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like he's so used to his commands being somewhat followed and can control a room full of people speaking over each other with ease. maybe he even uses the damn bean bag when it gets really bad and stratt looks like she's about to start throwing knives instead of glances.

they're casually strolling back her office, and he yells "dr. sama, no running" and every single person in their immediate vicinity slows down significantly. grace doesn't skip a beat in his monologue and eva is watching it unfold with amusement, and warmth settles in her chest.

i love like every single way for how he finds out about his power tm, literally cannot get enough of it. yet another scenario coming to mind is them in her office, doing paperwork.

large stacks piled everywhere, though he gets through his smaller one a lot quicker. (he's sitting on the floor because it's comfortable and she kinda enjoy being able to look down at him without having to be wary of being caught)

"maybe i should just learn how to forge your signature so i can help out," he jokes, casually.

and she just keeps writing while saying, "your signature is quite literally as good as mine, so get to it then".

"pff, yeah right, nice try."

"i'm not joking."

"...what?"

grace doodle dump <3 grace is now hypermobile and lays unnaturally slinky sometimes <3 Like an angel or an autistic teenage girl (same thing) <3

+ projecting neurodivergency about scheduled events of the day (stratt brings her ESA to every meeting)

also their dorsal radiator slits especially make me think of the holes in a sand dollar test (though sand dollars are not perfectly radial)

i may be biased by how the ecosystem Eridians live in is essentially a very high-energy terrestrial ocean floor. Energy comes from the "surface" atmosphere where microscopic producers form the first link in a food web of increasingly larger predators and detritivores that Eridians are at the end of. Andy gives basically no information about their ecosystem besides "they eat flying things" but the planetary floor ecosystem is probably dominated by filter feeders that catch "marine snow" falling from the upper atmosphere and aeroplankton. I don't know how large flyers can get or anything about their lifecycles and behaviors or the mechanics of how they fly, because again, Andy did not care, but I can't help but imagining a whale fall situation with dozens of Eridians picking pieces off a gigantic corpse that fell from the sky like they're deep sea crabs