it will get lighter

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the biodome team watching grace get up in the middle of the night and easily navigate his hut without turning any lights on:

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

Detective Gordon, watching as he walks by, being transported to twenty years prior when he was a rookie cop first on the scene for the Wayne murders and finding a shocked eight year old little boy standing in a puddle of his parents’ blood. Remembering how he wrapped his jacket around him and carried him away in a hurry, tucking his face into his shoulder and whispering, “Don’t look. You’re going to be okay, I promise you’re going to be okay, just don’t look.”

Gordon watching as the supposed playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne does everything he can to comfort Dick Grayson, this little boy from the circus he’s never even met before, because he knows exactly the kind of pain he’s going through in this moment.

he has a phd in molecular biology, he named astrophage, he was in the room when astrophage was identified and explained, he helped figure out how it feeds on stellar energy, he contributed to figuring how it reproduces so it could even be studied in labs. and he didn’t just observe it, he helped build the actual scientific understanding of it from the ground up.

and the crazy part is even his colleagues are clearly in awe of him?? they talk to him like he’s this genius who’s miles ahead of them and he just brushes it off like it’s nothing.

Yes!!!!!

Stratt's trust is slim with many as is. So the idea of someone being around Grace while he's in that smaller headspace? Oooh it is a HUGE test in trust!

Maybe she'll call them into her office, she does genuinely need a small meeting with them on reports buuut when they get there, Grace is also there, sitting beside Stratt's desk on his lil play mat, in his own little world.

Stratt is nonchalant, talking to the other as if nothing else was happening. But she's watching every single micro movement in the other person, seeing if they're making any faces that could be seen as "weirded out" or confused!

Cut to big Grace arguing with her about something and her having to physically hold herself back from trying to put his pacifier in. 🤣🤣

Oh my goodness yes xD

The soother is the easiest and quickest way to calm a fussing Grace! He's instantly heavy lidded once his mouth makes contact with the silicon.

Grace will be pacing in her office, hands flying around as he's going on this huge rant.

"And then Lokken had the NERVE to tell me that my calculations weren't factual! Factual?? I'm grabbing things from the air because we've never had to freaking calcuate the density of astrophage when it comes into contact with other elements! And and, she also me to stop putting twizzlers behind my ear! Hair is very hygienic and it's not like I'm giving it to her!"

Stratt is standing there, fingers twitching for her coat pocket as she hears Grace rant, that tone bordering on that whine she knows from an overly tired tiny Grace.

She's so ready to pop the paci in his mouth (yes, she keeps one in her pocket as a "just in case" precaution) but, she holds back and instead she plucks one of the strong mints she keeps in her desk, walks over to Grace and puts that in his mouth.

It's enough of a minty shock that Grace stops ranting and has him investigating the taste.

"I'll mention it to Lokken that we're still new to astrophage and it's calculations," she says, "and you really do need to stop putting candies behind your ear, one day you'll forget about it and walk outside and a hawk will tear your ear off."