Please ask me about rabies or bugs/dead things

Idk what would help later, but I imagine either Grace or rockdrian would notice and make him a little something to fidget with. Maybe they make plenty a something to try and help him out.

When they find out that what Simon wants is something so personal and also A KNIFE… hard to make up for.

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yeah that's right, ROCKY is the #1 simon apologist. bet you didn't see that coming. ok nvm you probably did, but yeah whatever. we'll get more into it in the next pages

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great tip, be awesome eridian not leaky space blob, statement. amaze amaze amaze

CAMPFIRE NIGHT!!

So Erids atmosphere is mostly ammonia (they built an elevator into space to launch Blip-A, go read the book people- please it’s so cool. ITS HAS ACCURATE MATH OMFG.) and a key component of fire and combustion in general is oxygen. So Rocky has no experience with the stuff, it’s a scientific phenomenon on his planet.

Simon on the other hand grew up in a space cult! Wasting oxygen on recreational fire observation is something I doubt would be appreciated by the greater group. Especially since there whole thing is trees, and fire is pretty much one of the only things that will kill a tree outside of a pest or disease. I kinda head canon fire in general would be faxpau.

So everyone is happy on Erid, and Grace is like “hey can I have a fire pit?” because nothing beats a beach fire and good company. Queue a great deal of questions and concerns, both Rocky and Simon are horrified. Grace is determined to share one of his favorite pastimes with his favorite people. Simon in particular because Grace’s horrified he’s never had a campfire.

So they build a fire pit.

And then they have a fire, and Grace is pulling o it all the nine yards, s’mores for him and Simon, and coals for Rocky and Adrian, blankets and music and an umbrella that was made just for this. Simon is hesitant, but after like the 8th time Rocky try’s to climb into the fire he relaxes. But then Simon is watching Grace talk animatedly with Adrian, the fire highlighting him in warm colors and making his hair look like spun gold. He’s beautiful and Simon doesn’t know what to do about it. ethereal in a way that reminds the man of the first time he had met Grace and thought he was an angel who had come to take him to heaven.

But then a song pops up, and Grace scrabbles to turn it up, singing along with Rocky as Adrian is giggling quietly. But then Grace turns to Simon and tugs him up off the towel he was watching from, and he’s pulling the man into a dance. Uncoordinated, feet slipping in the sand, but a smile so bright Simon thinks it would rival the sun.

Stratt: youre the perfect person for this job and I hunted you down personally

Grace: ummm are we sure theres no one better??

Top scientists of the world: waow you figured out how astrophage reproduce, that so cool

Grace: nah its nothing

Stratt: can you accept the compliment please? Thats a command.

Grace: Fiiinnne if its a command but-

Rocky: Grace smart smart smart save earth save erid

Grace: its the least I could do when I literally turned my back on everyone

Adrien: thank savior grace for saving mate

Grace: really he saved me I owe him everything

eridians: hey thanks for saving our entire species

Grace: not a big deal

Simon: Thank you for literal scraps and basic human dignity, no ones ever given me that before

now I’m NOT saying he should have had a partner on earth or whatever because I do think it’s awesome that he’s (implicitly at least) aro/ace/both, but it would have been a great aside to see the cloud of yearning that follows him everywhere which he either has to deal with or has decided to be permanently ignorant of. like the comedy potential of objectively the most fuckable man any of these strange science geeks have ever met being like oh um :) thanks for the coffee and the flowers and stuff and you guys are all so nice to me it’s great to work with you all :)

pov your boyfriend is a love biter [ref images and yapping under the break]

Adrian and Grace are still getting used to each other, I like the idea of Rocky and Grace already having an established dynamic, one that Adrian is perfectly okay with of course but she’s still warming up to Grace themself. And unexpectedly they start to have interest in getting closer.

Waking up with your body temperature adjacent to getting a fresh sunburn is certainly not fun