[Leon's getting pretty used to the whole wallflower girls hiding out and needing(?) to be brought out of their shells thing, and he kinda makes a habit of approaching them to try and make them feel more at ease these days . . .
Buuut usually he's not doing it half naked. More than half. This is like, 95% naked. He's been put in one of those barely-there half-thong sling things. And Leon's not a guy with a lot of body shame—he's spent a whole lot of his life in locker rooms and is pretty chill with being seen in a state of undress, and he's athletic enough to not have much to be shy about—but. It's a completely different story when you're walking up to some strange, hiding, younger girl you've never met before. That's got some potential bad vibes, there.
The new girl gets his attention with her strange skin-lines, yeah. Not in a bad way. He's seen and heard weirder here in the colony; he'd gone on a kinda-date once with a girl who didn't have feet and could float in the air who had similar-looking circuitry. It's all cool with him, but it's still interesting, and so once he notices her, he steers in that direction to make sure she's okay:]
Yoooo, you all right? Is someone givin' you trouble?
[ . . . and then it catches up with him what this might look like, considering, and he lifts his hands, cheeks going a bit pink.]
I-I mean, not me! I'm not, I swear! It's not like I wanna be wearing this either, got it? I'm not some creep, proooomise!
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Buuut usually he's not doing it half naked. More than half. This is like, 95% naked. He's been put in one of those barely-there half-thong sling things. And Leon's not a guy with a lot of body shame—he's spent a whole lot of his life in locker rooms and is pretty chill with being seen in a state of undress, and he's athletic enough to not have much to be shy about—but. It's a completely different story when you're walking up to some strange, hiding, younger girl you've never met before. That's got some potential bad vibes, there.
The new girl gets his attention with her strange skin-lines, yeah. Not in a bad way. He's seen and heard weirder here in the colony; he'd gone on a kinda-date once with a girl who didn't have feet and could float in the air who had similar-looking circuitry. It's all cool with him, but it's still interesting, and so once he notices her, he steers in that direction to make sure she's okay:]
Yoooo, you all right? Is someone givin' you trouble?
[ . . . and then it catches up with him what this might look like, considering, and he lifts his hands, cheeks going a bit pink.]
I-I mean, not me! I'm not, I swear! It's not like I wanna be wearing this either, got it? I'm not some creep, proooomise!
[Nailed it.]