Joy

Well, relieved joy he’s usually smiling and crying and laughing, his ears are pricked and his body is relatively relaxed (sometimes his shoulders aren’t). Usually he’ll try to hug or touch (since it’s usually the case) whoever he’s happy to see alive and okay and his tail will curl around their legs a bit. There’s lots of pressing his forehead or face against their shoulder or chest or something along those lines as well if he’s close with them.

When it’s a situation he’s gotten out of okay it’s similar, though if he’s in public he won’t cry, though he’ll have tears in his eyes, and his reaction is much more muted. If he’s by himself in the wilds, though, it’s similar, if a little less than if he finds someone he cares about alive and well when he’s been dreading some sort of harm coming to them (usually those of the life-threatening sort, not like ‘oh they went to get milk and haven’t come back in an hour’ sort of situation).

True joy…I can only recall when he was a little kid, running around and playing with his friends in Black Marsh, some occasions during his enslavement. J’hasi would smile, eyes bright, ears pricked, and his body usually vibrating with excitement, laughing and usually running around because holy crap he had energy as a kid. Usually he would hug someone he cared about or he’d chase whatever was delighting him so much. Fireflies were a big culprit.