Incredibly self indulgent things I think would be cool to see in more bloodymary fics/fanart
Simon not always being the angry one!! I feel like some fan content tends to infantilize Grace as just some innocent soft boy who would never hurt a fly while also stereotyping Simon as angry and grumpy and threatening 24/7? Which is kinda odd to me. Grace canonically lost his shit so hard he called one of his colleagues a “staggering waste of carbon” and got kicked out of academia. He starts breaking shit when things go wrong (him throwing the trash can(?) when he finds that astrophage are water based and punching the screen during the taumoeba leak). When Grace realizes he’s going to be forced on the mission he shoves a chair and climbs the walls and runs for his life and still keeps fighting even when pinned. If during their first encounter Simon attacks and threatens Grace because he’s (understandably) scared and confused and out of it let Grace fight a bit dirty!! Just for a little bit!! He’ll feel bad about it later but for now he doesnt know who this guy is or what he can do and he’s SCARED. FOR HIS LIFE. (Also admittedly inspired by this post)
Simon helping Grace get ideas for his experiments and theories. We can reasonably assume that Grace is more well versed in science and academics than Simon is, but Simon still shows a great deal of intelligence and resourcefulness throughout Iron Lung; mapping out the caves on his own, opening the crawlspace with the first aid scissors, using his harness to keep the life vest attached to the black box. Grace is incredibly smart and scientific minded, yes, but throughout phm we still see him needing help from others who can think in more out of the box ways than him. Like when Carl suggests to just “put the box in another box.” It’s such a seemingly simple and not at all complicated solution, so much so that it doesn’t even come to Grace’s mind at first. But it's undeniably genius! And then later when Rocky suggests that they just sit in Adrian’s orbit in order to stay in the Petrova line, something Grace didn’t think of. I feel like simon could fulfill a similar role! Let them all do group science projects together.
More Rocky!! Ok this is probably the most self indulgent one. I know it’s kinda silly to ask for more of a character in content about a ship that doesnt (necessarily) involve said character. But like. This is my post so idc. After the events of Iron Lung Simon has radiation poisoning times like a bazillion (in addition to Every Other Disease). Rocky’s crew died from radiation and Rocky probably spent those entire 40 years alone thinking he was useless for not being able to fix it. And now Simon is going through something that not only Rocky can’t fix, but that grace is probably going to have a hard time fixing (if at all) as well! I feel like there’s angst potential there. That’s gotta suck ass. Also Rocky plays such an important role in Grace’s development and the narrative itself that I feel like he should play an important role here too?
And while I'm here more Ava and Stratt too. That moment when you both have traumatic experiences with women named a/eva who sent you off to die. What if when Grace mentions Eva for just a moment Simon thinks he's talking about HIS Ava. Or vice versa. Also if those men get to make out about their joint trauma together then the women should too. Amen. Go my trolley operators!!
