The corner of Terry's mouth tugs, like he's attempting not to smile but can't really help it for a moment.
So. Sometimes he forgets that they're both utterly useless, and that's part of why they're friends. It's remarkably endearing and it makes him roll his eyes in a sort of affectionate fake annoyance.
"Okay." He says, uselessly, though it's a less painful kind of useless, and more just of the normal kind.
Though the gesture Claudio makes reminds him that he maybe....needs to come up with a better way to deal with his anger issues than hitting someone. He'd been so angry he could see red at the time, almost literally, and what he'd thought had happened wasn't actually the case at the time. That didn't excuse it, but it was...understandable? He's sort of eternally grateful that what he thought wasn't the actual case because if it had, this would be a much more horrifying situation that would include way more need on his part for therapy.
His face screws up the way it does when he's thinking and he reaches out and then seems to think better of it.
"Hey, uh..." He gestures vaguely with a free hand. "Sorry. About your face."
And then a beat, because now that he's thinking about it....
"...Not about tripping you though."
That was a perfectly valid reaction, thank you, and would've been a Gauntlet approved response to someone who didn't know how to turn a power like whatever that was using trigger words for that sort of thing.
Either way, that's something they're going to need to deal with, now that he's thinking about it, but that is a problem for future them, and at the moment, he's just going to stick with taking one thing at a time.
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So. Sometimes he forgets that they're both utterly useless, and that's part of why they're friends. It's remarkably endearing and it makes him roll his eyes in a sort of affectionate fake annoyance.
"Okay." He says, uselessly, though it's a less painful kind of useless, and more just of the normal kind.
Though the gesture Claudio makes reminds him that he maybe....needs to come up with a better way to deal with his anger issues than hitting someone. He'd been so angry he could see red at the time, almost literally, and what he'd thought had happened wasn't actually the case at the time. That didn't excuse it, but it was...understandable? He's sort of eternally grateful that what he thought wasn't the actual case because if it had, this would be a much more horrifying situation that would include way more need on his part for therapy.
His face screws up the way it does when he's thinking and he reaches out and then seems to think better of it.
"Hey, uh..." He gestures vaguely with a free hand. "Sorry. About your face."
And then a beat, because now that he's thinking about it....
"...Not about tripping you though."
That was a perfectly valid reaction, thank you, and would've been a Gauntlet approved response to someone who didn't know how to turn a power like whatever that was using trigger words for that sort of thing.
Either way, that's something they're going to need to deal with, now that he's thinking about it, but that is a problem for future them, and at the moment, he's just going to stick with taking one thing at a time.