He responds immediately, almost glibly, "I'm never happy."
He says it so dryly that he could be joking, or he could be saying it because, no matter how jesty it is, it could also be entirely true, the only thing he can think to respond to any questioning of his happiness. Much less a declaration of bromance.
He shifts in his seat again, no longer out of physical discomfort, but because Hiccup's right - he's been sidetracking, and he wants to do it again, because he doesn't want to examine himself this way, doesn't want to be unhappier than he is in general by going into the many reasons for his issues with this kind of depth.
"Look, just . . . don't fall asleep until a doctor looks at you, okay? I'm just trying to keep you awake but I'm not here to talk about feelings."
The other side of his discomfort is that Hiccup's right - nobody's ever really been his friend, or thought of him as a good person, except maybe his mom and Mai, and moms and girlfriends are a different story. Even the Avatar and his friends know Zuko the Villain too closely to look at him and never see the guy who used to hunt and attack and imprison them. And burn down villages.
Nobody's been his friend just because they liked the person he was. And that's frankly too touching to look into when you're always an unhappy dude.
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He says it so dryly that he could be joking, or he could be saying it because, no matter how jesty it is, it could also be entirely true, the only thing he can think to respond to any questioning of his happiness. Much less a declaration of bromance.
He shifts in his seat again, no longer out of physical discomfort, but because Hiccup's right - he's been sidetracking, and he wants to do it again, because he doesn't want to examine himself this way, doesn't want to be unhappier than he is in general by going into the many reasons for his issues with this kind of depth.
"Look, just . . . don't fall asleep until a doctor looks at you, okay? I'm just trying to keep you awake but I'm not here to talk about feelings."
The other side of his discomfort is that Hiccup's right - nobody's ever really been his friend, or thought of him as a good person, except maybe his mom and Mai, and moms and girlfriends are a different story. Even the Avatar and his friends know Zuko the Villain too closely to look at him and never see the guy who used to hunt and attack and imprison them. And burn down villages.
Nobody's been his friend just because they liked the person he was. And that's frankly too touching to look into when you're always an unhappy dude.
"I don't want you to die, that's all."