[Takeshi's eyes go big with some genuine bafflement at the offer.
It's a look that soon shifts into caution, into uncertainty.]
You'll help me buy them? Really?
[He's... not used to people doing things like that for him. It's different when it's his dad — and that was hard enough to learn, 'specially when he did things like buy him ice cream. Really, Takeshi has a hard time with gifts from older people, because older people never gave him anything before his new dad came into the picture. They just — didn't.
And it wasn't a bad thing. If they weren't giving him things, it meant they weren't focused on him at all. And that meant he couldn't be hurt, because they didn't care to see him anyways.]
cw: brief mention of child neglect
It's a look that soon shifts into caution, into uncertainty.]
You'll help me buy them? Really?
[He's... not used to people doing things like that for him. It's different when it's his dad — and that was hard enough to learn, 'specially when he did things like buy him ice cream. Really, Takeshi has a hard time with gifts from older people, because older people never gave him anything before his new dad came into the picture. They just — didn't.
And it wasn't a bad thing. If they weren't giving him things, it meant they weren't focused on him at all. And that meant he couldn't be hurt, because they didn't care to see him anyways.]