[ Erik doesn't do it for the praise necessarily, but he'll not deny the satisfaction it gives him to have his abilities met with appreciation, or even a vaguely positive reaction. It's certainly a change to how baseline humans tend to react to mutants back in his reality. ]

I have, on a few of them. But I didn't want to make use of all your tools and ruin them, and besides, there's nothing wrong with manual labour.

[ He's done it often, albeit during a time in his life when he was trying to hide what he was. ]