[ omg. omg. he doesn't like. shove her away or anything for sure with the kiss on the cheek, just. flushes a little. shit, strider, maintain your poker face, you can DO THIS (he can't do this but fuck it he's trying). he does eventually let her go and. put his hands in his pockets, he guesses? that's cool, right. ]

Eh, my Bro drilled me on weaponizing my sylladex and shit all through childhood, so. Kinda just ended up using a riff on his 'dex and then never changed it. It's fun to rap with? Though I am still really fuckin' terrible at weaponizing the thing. I mostly just use it to carry stuff now.

[ at least he has not accidentally killed anything with it in a while. ]

And I clearly came by my smarts via kickass genetics.