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Yes it’s been months. No im not okay.

I feel like we're all just collectively ignoring the Blessed Eternal thing. Like yeah, Commander, let it live rent free in the vents to further your Character Development™, I'm sure the mind-controlling-the-medical-officer thing was a total fluke???

Minkowski's whole deal is figuring out how to circumvent her inability to function outside of rigid structure! Rachel asks her to chill out during Once In A Lifetime and she straight up short circuits! She struggles to understand the perspectives of the people around her! She hates when Eiffel uses unclear language via references instead of giving her clear information! She is a theater kid! She has autism!!!! In this essay I will

Minkowski (to me) has autism and Eiffel (again, to me) has ADHD (still undecided if he has autism as well).

I think, after the events of the podcast, Eiffel and Minkowski would both end up with different trauma responses in the wake of the Hephaestus' lack of food/supplies—

Minkowski's main focus is her crew. Once they're back on Earth, even with every resource at her disposal, she rations everything. She's deeply uncomfortable with the feeling of losing control, so she measures every portion and keeps a meticulous inventory. It takes her almost a year to start using toothpaste properly, because her instinct is to save as much as possible.

Eiffel, on the other hand, was stranded on Lovelace's ship. His trauma largely revolves around rationing and portion control. So, he swings wildly in the other direction and hoards. His cupboards are full of chips, bulk pasta, cereal, frozen burritos. More vegetables go bad in his fridge than he actually eats. He'll grab anything he sees at the grocery store, even if he has no intention of using it, because the fact that he can pushes away the dread of running out of anything. He also rarely finishes a container before moving to the next one, because his instinct is to save some for later, no matter how irrational that is. He has six almost empty cans of coffee grounds laying around at any given time.

I also think the two of them living together might help both of them heal a little. The first few months are hell, of course, because as much as they need and care about each other, Minkowski's obsessive portioning freaks Eiffel out, and Eiffel's reckless abandon does the same to her. Eventually, though, I think they'd each recognize the other's point of view and meet at an almost healthy middle ground

THIS

Minkowski's entire arc is about structure. Her rigid adherence to protocol is what gets the crew into as many messes as it gets them out of! She's comfortable with what she knows and relies heavily on environments where everything is as good as scripted.

When thinking about autistic Minkowski, I do also love that the conclusion of her story isn't abandoning structure; it's using it. She figures out how to take all of this rigid framework and use it as a tool to get her people home safe. Even more than that, she learns to communicate, even when it means admitting she doesn't understand, because she's found people who won't shame her for not catching a pop culture reference. I love. The her

i have so many feelings about autistic minkowski