( Sweet: to his friends. Of which he has two, recently upped to three, and Yuri is more than self aware enough to know he is rightfully considered standoffish and prickly by most. He doesn't mind. He is like that. It keeps him focused, and it keeps him from getting too entangled with others outside of professional contexts.
That's largely irrelevant here. Welcome to teenage emotions and inabilities to sound polite in communicating what he thinks or feels; and knowing as little about Souji as Souji had known about him. Yuri hadn't appreciated the surprise, and he'd felt like shit realising he was needing to make sure he didn't make someone else have a shitty time just because it was something he hadn't wanted to deal with. A position his well meaning friends had put him in without asking; a position Souji had unwittingly helped keep him in, and one he'd followed through on because as much as he has complicated feelings about accidentally stringing people along, he would feel even worse for abandoning someone for his own issues. Even on a date he doesn't want.
He doesn't want to make people feel unwanted without reason. It just felt too close to accidentally toying with someone's feelings that his hackles were up: and Souji, fairly or not, is the recipient of what he's already told Dave and Anya. )
Anya doesn't have a negative opinion to express about anyone. Everyone's faults are forgiven in her eyes. The worst I've heard her say about anyone in recent memory was forgiving them as probably having a bad day. Dave rolls with most anything. He's one of the most laid back people I know, as long as you're not tangling with his family.
If you'd taken three minutes to reach out and form opinions about me by actually talking to me, instead of talking to two of the most optimistic and rose-coloured glasses people I know, you'd have been making a better decision. But you didn't.
So whatever. Disregard what you want, or add to it by learning on your own. Family should have been important enough to make that effort instead of relying on anyone else's say-so.
( family is hard enough to hold onto in the first place. and it's not a guarantee you won't fuck up and drive them away anyway, even if the fuck up is just existing as a reminder of what they no longer have, or never had in the first place. )
he gets the worst achievements, i'm so sorry souji
That's largely irrelevant here. Welcome to teenage emotions and inabilities to sound polite in communicating what he thinks or feels; and knowing as little about Souji as Souji had known about him. Yuri hadn't appreciated the surprise, and he'd felt like shit realising he was needing to make sure he didn't make someone else have a shitty time just because it was something he hadn't wanted to deal with. A position his well meaning friends had put him in without asking; a position Souji had unwittingly helped keep him in, and one he'd followed through on because as much as he has complicated feelings about accidentally stringing people along, he would feel even worse for abandoning someone for his own issues. Even on a date he doesn't want.
He doesn't want to make people feel unwanted without reason. It just felt too close to accidentally toying with someone's feelings that his hackles were up: and Souji, fairly or not, is the recipient of what he's already told Dave and Anya. )
Anya doesn't have a negative opinion to express about anyone. Everyone's faults are forgiven in her eyes. The worst I've heard her say about anyone in recent memory was forgiving them as probably having a bad day. Dave rolls with most anything. He's one of the most laid back people I know, as long as you're not tangling with his family.
If you'd taken three minutes to reach out and form opinions about me by actually talking to me, instead of talking to two of the most optimistic and rose-coloured glasses people I know, you'd have been making a better decision. But you didn't.
So whatever. Disregard what you want, or add to it by learning on your own. Family should have been important enough to make that effort instead of relying on anyone else's say-so.
( family is hard enough to hold onto in the first place. and it's not a guarantee you won't fuck up and drive them away anyway, even if the fuck up is just existing as a reminder of what they no longer have, or never had in the first place. )