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For all that I've seen a lot of PHM posts that go on about 'patron saint of [blank]' for Ryland Grace, I don't think I've seen any that address what amounts to the scientific version of that: Mother of/Father of.
In order to be considered for the title of Mother of/Father [scientific field], you have to be the first to make significant contribution in that field. You're setting the groundwork in a way nobody else has. This can obviously cause a lot of debate in the end about who gets the title! That said, I think given the leaps and bounds that Grace makes in several fields of science that take them from the more theoretical to the practical gives him some notable options with strong arguments. So we've got options like: Father of Astrobiology (the discovery and study of Astrophage, Taumoeba, several other forms of life on Adrian, and the study of and first interactions with the Eridians; disproving the Goldilocks zone as the only area viable for life; making significant strides in proving the panspermia hypothesis), Father of Xenolinguistics (first person to create working translator and archive of an alien language), and Father of Interstellar Travel (this would be a title held alongside Dr. Dmitri Komorov, likely with Komorov being listed first, and there would be significant debate on if Grace should hold the title at all. I like to think Dmitri would want to share it though).
All workable cases, all real options. Buuuuut I think my very favorite option though would be the one that is the least open to debate and is the one that I honestly think Grace himself would like best: Father of First Contact.
Because on the one hand, yeah, that's a lot he was mostly doing. First contact with Astrophage, with the Taumoeba, with other life on Adrian, and most of all with the Eridians. The first ever intelligent form of life outside of Earth, he made First Contact with. He found ways to communicate, to establish common ground, to work alongside an alien being. He did something no one else on Earth had ever done before and changed the world with it. He made First Contact and saved the world.
But mostly that means there's a whole field of science that Grace's name is attached to forever because he got to meet his friend. Mostly, Father of First Contact is just a fancy way to say "I love my friend."
Lovely tags via OP, @mercifulmother
And comments too from @securitycapecreature !
securitycapecreature
1- father of first contact is the cutest option and if you can only have one title that would be best
BUT
2- the funniest opinion imo is him getting several of those so hes one of those "this guy is fuckin everywhere" scientists (i imagine one day in the distant future a group of college kids get together and one of them can be talking about learning of this great biologist that made so many new discoveries and someone else goes "you mean the linguist??" "You mean the ASTRONAUT??" And everyones confused for a little bit until they figure it out)
mercifulmother
2 - This is the ideal vision yes yes yes yes! Grace really went out there and decided to do a 100% speedrun on revolutionizing different fields of science, and now children of the future are going to suffer about it forever. It gets even worse once the political science kids get involved in the conversation. "Do you mean the DIPLOMAT?" STEM vs Humanities showdown is brutal. Trying to write a paper about this man is an absolute nightmare because the interdisciplinary sources on him are in five different sections of the library at any given point. Finding his stuff in a bookstore is even worse.
securitycapecreature
@mercifulmother Ahhhh!!! Yesss oh my those poor kids, im half glad i dont live in that universe rn, his Wikipedia page is the stuff of nightmares
On the other hand, someone does that type of post where they post a screenshot of the "subjects" in a weird wiki page with no context and everyone in the comments identifies him Immediately cause who else
mercifulmother
@securitycapecreature His Wikipedia page is so long and its a nightmare to look at and it can never be confused for anyone else. Its one of the best places to fall into a wikipedia rabbit hole on because you can redirect in so many different directions. He's also the new spiders georg. "'Average scientist discovers 3 field revolutionizing things a year' factoid actually [sic] just statistical error. Average scientist discovers 0 field revolutionizing things a year. Dr. Cpt. Ryland Grace, who lives in space and discovers over 10,000 revolutionary facts each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted."
For all that I've seen a lot of PHM posts that go on about 'patron saint of [blank]' for Ryland Grace, I don't think I've seen any that address what amounts to the scientific version of that: Mother of/Father of.
In order to be considered for the title of Mother of/Father [scientific field], you have to be the first to make significant contribution in that field. You're setting the groundwork in a way nobody else has. This can obviously cause a lot of debate in the end about who gets the title! That said, I think given the leaps and bounds that Grace makes in several fields of science that take them from the more theoretical to the practical gives him some notable options with strong arguments. So we've got options like: Father of Astrobiology (the discovery and study of Astrophage, Taumoeba, several other forms of life on Adrian, and the study of and first interactions with the Eridians; disproving the Goldilocks zone as the only area viable for life; making significant strides in proving the panspermia hypothesis), Father of Xenolinguistics (first person to create working translator and archive of an alien language), and Father of Interstellar Travel (this would be a title held alongside Dr. Dmitri Komorov, likely with Komorov being listed first, and there would be significant debate on if Grace should hold the title at all. I like to think Dmitri would want to share it though).
