guys i think dubois from project hail mary is autistic
he talks very formally and properly even if nobody else is doing so in the project
he refuses to call grace "ryland" even if grace gave him explicit permission, because he was just raised like that
he literally infodumps about his sex life to grace while not realising thats not the best topic to just say casually
most scientists are passionate about their craft so him being super into science isnt really a huge deal, but im putting it here anyway for fun
post-edit point that i forgot to add: he literally prepared a doc on exactly how he wants to die