[His jaw tightens slightly, a few different thoughts racing through his head before he finally relaxes his posture into the couch, the challenging flare in his glaze dying down with a shrug.]

I don't think it's a matter of approaching them or not. If they need help, they need help, and you strive on helping other people. To just ignore them wouldn't help either of you.

Maybe it's just learning to respect and accept that other people just have boundaries they don't want crossed. And that, as hard as it can be... that some people don't always want help. For whatever reason.

[For Duke, that meant his requests to be left alone were because he might have been aware that being emotionally attached to someone wasn't something he could handle. Maybe Zelda just had been ignorant of that, intentionally or not.]