#so.

the thing is. lestat and armand's traumas are trying to hold hands. however. they have claws and keep cutting each other. so there's that.

this is autism of me but very often I have to translate human social interactions into Dog and back to understand them better. like very often dog social behavior is based around the desired reaction of the other dog, so if I can look at a human social interaction and think "oh that was appeasement behavior" or "that was a distance increasing behavior intended to move us away from that topic" or "oh that was intended to diffuse the social tension and prevent escalation" not only do I understand human interactions better, I'm also better at understanding my own goals for social interactions and how I am behaving in order to reach them. like, am I Doing Appeasement right now? is that really how I want to be acting or am I doing it because I'm afraid?