[Listen, the physique is a lot to take in, but he's been around huge, bulky guys before and came out able to string words together! He can handle Gladiolus Amicitia.

The shirtlessness and the giant sword are a little outside of his actual experiences with burly men, but that's more of a curiosity for later.]

It's fine! [He waves a hand, and he wants to know what's up with all of this drama. This tension. What happened that was so bad you'd avoid people when working together is one of the easiest ways to guarantee survival?

He wants to know so badly, but he manages to restrain himself. Mostly.]

So long as it doesn't get us all killed, a little drama's not so bad! We're only human, you know. Most of us.