thesunlitgarden

As much as they enjoy bickering they do end up bonding and opening up. Tanaka never had a father in his life and Souda's dad was extremly strict. Souda doesnt see it as bad (some dads hit their kids, its not like its abuse... Right?) and he doesnt like talking about it to Sonia much as she always gets way too worried over him and he hates worrying her. When he talks about it to Tanaka on the other hand he just sort of frowns a bit and mentions how his mother would "poison" him as a child. (Souda takes it at literal face value and is all DUDE WHAT?? Before soon realizing as Tanaka keeps talking that he just meant her cooking was awful and he has to resist punching him the arm (bc he knows he's still not great with touch at this point) because dude what the fuck not cool man!!)

But not once does Tanaka overtly pity or baby him-- and Souda knows Sonia means well, but Tanaka's reaction is really nice. He likes when people don't make a big deal of it/a bigger deal of it than he does.