he comes home to find his cat (his grandma’s cat??) dead because it got into his grandma’s medication which he still has for some reason, so he cleans up the vomit and the corpse (in a bin bag, not a burial despite supposedly loving that cat SO much), and then….. puts the medicine back in the cabinet???

and then he sobs about this entirely preventable thing that HE could have avoided had he just taken any kind of initiative and yknow, gotten rid of the incredibly dangerous pills for a dead woman being kept in a cabinet that doesnt close properly

because if he Had actually cared about that cat, he wouldn’t have kept that stuff lying around at all, and he wouldn’t have unceremoniously dumped its body in a bin bag outside and then act like a victim when his own actions come to bite him

all interactions with leandra in act one be like

the fact that it’s the last time he will ever touch his home planet

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.