... You should tell him that. When you're both back to being your normal ages.
Scowl is a bit shy too, really, just in a different way. Sometimes he has trouble communicating, and he feels like he has to act tough all the time. To add to that, I think his way of showing kindness might be different from what others perceive and then they jump on him for it, so ... I think he sometimes assumes that people think badly of him when they actually don't.