[ At least Tony doesn't tend to go for quiet, unobtrusive evasion so much as 'Hey! Look over here! Look! I'm avoiding the subject!' kind of evasion. That probably helps a little bit with things.
He would argue that actually right now he doesn't need help either because he's totally capable of functioning like this, he's functioned like this for years, and in other, similar states for different reasons for even longer. He'd argue that, but it would be sort of half-assed, because it's blatantly incorrect and he doesn't have the energy to put into any real defensiveness right now. ]
Some things, anyway. Hard not to improve on all this, I guess.
it was genuinely fun though
He would argue that actually right now he doesn't need help either because he's totally capable of functioning like this, he's functioned like this for years, and in other, similar states for different reasons for even longer. He'd argue that, but it would be sort of half-assed, because it's blatantly incorrect and he doesn't have the energy to put into any real defensiveness right now. ]
Some things, anyway. Hard not to improve on all this, I guess.