[ Pairing it directly with the sexual would feel manipulative, and he's been manipulated physically before - it would be a very bad idea. Actually just talking to him is probably going to be her best bet. It's pairing it with instant gratification in the process that will make him angry and refuse to let this continue. He doesn't appreciate being manipulated, especially not by the people he's closest to, no matter what the actual purpose of it happens to be.
The look she's being given isn't changing that much, although he is continuing to listen to her, which is something. He's testing the cuffs again at the same time, but that might just be a sudden bout of restlessness more than any desire to actually try and break free of them. If he wanted to break free of them, he probably could, eventually. So he's listening, he is, he just doesn't look like he is. And he's aware he's likely projecting without meaning to but that doesn't mean he still also doesn't appreciate her being able to read him so easily like that. He doesn't like that she can understand his refutations before he even has a chance to technically voice them, and he doesn't know what to do with what she's telling him. She's telling him that he is helping, that he just has to trust her in the scope and scale of his influence, and he doesn't want to. He almost can't. He can't think that he's had that much of an impact on her, on anyone, because it contradicts... So many base truths he holds about himself. Ones he doesn't even know the specific criteria for, just that they're being contradicted.
So, outwardly, he breaks eye-contact. Looks slightly off to somewhere else in the room with a small shake of his head. ]
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The look she's being given isn't changing that much, although he is continuing to listen to her, which is something. He's testing the cuffs again at the same time, but that might just be a sudden bout of restlessness more than any desire to actually try and break free of them. If he wanted to break free of them, he probably could, eventually. So he's listening, he is, he just doesn't look like he is. And he's aware he's likely projecting without meaning to but that doesn't mean he still also doesn't appreciate her being able to read him so easily like that. He doesn't like that she can understand his refutations before he even has a chance to technically voice them, and he doesn't know what to do with what she's telling him. She's telling him that he is helping, that he just has to trust her in the scope and scale of his influence, and he doesn't want to. He almost can't. He can't think that he's had that much of an impact on her, on anyone, because it contradicts... So many base truths he holds about himself. Ones he doesn't even know the specific criteria for, just that they're being contradicted.
So, outwardly, he breaks eye-contact. Looks slightly off to somewhere else in the room with a small shake of his head. ]