#1 Caleb Widogast Apologist

More people need to remember that Simon JUST lost his arm. That's going to come with a whole range of issues, both physically and psychologically. He's smart, almost genius levels smart, but that doesn't mean he'd adapt to having a single arm IMMEDIATELY. Make that man struggle to put up his hair, or open things. Hell, you could even say he was left-handed and now has to learn how to write with his right hand instead of his left. Just make him fumble things due to his new disability. It wouldn't be a clean transition. Simon is INCREDIBLY capable, but even the strongest people struggle when it comes to their physical limitations and how frustrating that can be.

Something about Grace that kind of cracks me up is the fact that people write/draw him working on lesson plans, but after like, a year or teaching or so, he wouldn't be writing entirely new lesson plans. He'd just be adding/updating them. Maybe it's not common knowledge, but teachers don't actually write their lesson plans that often. They'll have a set of baselines and make changes as they need to. The only time a teacher is really writing a lesson plan is when they're new, when they move to a new school, or the curriculum changes. Grace would likely have his lessons mostly planned out after about a year of teaching on Erid, although he would have those students for a long time, so idk. Maybe he would be writing new lesson plans whenever he felt he needed to. I guess that depends on the subjects he sticks to.

Imagine being one of Grace's students and seeing his face on a news report about the "brave souls who venture into space to solve the current crisis." I feel like that'd be such a confusing gut punch. Not only was that someone you knew, but they just sent your MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER into space to die. Insane.

Well that was fast. Chapter 1 of my Bloodymary fic is complete. It's insane what fixating on something will do for my motivation and my muse. I haven't written fanfic in literal years. 🤣

I may have started writing something and now I have to do research on PHM because not all the details I want are included in the movie. It funny because you'd think this fixation would include PHM, and it does to a degree, but really it's just a playground for my Iron Lung fixation. Or more appropriately, my Simon fixation.