[ K is quiet as he listens, considering what Tech Boy tells him. It helps to clarify his own thoughts and his expression clears a little as he finds the words, though he doesn't look up while he absently pulls at the hem of Tech Boy's outer shirt. ]
It didn't sound like there had to be a hook before you got involved with other people.
[ Regardless of how brief that "involvement" may have been. Tech Boy had made it clear this is his first relationship. Knowledge that K can also take comfort in when insecurities and uncertainties borne of his lived experience plague his thoughts — of not being good enough, of not being able to compare to real people, be they human or god or anyone else with actual autonomy, unlike him. His inexperience, his inadequacies... There's so much. He's especially and uncomfortably aware of the fact he isn't like a human or Tech Boy himself when it comes to some sexual functions; these aren't baseless worries, to him. ]
But you needed one with me.
[ To even want to talk to him. And that's why the admission had hurt, he realises. It confirmed his fears of being inferior to a real person. But that's also at odds with other things Tech Boy has told him... it's all confusing. ]
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It didn't sound like there had to be a hook before you got involved with other people.
[ Regardless of how brief that "involvement" may have been. Tech Boy had made it clear this is his first relationship. Knowledge that K can also take comfort in when insecurities and uncertainties borne of his lived experience plague his thoughts — of not being good enough, of not being able to compare to real people, be they human or god or anyone else with actual autonomy, unlike him. His inexperience, his inadequacies... There's so much. He's especially and uncomfortably aware of the fact he isn't like a human or Tech Boy himself when it comes to some sexual functions; these aren't baseless worries, to him. ]
But you needed one with me.
[ To even want to talk to him. And that's why the admission had hurt, he realises. It confirmed his fears of being inferior to a real person. But that's also at odds with other things Tech Boy has told him... it's all confusing. ]