A series of Ryland Grace headcanons because he's infiltrated my brain and I love him and I have no where else to talk about him;
° Used to be HELLA pretentious before being fired at UNESCO.
-Both the act of being fired and becoming a teacher afterwards shifted his mindset.
-Still kinda is sometimes, but he's more aware of it.
° Pretends the reason he doesn't curse is because of his kids, but really those words just.. never worked their way into his vocabulary.
-Kinda connects to the 'pretentious' thing. He felt curse words weren't necessary, and were the result of a small vocabulary.
-Strung together long elaborate insults instead, thought they made him sound smarter.
-"Staggering waste of carbon"
-Picked up words/phrases from his students ("fudging fudger")
-I'm SICK of 'submissive and breedable uwu boy' Grace personification I keep seeing around.
-Never a necessarily 'sexual' person, but when he is hoo boy he's difficult (in a playful way)
-He'll let you top him, but he's gonna make you WORK for it.
-Still definitely whimpers though.
° Teaches mostly by using pop culture references or anything of the like in his lectures.
-Helps keep his kids (and him) engaged in the lessons.
-"Whoop there it is" slip was a result of this habit. (But would NEVER make a reference to a not-school appropriate song to his students)
-He didn't have any comprehensive way to word the process, so his mind latched onto the first song reference he would imagine adults that age would understand.
-Struggled to communicate with Rocky at first because of this. It got easier when they started using the mental health room and Grace could show him the references he was trying to make.
-Also part of why the puppet shows were so effective.
° AroAce SPEC Grace in Space
-Might be projecting just a tiny bit here, but he's not exactly what a 'typical' or 'average' AroAce definition would look like.
-Isn't necessarily a 'romantic' person; doesn't perform big acts of affection, nor is he ever really interested in 'dates' in a typical sense.
-Much rathers someone he can nerd out with; someone to poke his brain, and whose brain he can poke back in turn.
-Sex is more an emotional intimacy/act of trust than any physical pleasure.
-Finds someone's smarts sexier than their body. *ahem*sciencetalkforeplay*ahem* woah the wind is crazy today.
° Sort of on par with my last post; doesn't see himself as entirely human.
-Always felt a disconnect between himself and other people. Part of why he got into Biology at first; he wanted to understand better just how humans work, and sort of fell in love with general Biology as he went.
-Always viewed himself in a more mechanical way; almost like his body was more a tool to aide his mind.
-Leads to him falling behind on taking care of himself.
-Again, maybe a bit of projecting.
Thats all I can think of for now, but will likely for sure be making another post because this nerdy pathetic loser has wormed his way into my heart and brain simultaneously - he is all I can think about
areudirty
yousharknotpass
romaincrisis
gamechangershow
turnnoffyourmind
