SYDNEY

A headcanon that I will never let go of is that I'm certain Eiffel was SO mentally fucked up for a while after being rescued from Lovelace's shuttle and coming back to the Hephaestus, like I'm sure he had nightmares for months at least. I think like second night he's back on the Hephaestus he has a vivid nightmare of being back in the shuttle and wakes up convinced that he is still there and the whole rescue was a hallucination, so he stumbles out of his room in a panic and nearly inconsolable cause of course he was never rescued, that's ridiculous, what are the chances, he doesn't have that kind of luck, he must be just slowly dying alone in the shuttle and his brain's convinced him he escaped so he can cope but he didn't. And whichever crewmember finds him (I imagine it's Hilbert cause I <3 Heiffel, but really anyone works) has to spend most of the rest of that night calming Eiffel down and convincing him that this is real, he really was rescued, he's safe now, and probably eventually he falls asleep/passes out from exhaustion in their arms once he's finally feeling more stable in his reality