Sebastian had a knack for reading people that had been refined by his time in the military. Not exactly deducing them because there's no real conscious thought process picking apart their clothing or the fur or soil on the pant legs or under their nails. There's some contextual clues, of course. How comfortable a person looks in the suit they're wearing will tell you if they're used to wearing them, but a lot of it was behavior, posture, intuition-based things he can process without thinking. You can tell officers among soldiers the same way you can tell if a man is armed without looking at their clothes but simply by the way they act, carry themselves. Jim Moriarty didn't act like a man who worked under someone else.
He doesn't seem particularly offended, electing to pull his hand back to produce a toothpick from a pocket that he slides between his lips. Just had a cigarette, already craving another but upsetting possible non-smokers who might be giving you a job you very much need was decidedly a bad way to start, so he'll feed the oral fixation before the nicotine craving. "Then with all due respect, Mr. Moriarty, why the sudden desire to deliver job requests in person?"
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Sebastian had a knack for reading people that had been refined by his time in the military. Not exactly deducing them because there's no real conscious thought process picking apart their clothing or the fur or soil on the pant legs or under their nails. There's some contextual clues, of course. How comfortable a person looks in the suit they're wearing will tell you if they're used to wearing them, but a lot of it was behavior, posture, intuition-based things he can process without thinking. You can tell officers among soldiers the same way you can tell if a man is armed without looking at their clothes but simply by the way they act, carry themselves. Jim Moriarty didn't act like a man who worked under someone else.
He doesn't seem particularly offended, electing to pull his hand back to produce a toothpick from a pocket that he slides between his lips. Just had a cigarette, already craving another but upsetting possible non-smokers who might be giving you a job you very much need was decidedly a bad way to start, so he'll feed the oral fixation before the nicotine craving. "Then with all due respect, Mr. Moriarty, why the sudden desire to deliver job requests in person?"