I LOVE ALL OF THIS, yes please her forceful mothering will baffle and terrify him into submission. his family was less than thrilled about him being a natural born mage (they'd made a deal with a daemon to restore magic to their line, then welched on it and went into hiding as normal humans while the magic died back out), so he ran away to find and education. aside from one mentor he had for a while in the uk he's self taught, so if anyone's yelling information at him he's taking it down to fill in any potential gaps in his knowledge.