major birdbrain

ya’ll know how in ddaatw, blood!simon has random flowers and various plants growing scattered around his hair? what if he was able to grow weed by putting his mind to it

Dude would have a secret whiskey compartment hidden behind a panel somewhere

Dirty laundry in the bed cubby because on Eden they're clean freaks, and he can let loose in here

Scrap cloth, wires, various tiny little hoard items he's collected over the years

Being alone in a ship feels more like home than being on a station because there's no people to worry about

He puts the ship on autopilot to snooze. That's like getting out of the driver's seat in a self-driving car that may-or-may-not decide to crash or hit someone. He's a reckless pilot. And a drunk pilot.

He pulls faces in the cockpit glass when things get too boring for too long

He's got that old rock n' roll shit on magtapes in the cockpit dash. Simon would listen to stuff like Foxy Shazam and you can't tell me he wouldn't. Dude loves corny songs about love and hope. He's a daydreamer and a yearner all by himself out there

Hums and mouths the lyrics like a fucking idiot because no one's watching

Spends time charting the stars on a map with a charcoal stick, because he'll document as many as he can before they wink out, just so he can remember where they once were. He has many re-pressed papers dedicated to star locations; many of them years old, full of entire constellations that aren't visible anymore

Has a dedicated hangar for his knife sheath by his bed cubby. It sits there on the wall like a dream catcher

Flips between all those stages of grief repeatedly and spends a lot of time with the ship on autopilot being a lump in the bed

Tries to be an MRE "chef" in the back cabin using the hot engine as a little stove

The ship runs on hypersensitive solar (I'm sci-fi bullshitting rn) because they're still able to use the ghost light, but it's quickly running out, and space travel is going to cease if they don't figure out fuel and soon.

Simon thinks about not being able to fly anymore, a lot

And I’ve seen lots of posts about how she pulls out the “I can do what I want” paper, but I wanted to highlight some other things about the scene that I found absolutely hilarious:

She’s actively working on something else on her tablet as the trial is beginning.

She doesn’t have a lawyer or anything. It’s just her alone at the defense table

She immediately and continuously requests to end the trial so she can leave (and interrupts both the Plaintiff and the Judge to do so)

After being denied a few times, she just gets up and leaves anyway. When they try to stop her she’s just like “I literally have the entire US army under my command, you have no way to make me stay here.”

this study got out of hand haha, but it's a perfect shot for the text from the book (opening of chapter 24) - what a brutal passage :(