I worry I may have made a mistake that's impossible to fix with someone
Even as I'm writing this, I keep checking Telegram to see if they've read the message I sent

Where do I begin...
I met someone a few days ago
They're really into StarCraft, and I thought "Oh, like that one really old game?" and yes, it was that really old game. We started talking for a couple days, and after a little bit, I offered for us to do something together over VC. Nothing special, just listening to some music together. After that, he brought up having some StarCraft tournament matches to watch before we did something I offered for us to do, so I decided we'd both do that instead.

In truth, I had no idea what I was looking at, these were pro players after all. But hearing how animated he got as he explained some of the simpler things made me want to continue hearing it. I know enough now that I can almost follow along without the commentators or him speaking. Things were going well, but I could tell underneath it all, something didn't feel right.

By this time, I've already started him on a game called Rain World. He started playing, and pretty soon he was telling me how much he liked it. Knowing what I know about this game, I was skeptical. On the third day (not cycle, day, we took breaks in between) he wasn't feeling too good emotionally. Blaming himself for every mistake he made. It made me nervous, and it hurt to watch. We took a break for a few hours and reconvened later in the night. I had him install "Rain Meadow", a mod which adds online multiplayer functionality, so I could help him. I can't help but think that made it worse somehow. :(

That's not the main issue though, what's wrong is what happened after. We started talking about why he was the way he was, how he cut off his D&D/FFXIV group, how other'd he felt because of his interest in a game that was already over 20 years old at this point, not to mention that we're both furries, so that made it even harder to find like-minded people to talk to. I was the warmest hug he's gotten in a long, long time.

When I learned that, that's when things got stiff.
I don't know how to make things go back to the way they were before. I don't know how to make him feel better about himself, and it hurts.

There are some things I'm sure I forgot to mention because this kind of puts him in a bad light and I don't want him to be seen that way. I just want help.

I want him to feel like he can be himself around me.