[Austria's face colors a bit pink. Cautiously but curiously he stares at their hair, calmed by the fact that they're touching the tendrils with no problem. And... and the tendrils are pretty. Attached to an attractive person, a human-like face who doesn't seem to mind them at all, it's not as if it's some otherworldly, dead-eyed something or other that washed up on the beach

No, Fish is beautiful. And it's blowing his mind that he thinks so.] I didn't think I could ever be anything but terrified of something like that. It's... very pretty.

[Austria bites his lower lip in a small grin.] You're terrible. I... was shocked when I first saw it all, but it's manageable, I think. I feel calmer than I have in ages, and I don't know if that's to do with the features or something else. [He laughs.] It's very funny, you know, deer aren't nearly as docile as they look, especially bucks, but I feel like that's what it's doing to me.