[ well idk about mako but bolin just finds his validation in being a people-pleaser and usually doesn't have to handle his own problems of this nature so. ratsquirrel.

also he's probably kind of pulling a face at that. not like a mocking face. like a mildly disappointed face. ]

...yeahhhh, that was kind of what I was leading into there. Actually. Because I think the thing is that. Maybe... you don't? Or not that you don't, or even that you wouldn't, but that you... also just sort of haven't. Strictly speaking.