It likely doesn’t help that Jakob isn’t even willing to admit that he at least cares for Add to himself, but why attempt adult communication at all when you can act like a stubborn idiot all the way through instead?

Jakob clears his throat, startling the man who up until that point had dismissed him as one among the many passerby on this street, who try their best to ignore him just as he steadfastly refuses to acknowledge them. When you’re brought to the lowest point in your life, after all, the most anyone would want to do is quietly pass out of public notice.

Yet here this stranger stands before him now, clad in some kind of fancy outfit, looking down upon him with a decidedly stern expression.

“You there,” Jakob begins, without further ado. “You seem to be in a bad way. Perhaps you’d care to explain yourself?”

Nailed it.