Whee!

Kaede actually has a way with children, they like him and find his jokes funny and he's rather silly.

Awww that's very cute but Anthony does not actually say anything to that extent just yet.

The kids all seem to adore Kaede, most of them like Anthony quite a lot, and the other counselors don't make any audible remarks about the change to Kaede's appearance in front of the kids.

Are they acting weird, though?

Funny looks, seem like they might later want to ask him 'what the fuck', mostly keep it to a minimum while interacting with the kids.

Anthony tries to ignore them without seeming too obviously like he's doing that.

Kaede won't try to ignore them, and will merely act like there is absolutely nothing the matter.

More weird looks.

Then lunch! Then more games and activities and more weird looks!

Nothing wrong at all. Surely eventually they'll get tired of weird looks, it's a whole day, it'll eventually no longer be news.

The weird looks get less frequent. Ignoring him is a secondary approach.

Anthony sighs. The day continues. They have a Talk about various safety protocols and so on. Snacks.

Snacks! Kaede seems to be compllletely oblivious to the way people are ignoring him and acts as if they were as friendly as yesterday!

A few of the people didn't properly meet Kaede yesterday and seem sort of confused by the hostility! Snacks are had and then the groups split up a bit more and it returns to the occasional weird glance.

"… It's sort of better and worse than I'd expected," comments Anthony to Kaede, at one point.

"How so?"

"I'd expected people would be awful about it because people are but I also don't get the mindset that makes them be awful so kinda… loosely expected it might all be lies."

"...lies?"

"That people were – homophobic etc?"

"Why would you expect that to be lies?"

"… Hoping people were not just abnormally awful? I don't get the mindset and – I was hoping it was rarer."

He shrugs. "I'm used to it."

"Less so," he shrugs. "And it's annoying anyway."

"It is, but pretending it's not there helps tons. If people start being too overtly terrible when you're nothing but sweet tends to turn back on them."

"Seems like a good policy but one that'd be hard to follow."

"It's what I've been doing all day."

"Oh, yeah, I know. … But still."

"Still?"

"Seems like it'll be hard to keep up for days on end."

"Like I said, used to it."