The trick seems to be to surprise him. The unexpected apparently cuts right into his sense of humor. He ends hunched over the table again, rubbing at the corner of his closed, scarred-up eye.
"I stand corrected. Thank you for telling me."
Oh, he's very pleased by this. He grins despite himself, knowing full well that it isn't socially acceptable to be so happy about someone revealing something they utterly despise.
"You should swing by for a physical sometime. Nothing creepy, I promise--" He holds his good hand up and waves his fingers as if to display that there's nothing up his sleeve. "--And I doubt I'd solve any mysteries, but it would be beneficial to know what your baselines are in case we run into an actual emergency... Or more flesh-nesting biohazards, or whatever."
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The trick seems to be to surprise him. The unexpected apparently cuts right into his sense of humor. He ends hunched over the table again, rubbing at the corner of his closed, scarred-up eye.
"I stand corrected. Thank you for telling me."
Oh, he's very pleased by this. He grins despite himself, knowing full well that it isn't socially acceptable to be so happy about someone revealing something they utterly despise.
"You should swing by for a physical sometime. Nothing creepy, I promise--" He holds his good hand up and waves his fingers as if to display that there's nothing up his sleeve. "--And I doubt I'd solve any mysteries, but it would be beneficial to know what your baselines are in case we run into an actual emergency... Or more flesh-nesting biohazards, or whatever."