[ He says it like it's the most obvious thing in the world - and to him, it is. He's always been the sort to devalue his own feelings. It didn't come with the superhero gig. It'd been some attempt to seem more removed than he is, maybe, or to seem cool, or out of worries that the things that matter to him don't matter to anyone else, but every time he'd start down that path - oh, I dunno, it's stupid - his parents always set him straight. They'd never had to do that with Milagro, or if they had, it hadn't been nearly as often, but they'd handled him pretty well.
If it matters to you, it's not nothing. Even if it's hard to feel in his heart of hearts in difficult moments, he still believes it, and it's a simple enough message to pass on. He's not even sure if he completely buys that's how people feel about Ruka (okay, she has empathy so she should know, but surely it's just one part of a bigger picture; he can't see how anyone who gets to know her could dismiss her like that), but for stuff like this, it's not really the truth that matters. ]
I guess... it's harder when you came to a place like this when you were a little kid. But that's not the way I feel. I don't think that's how some of the others would feel either, once they get to know you like I do. [ Is that presumptuous? Maybe like I do, but they can't exactly claim they don't know each other well enough for that, so... it's okay. He knows that's not how Kanaya feels. It's not how Laurie would feel either, or Cass, or any of Jaime's other friends. That's just fact. ]
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If it's a big deal, then it's not nothing.
[ He says it like it's the most obvious thing in the world - and to him, it is. He's always been the sort to devalue his own feelings. It didn't come with the superhero gig. It'd been some attempt to seem more removed than he is, maybe, or to seem cool, or out of worries that the things that matter to him don't matter to anyone else, but every time he'd start down that path - oh, I dunno, it's stupid - his parents always set him straight. They'd never had to do that with Milagro, or if they had, it hadn't been nearly as often, but they'd handled him pretty well.
If it matters to you, it's not nothing. Even if it's hard to feel in his heart of hearts in difficult moments, he still believes it, and it's a simple enough message to pass on. He's not even sure if he completely buys that's how people feel about Ruka (okay, she has empathy so she should know, but surely it's just one part of a bigger picture; he can't see how anyone who gets to know her could dismiss her like that), but for stuff like this, it's not really the truth that matters. ]
I guess... it's harder when you came to a place like this when you were a little kid. But that's not the way I feel. I don't think that's how some of the others would feel either, once they get to know you like I do. [ Is that presumptuous? Maybe like I do, but they can't exactly claim they don't know each other well enough for that, so... it's okay. He knows that's not how Kanaya feels. It's not how Laurie would feel either, or Cass, or any of Jaime's other friends. That's just fact. ]