[The kindness L's shown tends to skew towards pity. When compared with someone who smiles often, offers a sincere helping hand whenever he has the chance, and is truly interested and invested in the lives and problems of others? No, it's true that people don't respond well to L. It's also difficult to know what came first, which led to the other; maybe he doesn't remember, himself.
He runs a long-fingered hand compulsively through his dark hair. Predictably, it snags and tangles, but it gives him something to fidget with. L thinks more clearly and fluidly when that condition is met... and he's experienced, for himself that adjusting the way he's used to thinking and working has been necessary to practice magic. It's not a far stretch to imagine the kinds of struggles an AI would be coping with, and he's in fact felt sympathy for the SQUIP before due to that. He feels sympathy for the SQUIP, in fact, the way he can't feel sympathy for Rich; he actually relates more to the machine than the human.
His dark, round-eyed gaze wanders back toward the other robot in his life. Eye contact can also be rare from L, but when he establishes it, it tends to be somewhat intense.]
You don't think that I was too harsh in dealing with it...
[Connor punched it, after all. L sounds truly uncertain.]
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He runs a long-fingered hand compulsively through his dark hair. Predictably, it snags and tangles, but it gives him something to fidget with. L thinks more clearly and fluidly when that condition is met... and he's experienced, for himself that adjusting the way he's used to thinking and working has been necessary to practice magic. It's not a far stretch to imagine the kinds of struggles an AI would be coping with, and he's in fact felt sympathy for the SQUIP before due to that. He feels sympathy for the SQUIP, in fact, the way he can't feel sympathy for Rich; he actually relates more to the machine than the human.
His dark, round-eyed gaze wanders back toward the other robot in his life. Eye contact can also be rare from L, but when he establishes it, it tends to be somewhat intense.]
You don't think that I was too harsh in dealing with it...
[Connor punched it, after all. L sounds truly uncertain.]