So If Your DMs Are Open, Don’t Mind If I Do! I Have Been Enjoying Your Comics So Much (your Stone Is

So if your DMs are open, don’t mind if I do! I have been enjoying your comics so much (your Stone is so cool and cute especially) and I have been wondering: Is the comic about Robotnik‘s robot noises the first time Stone really realized he likes this man - since he was not exactly elated in their first meeting - or was he already being drawn in by Robotnik before that? Maybe realized that the doctor is more human than he would like to admit at some point?

It snuck up on him, but there were signs.

To be honest, I think Stone wanted to take care of Robotnik even before he started liking the man. Something about the Doctor just screams "I've been doing everything on my own for far too long" and well, it was Stone's job to make life a bit easier for him. Soon enough, the reward of a job well done started to get confused with the satisfaction of just seeing the Doctor happy.

Eventually, Stone just had to accept he grew fond of Robotnik.

The Doctor took his time before making the robot noises, not consciously, but because he didn't feel comfortable with someone around after spending all of his life alone. That moment is important because first, Ivo is finally relaxed enough to do it (even if he doesn't even realize he was avoiding it) and for the first time Stone is hit with the fact that he just wants to see more of this man being relaxed, not because it means he has successfully done his job, but because it's... cute.