hollis (they/them) currently studying classics and archaeology.
I think an underappreciated thing about alexander scaplehorn (tax inspection guy) in TMA is that he was just too open minded and accepting for an avatar of the stranger to have much of an effect at first. he saw the taxidermied corpse of a man possessed by the concept of uncanny valley and was like “This guy says weird things, won’t make eye contact, and is surrounded by old taxidermied animals? Ohhhh, yeah my cousin is autistic too. It’s really not a big deal, we’ve all got our quirks. :)” Like he would catch himself getting unnerved by the shop and then chastise himself for being judgmental. King.