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Water is Thicker Than Blood Epilogue 2

It wouldnt be a whery au without the brots cuddling and asleep at some point, come on.

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Eeby, neeby, and beebee. 🔥THE EXHAUSTED BROTHERS🔥

I havent colored in such complete linelessness in a while. it hurt. Why’d i do that. Ah, probably because the friends you recruited to do the other two started making the MOST BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS THAT EVER GRACED YOUR EYEBALLS and you had to up your game.

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YIPPPEEE me and @otaku553 and @where-does-the-heart-lie DID AN EPIC COLLAB and also drew eachother as cutie lil guys X3!!! THANKS FOR DRAWING WITH ME FRIENDSS (❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ*

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Where Does the Heart Lie? Act 1 Chapter 14:

A Reunion?

Squish that cat. All you need to know, is to squish👏that👏cat👏

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Gettin into the weeds now~~

This is getting a little difficult to keep up with but usually by the end of the week I'm a little free and can start cramming. Nevertheless She Persisted.

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HE'S TOO CUTE

He's gonna kill me with cuteness 🥺

*hides the rest of my questions behind my back, but one falls out*

Will it be king till baby boy Leo wakes up? I miss him too 🥺 a lot

Nooooooouuuu he is actually super cute you are correct aaacctually.

Carrying them.

Oop ah sorry to bother you but I think you dropped this question 🫴 💭 here you go

It’s gonna be 4 chapters until he wakes up though 😀👍

Thank you so much for the art and ask!!

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sketched emerald duo last night

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That twinsduo royalty au is getting too loud for comfort GET BACK. GET BACK I SAID. I HAVE TO FINISH THIS SUPERHERO FIC OR ELSE ILL DIE!!!

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I DONT CARE IF YOU THINK YOU COULD BE A ONESHOT WE KNOW HOW THIS GOES YOURE NOT GONNA TURN OUT TO BE A ONESHOT!! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!

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AAHHHHGGGG

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But also the fic could start with phil pov of him finally returning to the castle after several years- he got let go because of the fact he was practically raising prince twinsduo on the side and the king and queen found offense in the fact their children clearly liked this servant better than their extremely absent parents- but the king and queen have passed now and Phil is finally summoned back with techno (“techno”) on the throne. Part of him wonders why it took so many years but he also feels its partially his fault because he could’ve requested a meeting when techno actually took the throne. Its been years now and Phil still feels like he overstepped his boundaries but he also misses his kids and clearly they still remember him and know him fondly if they’re actually asking him to return, so surely its ok?

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Phil pov of him being warmly welcomed in front of the throne with techno and wilbur both greeting him with the appropriate sort of distance for their ranks but the second they actually get away from the courts Phil gets a hug from each of them. He’s so happy to see them and happy to see that they’ve grown up well but he also. Feels that something is off. About the two of them. He knows it the second they hug him, and its immediately the start of Phil slowly realizing they’ve swapped places.

And then details by details with Phil eventually calling for a private meeting with the king and just outright saying “Wilbur.”

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The Weepin' Rose Tavern!

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great hall

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My friend @thepluckycharms and I were talking about Project Hail Mary, now that we both watched it, and we've been going back and forth a lot on Grace's name.

His first name is Ryland, but he never uses it. He introduces himself to everyone by Grace, including an alien from another world who's probably not aware of first names given they have an entire different naming convention over there.

Part of why I like that is knowing Grace as a first name is typically given to women. It's a subversion of expectations, and he's already such a subtly queer character to me, even if not textually intended to be. He chose, above his first name, to be known as Grace.

And another point that I feel connects is... Well, that's a virtue name, and people give those to satellites and space missions all the time. Curiosity, Perseverance, Integrity, Grace.

And I find it extra special how, in a turn of events, Earth lost Grace forever.

A sedative shot that might as well be a gun to his head. Stratt pulled the trigger, but behind that trigger, a single life couldn't compete with eight billion others. It had to be done, and it hurt even more for his own friends to have done it. Because you know they were hurting too, and had no choice - Humanity had to be saved. But because of that, something broke within humanity that day.

And as a result of that, Grace turned around to save Rocky. He came to live in Erid, and when asked if he wanted to return to Earth, he didn't immediately want to say yes.

You saved the world but you lost Grace.

You lost Grace in every sense of the word.

They lost Grace the person, the wonderful loving person. But they also lost grace, the quality, the quality of kindness and mercy. By sending out their Hail Mary, they lost their Grace.

And that's not something you want to lose.

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I have encountered new fandom discourse, and I believe it is time to write something small for your consideration. What I have heard is "Doesn't it break your heart that they killed Grace and they didn't even care just because he didn't have a family or even a dog? Doesn't it make you ILL with misery?" (Paraphrasing) but the thought follows because of the speeches where she tries to convince Grace to commit suicide for the sake of the people of the Earth.

You my fellow people... I think you are both misreading the situation, and missing out on the bigger deeper desperation of it all.

Grace is so likeable. No, he doesn't have a girlfriend or a dog. But can't you feel his gravity? I think by that point, he was perhaps her very best friend. How could she mention friends along with family when trying to convince him to leave, when not only her, but most of the team must shatter their hearts to do this to him as they had for those other brave men and women.

Please go Grace. Please choose to go so I don't have to do what must be done. I'm begging you Grace. My guilt is not enough to stop this. Grace you have no tether. Please, Grace, choose to die the right way so that I don't have to choose for you.

Does it not fracture your heart into sharp little teardrops, just to think that they loved he who they fed to the sun. The sacrifice to the dying of the light and all the children who will cry to know he still lives even though he is gone. There are no heroes babygirl, only people on the pyre to sate the gods.

Goodbye Grace. I cannot cry till you are gone, because a steady hand must hold the blade above the lamb. And when it's done, I will cry and I will break and all the world will mourn my choice, even when it is only whispers passed between the people of the Earth (obviously they couldn't officially state that they made him go unwillingly, but how could you truly contain information about - for the first and last time there has ever been - the most important person on earth)

"We're putting you into a coma early to maximise your chances of survival," she said as they strapped him to the gurney/altar. He faded to oblivion from which he would only wake in years, long after his eyes had opened.

...

"Rocky will give astrophage so Grace can go home."

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One idea that I found really interesting and important in Project Hail Mary is that one person/being’s life is not inherently more valuable than another’s.

The first instance of this was when the movie never ended with eradicating Astrophage from the universe. Even though it was “eating” the sun, it was never portrayed as evil or less than. And it was even used to fuel their ship, so they were never afraid of it in that way.

The second was when Ryland was told on Earth that his life did not matter because he did not have a lover or friends or a pet, he still wasn’t convinced that his life didn’t matter. (I know Stratt only told him that because she knew they needed him to go and save the world, but he didn’t know that so). He fought to be alive and to keep his life on Earth even if he had “nobody”. I love that to him the value of his life did not depend on his relationships and was not less than anybody else’s life just because they had relationships. I saw a similar theme when Rocky chose to save Grace despite Rocky having a mate. (As an ace person, hell yeah).

The third was the way they portrayed Rocky and his story. His story of tragedy was just as moving as if humans had died, because they were never any less than humans. Grace treated Rocky with respect, treated him as a capable scientist and never as anything less than that just because he was a “rock”. Their entire relationship was of two buddies, not a human and a pet rock.

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Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.