All workable cases, all real options. Buuuuut I think my very favorite option though would be the one that is the least open to debate and is the one that I honestly think Grace himself would like best: Father of First Contact.
Because on the one hand, yeah, that's a lot he was mostly doing. First contact with Astrophage, with the Taumoeba, with other life on Adrian, and most of all with the Eridians. The first ever intelligent form of life outside of Earth, he made First Contact with. He found ways to communicate, to establish common ground, to work alongside an alien being. He did something no one else on Earth had ever done before and changed the world with it. He made First Contact and saved the world.
But mostly that means there's a whole field of science that Grace's name is attached to forever because he got to meet his friend. Mostly, Father of First Contact is just a fancy way to say "I love my friend."
Lovely tags via OP, @mercifulmother
And comments too from @securitycapecreature !
securitycapecreature
1- father of first contact is the cutest option and if you can only have one title that would be best
BUT
2- the funniest opinion imo is him getting several of those so hes one of those "this guy is fuckin everywhere" scientists (i imagine one day in the distant future a group of college kids get together and one of them can be talking about learning of this great biologist that made so many new discoveries and someone else goes "you mean the linguist??" "You mean the ASTRONAUT??" And everyones confused for a little bit until they figure it out)
mercifulmother
2 - This is the ideal vision yes yes yes yes! Grace really went out there and decided to do a 100% speedrun on revolutionizing different fields of science, and now children of the future are going to suffer about it forever. It gets even worse once the political science kids get involved in the conversation. "Do you mean the DIPLOMAT?" STEM vs Humanities showdown is brutal. Trying to write a paper about this man is an absolute nightmare because the interdisciplinary sources on him are in five different sections of the library at any given point. Finding his stuff in a bookstore is even worse.
securitycapecreature
@mercifulmother Ahhhh!!! Yesss oh my those poor kids, im half glad i dont live in that universe rn, his Wikipedia page is the stuff of nightmares
On the other hand, someone does that type of post where they post a screenshot of the "subjects" in a weird wiki page with no context and everyone in the comments identifies him Immediately cause who else
mercifulmother
@securitycapecreature His Wikipedia page is so long and its a nightmare to look at and it can never be confused for anyone else. Its one of the best places to fall into a wikipedia rabbit hole on because you can redirect in so many different directions. He's also the new spiders georg. "'Average scientist discovers 3 field revolutionizing things a year' factoid actually [sic] just statistical error. Average scientist discovers 0 field revolutionizing things a year. Dr. Cpt. Ryland Grace, who lives in space and discovers over 10,000 revolutionary facts each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted."
Years into the future when summers are much, much warmer than it was and the people don't have to go outside in five layers, one of Grace's past students finds herself teaching in a school she once attended in (now renamed after her former 8th grade science teacher). Lovingly referred as Ms. Olivia by her students, she teaches the same subject that her favorite teacher once taught.
Unfortunately for her students, she does adore her idol to bits. So for the class project, she had everyone working on a single output: a presentation on the life and works of Doctor Captain Ryland Grace.
Easy peasy, all forty of her students think. He's probably one of the most— if not the most— important man of modern times. They won't run out of material to pull information from. None had the hindsight that it might just be their downfall.
Forty students split up: a group for Dr. Ryland Grace, the molecular biologist. A group for Mr. Ryland Grace, the science teacher. And a group for Cpt. Ryland Grace, the astronaut.
Already the students are starting to see absurd shit with this man. Dr. Grace stripped of his title in the academe for calling a fellow academic a 'staggering waste of carbon'— woah???. Wait, what else did he say? 'You don't need water for life' um okay. 'The goldilocks zone isn't a requirement either... Well at least he got that right? Yeah, he should. He kinda discovered it. Really? Yeah but it's under the Cpt. Grace part of the presentation.
