( Will has been avoiding the empathy bond like a flesh eating bacteria from the moment he learned about it. It's not too difficult, he's made a habit of tactfully dodging contact for most of his life.
Anger doesn't surprise him. Anger is one of the most common feelings in the entire emotional spectrum, exceeding happiness and sadness by a long shot. Anger is a default, particularly in people who aren't particularly self-aware or self-analytical. If it happened with somebody roughly as new as they are, it surprises him even less. Defensiveness and fear of intimacy or vulnerability, the distress of loss of control, it makes for an easy fallback.
His lips press into something tight, a twisting kind of grimace. )
No, not exactly.
( He could act. He could do the body language equivalent of lying, and he could do it seamlessly, to erase the weight of implication that settles on the statement.
But it seems disingenuous, and that's discourteous to her. As far as he knows they've been nothing but themselves to one another, and he desperately doesn't want to make social manipulation a habit. It's too easy to lose himself in the convenient alternative of becoming somebody else.
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Anger doesn't surprise him. Anger is one of the most common feelings in the entire emotional spectrum, exceeding happiness and sadness by a long shot. Anger is a default, particularly in people who aren't particularly self-aware or self-analytical. If it happened with somebody roughly as new as they are, it surprises him even less. Defensiveness and fear of intimacy or vulnerability, the distress of loss of control, it makes for an easy fallback.
His lips press into something tight, a twisting kind of grimace. )
No, not exactly.
( He could act. He could do the body language equivalent of lying, and he could do it seamlessly, to erase the weight of implication that settles on the statement.
But it seems disingenuous, and that's discourteous to her. As far as he knows they've been nothing but themselves to one another, and he desperately doesn't want to make social manipulation a habit. It's too easy to lose himself in the convenient alternative of becoming somebody else.
The wounds are too fresh for his comfort. )