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Knitting can be considered a relaxing activity, and in contrast, whatever Theo was currently doing was in a completely different category. He was trotting from tree to tree nearby the lake, and was picking his way closer until he spotted Oren sitting there and started casually walking in that direction. The closer her got, the more obvious it was that he was swarmed by a small cloud of bees who were lazily landing on him and buzzing around again. Of course, Theo was the bee whisperer, so he wasn't being stung - but it didn't seem like a great choice for a recreational activity anyway.

Slowing up and letting his eyes dart from Oren to what he was working on, Theo found himself wearing a nasty grin. Knitting? Really? It was a hilarious case of deja vu, the only other guy he had met who knit clothes was his adult brother. And lets be honest, Kumori might as well be a girl. It was this knowledge that propelled him to subtly let the stranger know how he felt about his pastime. "Wow, great choice. I bet you'll make a great wife for someone." Theo let out an irritating exhale of a laugh, then squinted as a bee landed on his nose.

Theo's big punchy grin dissolved rather quickly into a scowl of confusion and disgust. He stood still as the dead as some fluffy purple thing was draped over his shoulders, to which his eyebrows dipped even further down to the point where it was almost comical. It looked like he wanted to fling the scarf on the ground and burn it. However, this knitting guy was some kind of crazy, and he decided sudden movements like that could be dangerous.

"Okay. No. No, we are not going to do this thing you're doing right now." Theo began firmly, talking to Oren like he wasn't sure if he could understand English. The bee boy pointed at the offensive apron the other teen had put on, then pointed at the scarf that was touching his shoulders, before ending with a straight gesture across his throat. "No." To punctuate his point, Theo tugged the scarf off and wadded it up in his hands, holding it defensively out in front of him as if to ward the other boy off. "If you could just reverse your little magical girl 'wife' transformation, that would be great, because I got a whole shitload of 'no' waiting for you if you don't." It wasn't really a threat, you could tell by the way his face fell that he was just beyond creeped out. Regardless, he was still kind of considering his escape options if he could just tell his bee army to swarm the crazy guy then run.

Ew. Theo's face did not seem to change throughout the entire exchange, he just looked perpetually grossed out. It was almost impossible to make him feel ashamed or taken advantage of, being permanently self entitled. And man did this guy talk way too much. He hadn't listened to the whole spiel before he made a snoring sound and just rolled his eyes, dropping his hands dismissively. "Wow yes okay, fascinating, you're definitely so much cooler now that you've shown me up big time. I don't know how I'm going to recover from this huge burn." His tone and returned to lazy and unimpressed, and his bee friends seemed to be settling down and landing on him in small groups. He was not a fan of these 'quirky' Metas he kept running into, what happened to the good old days? He could call Kumori a girl all day and night and he'd at least have the decency to ignore him.

"I think you can hold down the fort of badassery here on your own then, you earned the title. I won't waste my time competing." He bestowed sarcastically, seeming to lose interest fast by the second. If that's how this guy was going to react after one comment, then he certainly wasn't going to be able to handle an actual conversation. He raised one hand dismissively and started wandering back towards a cluster of trees nearby the other side of the lake.