Evan looked over at Ingrid as she responded, tilting his head as he considered what she said as well, before giving a small shrug. "Maybe I haven't seen what pity is supposed to look like. The times I've witnessed it, it has been mean spirited and condescending." And then at Professor Schmoe's addition as well, he nodded his head in agreement. "I suppose I don't see really then how pity in it's form of sympathy included isn't just sympathy?"

But they could also of course continue the discussion after class, since Professor Schmoe had them moving on to the next part, but which he would be interested in because discussion was always interesting. Evan did open his notebook to jot down the notes on the whiteboard, from having been added by all of his peers.

Empathy did sound incredibly vulnerable. And the introduction to the activity made him eye Schmoe nervously as paper and markers were passed around and what he wanted them to do explained. An assumption made about them? Frankly, he did not want to go to deeply into this for... obvious reasons. But he could think of a few assumptions other's had made before that were hurtful but... not nearly as deep as scars as others.

He stared down at his paper briefly, before writing something down.



Because he didn't always show a lot of expression nor was he found of physical touch outside of people very close to him, people at his muggle school had assumed he was robotic. He'd never had too many friends. The male Nam stood to place his paper down face first with the others gathered there, before heading back to his seat to await phase 2.

He certainly hoped this wasn't going to turn into a match the assumption to the person because that sounded like a way to just make new enemies. Yikes.