The second group seemed to enjoy their version of Mr. Grace to research on. He seemed like a chill guy after his stint with his infamous dissertation. There's barely any information on the internet though. The kids reach out to the other students under Mr. Grace, with Ms. Olivia's help of course. They get the email replies. Mr. Grace loves his solar system models, it's how we were taught of the Petrova line. Aww. He also loved his demonstrations. He did one with methane bubbles and forgot to soak his hand on cold water. The lab was out of order for a few weeks after that. Aww??? There are thirty-three more emails of various incidents.
Cpt. Ryland Grace's part has to be the most extensive one, so much that half of it falls under the Dr. Grace group of the presentation. He came back to being a Doctor! He... worked with the person he called a waste of carbon all those years ago. He named the star-eating bacteria. He bred the star-eating bacteria? They made it rocket fuel???
The third group is pulling their hair out. He made friends with a rock alien, old news. He built a translator for the said friend alien, old news. They went to a planet where astrophage gets eaten, cool. They literally surfed that planet's atmosphere, with the Hail Mary as humanity's biggest surfboard. What. He did all that with amnesia. What.
At this point the kids are reams deep in paper. Wikipedia calls the guy the Father of Astrobiology. Xenobiology. Xenolinguistics. Light-Year Travel. First Contact. First man to ingest an alien. What. There is no way this is all fitting in a powerpoint.
All while Ms. Olivia sits in the back of the classroom while the kids clamor for the presentation. An old, worn, and fraying bean bag of the Earth in her hand. Still the best eighth grade teacher, she thinks.
Grace comes back in the end.
Rocky and Adrian redesign his ship so it's easier to manoeuvre and even put in a nice little lander so be doesn't have to wait for someone from NASA to come and get him. He's sure there's a lot of commotion over the fact that the Hail Mary has returned and that it's in orbit around Earth, especially because he doesn't make contact with anyone. If he's honest, it's because he doesn't want to. Rocky and Adrian have given him enough Astrophage to go back to Erid just in case Earth isn't what he remembers anymore, in case Earth doesn't feel like home after all this time.
He lands the lander somewhere in the French countryside. He doesn't really know where, it's just somewhere that seems empty and isolated enough that no one will make a fuss over him or his new ride, but the fuss is made regardless. He can hear it the second he enters the nearest town: the Hail Mary is back but it's empty, what happened to Dr. Grace? Is he here? Is he home? How?
He lets himself chuckle a little but pulls his hood higher over his head. There's probably no need to. It's been what, thirty years? He doesn't really expect anyone to actually know him. He certainly doesn't expect anyone to recognise him, even with the odd statue of him (and Rocky!) here and there. Still, he doesn't want the publicity. He's just... here to see a friend, he supposes. That's what she was before she put him on the Hail Mary. He hasn't really forgiven her for it but... he likes to think that that's what she still is. A friend
But, of course, she's not here. She's not anywhere, which surprises him because there's a lot of commotion for him, Dr. Ryland Grace, saviour of the world, but not for her? Not for the woman who made it all possible to begin with?
Libraries still exist these days, thank God, so that's where Grace goes to find out where she might have gone. He doesn't like what he finds. It annoys him in ways he can't understand because it's technically all true: she did do a bunch of illegal things, some really crazy things too, in fact (nuking Antarctica is still... Darn), and she did have to pick the people who would die on the Hail Mary (and he's supposed to be one of them!) but she did it to save the world, to save as many people as she could, and people are treating her like a criminal for it? She did time in prison for it? (Grace tries not to take it personally, because he is taking it personally for some reason, and it's weird because he should be and is still mad at her for forcing him onto the Hail Mary, and yet—)
The last sentence of her Wikipedia summary slams into him like fist in his stomach.
She's dead. She died a couple of years ago, not too long after they launched the Taumoeba to Venus. She's buried in a cemetery near where she grew up with no honours, no accolades, not even a thank you from the people who are only alive today because she did what she had to do.
Grace leaves the little library and spends the flight to Bourtange trying to alleviate the heaviness in his chest.
He finds her grave without having to look too hard. It's neat, well-cared for, pragmatic—much like she was in life. Grace wonders if she'd made a point about the care of her final resting place in her will.
"So it all went okay, I see," he says. "It's quiter now but you're all still here. You know Rocky got me a nice little place on Erid? Got me a sweet new ride too, just so I could come back and..."
