[it's called being comforting you heathen boys are allowed to touch each other!!!!!]

I think it's admirable you grabbed your chance when it presented itself to you. And I'm glad you did, too, because I'm certain I would never have met you, befriended you, any other way; fate is interesting in that way. [A sheepish smile.] See, I only took it up so I had a reason not to go out with girls, since I was, ah, a little too noticeable... though the money to help my mother was a tidy bonus.

[... Does he want to impart some of his childhood as well..? Mm. He's given out bits and pieces to people before, but the closer he is to someone the less he wants to tell them anything. It's a problem he wants to fix. But it's difficult.]

I've never known my father. He left my mother alone and pregnant with me, and... well, you know. That sort of thing isn't very favorably looked upon by the older generation, no matter if ours might not care two licks about it now. I can't say it wasn't a very exciting time, nor... traumatic, or anything like that, it just was what it was. I deserved most of what I got though, aside from what came about due to my circumstances. I had a cheeky mouth.

[as if he doesn't now.]