Oh no! I was totally kidding! I’m sorry! Of course it’s not pity but your first reply just lend to that reading so I took it and ran with it! I didn’t mean it!

Quentin will cherish the friendship they’re bound to build while living together, because Riku seems like someone who does his fair share of things around the house- unlike Quentin who just does things when he remembers? And Eliot keeps a neat house, because that’s just how he is.

But yes. Quentin is grateful to Riku for saving him, not just from the psychical injury at the docks, but also for providing the human connection he was so dearly missing out in the woods when everything turned horrible. Riku was human, then, and it matters more than Quentin is ever going to know how to put in to words. If they talk about it, prepare for a lot of hand gestures and flailing. Because it was all of it. The hand to hold and cling to, and it was the hugging in the forest floor when everything seemed hopeless and dead. It was Riku sharing stories about himself and understanding, even deeper than Quentin, just how cruel a place this is. It’s also the fact that Riku found a way to keep going - that brought Quentin hope.