[Oh, he takes it off. He has a whole set of these silly things, for all sorts of different purposes--swimming, cold weather, hot weather, looking edgelord. He just makes sure that he's absolutely alone when he changes it and the bandages (if needed).

Which will be hard now, considering they're in a trailer together. The concept of privacy really does not thrive in there.

And hey, not having flabby arms is nice.]

No, I get that--but I'm still worried. I'd never say anything like that to hurt you, but if we're--you know, doing it--I don't want to trigger you and kill the mood.

[Part of him wants to suggest that Nariko being the one in power, able to exact punishment on Krieg for saying those things in the context of good, clean, and well-intentioned fun, might help her work these things out.

But he's not confident enough in his knowledge of psychology to say it out loud.]