So. Sounds like you were tryin to do something good, to me.
[He keeps rubbing circles into the kid's back, tries to smile down at him, then calls that last part off quick cause he doesn't know what it was his face was doing just then but it wasn't what he wanted it to.
Okay. Smile's asking a little too much right now. Noted.]
Did you have any reason to believe any of that was a bad call? What did you know about the situation when you did it?
[What's not asking too much? Pretending Izuku's one of the newbies he used to help find their way in the force way back when after one of them'd done or seen something particularly bad, worse than the daily grind of moderately-to-pretty-bad shit. Admittedly, uh, hugging and back rubs weren't usually a part of that. And the newbies were at least a decade older. But the pretense gives Hank kind of a loose script to follow, and that helps. It means he can wall up his own bullshit with one part of his brain, and be an actual adult with the other. Multitasking.]
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[He keeps rubbing circles into the kid's back, tries to smile down at him, then calls that last part off quick cause he doesn't know what it was his face was doing just then but it wasn't what he wanted it to.
Okay. Smile's asking a little too much right now. Noted.]
Did you have any reason to believe any of that was a bad call? What did you know about the situation when you did it?
[What's not asking too much? Pretending Izuku's one of the newbies he used to help find their way in the force way back when after one of them'd done or seen something particularly bad, worse than the daily grind of moderately-to-pretty-bad shit. Admittedly, uh, hugging and back rubs weren't usually a part of that. And the newbies were at least a decade older. But the pretense gives Hank kind of a loose script to follow, and that helps. It means he can wall up his own bullshit with one part of his brain, and be an actual adult with the other. Multitasking.]