I just had a cute thought.
What if Ikora encouraged little things to try and keep Cayde entertained?
She notices heās restless some day, antagonizing a frustrated Zavala, so she starts drawing something on a paper she wonāt let him see until sheās through. After a few minutes she passes over a 9x9 grid with numbers scattered in the boxes.
Cayde looks at it, confused. āIkora, Iām not a cryptarch. What do you want me to do with this???ā So she smiles to herself and comes around the table to teach him sudoku.
She leaves a tic-tac-toe board on the table and he ends up playing with his ghost.
Or she finds little things like dice or small stones to stack so his hands can be doing something while heās in the meetings he hates. Sheās seen enough intelligent, but absent-minded warlocks that have a hard time keeping their thoughts in order without their hands occupied, and sheās seen them doing similar things. She also has noticed that Cayde gestures with his hands a lot when heās talking.
So she encourages guardians to discreetly leave him gifts until he ammasses a huge pile of various objects to mess around with whenever heās forced to sit through vanguard business.
I imagine Zavala disapproves, finding the tinkering a bit distracting and holding the mindset that Cayde should learn to pay attention to things even if theyāre boring, but he causes significantly less trouble and contributes more when heās building a house of cards or spinning a top, so Zavala just lets it go.
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