Hearing himself being referred to like you would some kind of wild animal stings, and Kankri's all set to rip the stranger a new one over it. But then Venus steps in and does it for him. It's so gratifying to be defended, an unfamiliar situation.

But.

Venus is injured, and this stranger has a weight advantage on her, and the fewer fights they get in the better. So he steps forward and tugs on Venus's arm. "It's all right. I mean, I certainly don't appreciate being called a 'that,' but I suppose I had expected everyone to be familiar with...well. He didn't know, please calm down."

He looks over at Joel. "There's no need to be so alarmed, I mean you no harm. Even if I did, I doubt I could cause any. My name-" and okay, maybe he's a little tart with that remark, "-is Kankri. As for what I am, that's simple enough. I'm a troll. However, I'm given to understand that to humans, that word means something a bit...different. Some sort of folklore, or something. Suffice it to say that it isn't only your own species that our captors find, ah, 'entertaining.'"

He tugs Venus's arm again, looking to Ellie pleadingly for help breaking up the adults.