[well the big lick certainly grabs his attention. Add makes a startled squawk, leaning back and away from the lion face very quickly.]
Watch it! What's gotten into you?! [a scowl, hand hovering over his beslobbered cheek, because his hand is also beslobbered... he's not hurt, really. he knows in part that he's overreacting, but if the bandages on the other side of his face got wet and damaged and fell off...
at this stage, they're not completely necessary. he'd be fine with much less, a simple eye patch would do... but what it wouldn't do is cover up the scars—long, ugly scratches running up to his missing eye that refuse to simply heal. scars that make him feel ill every time he has to look at them, he doesn't even want to think about what the others would say.
eventually, he rubs his cheek dry with his other sleeve... sneezes, because everything is covered in white and red hair, and now that's up in nose and his eyes are watering and that is definitely from allergies and not the verge of a mental breakdown because he still doesn't have time to have one of those]
Ugh, I'm such a mess... I-I should clean this up. Move, Leon. [trying (in vain) to stand up, please Leon he needs a different distraction he's having an emotion]
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Watch it! What's gotten into you?! [a scowl, hand hovering over his beslobbered cheek, because his hand is also beslobbered... he's not hurt, really. he knows in part that he's overreacting, but if the bandages on the other side of his face got wet and damaged and fell off...
at this stage, they're not completely necessary. he'd be fine with much less, a simple eye patch would do... but what it wouldn't do is cover up the scars—long, ugly scratches running up to his missing eye that refuse to simply heal. scars that make him feel ill every time he has to look at them, he doesn't even want to think about what the others would say.
eventually, he rubs his cheek dry with his other sleeve... sneezes, because everything is covered in white and red hair, and now that's up in nose and his eyes are watering and that is definitely from allergies and not the verge of a mental breakdown because he still doesn't have time to have one of those]
Ugh, I'm such a mess... I-I should clean this up. Move, Leon. [trying (in vain) to stand up, please Leon he needs a different distraction he's having an emotion]