He swallows and touches the headstone.
"You would've like him," he murmurs. "You liked me, so I can only assume. He's got the same brand of chaos as I do. I still haven't forgiven you for all that, but I met him so..." He shakes his head. "Guess this is just what happens when there's no one there to watch you sleep. You probably don't get that—or maybe you do? You must have watched my logs."
He sighs and drags his hand away from the stone. "See you around, Stratt," he murmurs.
He heads back to the lander not so long afterwards and charts a course back to Erid. Rocky and Adrian were right.
Earth doesn't really feel like home anymore.
Thinking of how the wider fandom perception of Eva Stratt mirrors the fate she knew she would receive in canon: overlooked, if not condemned, scorned, or worse.
No self-pity at all when she called herself the world's whipping boy; simply another correct assessment from a woman who has never made a wrong call in her tenure as leader (#fact).
On the upside that means Stratt's supporters in canon must also be dedicated (and insane). Which would explain her jailbreak, container ship, and continued (if covert) hand in saving the world. I think as years pass and governments start to breakdown she becomes a genuine figure of counterculture, although opinions of the wider public remain divided. Meaning: clandestine support from a few donors; a blind eye turned to a sighting of her ship. However, on the small scale, this also means... fandom. A cult of personality.
There are probably teenagers making edits of Stratt in-universe out of Petrova Taskforce PR and trial footage. They're probably powerscaling her with other world leaders. Do you think Stratt eventually gets to know what "aurafarming" means. Do you think there are kpop-style relationship analysis style videos on her and Grace ESPECIALLY post-Beetles return. Do you think there are people parasocial over the fact that Dr. Captain Ryland Grace gave her a figure of himself from another planet. There'd be Wikipedia editors documenting the long-term implications of every crime she has been charged with (the criticism, legacy and public image, and the personal life subsections of her page get a lot of edits and foot traffic); heated debates over her utilitarianism in university lecture halls all over the world. There'd be children who would grow up to idolize her, and conspiracy theorists who'll earn a living by dissecting every detail of her leadership.
Post-astrophage crisis (for the sake of my mental well-being), I choose to believe that Stratt receives some measure of recognition. Nothing commensurate with her actual impact (:((), but at the very least acknowledgement that without her billions more would be lost. Pardons as well. Not from every country, but enough so she no longer has to live as a fugitive. I hope at the end of her life she gets to live on solid land and see the return of spring. I hope a couple of people shake her hand in the street over the years.
Only when her death comes to pass do the honors roll in. Posthumous recognition. Museum exhibits, an NGO named after her; soon, a research center, a street here and there; farther into the future, some sort of spacecraft; perhaps a space station to orbit the planet she so loved, or an envoy to Erid. It's easy to honor a woman who can no longer challenge authority or disrupt the status quo. She's dead, so she's no longer any trouble at all. It's easier to reconcile choices with results in hindsight.
I think Stratt will be in history books for the rest of time. Whether praised or decried, she'll be there. The lynchpin of the longest shot in the universe.
Yall ever sit and think about the fact Ryland grace probably has his own Wikipedia page about him that Rocky could have access too. It wouldn't have fully updated information about his departure but it probably would credit him for figuring out how Astropage breeds and then being instrumental in project Hail Mary. There's probably pictures of him and strat next to other scientists about this on his page.
It's criminal rocky doesn't access Wikipedia in the book or movie. Let him internet stalk his new leaky space blob friend and realize that grace omits or purposely leaves out VERY RELEVANT OR IMPORTANT information about himself.
' grace one of lead astrophage scientists'
' eh i was okay at it.there was lots of scientists studying it by the time i left earth.'
' grace lies wiki says grace teaching astrophage to others. That makes him one of the most knowledgeable about astrophage. Went from teaching children to teaching other people about astrophage specifically '
God help Grace if there's any recordings of him from earth alongside stratt while making huge announcements .
thinking about graces memory loss.. do you think he ever remembered something that he did and just went like “i would not do that. why did i say that. that’s not me.” because i think losing ALL of your memory of your life and then having to rebuild it from scratch would change you as a person and he is absolutely not the same person as he was before
like in ch 24 when he remembers how he got there and he’s like “oh. i’m a coward. i wasn’t scared for earth, i was scared for myself. i’m a coward.” does he view old him as a different person. does he hate how he used to be.
