[He'll allow it, of course, the hair-playing usually gets him to calm down pretty quickly but he's still tense and not really reacting to it very well. It takes him a moment to lean into it, and even that is more of a mechanical response than it usually is.]

It's not all right, I wouldn't tolerate anyone else saying something like that about you. I just... You mean so much to me and I... I just...

[Words are failing him and it gets a soft frustrated noise from him.]