[ "It wasn't your fault. I didn't want to leave so abruptly."
Promising. This lends credence to the theory that he touched on— trauma? A discomfort with certain types of intimacy? Both? A misstep, to be sure, but perhaps one that could have been recoverable.
"Most people only have five fingers on each hand."
Oh.
It's at this point that Ozpin realizes he has never made mention of Stanford's hands. There simply hadn't been the time or energy, in the height of October's bloodbath. Past that point, they'd formed too comfortable an acquaintance for it to be worth remarking upon. Ozpin has known people with stranger deformities. He has been people with appearances remarkable enough to cause some social difficulty.
"I'm not used to receiving attention for them that isn't extremely negative."
This does not quite clarify whether making a move overall was a mistake, but it certainly gives some guidance as to how he should tread more carefully, if they are to try this again.
And the lack of human contact does explain some things. ]
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Promising. This lends credence to the theory that he touched on— trauma? A discomfort with certain types of intimacy? Both? A misstep, to be sure, but perhaps one that could have been recoverable.
"Most people only have five fingers on each hand."
Oh.
It's at this point that Ozpin realizes he has never made mention of Stanford's hands. There simply hadn't been the time or energy, in the height of October's bloodbath. Past that point, they'd formed too comfortable an acquaintance for it to be worth remarking upon. Ozpin has known people with stranger deformities. He has been people with appearances remarkable enough to cause some social difficulty.
"I'm not used to receiving attention for them that isn't extremely negative."
This does not quite clarify whether making a move overall was a mistake, but it certainly gives some guidance as to how he should tread more carefully, if they are to try this again.
And the lack of human contact does explain some things. ]