and maybe there’s things he will never remember. does he know that his moms voice? can he remember all his students names? what his address was? did he read the wikipedia page on own life and actually learn something? are there are things that are permanently blurry and vague and unknown? is there a show that he used to love and now it irritates him to think about?
ryland died the moment he was drugged and grace was born on the hail mary. can anyone hear me
He would have the most insane wikipeadia page cause the updates would be like
Dr. Ryland Grace has presented an unpopular theory that life may be able to evolve without water, he is now a science teacher
and then after the beetles it would change to
Dr. Ryland Grace, replacement for both science experts on Project Hail Mary, was responsible for saving the lives of every single human alive and every single human who will ever live. He also was the first individual to come into contact with alien life, both unintelligent and and intelligent.
a wikipedia page for ryland grace from my fanfic stuck in the middle with you!
this wikipedia article is set after the beetles arrive back on earth, so it only features information the public would know at a certain point in time. not all of the backstory stuff is canon, a lot of it is from my personal headcanons that i’ve built while writing the fic, so this will likely change the more i put effort into researching. dates will likely change too.
olivia watches the wiki page like a hawk btw. every time someone tries to put “astronaut” first she changes it back to “teacher” immediately
I love the headcanons of everybody on earth reaction to the beetles. but please imagine like 100 years down the line some random school kid being forced to do history (because that teacher managed to get to the topic first) homework on the whole thing.
like the regular kid enthusiasm of yeah that Grace guy met an alien, cleaned the sun blah blah blah. Eridians are regular visitors on Earth and it's boooooooooring.
and then the kid opens Wikipedia and that asshole is all over the thing. no easy essay of important person invented important thing that is so important that I have to write some bullshit on it. nope.
guy pops up all over the history section. yeah sure. diplomacy? wait wasn't he an astronaut. biology? what? oh he had PhD in something biology. oh he named astophage "astophage"! is that the end of an essay? oh no it continues. xenobiology, xenolinguistics, all the space exploration and, oh, a first contact! are we done yet? no. fuck. wait, metallurgy???? wtf is this dude doing in the metallurgy section. wasn't he a biologist?
and then some kids would get a little bit into it and read through early life section to find oh he got kicked out of his field for being a weirdo alien guy. oh that's a great story! with the hard work and the incredible strength of the will he proved everybody wrong!
no wait
he was just some scrungly guy that got dragged kicking and screaming into this whole bs just to pull the most lock tf in in the history of locking tf in
wtf?!
and then they dig deep enough to find the video logs
so every year. without missing the beat, few kids get totally obsessed.
Listen, he needs a series of YouTube videos to explain.
Pre taskforce- was a doctor that called someone a waste of carbon.
Was then school teacher.
During taskforce
Literally was lead on astrophage - discovered what it was and with help of a government agent/bodyguard carl (he put his name on the paper) bred it.
Literally helped make the ship and so much astrophage + scientists.
Quite literally the heart of team and was assisting stratt on science. Very important man.
Was backup after og scientist and their backup died
Beetles return - he woke up no memory and other 2 were dead. Found alien life. Communicated with alien and they both managed to solve problem. Also how xeno expert. Managed to pilot ship.
Went back after rocky bc his ship was now in the water and sent beetles back + saved erid.
Eridian contact ryland content- has been alive and gathered a lot of data from another planet + culture. Back to teacher.
And he started this because he was kidnapped by the governments! He still thought of himself as a teacher and not very important!
(note this doesn't even get into the stuff happening on earth after he is in space or eridians version of him)
As someone who has seen both movies, (iron lung three times) here's a few things i see ppl get wrong/ misunderstand:
Simon is missing his left arm, up to the shoulder. Like at the bicep.
Simon is not just a eel, he's fused with the seed and explodes into a tree.
The seed was on the left arm, fused, reversed Pinocchioed him, and got ripped off.
He kills Elli by exploding into a fucking tree.
He met God.
God gave him prophetic visions and fucked him up. Promised Simon would live, and like a Genie, didn't specify how.
Also some time manipulation bullshit was happening.
Homeboy is played by Mark(iplire), who is Korean. (Draw him Korean you cowards /j)
Simon would not necessarily be impressed/ emotinal from looking at stars. In a flashback he's seen stars before, but knows they're ghost light. He would be grateful being able to see them again though.
