Well...he wasn't gonna say anything about it, Akito, but you do kind of look like a preteen girl sometimes. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

"I'd tell him to prove that he just needs to work a little harder and that the Metalworkers aren't as bad as he thinks they are." Tony's apologized and bowed and scraped and made an utter begging fool of himself, in Gene's opinion, but it still hadn't undone the harm caused by barging in and demanding his things back like an entitled little shithead in the first place. "Let me know if they give you any trouble, okay? I know things are...difficult...among the Foreigners." He's had a hard enough time getting them to listen to him, and Gene can at least pass for an adult. Damned smug immortals, thinking they know everything.