Then test the waters first and see if you can help them calm down. And pay attention to how agitated they are. People who are visibly agitated and screaming probably aren't going to be the ones that jokes will put at ease.
[Wash himself isn't sure where this is coming from, this knowing about people, this caring about their state of mind. It feels like it's coming from some deep well of...something. Some other part of himself.]
[And Robbie is a kid. Oh he is so very much a kid. The compulsion to offer guidance is running strong and coming from the same deep place. He can't remember it, but he's good at this. In the present. When he has his memories. Because his adult friends are still figuring things out. This is that but...younger.]
[Also he remembers being that young and how much of an awkward disaster he'd sometimes been. Even when he was older. He'd been chastised many a time for putting his foot in his mouth when he'd made the top squad in Freelancer.]
I get that you're trying to relate to people in the way you know how, and in the way that would work for you. But some people will need something else.
Re: video
[Wash himself isn't sure where this is coming from, this knowing about people, this caring about their state of mind. It feels like it's coming from some deep well of...something. Some other part of himself.]
[And Robbie is a kid. Oh he is so very much a kid. The compulsion to offer guidance is running strong and coming from the same deep place. He can't remember it, but he's good at this. In the present. When he has his memories. Because his adult friends are still figuring things out. This is that but...younger.]
[Also he remembers being that young and how much of an awkward disaster he'd sometimes been. Even when he was older. He'd been chastised many a time for putting his foot in his mouth when he'd made the top squad in Freelancer.]
I get that you're trying to relate to people in the way you know how, and in the way that would work for you. But some people will need something else.