Written 2: Lias is intimately familiar with the disappointment of defeat. You can’t come within four games of a cup and go home empty handed as many times as he has without developing some coping mechanisms, after all, or he probably would have bounced a long time ago. When it comes down to it, there really is only one thing you CAN do - you have to pick yourself up and just keep going. Losing never really gets easier, but learning to manage his own reactions has definitely been something he’s gotten better at over time. Above everything else, Lias does not want to be a sore loser (being an ugly winner is just as bad, but that’s for another PT). Blaming factors outside your own control, publicly spewing bitterness, screaming at whoever beat you, it might help in the moment but it’s almost always something you regret later on, and it makes you look bad, so Lias tries to avoid all that completely. If he thinks he’s at risk of saying something he will regret later, he will remove himself from the situation and come back when he’s in a better mood.