However, through it all, youll never have a more generous, devoted friend (not that Flint would ever admit it). The favors and affections that Flint gives are under a veneer of faux-reluctance and huffiness, however (which becomes evidently contradictory in the face of how intently Flint will insist on the favors and kindness). Flint is reserved, warm, and wants you to think they are much better than you, no matter how deeply they are thinking that you are better than them.