Day 2: adults

like he was an orphan who grew up on the streets (of iberia!) and then got adopted into some creepy seaborn cult where he saw his teacher turn a bunch of his fellow students into seaborn (which straight up killed most of them in the process) and also tried and failed to kill said teacher. and then later the inquisition killed nearly everyone else that was still left

and he just ended up like, a bit standoffish. still generally a nice guy. has friends and hobbies even

Like before humanity even CONSIDERED sending folk into space we were like "ok lets see if anything can survive at all, lets see if things can get there and come back yada yada" and there were COUNTLESS space missions before we even dared as far as sending someone to the MOON for 5 minutes.

But the Eridians were like "Star not eaten by Astrophage? We go there." And sent an entire crew of their BEST SCIENTISTS and engineers on this flight, KNOWING it would take DECADES and having NO CONTACT with them for that space of time and not even knowing what R A D I A T I O N is.