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MAKE or BREAK (yourself)

I’ve had this thought in my head for a long while now that, after the Roaring/Final Tragedy, the latter half of chapter seven would feature the characters breaking the game itself and travelling through chapters in order to write a new ending and save Kris (and perhaps Dess by extension).

And after chapter five’s weird route ended with Kris and Noelle breaking the game in another way, I then had the thought… “Well…what if these two Noelles crossed paths?”

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ellebumblebee

I lovelovelove the "Grace is a predator at heart and is built for speed and instincutal action, which scares the ever loving FUCK outta Rocky" posts, so I'm gonna expand upon it a bit.

- Eridian scientists and doctors doing their best to help him when they first get to Erid. A few weeks in, he's in and out of consciousness but doing better, a doctor (in a xenosuit obviously) comes in to check on him, sees he's asleep, so goes to examine him closely, because, you know, alien. Grace, who was only dozing, jerks away so fast it gives poor Dr Limestone a heart attack.

wirybug

I love these ideas but I think some of them would be the other way round. humans are persistence predators but eridians are (imo) ambush predators. so grace would be scarily good at pursuing and finding things like the missing pebble, and of course the physical endurance. but rocky would the one that's scarily good at reaction speed and responding to movement.

rocky is resting on the beach while grace explores the shallows. grace calls something back but rocky doesn't respond, so he chucks a little stone towards him to get his attention. and rocky snatches it out of the air so fast grace barely sees the movement, one moment he was motionless and looked asleep, and the next he's on his feet and poised with the stone in his claws.

they make a textured deck of cards and grace starts by teaching rocky snap. rocky is the first to call out every single match. grace suspects foul play but rocky insists he can't distinguish the cards while they're stacked. they switch to chess after that.

they're working in the lab together and grace knocks a beaker off the table beside rocky. without even stopping what he's working on, rocky reaches out another arm and catches it, instantly shattering it with the force of his grip. "Apology. Reflex is to catch and crush fast movements." grace makes a mental note never to go in for a hug too quickly.

rocky's testing some bit of equipment and needs to monitor whether it maintains the right state over time. grace comes back into the room three hours later and finds rocky hasn't moved an inch. "Have you been sitting there this whole time? Aren't you bored?". "Need word." "Bored? Uh. Mental discomfort, from having nothing to do." "No discomfort. Only waiting." "So how long could you wait for without losing interest?" "As long as necessary." (fifty years, grace realises)

ellebumblebee

Very worthy additions by wirybug, I only went for the reaction time one in terms of waking up (which Eridians can't do clearly) but both of these boys have the ability to kill you in interesting and varied ways, it figures they would scare each other a little.

blue-sunshine-mauve-morning

AU where Ryland Grace has a few weeks left of breeding taumeoba when he gets his ‘I didn’t want to go’ memories back and when he’s deciding what videos to upload to the Beetles he realizes this is the perfect chance to get back at Stratt. Now that he’s, you know, had a crying jag and freaked out about the betrayal for a few days, his feelings kind of simmer against the necessity of it, you know? And it helps that he’s not actually gonna die.

So, after uploading all the science and posterity videos, Ryland adds one ‘For Eva’ knowing full well that several governments and possibly the entirety of what is left of the world is gonna see it and he lays on a thick spiel about how he finally remembered that they were gonna get married, right before the accident that put him on this mission, that he remembered proming her the rest of his life and he remembered ‘how hard it was for us to say goodbye’ and ‘you made the right decision. Of course you did. Of course it was the right decision, but Eva, I still miss you. I was missing you before I even fully remembered you. Golly, why didn’t we just – touch more? Talk more? You wouldn’t even let me hold your hand! But I understood. Your hands were full. You had the world in them, Eva.’ And ‘I hope you kept the lights on love, because I’m coming home!’ and he gives the camera this goopy, sweet, broad smile, because he’s utterly tickled, knowing full well that Eva is gonna have to live with this for the months and or years between the Beetles arriving and Ryland making it back, and he even gets Rocky to make him a xenonite wedding band to tuck into a Beetle with his little spaceman, to really sell the whole thing, right, and he’s just freaking giddy about how mad that’s gonna make Stratt –

