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Art/writing blog: @hinacu-arts Current Main Fandoms: PHM, bloodymary

[stevehatch]

Every named Project Hail Mary character

[Plain text: Every named Project Hail Mary character]

Note: This is for the book! Not the movie! I didn't miss Carl he's just named something else (sorta) don't worry <3

Irina Petrova - Discoverer of the Petrova line

Marissa - Ryland's ex-roomates ex-girlfriend

Sandra Elias - Reporter

Dr. Browne - Head of Planetary Sciences for NASA

Jeff, Larry, Abby, Regina and Trang - Some of Ryland's students

Doctor Ryland Grace - Main character. Sent on the Hail Mary as their scientist.

Eva Stratt - Part of the Petrova taskforce, and is it appropriate to call her the leader of Project Hail Mary?

Hail Mary - Project Hail Mary's spaceship

Commander Yáo Li-Jie - Hail Mary's pilot

Olesya Ilyukhina - Hail Mary's engineer

Theresa, Michael, Tamora, Harrison, Luther and Tracy - Some more of Ryland's students

Honorable mention - John, Paul, George and Ringo - The beetles on the Hail Mary

Honorable mention - Larry, Curly and Moe - The three Astrophage Stratt leaves Ryland

Steve - Army guy

Honorable mention - Shemp - The Astrophage that Moe "birthed"

? - Air force guy that Ryland forgot the name of

Dr. Matsuka - elderly Japanese man at the PHM meeting

Minister Voigt - Germany's minister of foreign affairs

Ms. Xi - Chinese lady that had already replicated Ryland's results

Dr. Dimitri Komorov - Heads up the Russian Federation's research into Astrophage (also responsible for Spin Drives)

NannyBot - The medical arms in the ship

Blip-A - The alien spaceship

Dr. Lokken - The Norwegian scientist that suggested turning the Hail Mary into a centrifuge

Rocky - The Eridian Ryland meets

Justice Meredith Spencer - The judge

Theodore Canton - Plaintiff/counsel for the Intellectual Property Alliance

Mr. Easton - the Kiwi head prison guard

Dr. Robert "Bob" Redell - The prisoner and inventor of the blackpanel

Dr. François Leclerc - The climatologist

Honorable mention - Erid - Rocky's planet

Dr. Lamai - Thai doctor in charge of making NannyBot

Linda - Ryland's ex-girlfriend (from college)

Captain Yang - Captain of Stratt's (borrowed) ship (?)

Martain DuBois - Primary science expert

Annie Shapiro - Backup science expert

Adrian - Rocky's mate

Honorable mention - Adrian - Tau Ceti E's new name

Forrester - The person radio-ing Ryland as he tests out the clamp tool for the space suit

Steve Hatch - The guy who designed the beetles! Also, he's me! He's so so me!

Honorable mention - Pete - The prototype beetle

Honorable mention - Threeworld - The third planet in the Eridian solar system

Private Meknikov - Russian soldier present to "protect Stratt" (really present to restrain Ryland)

Honorable mention - Tank One through Ten - Rocky and Ryland's breeder tanks

[augmentedchordsofficial]

PHM book ending: Grace was 29 when he left Earth

PHM book beginning: Grace met Marissa in grad school 20 years ago

Logical conclusion: Grace went to grad school when he was 9

[teaseawrites]

all i want is to see the full scene of the talk with marissa and ryland that was cut from the beginning of the movie because i feel like it’s an extremely insightful look into ryan gosling’s grace portrayal specifically and i need that thank you

[wild-giggle]

I saw this post talking about Marissa, and how she only appears in one scene at the start of the book, but from the details given, she and Grace were actually pretty close. It's hard to tell, but she's in the movie, as well.

It's a blink and you'll miss it moment. It's not even technically relevant to the exposition scenes, despite her existence being created to serve that purpose. But when Grace is watching the news break, he's watching it with someone.

They're sharing earbuds. They're watching it on his phone, together. The memory is blurry- we don't catch what she looks like.

I think it's almost more devastating that she was included in such a small way than not at all; she doesn't get named, doesn't even get a full face. But sharing earbuds with someone is such an intimate thing. And there's only one character from the book it could possibly be here. Marissa manages to get even less screen time, even less consideration, in the movie than she did in the book (where it was almost non-existent to begin with). And with them sharing earbuds, it's a clear nod to the same level of friendship from the books.

