[He looks faintly depressed despite the redness of his cheeks. Even that dumb little antenna hair of his seems to be drooping a little. She assumed he was a girl, yup. He already knew that, but there's just something about actually hearing her say it that twists the knife in deeper.]
Uhm...y-you look very nice.
[Hey, let's talk about you instead of him. Let's just pretend he's not wearing a slinky, sequined abomination instead of a nice, dapper suit.]
[He'd be more embarrassed about the "handsome" compliment except...he knows it's not really genuine. "Cute" is what she meant to say, "handsome" was just embarrassed over-correcting on her part. An attempt to spare his ~manly pride~ or something like that. Which...he didn't exactly have in spades to begin with. Which is maybe a good thing, given the situation. He's more embarrassed than wounded by being called cute and being forced into a dress.]
u really don't tho smdh
[He looks faintly depressed despite the redness of his cheeks. Even that dumb little antenna hair of his seems to be drooping a little. She assumed he was a girl, yup. He already knew that, but there's just something about actually hearing her say it that twists the knife in deeper.]
Uhm...y-you look very nice.
[Hey, let's talk about you instead of him. Let's just pretend he's not wearing a slinky, sequined abomination instead of a nice, dapper suit.]
[He'd be more embarrassed about the "handsome" compliment except...he knows it's not really genuine. "Cute" is what she meant to say, "handsome" was just embarrassed over-correcting on her part. An attempt to spare his ~manly pride~ or something like that. Which...he didn't exactly have in spades to begin with. Which is maybe a good thing, given the situation. He's more embarrassed than wounded by being called cute and being forced into a dress.]