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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a mission he doesn't remember volunteering for. Alone on a ship scaled far too large for a borrower, he has to try to figure out why he's so far from home, and what he's supposed to do. On top of that, he needs to figure out why this mission is so prepared to have a borrower on the crew--standing at only six inches tall, it's easy to think none of this was meant for him. And yet, everywhere he looks he finds evidence that whoever built this ship built it with both humans and borrowers in mind. An impossible task looms over him. A scientific mystery has somehow sent him hurtling through space, impossibly far from any other human or borrower, and it's on him to surpass an extinction-level threat that doesn't care how big someone is. It will end the world all the same if he doesn't do something about it. But, despite what he thinks, he's not alone.

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(To be clear, I know Simon’s not stupid, he also knows that the ship isn’t actually sapient and can’t think and feel like he, Grace and Rocky do, but I like to imagine that, like Grace, he would start treating the Mary like a person because. Well it just kinda feels good to do that sometimes, doesn’t it? Manners just feel good.)

(Side note I just remembered the doodle of Little Simon apologizing for punching Armando while scared, do you think he’d also apologize to the robot directly for that-)

Those moments in Iron Lung where Simon hits the console and apologizes or pats it when he’s trying to encourage it to play nice.

Grace absolutely personifies everything. Great news for the guy always making first contact with aliens!! I absolutely think this is something that would rub off on Simon cause kids personify more than anything else.

Also it’s not really calling Simon stupid to think this stuff. He’s in a weird spot a lot of abused and neglected kids are put in where they are too mature and too immature at the same time. Simon might be 13/14 and not a little tiny kid that acts like a little kid, but he’s still a kid that never got to FULLY be a kid, which makes him mimic and regress a little bit when around adults that LET him be a kid. Grace’s silly personality does wonders encouraging more childish behavior from Simon.

He would say thank you to Mary and whisper encouragement to her when there’s turbulence. He’d apologize to Armando when he gets startled and hits him, as well as scold the robot arm to “stop moving so fucking fast and I won’t hit you next time!”

I genuinely can’t believe i’m even fucking typing this, but I’ve just came off facetime with my older sister and while we were chatting, her screen paused and i couldn’t hear her and kept calling out for her to answer—thought it was poor connection or an app causing the issue.

Apple, after upgrading to the recent update that device locks your phone from VPNs & Mature Content, was able to detect that my sister was in a sports bra (its a common clothing item for women to wear) but because some of her cleavage was on show due to her being larger chested, the camera was able to “detect” adult material and completely paused our conversation until she could confirm that there was mature content and to either ignore or end call.