it's a nice bit of contact without being overwhelming, and it's a sign of trust because it would take longer to draw a weapon (but also he's ambidextrous so it's fine!!! he can keep them safe!!!)
16. gifts on the other hand I think would be full anxiety town for him in both directions - what if he gets it WRONG, he's not supposed to have things, what does he DO with it, etc etc
that said he would be secretly very very touched at someone giving him a thing, even if it was like, a cool looking rock, because...Clones Don't Own Anything
4. sleeping on or around others I think is something petr has largely reserved for times of necessity, either people there's not space where they are, or they need to bunk together for safety, or just collapsing at the very peak of exhaustion
he likes it when it happens - he likes feeling close to his men, and also just not being touch-starved - but he's careful not to let it be all-the-time. the balance between intimacy as trust and separation as hierarchy is running semi constantly in the back of his mind
5. backrubs on the other hand are fully in the 'Always Acceptable' pile because there IS the medical excuse, barring those times when Petr is just jumpy about being touched at all, which happens when he's been injured (or gruesomely killed) and feels too vulnerable to let someone at his skin
but there's no sense of having to hold back for apparences sake - kind of the opposite, getting the knots out of your back is important mainentance and sets a good example
22. it's hard to name an 'ideal' date for Jedao because he loves doing so many different kinds of things with different people but I feeling like his really for reals ideal date involves 1) mock war, paintball/waterballoon/snowball fight or something, tons of running around and ducking behind things and getting messy, whether he's on a team with his date
just being in the ZONE or getting each other and crowing about it, and then when he's burned off some of his crazy excess energy there's a tender clean-up/cool-down, socks drying while they cuddle by the fire and have hot cocoa, or scrubbing the paint out of each other's hair in the shower
23. HE FINDS MANY MANY THINGS ATTRACTIVE, but one of the things that got him right away about Fives and Quentin both was that capacity for wide-eyed wonder and delight in the world
24. instantly endeared, it's probably that Going Against the World (esp ALONE) Because Care About People, Because It SHould be Better (see Fives, Godric, Flint - also very much Nico)
he doesn't generally expect people to be able to find good gifts for him, because what do you get a super rich general who can buy himself anythinga man who's lying about everyinga man who has everything he wants except freedom
he's more likely to get flustered if he misjudges someone - especially in the context of pushing/provoking them, and they don't at all do what he expected and his plans are all awry
Shen Wei is KIND of doing it because he and Jedao just speak such OPPOSITE languages, but Jedao is all the way through and into grumpy exasperation with him
he's also just extremely bad at handling situations where he has to handle multiple people having conflicts with each other and he can't sit back and exploit the divisions OR order them all to shut up and listen
see: his first meetings with both Fives AND Quentina super rich general who can buy himself anythinga man who's lying about everyinga man who has everything he wants except freedom