He WOULD be very emotinal about any plant life. He found a new will to live when he found the little seed. He had a breakdown when the little charm cracked.
His "job" on Eden was to nourish the last tree with the people he killed. Hence his nickname.
There's a lot symbolism regarding trees (the hull window crack)
Simon is resourceful and smart! Like smart smart! Let him be smart woth Rocky and Grace!
Yes, Simon can be aggressive, but is only in situation where his life is threatened. He's also remorseful. He's apologetic and does want to make up for his wrongs, even if it wasn't his fault.
His left eye glows :3
Grace is not a coward.
Like Simon, Grace did not go down without a fight. He ran, yes, but when he was being sedated he shouted how he would sabotage the mission. Do everything he can to make it fail, just so the wouldn't risk putting him on the exhibition.
He is incredibly brave. He did a space walk without training. He trusted rocky that he wouldn't explode in the space bridge. He CLIMBED ON THE BURNING EXTERIOR OF THE HAIL MARY TO RETRIEVE THE COLLECTION DEVICE.
Grace is not a crybaby. He crys for very real, reasonable reasons! When he was betrayed? When they found a solution to save their stars? When Rock gave him a way to return to Earth? It would be weird for him NOT to cry! (Edit: person in the tags you're so right)
He would be scared meeting Simon, but he would not be a coward.
They BOTH have a "This is bigger than me" mentality. They both risked everything to ensure the survival of humanity. They were willing to die.
It's not selfish just wanting to live.
I don't think either of them would have a problem doing anything to survive. (Eating the Taumoeba or Me-burgers)
How it works in my head
as someone who has also seen both movies multiple times I agree with all of these, and I can’t wait to dig a bit deeper into some of them (especially Grace’s psyche, I feel like his mentality is criminally underrepresented—he cares so deeply about so much and that manifests in ways that aren’t just crying) in a few other fics I’m working on. but in the meantime I’d love to see more tree mutation Simon, more of Simon and his green thumb (and his lack of engineering knowledge; maybe he helps figure out a food source for the long haul back to Eridani?), and also more of Grace processing his complicated emotions around… everything, in a more emotionally intelligent way… urgh there’s just so much good food here you guys there’s too many tempting ideas
As someone who has seen both movies, (iron lung three times) here's a few things i see ppl get wrong/ misunderstand:
Simon is missing his left arm, up to the shoulder. Like at the bicep.
Simon is not just a eel, he's fused with the seed and explodes into a tree.
The seed was on the left arm, fused, reversed Pinocchioed him, and got ripped off.
He kills Elli by exploding into a fucking tree.
He met God.
God gave him prophetic visions and fucked him up. Promised Simon would live, and like a Genie, didn't specify how.
Also some time manipulation bullshit was happening.
Homeboy is played by Mark(iplire), who is Korean. (Draw him Korean you cowards /j)
Simon would not necessarily be impressed/ emotinal from looking at stars. In a flashback he's seen stars before, but knows they're ghost light. He would be grateful being able to see them again though.
He WOULD be very emotinal about any plant life. He found a new will to live when he found the little seed. He had a breakdown when the little charm cracked.
His "job" on Eden was to nourish the last tree with the people he killed. Hence his nickname.
There's a lot symbolism regarding trees (the hull window crack)
Simon is resourceful and smart! Like smart smart! Let him be smart with Rocky and Grace!
Yes, Simon can be aggressive, but is only in situation where his life is threatened. He's also remorseful. He's apologetic and does want to make up for his wrongs, even if it wasn't his fault.
Simon is not religious, but he did meet an eldritch god. He even renounced the religious teaching on Eden. Hated that he didn't get a choice.
Don't get me wrong, there's a LOT of religious/ christian symbolism
Speaking of, he had an Eden tattoo on the left side if his neck, but the COI branded(?) over it
COI = Consolidation of Iron (group of a few starship, satellites, and spacecrafts tring to pool resources to survive)
Eden colony = desendents of Martians (Humans who colonized Mars) basicly a death cult.
Injuries include the bends, multiple concussion, isopropyl poisoning, super radiation, burns and mutations from the blood, the effects of precieving and being precieved by an eldritch god. And lizarding his arm.
His left eye glows :3
Grace is not a coward.
