He had really hoped that, for the friendly and bubbly Uraraka, a party was exactly what she needed to lift her spirits. She'd agreed to come, in her usual sweet way. Instead, he's watching his friend take one of her calming breaths as she tries to ignore a phobia. He'll take the punch. Then he'll start dumping more of her favorite things into the broth.

"I doubt I'd have the opportunity." Famous last words in horrorville. "It's not exactly something we're used to, skeleton armies... But--look--I was kind of freaked out at seeing one up close too, at first, even though I'd seen them before on the same ship in February." February, during the Leviathan battle, which he won't directly bring up over dinner.

"Sometimes I find it helpful to think about... how we all have skeletons inside us anyway?" The rise in his voice at the end is rather pathetic. He's trying.