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I cannot get it out of my head that every time Ryland looked in the mirror or saw his reflection after waking up on the Hail Mary, his brain always says something he doesn’t quite understand. “He doesn’t wear glasses” but he does wear glasses, he can’t see without them, were the glasses just new or something? “His hair was longer” when he first woke up yeah, he was in a coma for several years. Maybe he always had longer hair? Also, why was he referring to himself in the third person now? “Where are his scars” he had scars? That was one he couldn’t really explain, scars didn’t just go away. He does have scars in the Polaroid from his bag though.

It’s not until he’s heading towards Erid with Rocky, trying to remember more about himself instead of just his parts in the Project, where he starts piecing it together. His whiteboard is a mess of things about the “other me”, because he has no other way to describe it. He’s not a clone, that’d be absurd. But his brain is convinced these memories aren’t quite about him. People don’t see things in the third person, these memories are clearly him looking at another man who isn’t him but has his face. He’s looking at the Polaroid again, now pinned at eye level on the board, and suddenly it hits him that twins are a thing. A thing he had. He had a twin. He was a twin. That was his brother.

His brother, who had long hair the last time he saw him. His brother, who had countless little scars from his years of being a stuntman. His brother, who wore contacts instead of glasses because they got in the way of said stunts. “Makes me look nerdy, that’s your department.” And oh god, he can remember his voice now, so close to his own but so full of … life. He was so full of life and joy, and mischief.

And oh god, his brother, his twin, he was dead wasn’t he? He’d died the day before being put into the coma. He’d been framed for murder, because Ryland knew Colt could never actually murder someone, and had died in that boat explosion while on the run.

Colt. Colton Seavers Grace, though he was never known by their last name like Ryland was. Something about not dragging their mother’s name through the mud with him, since they’d changed to their mother’s maiden name after Court had put their father in the ground.

Courtland. For once, it was an appropriate time to say fuck. Maybe grief could happen twice because Court had been dead for years, ever since 2003, but remembering that felt like he was just learning about it now. Colt was his twin, Court was their older brother. He had had brothers, plural. Two of them.

They had told him he had no family. They told him this because they were all dead.

Suddenly, even though Rocky is right there with him, Ryland is so very alone again.

fatpotatochip

how dare you make me feel

#he doesn’t even know they’re alive I’m just gonna make myself cry #coltland gentry #coltland twins #phm #project hail mary #the fall guy #the gray man #ryland grace #colt seavers #courtland gentry #sierra six

thecraftyninjacat

just spent twenty minutes scrolling the tag and giggling

@justcakethanks

fatpotatochip

this made me stop ugly crying over my sister ty sm

#project hail mary #eridian welcoming committee #scratched this out in like an hour bc the idea for the last frame wouldn't leave my mind #this has probably been done before but oh well sjhdgfjsg #crafty draws #crafty's comics #ryland grace #rocky the eridian #happy :)#good emotions

freckled-moss

Now I love comically large Adrian as much as the next guy, but hear me out on the potential of a comically small Adrian

fatpotatochip

OMG ITS SO TINY IM GONNA CRYYYY

oh wait that might be the allergies holdon

#grace was also expecting them to be very large #moss draws #project hail mary #ryland grace #rocky the eridian #adrian the eridian #gracerockyadrian #grockdrian #SO SO TINY AHHH

viralfrog

gaymerkittycat

wine-dark-sky

I was so scared they were heading for a romance subplot but congrats to Project Hail Mary for going for the far funnier option of 'Trolley Operator' and 'Guy She Is Actively Tying To The Tracks'. What a dynamic. Movie of the year.

fatpotatochip

love is in the air?

WRONG!!!!

Nerdy science teacher sure is!

#I support womens rights but more importantly I support womens wrongs #free my girl she did all that but idgaf #She was NOT apologising for putting him on that ship she was apologising for having to be rude about it (tackling and drugging)#project hail mary #eva stratt

audhdspacewizard

Knowing that Eridians have much longer lifespans, and also he can't be at every school on the planet at once, Ryland Grace decides to record a bunch of entertaining science lessons with Rocky's help.

Hundreds of years later, Eridian kids still get excited when the substitute teacher rolls in the 3D shape projector, because they know they're in for an episode of Friend Grace the Science Ace.

fatpotatochip

like bill nye the science scinece science (my meds i forgor oh no)

its like bill but if he were a good person

#project hail mary #ryland grace #rocky the eridian #i have a massive headache #and it aint from the phm brainworms #actaully maybe #or the dehydration

glowing-beetle

Has this been done yet?

edgebug

so grace is probably alarming to most eridians at first because he's a lanky wet alien with too few limbs, yes--but what if he ends up being terrifying in a sort of divine way instead of a repulsive one?

like. a creature that perceives the intangible? a creature that walks with thin permeable membranes bared to the air, whose blood contains elixir that can destroy pathogens without heat? a creature that is impossibly fragile yet resilient? a creature that breathes potently flammable gas to survive? a creature that is loud all over and speaks in a strange and frightening monotone, who thought it would die for you? who gave up its home in the heavens for you without meeting you first, whose first words to your people were probably something along the lines of We saved your star. It's gonna be okay. Don't be afraid.

#like yeah that's an angel #project hail mary #ryland grace #i think i reposted this already but fell in love all over again

saucefunk

dirty dirty dirty

uss-emberprise

#bro cannot catch a break T-T #project hail mary #phm #ryland grace #ryan gosling #as long as i get to stare at an ava stratt in good fam

sharrrrknight

Yknow the lil fanfic trope where a character, usually non-human, purrs like a cat. In this case it would obviously be Rocky but what if it was Grace instead hear me out-

fatpotatochip

better than poking with stick ig

#phm #project hail mary #ryland grace #rocky phm #rocky the eridian #phm fanart #sharrrrknight

edgebug

so grace is probably alarming to most eridians at first because he's a lanky wet alien with too few limbs, yes--but what if he ends up being terrifying in a sort of divine way instead of a repulsive one?

like. a creature that perceives the intangible? a creature that walks with thin permeable membranes bared to the air, whose blood contains elixir that can destroy pathogens without heat? a creature that is impossibly fragile yet resilient? a creature that breathes potently flammable gas to survive? a creature that is loud all over and speaks in a strange and frightening monotone, who thought it would die for you? who gave up its home in the heavens for you without meeting you first, whose first words to your people were probably something along the lines of We saved your star. It's gonna be okay. Don't be afraid.

#like yeah that's an angel #project hail mary #ryland grace #angel au #omg my beloved

vampirejuno

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw

#angel au #project hail mary #phm #angel!grace #my beloved #ryland grace