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Yadriel has already brought Julian Diaz back from death, but when Julian is cursed by magic no brujo understands, saving him may mean breaking the sacred rules Yadriel was born to uphold.

Clark had to do all of that, too, when he was growing up, but a mistake from him could have meant death/destruction for whatever he was interacting with, so i imagine it was a very stressful experience for the kents to try to gently but firmly work through his limits with him in a safe manner that would also convey what an average human would be able to do.

One of the words I imagine Clark learned first was “gentle”. I can see a core memory of his being his Pa holding him as a toddler, teaching him how to reach out and pet their calmest cow so lightly. Clark already so afraid to touch, but Jon takes his little hand in his and applies just enough pressure, petting the cow for him. “Gentle, gentle,” he coaches as Clark starts to do it himself.

Then other, less pleasant ones. Clark being upset at six or seven and trying to fling himself into his mother’s arms. He clings to her too tight, and he hears her rib as it cracks, even before her sudden scream of pain. He learns to wrap his arms around himself, instead, when he’s upset.

Jon makes the mistake of telling a ten-year-old Clark his grip needs to be firm when teaching him how to handshake and gets a fractured bone of his own. It’s six months before he can convince Clark to try again.

The Kents building out little exercises over the course of his life for Clark to learn his limits. Pick up this egg without breaking it. Throw this bale of hay, but only this far.

Maybe even a fun one, teaching him how to line dance. It teaches him how to move in sync with humans, in the way humans can move, at the right controlled speed. Clark has to stomp enough to make a sound, but not break the floor or rattle the ground. He has to jump, but not too high. He has to be very aware of a crowd of dancers around him, understand the space he takes up and how not to collide with anyone.

the color red (the Petrova line, Stratt's hair, the red EVA suits and tethers, Grace's blood on the monitor, the Hail Mary's alarm system)

knocking/tapping (Stratt greeting Grace with a "knock, knock", Grace and Rocky tapping on the glass, Rocky tapping on the glass when he wakes up, Grace banging on the hull of the Blip-A, Rocky knocking on Grace's door in the epilogue)

sound in general (Grace teaching his students about sound waves, the Hail Mary's engines mimicing sound waves, the Blip-A being named after a sound, Rocky's echolocation and musical speech, the Hail Mary staff having Kareoke night, Grace teaching Rocky a song, the Blip-A operating like a musical instrument)

awake/asleep (Grace waking up on the Hail Mary in the beginning, the Eridian custom of watching another person sleep for safety, Grace and Rocky both sleeping and waking after the Adrian mission, Grace being put to sleep in a coma, "all right, let's wake up")

water (Grace's belief that not all life requires water, that believe being disproven by both Astrophage and Eridians, Grace's love of fog and the beach)

rainbows (above Grace in his classroom right before Stratt shows up, in the Blip-A, the last thing Grace sees before succumbing to the coma)

dancing (Grace dancing with the mop, the Blip-A and the Hail Mary spinning together while a tango plays, Grace showing Rocky dance moves, the Hail Mary staff swaying to the music on karaoke night, Grace doing dance moves to say bye to Rocky)

(Close ups under the cut)

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