[Well, any bit of memory you get/sense of familiar is very much late 1800's, if upper-class Europe - which probably fills in a lot of that. Also a lot of basically everyone being at least low-level afraid of him, if not outright hostile, lots of evil eye charms, a couple exorcism attempts that went badly...also that time his brother tried to kill him in the woods and ended up missing an eye because it was suddenly full of large monstrous blade-legged spiders. Or when his mother tried to drown him.]
[There's a small shuffle a bit further back in the shelf and he is just peering around one of the shorter books to give you a very odd and suspicious look - on the one hand, there's only one other person that HASN'T decided he's a demon/has the Evil Eye/is possessed, which is pretty glaringly easy to pick up. On the other, he's kind of aware of the poking and there's a bit of suspicious mental flattening at it, even though he doesn't really have the strength to do much about it.]
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[There's a small shuffle a bit further back in the shelf and he is just peering around one of the shorter books to give you a very odd and suspicious look - on the one hand, there's only one other person that HASN'T decided he's a demon/has the Evil Eye/is possessed, which is pretty glaringly easy to pick up. On the other, he's kind of aware of the poking and there's a bit of suspicious mental flattening at it, even though he doesn't really have the strength to do much about it.]