NO THAT IS PRETTY ACCURATE ugh ugh they tend to bond over a lot of Aather experiences in general? Like even with the twins thing that wasn't so much a... home or past experience, but a what they experience in aather thing with or without their better half. And a lot of what they see of each other has to do with... yeah, what they've developed as in Aather too! STILL STUPID BOYS NO MATTER WHERE OR WHEN but... there's effects that's happened to them both in Aather that don't really call back to home for either of them, and they bond through that. Like the touch thing too. '^' I WANT TO THREAD WITH HIM A WHOLE LOT MORE OKAY.

Winter has also super boosted Teito's self-esteem, good god! A FRIEND HE HAS MADE THROUGH FORCE OF WILL ALL ON HIS OWN BUT WAS INTERESTED IN HIM RIGHT FROM THE START INSTEAD OF HIM DOING THE CHASING!! And it's also... mostly effortless? There's a lot of support there and Teito doesn't really feel supremely pressured to be anything but... a good friend. '^' it's very pure and cute.