the one with violets in her lap

the cultural reset of Theon Greyjoy leaping off the walls of Winterfell with Jeyne Poole in his arms and carrying her through the snow

[ID: Digital illustration. Grace sits by the edge of the water. The tide draws up over the sand, leaving froth licking at his shoes. His laces are untied. He is wearing a pair of striped socks in the colours of the aroace flap: orange, yellow, white, light blue and dark blue. The whole illustration is zoomed in on his feet and legs, so the rest of his body is not visible save for his hands folded over his calves. /end ID]

the scene where grace is doing the math to see whether he had enough fuel to save rocky and go back to earth and the camera pans down to the distinctly three-clawed scar on his arm...

Phm from Adrian's perspective is just what if you were Penelope and Odysseus came home but he also brought a jellyfish and keeps begging you to build a fish tank for the jellyfish and make jellyfish food for the jellyfish and youre an ancient Greek whos never seen a jellyfish and you cant even comprehend how your going to do it but youre going to because if you dont Odysseus may kill himself. And also the jellyfish can do like. Witchcraft.

unfortunately one life vs the entirety of earth is an easy choice (ignoring the insidious implication that they could have waited a few months and found someone to go voluntarily) but grace didn’t even get to say goodbye to anyone or anything. and based on how easily he connected w carl in a short amount of time, despite being a “loner” I’m sure there were plenty of people who noticed his absence beyond his students. baristas, neighbors, bicycle repair men, the grocer at the farmers market. not even mentioning that grace had sacrificed years on a ship isolated from his community and “normal” life to save the world he loved, just to be drugged unconscious and sent away from it to his death. there was so many things he’d seen for the last time and he didn’t know it, just for even those memories to be taken away