1. Relationships of all kind are hard. Friendships are hard, family is hard, romance is hard, it's all kind of a ball of failure most of the time, so when he finds something that's not hard, he holds on with two hands and stubbornly refuses to let go. The twins aren't hard, because they're easy to make happy and quick to show if they're happy; Dave is kind of easy, because he's friendly but doesn't expect more than an employer-employee level of friendship and he can handle that.
Bailey is super-easy and the little sister he never knew he needed and there are days he'd like to just live in her closet and forget the rest of the world exists. (Phil is complicated because he can't entirely understand why he got taken under his wing; Bailey, at least, was tiny enough that when she attached to him she didn't ping against his self-esteem issues, which are loud and rampant and tend to be a large part of why relationships are hard, because why would people like you when you're very aware that you're unlikable.)
2. Growing up he had one of those totally idealized images of growing up to be a musician, and he was gonna travel around and play to sold-out audiences and people were going to love him and he was going to be famous and it was gonna be awesome. The fact that he never had a drop of interest in writing his own songs, or that he still can only kind of play an instrument, didn't matter all that much. (He did teach himself to read music, though. And sing, though not quite at professional levels.)
3. He's always been a pretty good artist on a technical level, actually, and working at the bakery has only enhanced that. What he doesn't have is ideas. Tell him what to do, and he could paint a masterpiece for you; give him paper and tell him to go for it, and he's going to doodle lopsided flowers and dogs at best.
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Date: 2015-03-07 01:42 am (UTC)Bailey is super-easy and the little sister he never knew he needed and there are days he'd like to just live in her closet and forget the rest of the world exists. (Phil is complicated because he can't entirely understand why he got taken under his wing; Bailey, at least, was tiny enough that when she attached to him she didn't ping against his self-esteem issues, which are loud and rampant and tend to be a large part of why relationships are hard, because why would people like you when you're very aware that you're unlikable.)
2. Growing up he had one of those totally idealized images of growing up to be a musician, and he was gonna travel around and play to sold-out audiences and people were going to love him and he was going to be famous and it was gonna be awesome. The fact that he never had a drop of interest in writing his own songs, or that he still can only kind of play an instrument, didn't matter all that much. (He did teach himself to read music, though. And sing, though not quite at professional levels.)
3. He's always been a pretty good artist on a technical level, actually, and working at the bakery has only enhanced that. What he doesn't have is ideas. Tell him what to do, and he could paint a masterpiece for you; give him paper and tell him to go for it, and he's going to doodle lopsided flowers and dogs at best.