[However faint the flinch, Ren notes it, notes the hesitation in the answer - like every other person here who's tried to lie to him before thinking better of it, which is a remarkably large amount - notes the age of the tattoo. He's begun to piece something together even before Juno decides to relent on answering, and his expression hardens somewhat at the way he seems to try and gloss over it even so.
Juno doesn't really need to elaborate on it, honestly. A tattoo that large would be a rarity to dedicate to a living relative, but in combination with the flinching, the hesitation and how soon Juno pulls his arm away, as if he wants to dodge the subject despite it already having been raised, there's very little else that would explain it. Condolences or sympathies seem unfitting for a loss that's obviously quite old, though, and especially one he doesn't know the details of, so after a moment, he simply hums some kind of affirmative to Juno's question, and follows it with the only thing that feels appropriate right now.] It's a beautiful memorial.
[Which Juno clearly doesn't want to talk about that much, and while Ren can be nosy, he does have a bit more respect for the legitimately wounding topics. Being careless about that can cause more harm to people he cares about than he'd like, so what he does instead is...tap the side of Juno's face as if calling him to attention before turning on the spot, making his half of a skirt twirl out to one side...and a good amount of his hair slap Juno in the face on the way through.]
But I guess I shouldn't distract you when you were so eager to strip yourself down for me, right?
[Okay, so it's not technically "for him", but he feels like that's more likely to be distractingly annoying to hear.]
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Juno doesn't really need to elaborate on it, honestly. A tattoo that large would be a rarity to dedicate to a living relative, but in combination with the flinching, the hesitation and how soon Juno pulls his arm away, as if he wants to dodge the subject despite it already having been raised, there's very little else that would explain it. Condolences or sympathies seem unfitting for a loss that's obviously quite old, though, and especially one he doesn't know the details of, so after a moment, he simply hums some kind of affirmative to Juno's question, and follows it with the only thing that feels appropriate right now.] It's a beautiful memorial.
[Which Juno clearly doesn't want to talk about that much, and while Ren can be nosy, he does have a bit more respect for the legitimately wounding topics. Being careless about that can cause more harm to people he cares about than he'd like, so what he does instead is...tap the side of Juno's face as if calling him to attention before turning on the spot, making his half of a skirt twirl out to one side...and a good amount of his hair slap Juno in the face on the way through.]
But I guess I shouldn't distract you when you were so eager to strip yourself down for me, right?
[Okay, so it's not technically "for him", but he feels like that's more likely to be distractingly annoying to hear.]