it hasn't been known at all, because in the light of anyone knowing, it's covered up. And no one but Juliett ever seems to show up at his house anyway.
But he gets the whole 'quietly imploding' thing. Honestly. He'd consider apologising again if he were to be reminded that it's probably always weird to talk to him, but by this point he tends to assume whomever it is that has initiated contact with him accepted that as part and parcel of the idea before they started it. ] That feels understandable. I'm not particularly good at distracting small talk myself. I understand 'how's the weather' historically was useful, but here... [ Well. ] Was there a particular incident to precipitate this call? [ Is that small talk he doesn't think so but again 'bad at small talk' unless you want him to dredge up his D1 upbringing. He could probably actually small talk your ear off if you wanted, in various manners. That's 80% of chatter in polite society anyway, right? ]
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But he gets the whole 'quietly imploding' thing. Honestly. He'd consider apologising again if he were to be reminded that it's probably always weird to talk to him, but by this point he tends to assume whomever it is that has initiated contact with him accepted that as part and parcel of the idea before they started it. ] That feels understandable. I'm not particularly good at distracting small talk myself. I understand 'how's the weather' historically was useful, but here... [ Well. ] Was there a particular incident to precipitate this call? [ Is that small talk he doesn't think so but again 'bad at small talk' unless you want him to dredge up his D1 upbringing. He could probably actually small talk your ear off if you wanted, in various manners. That's 80% of chatter in polite society anyway, right? ]