always imagining dragons

-Kaz is emo Inigo Montoya but for his brother instead of his father

-Inej is a pirate and also an acrobat

-Nina is really really pretty

-Jesper likes money and guns

-Some blonde guy named Matt??? He’s awful but part of the group???

-Wylan cannot read because his dad hates him

-Someone is named Joost and he has a mustache but that’s not one of the six main people??

-Some of the six people are Grisha

-Someone is named Pekka and he is a trashcan

-There is a club and it has crows

-The six main people steal something (money?) from an ice castle prison thing

-They’re criminals but like it’s okay because… they’re hot?

-Kaz and Inej are in love, Jesper and Wylan are in love, Nina and the blonde guy are in love, but why evades me

-Everyone is gay

-Chapter 40 is bad

As for Primus? I don’t think he’s given his kids so much as a half-hug for their entire lives. I won’t say he’s incapable of love, but my bet is that Primus sees love as completely unnecessary in regards to how to run the family. I’m not even sure he’d say he likes his children regardless of their power. Hell, I don’t even think he hated Occtis! That’s too much emotional energy for a man who starts a massacre by saying he bears the victim’s House no ill will. He might be a little more spiteful after Occtis ruined his plans though.

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Shapiro drowning in Dubois’ EVA suit. Dubois with Shapiro's suit taped to him and her helmet balanced on top of his head

Grace looking at the camera confused while the core time circle around him like the one girl surrounded by five guys meme

Stratt reclined on a couch looking demure with a coffee mug and using Grace's legs as a lap board for her tablet. Grace is dead asleep, obviously snoring with his mouth wide open and covered in reports. His glasses are on Stratt's head.

Carl walking by the camera with Grace thrown over his shoulder. Grace is visibly pleased and yapping.

Illyukhina walking by the camera with Grace thrown over her shoulder. Grace looks vaguely ill.

Yao passionately doing karaoke with each of the core staff members.

Lamai asleep on a prototype coma bed.

Steve Hatch maternity shoot with the Beatles.

Grace and Dimtri using a centrifuge to make butter.

Grace and Dimitri getting yelled at by Lokken for using a centrifuge to make butter.

Dubois carrying Grace and Shapiro under each arm to the cafeteria. They all are talking like this is a normal occurrence.

Yao hanging upside down from a simulator that glitched with a straight face while Illyukhina is crying laughing on the floor below him.

Compilation video of the world's greatest minds dropping tools, tripping, and running into the glass walls.

Videos of the astronauts defeatedly drifting away from the mock ship in the buoyancy tank after losing their grip. The others are dramatically reaching out for them.

Redell teaching the Russians about New Zealand bombing dives in the training pools.

Shapiro, in formal wear, standing next to a slideshow titled “How I Cloned and Replaced the World Leaders”

Dubois - “My Alien Seduction Tactics"

Grace - “Middle Schooler vs Scientist”

Dimitri - “Using the Incorrect Equipment for Correct Results"

Hatch - “Yoko Ono: First Contact?”

Lamai - “How Not to Use a Coma Robot”

Lokken - “Grace is an Idiot”

Leclerc - “The Ice Age and You”

Stratt - “Things I DO NOT Have Time For”

Carl - “Securing a Home Depot for Idiots”

Yao - “Worst Times to Make a Joke”

Illyukhina - "Benefits of Vodka in Space”

Reddell - “What I Did in 1989”

Illyukhina passed out on top of Dmitri (also passed out) surrounded by a minefield of bottles none of which are for alcohol.

Leclerc looking upset and holding a penguin plushy.

Somehow, her betrayal doesn’t erase the friendship they had. It doesn’t make the relationship any less real or tangible, it doesn’t even really end it, or twist it into something else in hindsight. What makes Stratt still feel like Grace’s friend at the end of the movie despite the betrayal is her honesty. Eva Stratt never pretended to be anything else than what she was, she never hid her methods or what she was willing to do or what she was willing to sacrifice— anything, anyone, for billions, for the world—and Grace knew this about her. This betrayal wasn’t the plan from the beginning, she had her plan and her scientists. And the moment they’re gone she sits Grace down and she tells him.

She explains it, she gives him as much information about the reasoning as she can. She sends him to save the world and then die, and she doesn’t lie to him about it to make it easier for herself or for him or for anyone, and lying definitely would have made it easier. She betrays him and it doesn’t change the fact that they were friends, it doesn’t warp the softer scenes beforehand, it’s a long-shot to save the world, the lives of billions weighed against the life of one friend, Ryland Grace knew who she was. Eva Stratt was always going to pick the world over anyone, including herself.

Because while Eridians are incredibly strong and tough on the outside, on the inside they are actually quite fragile:

They have no immune system, so anything that makes it past their enclosed carapace and internal heating will pretty much kill them

They have no natural defenses to radiation of any kind

In general they have very little organic matter so anything that targets their cells directly is quickly lethal

They are partially cold-blooded and live at a very narrow temperature range (about 20 degrees C)

They rely almost entirely on one, highly developed sense and are helpless if deafened (can't even remember the layout of a room)

They are completely helpless while asleep and can't control when that happens

They will forcibly become dormant after eating AND when badly hurt enough (their equivalent of going into shock)

They require more energy to function than humans do, and have very little organic matter to burn in the case of starvation

In contrast, humans:

Have an aggressive immune system and internal mechanisms for dealing with cell damage

Have adrenaline which allows them to temporarily ignore injuries and perform abnormal feats of strength

Are persistence hunters built for economy of movement and capable of extreme levels of endurance

Exist in a very wide range of habitats and on a diverse diet

Are very hardy in general, able to survive massive injuries, lack of sleep, prolonged starvation, and intense environmental conditions if given proper care

The quintessential example of this dichotomy between strength and endurance is the Going Fishing incident in the book: Rocky is able to survive and move in G forces that are killing Grace and to physically wrestle off the chair crushing him, but he collapses from his injuries almost immediately after. Despite being injured himself Grace then carries his 400lb friend up a ladder, is badly burned returning him to his atmosphere, and then proceeds to get some basic medical care, hype himself up on pain meds and keep working (albeit rather badly, lol) while Rocky forcibly sleeps.

"Wow Rock you live like this? Junk all over the floor and parts everywhere? Very messy."