Ryland Grace When He Has a Crush on You
Live-action characters? On the weird clown blog? It’s more likely than you think 🫵🏻 (I warned y’all PHM was my personality now 🤭)
🔬 You’re the first person in the room he looks at when he makes a dumb pun, hoping you’re laughing.
🔬 “If he’s mean to you he likes you” MISS RYLAND GRACE WITH THAT SHIT 🙅🏼♂️ mr dr is practically falling over himself to open doors for you and somehow despite being willing to call idiots a waste of carbon will never let a single negative word about you fall from his lips.
🔬 Offers you his cardigan because you’re cold. You’re happy, no big deal, meanwhile Grace is glowing inside his head with pride that he did a gentlemanly thing and maybe you noticed!!!
🔬 Lets you try on his glasses, gently pushing them onto your ears and moving any hair that’s in the way with the softest hand, too. Chuckles warmly at the way your eyes screw up at the blur, his prescription vastly different from yours or your lack thereof! He thinks it’s cute though the compliment fails upon his shyly smiling lips.
🔬 The first time he ever sees you in revealing clothes or a swimsuit he’s visibly flustered at least to those who know him. Pointedly looking you in the eyes and nowhere else lest you feel uncomfortable.
🔬 Tries to surreptitiously scoot his chair closer to yours. Squeak, squeak! …ok, you may notice.
🔬 If you ever set foot in his science classroom for any reason, Grace’s students explode in an uproar he hastily rises to quell. Too late, though: they’re grinning like little devils, calling out that it’s you. “Guys—” Grace stutters, hands extended as if begging them not to shoot. “Guys— I may have mentioned you, I mean you told that really funny cat joke and I had to give you credit, y’know?” “Dr. Grace likes you!” “I mean, of course I do, you all would too if you spent a little time together. Come on,” he distracts them, waving a hand your way, “maybe we can use our new friend for a little fun with the Van de Graaff generator!”
🔬 Nerd flirting! Excitedly urging you over to his microscope to look at the coolest slides he has prepared for his students: the bright pops of color splashing across his sample of silverberry scaly hairs, the still-living lichen wash sample, the process of mitosis captured beneath glass… your eyes light up as if you were back in your childhood, wonder spreading across your features as Grace happily drinks in the beauty of it.
🔬 Sits on the floor so you’re facing each other, legs outstretched and just barely brushing, asking to hear any memories of your life on earth with smiles and tears for you accordingly.
🔬 Leaves you doodles on the whiteboard to make you smile. Sometimes he’ll write ‘hi’ or a little message and it brings an absolute beam to his face when he sees your reply and keeps it up as if you aren’t talking in person too.
🔬 Starts teasing a bit as he gains some confidence. “What do you think, Rocky? Should we share?” “Grace always share.” “I was just— never mind. Here ya go.”
🔬 As much as Grace enjoys infodumping on past studies, all the amazing things he’s studied and learned and hypothesized, he practically begs you to do the same. Whatever you like, he wants to hear it. “Gain that passion through osmosis,” he calls it, “Coming from you I think I can do it.”
🔬 Playfully tosses his little earth your way, watching it drift slowly your way in the zero-G with a grin that grows when you bat it back.
🔬 Takes a long time to break touch barriers out of shyness and desire to maintain your comfort. Grace eventually ventures reaching out to place a soft hand on your shoulder during a vulnerable moment, blue eyes shining as you thank him. Takes to giving you little nudges with his shoulder when you sit side by side, too.
🔬 Awkward sometimes, but in a charming way! Doing silly dances in time with your music and projections until you break down laughing and join him, telling you a joke a day, waving every time you make eye contact across the ship or work station.
🔬 Brings you ship rations while you work and insists you rest, even to the point of draping his blanket over you and urging you out of your seat. “I got it from here.”
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