⋆Bug On The Wall⋆

When they meyowl pathetically for more food, it's not because they're trying to "trick" you into feeding them again. They just want to be fed, and they're smart enough to notice the correlation between certain sounds they make and the responses they get from you.

They've figured out that if they want to communicate to you that they want more food, if they make those pathetic sounds, you're more likely to behave as if you've understood what they're trying to communicate.

When your cat waits for you to look away then yoinks food off of your plate, it's not because they love crime. It's because they're social colony creatures who instinctively share food with each other and they don't understand why you're not sharing the best foods with them.

Your cats are very intelligent, social creatures who see you as their Very Strange sibling.

They've learned how to make intricate sounds just to communicate with their humans. When the sounds they make elicit the responses they want, they learn that those sounds are the most effective way to communicate their desires.

And now they're eating up May's death, the lingering effects of it, how she haunts Peter's narrative, how he reflects on the lessons she taught him and how her absence still affects him to this day.

Like yeah... we know. It's pretty great, huh?

With Yelena she makes the comment about him keeping the mask on while in the bath house. Frank teases him about the ridiculous way he drinks coffee with the mask on. And the truth is it is ridiculous, but it’s a response from trauma. Even in front of his peers, people like him he can’t let go of his defences, his trauma responses, he is so afraid of being hurt again and betrayed again the mask is the barrier he keeps up protecting himself from anyone and everything. Even those that are genuinely the same as him and wish him no harm.