[ It's okay, he'll be responsive soon enough. Probably quite responsive, actually. You can take part of his lack of such until this point to be frustration, and part to be stubbornness when he knows he won't be able to be so restrained later on.
Also wow so not the symbolic I was thinking of when I put him on one knee. It was meant to be like, kneeling with the ability to stand right back up, not... any sort of proposal mimickry. But he does eventually shift down, kneeling as she originally asked, looking up at her. He watches her go to the closet, tries to see what it is she's brought back out with her - mostly unsuccessfully for the moment - and disappear behind him again.
The light touch startles him just a little bit, although he does a decent job stifling the reaction - the flinch. The goosebumps that break across, mild and fleeting as they are, are more difficult to control. ]
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Also wow so not the symbolic I was thinking of when I put him on one knee. It was meant to be like, kneeling with the ability to stand right back up, not... any sort of proposal mimickry. But he does eventually shift down, kneeling as she originally asked, looking up at her. He watches her go to the closet, tries to see what it is she's brought back out with her - mostly unsuccessfully for the moment - and disappear behind him again.
The light touch startles him just a little bit, although he does a decent job stifling the reaction - the flinch. The goosebumps that break across, mild and fleeting as they are, are more difficult to control. ]