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Like his language consists of noises that are simultaneously very simple compared to the overlapping eridian notes, and weird clicking/hard sounds that no one could even begin to try to imitate. To begin with, that's a weird combination.

And there's a popular headcanon going around that Grace can pronounce certain simple words in eridian without his piano thingy, and he would sound like a pebble learning to speak. Let's make it creepy and assume eridians also have a fear of the uncanny valley.

Grace getting better with time at imitating simple words, therefore accidentally making himself sound more and more like a pebble, sounding right enough, but not quite. That shit would be creepy as fuck.

Imagine an alien that can imitate the way the children of your species sound like. At first you'd freak out! Yeah he saved your planet but. It's like a fucking mimic. Then you'd see him trip over nothing and fall face first and you'd calm down.

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When a typeface you've banned for use on middle school science projects follows you lightyears away to an alien planet 🤦🏼‍♂️

- Technical misshaps everytime he touches a machine. SM-13 went offline because of Ellie, not Simon, so it doesn't count. None of his brothers like when he takes up a console cus they KNOW something is gonna happen with him on the chair;

- Tendency to make noises whenever he's bored. It got hammered out of him over time, but if you leave him alone and unobserved for long enough, he just echolalias to himself just to fill the quiet;

- Because of the above, a pretty capable singer. No formal training and little interaction with music, but my man can hold a tune if put on the spot about it;

- Says some really out-of-pocket violent stuff for shits and giggles. "Haha wouldn't it be funny if you could actually pop people's heads like a grape when you pinch their heads from a distance?" No, Simon, it wouldn't, why would you say that???

- Similar to above, incredibly capable of some really profound, heartfelt lines completely out of nowhere. Incredibly, frustratingly inspiring. No, he won't elaborate or repeat them, either you heard them the last time or you didn't;

- Does the grabby hands thing at people when frustrated or angry. Used to do it way more as a kid and teen, now he tries to do it out of sight. Or it just scalates to straight up violence, why pretend when you can just choke a motherfucker?;

- He's not a masochist, it's just that existence post-Rapture is already keeping him at a constant high stress and constant pain baseline. The moment it tips below that threshold though is when he starts pulling weird shit and "testing his limits";