Toads welcome here

Imagine being a scientist in 2379 and having to write a report on the Hatted Dandy Turtle of the Mesirades, a rare species that spends most of its long lifespan fashioning trendy grass-woven headwear for unknown purposes.

Cool grandma Sam is my favorite character for reasons that are obvious to literally anybody who's played this game. That being said, there's something kind of neat I want to get off my mind that I noticed upon watching someone else on YT play this game.

There's a single anecdote in Lauren's diary (circa 1963) where she mentions that Sam had given Eli M. some tools and taught him how to do silly bike stuff. And then Lauren and the rest of the Next Gens get butthurt about how improper it is about how some random lady raised by the evil farm hands is teaching a boy how to handle machines.

Because Miracle Sr. and Jr. have canon ages in this game, one could do the math and reasonably assume Eli was like 10 or something when this all happened.

And I was like damn, this single encounter with Sam very well might've been the single most influential moment of his entire fucking life; because he's the guy who grows up to be a mechanic, who marries a female mechanic and then raises a daughter who also ends up being a mechanic.

Plus, I really, really don't think Miracle would have been the one to encourage a Roottree to do dirty peasant work for a living or promote women working male-dominated jobs in the first place. So I doubt his son got any of that from him.

Didn't really think about it in my own playthrough since I kind of assumed everyone in Lauren's diary entries was an adult with a fully established life unless otherwise stated lmao