And then the tauemoeba escape, and Ryland has to go back for Rocky, and he makes another video, explaining the science and the issue and the solution and then he trails off for a minute or so, expression conflicted, and when he looks back up it’s just with this breathless soft ‘Eva’ on his lips, and then he swallows, and then he smiles and it’s – sweet in a sad way, because for Ryland this is really goodbye, and his prank had sort of made him feel better about what she’d done, and honestly – he did miss her. Even still. ‘Eva, I’ve gotta go,” he says, his eyes wet and his voice quavering. ‘You were right about me. It’s gotta be me,’ he shrugs, laughs, wipes away the wet line at the edge of his eyes. ‘There’s nobody else and I mean, I’m on a winning streak, right? Why not try 2 for 2 in saving an entire species, huh? So I just…I’m sorry. I’m so sorry I made it so hard for – for us. And I’ll miss you. Just – do me a favor and in case I don’t make it – I know how you love back-up plans, yeah? – do me a favor and send an extra probe of taumoeba to 40-Eridani for me? You really can’t let me die in vain here, alright? So make sure – make sure to save both our worlds, alright? Yeah……. And just…. if you care for me any bit at all still, do me one other favor, Eva Stratt. Live a good life for me’ He pleads, before he shudders a breath, looking off to the side for a quiet moment, and then he looks down, nods to himself, presses a kiss to his fingers and his fingers to the camera and turns it off.’

And Eva, right, watches these tapes in a room full of world leaders and aerospace representatives and she’s just – fuming red and there is that stupid little ringbox from the Beetle in front of her with the most unique wedding band in the galaxy in it and it fits perfectly and she’s just -seething, because that is not what happened. They were not – secret lovers, they did not secretly marry or promise to marry, none of that –

But the old Petrova Task Force, right, they take this and run with it – “Oh yeah, it was obvious, I mean ,they denied it, but you could tell –“

“Grace was so bad at hiding right, terrible liar –“

“Stratt was always slipping him these – sour skittles packets, and i mean, that was definitely favoritism, you have no idea how hard it was to get anything on the vat –“

“And the sticky notes! She’d leave him these cute little notes, right, on his lab or on his coffee mug or, one time, I saw her just stick it to his forehead –“

“And Grace never let her be alone, you know? I mean, he was always kind of following her around like a puppy, but no one else ever really approached her, so when we were all, you know, together, those two would wander off –“

Eva’s getting bombarded with all this, and she’s shaking with anger and like, maybe cried a tear or two of frustration, denying it because people are acting sympathetic, while she's insisting that; "I paved the Sahara and I bombed the Antarctic shelf and I sent Ryland Grace into space against his wishes –“

And everyone is just like, oh Eva, we know you loved him. We know how hard that must have been –

And they remake the movie about the project, and the new one has this entire romantic sublot, and the theme of her loving him so much, and having to give him to the stars to save humanity, knowing she’s never getting him back, and this really poignant ending about Stratt waking up in prison (because she did go to prison) and Ryland Grace, waking up in space, both of them on these narrow bunks with these tiny little windows, reflecting different suns, and theres this mutual red streak of cinematic glare in that sunlight, right, and they turn her into this doomed tragic heroine in the public eye, right, and Eva goes so far as to try and release the audio of Grace’s refusal to go up on the Hail Mary as proof that it was not what they were making it out to be, except someone (Carl) removed bits of it, and the rest can definitely be interpreted as having some… subtext, and Eva’s like ‘Carl, why?’

And Carl’s just – it’s what our man would have wanted.

And Eva actually wears the damn ring, right? It’s a space ring, from outer space, from another intelligent species, and it she looks at it daily wanting to kill Ryland Grace and knowing she already has, and what to do, with that?

So there’s one generation that knows her as Eva Stratt, World Dictator, and another generation who knows her as Eva Stratt, Ryland Grace’s Widow, and like, in every single public appearance, she has to continue to protest that they were not married, and everyone is just like ‘Damn, she’s so broken-hearted she’s in denial’ and Eva is like ‘No, that is not what is happening.’

And anyways, she lives to an unreasonably old age and when she’s like, one hundred and eight or so a ship arrives from Erid, bearing a delegation and Ryland Grace’s ashes, which one of the aliens absolutely insists on delivering to Eva Stratt, right, and this is Rocky and he’s carrying this most beautiful sort of crystal urn and it’s all very public and touching and Rocky asks ‘Did Eva live a good life?’

And Eva actually cries this time, for Ryland, and it’s stupid and they weren’t ever anything and this whole joke of his has tormented her for decades and now she’s crying over him because he’s dead. She sent him into space to die and it took him a lifetime to do it and she still outlived him and it is – unfair, now. It has always been unfair.

‘He did not actually love me,’ Eva tells Rocky, when they have been ushered somewhere private out of respect for her ‘mourning’. ‘We were not – that.’

‘Rocky knows,’ the alien says. ‘But Grace said…. maybe could have been.’

‘Is that really his last message for me?’ Eva asks, shaking her head.

The alien shifts on his feet a bit. ‘Rocky hate hate hate you sent Grace to die. Grace scared scared scared. But… if not, Rocky not meet Grace. Rocky Grace not save stars....Grace last message: Good job, Eva. Thank you, and - goodbye.’

selachii-dragon

That's evil in so many ways.

