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I can't get over how perfectly Grace was the answer to Rocky's every problem.

Stuck in space trying to solve a crisis without any progress? This guy has all the knowledge and equipment to make your perfect counterpart. Together you start to work on the problem and make progress at breakneck speed.

Feeling like a complete failure as an engineer when all the science equipment on your ship breaks down and you can't fix? Grace is amazed by everything you do, he calls you a genius and the best engineer he's ever known. Your work together constantly requires your engineering skills, and you keep succeeding. You are useful, needed, essential for the mission.

Alone for decades? You and the alien are now stuck in a tiny spaceship and you can 'see' him at all times. He even turns out to be fun company! And he thinks the same of you!

Feeling confused and guilty about being the only survivor of your crew? Grace explains what really happened and how there was nothing you could have done. And now you have the opportunity for redemption; the alien is going to die and you can save his life. He's so bad at taking care of himself, he doesn't even keep up with his bedtimes. You can fix that.

Nobody to watch you sleep? Not only the guy watches you, but he also lets you watch him sleep. You can always wake him up from sleep if there's any danger, you can always see his body working. You can fulfill your biological need to guard someone's sleep, but you don't need to worry if this one is ever going to wake up.

Stuck in a rut for decades, doing the same things over and over until you can't stop? Suddenly your world is full of sound, life, new and exciting things. Your mind is not just woken up, but working on overdrive. So many new things to learn and discover! Not only that, the alien creature thinks you are the most fascinating thing in the universe and wants to know everything about you.

And the cherry on top? When you discuss the meaning of names, you learn this fucker is called Grace. A mercy, favor, blessing from god, deliverance from suffering.

Seriously, if you didn't bring this creature back home, you would have been tempted to believe your traumatized mind just made him up. Grace a bit too perfect to be true.

#project hail mary #rocky grace save stars #dr ryland grace #rocky the eridian #prev's tags for context and extra lore thoughts >#grace as the angel but to ROCKY #be not afraid but it's like his organs and stuff making all that noise #ACTUALLY I THINK MAUBE THATS SOMETHING?#if an angel appears to US- visual species as like a big overwhelmingly bring things #an angel appearing to rocky would be LOUD #importantly this is not angel au this is just. grace the human #grace the human being so unfathomably alien and loud and comforting and perfect

the-dracologist

Me and the folks over in @hylasregilla’s Eridian study group have been spinning up headcanons and I just wanted to post a few connected ideas on my tumblr

Baby Eridians need a little help hatching because the heat generated when their muscles activate for the first time would build up to dangerous levels inside of an unbroken egg

Communal child rearing is common in Eridians

The siblings of the parents usually attend a hatching and help break open the eggs

The one who breaks open an egg (the sheller) takes on a special role in the life of the hatchling they helped into the world (their shelling)

#project hail mary #headcanons #eridian biology #eridian culture #eridians project hail mary

jellyfishforest135

Activated them like sleeper agents

#project hail mary #eva stratt #dr ryland grace #THIS IDEA IS GENUINELY HILARIOUS

beardedmrbean

Dang it Beans you get back here and say that out loud!!!

#random funny shit

the-goddessfighter12

Simon WIP ♥️

ctrl-shift-alt-9

Kubrick stare Simon........

#iron lung #simon iron lung

the-bois-jim-and-jim

Simon

#iron lung #simon iron lung

gardensnakie

eueueu

ctrl-shift-alt-9

God this is SO SPOT ON WITH THEIR DYNAMIC, THOUGH. THIS IS THE WHOLE PLOT BETWEEN THEM!!! 🦅

She was the only one who wanted him to survive. She wanted him to join the hivemind and become one with her. She wanted him to meld into her ecosystem. She even asked consent first. Asked if he would give everything, shared her prized obsession with him. She was enthralled with the idea of not being abandoned alone in the ocean forever. He would've been protected by what was arguably one of the meanest predators down there if he became something like her.

Ugh. Nobody look at me. The eel just wanted a friend in her own personal hell.

#iron lung #just blood #simon iron lung #elli the blood eel #yesssss Elli was terrified down there and alone except for her own crowd of voices! She tried to ward Simon off and then make friends!

zarnzarn

i love the horror of the blood eel's character so much.

the fact that she's still calling for ava to help her when she sees a submarine, says she's been looking for her for ages, is probably screaming and begging for rescue the entire time- but can't be understood unless you spend enough time in the blood ocean, unless you're just as doomed as her.

her mentioning that she heard the submarine get pulled up the first time, that surely there must be a way to leave, which means the first time she caught the sm-13 in her mouth she was only trying to get home, was desperately trying to hold onto the one chance she thought she had for rescue.

her quiet grief when she realizes that the convict inside has only one bar of air left, and the sorrow in her voice when she says he's not going to make it. trying to be gentle when she tells him to control his breathing, that it's not the worst fate down here.

her clear disgust at what the butcher did to the Filament station, her horror that an entire station is lost but still not being able to just swim away from the only human contact she's had in who knows how long.

elsie, the speaker, the research lead who has held onto her sanity despite everything, who knows the full scope of the blood ocean, the voice of reason- asking so fucking quietly if he'd give anything to survive. knowing what it's done to her, knowing that she'll condemn him to darkness forever. asking if he would like to live on and then sending him to the light to be mutated into something new and survive by leaving his humanity behind.

elle, the whisper, still aware of what's happening even as she goes insane, knowing that her mind has been burst by trying to comprehend the pinhole god. furious that the eye has chosen simon instead after all her suffering.

elsie who now remembers the full horror of it, who knows that if the humans left start making food from the blood, it will slowly warp them all into monsters like her, who knows that the information in the sm-8 cannot reach the surface- even if it means killing ava.

both of them screaming at simon to stop in the end, only trying to kill him because they're trying to save him from turning into them, because can he not see that the truth will drive what's left of humanity insane, can he not see that the pinhole god wants him to fuse with the tree so that he stays down there like them forever- swimming alone in the darkness of the blood ocean, terrified and in agony, with no hope of rescue.

Can he not see that death is a mercy?

#iron lung #simon iron lung #ava iron lung #elli the blood eel #character analysis #iron lung character analysis #yessss Elli is such a complicated character and a lot of people miss that!#She was horrified learning about Filament! She was genuinely sad to kill Ava!#The reason it sounds like she was changing her mind all the time was that there are MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE BODY who disagreed on what to do

y0urnewhyperfixation

butch ruby week day 1: inspiration/role model

#rwby #ruby rose #qrow branwen #yang xiao long

claie171art

Solar eclipse

#bloodymary #simon iron lung #dr ryland grace #op's tags for context >#the moon kissing the sun!!#I know Simon is usually associated with the moon and Grace with the sun #but I think it works in reverse too #simon shines so bright it burns and Grace changes the tides of fate

zazrichor

when the night sky is coming down ● I'm watching over you ● when the darkness falls ● just close your eyes ● I'll walk you through the rain ● remember your name - NightSky (Kamelot)

#bbc merlin #arthur pendragon

occudo

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

Based on @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

#project hail mary #dr ryland grace #this is funny as hell

scarlct-vvitch

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

#project hail mary #dr ryland grace #rocky the eridian