"Oh, they don't say it, but you can tell." Sometimes you need to read between the lines a bit. Not that the awkward, side-long looks people give Gus need a lot of reading between the lines. It's pretty glaring. "Well, apart from little kids. They just blurt it out some times."

Armin can understand it a little. Between the vacant looking eyes, the absolute silence and the spindly long fingers, he probably does ping a lot of people's 'uncanny valley' radar. Plus, there is the other thing. The whole 'he likes to watch dead things rot with absolute cheer'. That is a bit weird too.

"Thankfully Gus doesn't seem to mind one bit what people think of him. He has a lot of self-confidence."