// today I've been thinking of how fallahan can be a genuinely likeable person, who's fun and witty, charismatic, attentive and fiercely protective of his loved ones, but instead he's adopted an exaggerated and manipulative version of himself as his persona, and avoids tenderness and intimacy because he knows his true self tends to slip out in comfortable company, and it would crush him to admit he's done all this not to admit that he's vulnerable and scared of not fitting in and being forever alone and irrelevant













