Somni

He is EATING A SHIT SANDWICH AND HE HAS YET TO SAY THIS IS SHIT!

The experience of making the best out of a bad situation you were put into and the very Black experience of having some fucking bitch asses who have NO IDEA what you've been going through and genuinely DO NOT GIVE A FUCK judge, criticize and ATTEMPT TO COMMAND YOU

and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it

he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??

eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh

"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"

"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"

I briefly thought maybe Cody was his ally, but no, even the dude who's completely chill with vampires with orders to kill him was happy to be rid of the local monster hunter.

Simon rejected sleep.

Simon is afraid that everything will be taken away from him again(((