walkie-talkie static, white noise telepath

Grace (who spent a lot of time with teenagers): with who?

Stratt: with Ilyiuhina and Yao

Grace: but isn't Ilyiuhina a lesbian? And Yao is married?

Stratt: yes, and?

Grace: you're shipping me with them

Stratt: to space. You're going to space

Except, before parting ways, he teaches Rocky the basics of the written English (in the book Rocky asks him to and I assume movie!Rocky would want that also), and Rocky runs around the ship pointing his camera thingy everywhere trying to find and read all the words, like an excited child who is learning how to read.

And he sees the board.

And it's funny, at first. He bullies Grace for the messy handwriting. He complains about the lines that are not 100% straight. And then—

"Grace, what C-O-W-A-R-D means, question?"

Pretty normal rush hour sounds, yeah? But this thing sounded something like this:

however, the premise of "he finds out early on and goes kinda insane with it" has SO much fic potential and if i keep thinking about it, i might explode before i manage to write a single word.

he either goes full middle school teacher or makes everyone's lives harder to make eva's easier. or both.

abusing carl's unlimited expense account to buy her super expensive coffee. gently bullying the world's saviour into getting more than two hours of sleep. politely threatening politicians with a twizzler behind his ear while wearing a horrible science pun t shirt.

My addition to the escalation of “Adrain is big”