love love love grace's tendency towards denial and elopement specifically because !! running away from something always results in running toward something else. not wanting to be reminded of his previous academic failure makes him agree to study the astrophage. desperately trying to get away from blip-a makes him jump in the pilot seat that he was adamantly denying moments before. physically trying to run away from his first spacewalk bungee-corded him out the door. trying to deny the fate of slowly rotting to death alone gives him the courage to remove his helmet in the tunnel. mary escaping adrian's atmosphere catapults them to a cure. wildly running from stratt gets him blindsided and tackled to the ground. trying to reconcile the weight of rocky's death on his conscience leads him to a life full of joy on erid. do you understand what I'm saying.