The ring she wears because of course she would: it's a reminder of what she has done, it is a reminder of someone she once had an understanding and trust with, someone she can never forget. And a fact that it's a wedding ring makes it so much worse because it is a prove of an ultimate(in the eyes of many) connection, something unbreakably strong and eternal. It is eternal, he is always there one way or another, in everything alive because of his death. But they never had the chance to have a deeper bond: she didn't allow it, just like he said.

The fact people started sympathizing her suddenly, because love is what makes us human and it's hard to sympathise with someone who doesn't feel human(she loves the world and she loves humanity but that's not romantic so it's not important, of course).

The fact people completely warped who she is as a person to just make their shared illusion juicier, more dramatic, made her into some weeping heart-broken widow, because it's so much easier to accept someone like that as their savior than to understand that they are only alive thanks to someone who's head is cold and who's hands shoulder-deep in blood.

The fact they started treating her as Ryland Grace's widow, almost like an afterthought of him, because she is a woman and he is a man, so she can only be viewed in connection to him, can't stand on her own, can't have her own title and identity (if she is not prison-worthy World Dictator, of course).

The we could have been. Yeah, Ryland was joking, but there was just so much truth in his words, the "wish we talked more, touched more", the "I understand why not, you were busy with things much bigger than the both of us". They could have been friends or partners or some weird third or even fourth thing only they understand, if it wasn't for the weight of the world, if it wasn't for the horrendous situation they were in. They could.

hatokas-dreamengineer

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galacticsabc

You guys are so right. Scholar Grace would also have Summoner leveled.

bedrock-to-buildheight

Do observers get to be part of the game?

justplainrain

whale-blanket

[video: gianni matragrano, cosplaying as columbo, walks up to a kitchen counter and says: “hi there. uh,” (loud fumbling for his wallet, opening it to show an id) “lieutenant columbo, LAPD, homicide department.”

he puts his wallet back. someone uses twitch points to overlay someone throwing a pipebomb onto the screen. gianni says, trying to contain a laugh, “pipebomb.” the pipebomb explodes. cheering erupts. end alt text.]

#columbo #pipe bahm #reblog

secretlypansexualmango

I've yet to read a Dispatch fic involving some form or fusion and I feel like it's got so much potential, I had to put it under a read more because it got way too long

Robert being Mecha Man holding him so wholly apart from everyone he meets, being completely unable to do something so inherent to the human condition as fusion

Robert very rarely/never having fused with his father as a child, and struggling with fusion in general because of this

He only ever really fused with Chase, and even then not much because I feel like Robbie would have pushed the idea of him having to be strong enough to be independent all the time, to prepare him for when he would be Mecha Man

maskrosfe

Pink hair AND pronouns. There's no one quite like him!

#roronoa zoro #one piece #koby one piece #nami #usopp #fullbody #comic #reblog

oxygenisachoice

Little sketch comic I made a while ago for my “Kuina lives instead” AU! I may come back to clean it up more one day

aubasciati

everybody's saying that this would be a better story line and i agree with them

i love zoro tho

#shimotsuki kuina #Kuina #one piece #Zoro #roronoa zoro #reblog

themetalhiro

Im soooo excited to finally share my comic for @sanji-zine ! Been sitting on it since 2024 😳 If you missed your chance to scoop some goodies up, nows your chance- leftovers are open! Thank you again for your hard work guys ✨💚

When I started this, I was just starting to fall in love with cooking. I wanted to take a break from my typical gag comic format and focus on the process, which is deeply important to a fella deeply important to me! :]

lutheban

Ugh I fucking love Pebbles, this is completely unrelated to the conversation you just had but the word Pebbles and the image following it just gives me serotonin. You can put them in little baskets and carrying them around like they're eggs or put one in your pocket. They give me extreme cuteness aggression. Augh. I love them. I want every Pebbles ever to grow up happy and healthy.

here, a handful of babies

#salvastra au #project hail mary #phm #eridians phm #eridian pebbles #phm pebbles #shitty eridians #ryland grace #reblog

ryland-graceless

#project hail mary #ryland grace #the martian #mark watney #reblog

yaraef

I've been listening to the new soundtracks since they dropped (ATLA Book 3 soundtrack!! Ah! The memories!!) and with the movie and then the trailer for the show... all I can think about is 'where's Suki?!' rn (To be fair, I haven't read the comics, so maybe it's answered there or in that movie I haven't watched yet?)

cowboystokes

in my world they’re in the same universe and people are experiencing a generational run of vlogs from men abandoned in space

#the martian #project hail mary #ryland grace #mark watney #matt damon #ryan gosling #PHM #phm movie #reblog

lutheban

Man who lives in alien planet 16 light years away from earth is somehow surprised humans made it to their backyard

#this is more of a shitpost than anything lol #Salvastra AU #is what im calling it now is official #project hail mary #phm #ryland grace #if you cant tell this is a “the moon in the fucking sky?” reference #also The Martian #bc in my heart they're in the same universe #prev tags #reblog

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