trilliath:

Like, I’m totally down for the salty!bro deadpan-master aloof-as-shit Whiskey but hear me out:

Shy Whiskey. Actually maybe even painfully cautious, and not like in a cute-nervous-anxious way but in a way like maybe he came out of a walking-on-eggshells home environment. Follow his eyes –

they’re almost always focused directly on other people’s faces even when they’re not looking at him.

Like he’s watching people trying to figure out where the lines are, how they’re responding to things.

And when he talks, it’s very small questions about the language he’s supposed to use (“swawsome?”) questions about the people (“Harvard law school?”) and he demurs, “Whiskey’s fine” like he doesn’t want to rock the boat, don’t call attention.

Like yeah, maybe he’s too cool for school, but just maybe he’s a guy used to skating on the thinnest of ice and he’s holding his breath waiting to see where the cracks are gonna be.