Like Simon, Grace did not go down without a fight. He ran, yes, but when he was being sedated he shouted how he would sabotage the mission. Do everything he can to make it fail, just so the wouldn't risk putting him on the exhibition.
He was ready to throw hands with Rocky when they first met.
He is incredibly brave. He did a space walk without training. He trusted Rocky that he wouldn't explode in the space bridge. He CLIMBED ON THE BURNING EXTERIOR OF THE HAIL MARY TO RETRIEVE THE COLLECTION DEVICE.
Grace is not a crybaby. He crys for very real, reasonable reasons! When he was betrayed? When they found a solution to save their stars? When his friend survived? When Rock gave him a way to return to Earth? It would be weird for him NOT to cry! (Edit: person in the tags you're so right)
He might be scared meeting Simon, but he would not be a coward.
Grace was a middle school science teacher. He was a really good one too. But that also mean he probably was cussed out before. He would not be offended/scared being cursed at. Homeboy was also on a military ship for a good minute. "Swearing like a sailor" is a phrase for a good reason.
He still doesn't curse tho. (In the movie)
Grace is still a teacher! :D
Grace had several Gs of force pressed on him getting the universe's worst concussion. Honestly wouldn't be surprised is he had a skull fracture.
Movie! Grace does not have a scar from saving Rocky. BUT! Who cares, it's sweet :3
They BOTH have a "This is bigger than me" mentality. They both risked everything to ensure the survival of humanity. They were willing to die.
It's not selfish just wanting to live.
I don't think either of them would have a problem doing anything to survive. (Eating the Taumoeba or Me-burgers)
THE ASTROPHAGE PROJECT WAS A GLOBAL EFFORT NOT JUST USA!
Rocky risked his life and almost died to save Grace. The atmosphere of the Hail Mary is toxic to him.
Rocky is NOT Grace's pet! That bitch is a sentient, very intelligent person who saved the Stars!
Rocky's only "naive" because of cultural misunderstandings and language barriers.
There were plants on the Hail Mary. Presumably, they could grow plants on Erid (?)
Markiplier is ≈5"10 and Gosling is ≈6"0 (Really doesn't matter, headcanon what you want!)
How BloodyMary works in my head
Space Youtubers AU
[I'm editing this as more things are said in the tags. And sorry if some of this seems opinionated, im trying to keep to facts or things that can be backed up with evidence]
another sayaka gif
she deserves to let her emotions out more, because closing up because you feel like subhuman/corpse is painful as hell(totally not based on mine experience)
Nothing to see here. Just two bros discussing heart surgery 😳🫀
follow up to this
I've seen so much of mutated/eldritch/monster! Simon, but what about mutated/eldritch/monster!Grace???? Being in space for such a long time with only another species for company HAS to change something in you. Maybe he isn't so far off from being the angel Simon thinks he is.
HEHEHEHE
Simon being mutated to the point of being unrecognizable. A true monster. Constantly bleeding, looking like a fish if it could walk on all fours and be like 10 foot long.
Grace (book version this time, since this only happens in the book) discovering that Astrophage can infect humans too, but after he ate the Taumoeba, the infection just stops as he becomes one with the Star Eater. He feeds off stars now, a true angel.
And Rocky being like ok what do I do with these weird aliens I found in space
I like to imagine, one day, the truth comes out. That humanity’s savior, the one who braved the stars alone, morning the death of his friends while trying to save his entire planet, didn’t go willingly.
That he was forced to go by the woman who did everything she had to do to save them.
Several former students of the Ryland Grace Memorial Middle School raise some money(not hard, their beloved teacher inspired them so much, this was the least they could do) and added a small dog, dressed in a little space suit, head tilted towards the stars humanity would condemn her to, and an even smaller inscription. “Ryland Grace, may the stars forever light your path, the way you lit others.”
It sparked a worldwide movement, catching the eye of Pope Leo, who had helped bless the rocket leading the crew of three to their death, and made a decision.
Saint Grace was canonized, along with his companion, as the patron saint of one way trips. A statue was commissioned of St. Grace holding Laika, both looking up at their grave. On the plaque at the bottom, it reads “Saint Ryland Grace and his spiritual companion, Laika. The one who leads those who bravely go where no one has gone before, even if it costs them their life. May their souls walk with you and guide you to safety.”
