aroace grace in space

SIMON BACKSTORY:

So Eden was a Space station orbiting a very nationalist Mars and then after the quiet rapture it dove HEADFIRST into a religious death cult. I think as time went on people were desperate for answers and it was easy to look to religious leaders (Father) who took advantage of the situation for their own benefit.

Simon's mother was on mars when the quiet rapture happened and he was orphaned and taken in by father.

As he grew up he was basically brain washed into their crazy ass tree religion but he was absolutely the kid who asked too many questions and got in trouble for it over and over and over.

He stopped questioning and started believing in it fully. When Simon was a teenager he was enlisted into Edens fight against the C.O.I with the belief that he was part of a crusade/ holy war with his fellow brothers and sisters and by killing and ending humanity they were doing God's work. Like it's what needed to happen.

The reward for humanity's end (as taught to them by father) would be the release of all the lost rapture souls, a guarantee for them in paradise, and the return of the stars and trees back to the universe.

But as the fighting and the killing went on the same questioning kid in Simon kept coming back and by the time they were at filament station and he'd realized how much death they were about to cause he tried to sabotage the mission/ stop his companions and was unsuccessful. This led to his team purposely leaving him behind to be captured by the C.O.I blah blah plot of iron lung.

EDEN

So since Eden has a very nationalist/religious culture I feel like all these old terrible religious beliefs would have slithered their way back into their wider culture. I fear I do have to headcanon that Simon does not realize being gay is super cool and normal 😞 (he is gay) or that being left hand is not evil (he is left handed so Is markiplier fun fact). That particularly feels like untapped potential because he also has his left arm ripped off in the movie like something is there.

Eden is ALSO a resource scarce place.

So we're talking BRIEF cold showers on occasion NO bath in sight, we're talking snow piercer ass rations that are much worse than space food. The drinking water tastes vaguely of copper (which is THEMATIC right because copper tastes like blood)

GRACE and his ISSUES

Grace the kind of guy to hide all his issues until they're like so obvious someone calls him out. He doesn't really trust people to help him either I fear. It's half 'i can figure this out myself' stubbornness and half 'no one is gonna take me seriously or care if I ask for help anyway' trauma.

I like the idea that hes been having physical issues with memories nosebleeds irregular heartbeats and dizziness from his coma days and since rocky is an Eridian he's able to brush it off to rocky who doesn't understand human biology fully.

I picture at some point one of these issues come up in front of Simon who's like ??? HELLO YOU GOOD?? And he brushes it off the same way he does to rocky and then realizes his mistake when Simon gets so confused and worried 😮‍💨

He did half starve before the Eridians figured out a way to get food for him on Erid and he has some issues leftover from it. Specifically issues with appetite he just never really feels hungry and has a tendency to forget to do things when he's locked TF in. Not the best combo.

Do NOT sneak up on him from behind ❌ 😮‍💨 DO NOT hug him from behind ❌ do NOT touch his neck ❌.

SIMON and his ISSUES

Simon has crazy trippy blood ocean nightmares and occasional auditory hallucinations for SURE. Sometimes his mind will wander a bit too much and he'll convince himself that nothing is actually real and he's gonna wake up on the SM 13 any second now.

He will find himself praying out of habit when he gets really stressed or scared and then gets mad at himself for it.

He HATESSSS looking at himself for a long time because he sees that vision of his future self on the sub when he does.

His body is like half scar tissue from Armando's surgeries. Armando does not have the programming to keep things pretty, just save the body. Simon's skin has a lot of nerve damage and is sensitive some places while and completely numb in others. And of course he has his phantom pains with his missing limb.

I also think Simon is VERY prone to fevers due to the weirdness going on in his blood, and generally just runs hot. He's always hot and grace is always cold.

THE RELATIONSHIP

Okay that's all for now folks I'll probably definitely add to this later.