[Char's first impulse is to tackle this from a "you've got nothing to worry about" angle -- to impress on Bulba that he's Green's best, his first, his favorite -- the one that stuck with him the longest, the one he'd never drop. That Bulba never disobeyed or made any problems. That dammit, a couple of months with two of his teammates was nothing compared to being left alone for two years.
But as terrible as Char is at comforting people, he knows for a fact that stuff like that will go over like a lead balloon. It might be his nature to deny, to ignore, to just put on an indifferent face, but a fat lot of good that approach will do Bulba. "Do the exact opposite of what I would do" is turning out to be a surprisingly good way to handle this big brother stuff.]
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[Char's first impulse is to tackle this from a "you've got nothing to worry about" angle -- to impress on Bulba that he's Green's best, his first, his favorite -- the one that stuck with him the longest, the one he'd never drop. That Bulba never disobeyed or made any problems. That dammit, a couple of months with two of his teammates was nothing compared to being left alone for two years.
But as terrible as Char is at comforting people, he knows for a fact that stuff like that will go over like a lead balloon. It might be his nature to deny, to ignore, to just put on an indifferent face, but a fat lot of good that approach will do Bulba. "Do the exact opposite of what I would do" is turning out to be a surprisingly good way to handle this big brother stuff.]
...I ever tell about how I ended up in the wild?