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MORE MER!SIMON!!!!!! MORE MER SIMON RIGHT NOWWWWWW-!!!!

my boy💔 when he’s happier and healthier. (Vs prev)

a lot of this is inspired by @bakewrite ‘s wonderful fic collection that has had put a strain on my already fraying sanity. I’m loosing it and it’s because of a mermaid au.

damn it this wasn’t supposed to happen again

regardless, the fics are genuinely healing my soul rn thank you author 🫡💜

anyway I am also weak to nuzzling so-

they have a lack of communication but it is not for lack of trying

Simon you’re doing great sweetheart

“We didn’t have beds in Eden. We all had to sleep on the floor and huddle together for warmth.”

“We didn’t have books in Eden. There was one book and if you wanted to read it you had to knock out the guy who had it.”

“We didn’t have schools in Eden. We had to teach ourselves math by counting our tears.”

they draw Simon as taller than grace.

when Ryan is 6”0 and mark is 5”10

the height difference is more like this

The pebbles love it, it’s like going sledding given how cold the dome is, but Rocky wants to know why Grace calls it Sisyphus and not sledding.

So Grace explains the myth and the punishment. Sisyphus still thinks he’ll be able to get the boulder to the top and that he’ll still outwit the Gods one final time. It’s only his hubris that is grander than his cleverness and frustration in believing he is capable of completing an impossible task. Trapped forever believing he will be successful in pushing his boulder up the hill.

CAMPFIRE NIGHT!!

So Erids atmosphere is mostly ammonia (they built an elevator into space to launch Blip-A, go read the book people- please it’s so cool. ITS HAS ACCURATE MATH OMFG.) and a key component of fire and combustion in general is oxygen. So Rocky has no experience with the stuff, it’s a scientific phenomenon on his planet.

Simon on the other hand grew up in a space cult! Wasting oxygen on recreational fire observation is something I doubt would be appreciated by the greater group. Especially since there whole thing is trees, and fire is pretty much one of the only things that will kill a tree outside of a pest or disease. I kinda head canon fire in general would be faxpau.

So everyone is happy on Erid, and Grace is like “hey can I have a fire pit?” because nothing beats a beach fire and good company. Queue a great deal of questions and concerns, both Rocky and Simon are horrified. Grace is determined to share one of his favorite pastimes with his favorite people. Simon in particular because Grace’s horrified he’s never had a campfire.

So they build a fire pit.

And then they have a fire, and Grace is pulling o it all the nine yards, s’mores for him and Simon, and coals for Rocky and Adrian, blankets and music and an umbrella that was made just for this. Simon is hesitant, but after like the 8th time Rocky try’s to climb into the fire he relaxes. But then Simon is watching Grace talk animatedly with Adrian, the fire highlighting him in warm colors and making his hair look like spun gold. He’s beautiful and Simon doesn’t know what to do about it. ethereal in a way that reminds the man of the first time he had met Grace and thought he was an angel who had come to take him to heaven.

But then a song pops up, and Grace scrabbles to turn it up, singing along with Rocky as Adrian is giggling quietly. But then Grace turns to Simon and tugs him up off the towel he was watching from, and he’s pulling the man into a dance. Uncoordinated, feet slipping in the sand, but a smile so bright Simon thinks it would rival the sun.

Grace having a pebble in his class that doesn't have five legs, but 4. Rocky explains to him that the pebble had an accidet in which they lost one of their legs and they are having trouble to adapt.

Grace tries to cheer the pebble up by showing them that he also have 4 limbs, but the pebble says is not the same because Grace has always have 4 limbs.

The other pebbles also are not pretty sure how to interact with the pebble, because they have problem in their balance now and then and they just have a lot of slips and the pebble have started to isolated themselve to not pass for the embarrasment of falling in public.

One day Grace gets into the classroom, ready to speak about the disabilities that human can present and how they have adapt to live with them. The pebbles, always excited to learn about alien anatomy and life style pay attention. Grace presents different visible and invisible disabilities, he points to his glasses as a easy example and explains that he can't perceive light as well as humans should.

He points to the exit of the classroom of his side of the xenonite wall and calls for someone to come in and another human gets inside the classroom. The pebble with 4 legs gasps in shock when they see that the new human just has an arm.

Grace presents the new human as Simon, who had moved to the biodome some months ago and has been adapting to Erid. Then he explains that the pebbles can made Simon some questions, if he feels comfortable answering them. The 4 legs pebbles make a lot of those questions and Simon answer all of them.

Simon shows how he is able to do the same things that Grace do in his own way, and also demonstrating that he having a single arm is stronger than Grace having two. The pebbles are impressed.

Simon gains a fan, and the pebble gains a role model.

Extra:

Simon peacefully taking care of his plants the day before, when Grace came running to him and ask him if he has free time tomorrow to go to his class, because a little pebble is having a hard time by having just 4 limbs and Grace wants to show them that they are not alone.

I feel like Simon really likes folk music. I imagine a lot of Mars’ music was very much folk inspired and it’s a lot of the music and songs his mom would sing and perform. I also think Simon also really loves music that tells a story, other than just describing a general vibe. Otherwise I feel like he’d actually really like jazz and a lot of crooner kind of music like Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole or Tony Bennett. He’s also fond of classical music as well, though he normally puts that on when he and Rocky are working together (I don’t know why, I just feel like Eridians would latch onto human classical music)

He does love Queen tho, sorry, I don’t make the rules. (And Sleep Token. Mainly because I associate SO MANY Sleep Token songs with Simon)

Grace, by contrast, is 1000% a White Girl Pop lover. Biggest Sabrina Carpenter fan ever, he’s so proud of the fact he managed to go to one of her concerts before getting sent to space. Has the asexual experience of having a playlist that has songs like “WAP” by Cardi B, “CPR” by CupcakKe or like literally anything by Ayesha Erotica on it. He’s also into Mitski and Lana Del Rey but those are kind of specifically his “music to cry in his car to” when he’s going THROUGH it.

The two of them both love Florence and the Machine and Hozier too.

These two are also (dipping into my Cozy AU a tad) big collectors of vinyls. They both had pretty impressive collections on their own and when they got together and moved in together it took a little bit for them to get the space to display all of their vinyl

A little crossover edit that I spent way too much time making

My 11-month male cat lets my foster kittens nurse on him.

Grace has gotten many Teacher of the Week awards to say the least. It’s repetitive, sure, but he loves it.

The award is about to be given and he’s already preparing his ‘thank you’ speech to his students. Until, well…

They call out a different name. Mr. Fischer, the new history teacher. He watches as the man furrows his brows in surprise. Grace had heard his students talking about their new history teacher, but he didn’t know they loved him this much.

He’s not jealous! There’s zero way he is sulking about this. He’s a grown man. There’s much more to life than Teacher of the Week awards.

This one is kinda suggestive I guess but since it's not outward nsfw (unlike some other things i did draw cough) I feel ok posting it here also lmao

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Biology teacher Simon! 🌱

Based on some of my tweets that Simon would LOVE to tell his kids whatever lab mistake they are currently making is the reason he lost his arm, that or shark attack depending on the day!