Every attempt I have made to change myself to be more socially acceptable has made me miserable. Nobody else needs to, I fail to see why I should. I enjoy intimacy, but not enough to give up research, and nobody should be obligated to spend time with me when I am insufferable.

You should add Sylvain Gautier to 'aesthetically pleasing but personality not' quadrant. Or perhaps not. He got slapped a great deal in school, but I think he may be sleeping with Hilda and she would not tolerate his previous assholery, so he may have changed.

I want to meet them; I have so many questions. There aren't that many non-humans in Thorne. Is Garrus colorful like the illustrations of birds from other continents?