“rocky my hand is up” is the funniest part of this interaction to me. 5 minutes into sharing a living space with rocky and grace is already resorting to middle school classroom management
Grace gives Rocky the “buddy, pal, bud" pet name routine constantly. Rocky tries out the same thing one time (once!) and Grace gets crabby as hell. Rocky tries to make a move the next day. Grace doesn't look up, “I dunno Rocky. Why don’t you go ask one of your other ‘pals?’”
its also how rocky finds out grace has a beef with every other academic in his field bc he keeps dropping random lore between pages.
turns out academic grace was a messy brat with no self control who was ready to fight everybody who didn't agree with him. rocky's in love