It was a choice, to remove her without removing her. It fascinates me, the way the women in Grace's life take such passing roles, discarded or dismissed or left undescribed. There are almost no men in his life before his time working under PHM, and certainly barely any mention of them (the closest we get is an allusion to a college roommate, who facilitated his friendship with Marissa). All his close relationships in his life before seem to have been women (we get very little of his life before PHM, but the two people we know are Marissa and Linda, his ex), and yet by both the story and most viewers, he is seen as having no close friendships before Rocky.

Part of the tragedy in Stratt's betrayal is because he thought they were getting close. In the movie, because they almost did. In the book, because he was the backup plan all along. Rocky and Stratt play foils to each other in this way- they are so important because emotional closeness, for Grace, is a rarity. It's implied to be non-existent, in fact. Hm.

His ex-girlfriend doesn't even get a name in the film; her new boyfriend does, though.

[petrel-va-line]

It’s really cute to me that in almost every fanfic I’ve seen where Marissa has dialogue (as opposed to just being mentioned once or twice), her nickname for Grace is Ry. Like everything else about her will vary wildly between interpretations (which I love! Gimme all the Marissas!) but that’s the one thing we’ve just sort of decided is just a part of their relationship—yep, she calls him Ry.

[skaters-art-blog]

Chapter 2's drawing! I hope to make this a type of daily upload drawing thing for me both to get me back in the groove of making art and to tryy and keep me accountable to finish this project in a reasonable timeframe.

look forward to chapter 3 tomorrow!

[c4ndyc41n]

a semblance of normalcy with thursday night steak + beer

[searchingforserendipity25]

'ryland grace has no close human relationships on earth' do you know how hard it is to have a standing weekly date with a friend for YEARS. that's crazy. that's amazing. marissa and grace going out every thursday is what modern devotion is made of. marissa phm i am holding you in the palms of my hands.

[birbliophile]

Reasons why I’m now lowkey obsessed with Marissa, a character who has ONE SCENE in the ENTIRE BOOK:

She’s the first person Grace remembers from his past. He remembers her before he remembers he’s a teacher, before he remembers Stratt, before he remembers HIS OWN NAME.

He mentions no other people who he’d consider a friend that he’d hang out with.

The first thing Grace tells us about her is that she and him have steak and beer together every Thursday at the same time at the same place, at the same TABLE because the staff immediately recognize them every time and know their orders.

They met in grad school because Marissa dated Grace’s roommate for three months. They have no inkling of romance between themselves at all.

They’ve known each other for TWENTY YEARS.

She works at the DOE and learned about the Petrova Line absorbing the sun’s energy before Grace did—she’s the one to tell him about it. The information weighs on her enough that she drinks four whiskeys.

Every other named character calls Grace “Grace,” “Dr. Grace,” or presumably “Mr. Grace” in the case of the students. But Grace calls Marissa by her given name (doesn’t mention her surname), suggesting she’s the only character who would call him Ryland.

The dialogue in their one scene together suggests Grace is used to joking around with her without feeling judged

The book never brings her up again after this one scene. This makes me feel CRAZY.

WHY did Weir make them seem so close only to give Marissa one singular scene? Her only tangible role appears to be to give Grace exposition about the Astrophage Problem, but there’s plenty of ways to write a scene like that without specifying that she’s also apparently his closest human friend?

Did Grace ever call her to explain why he can’t show up to dinner anymore? Did he have cell signal on Stratt’s Vat? Did Stratt LET him call people after signing him onto the Project? She seems to have taken care of his job, but she wouldn’t have any reason to know about Marissa and the Thursday dinners unless Grace and Marissa left evidence on social media or something.

What happened to her after her one scene? Presumably she kept doing her job at the DOE and having a harder and harder time due to the crisis, maybe she worked on trying to get energy to warm people’s homes.

Did Stratt know about her at all? Did anyone know she was Grace’s friend, did anyone know she had dinner with him every week, did anyone know she would miss him?

Petrova Taskforce Guys: Oh yeah Grace is a loser he has no family or friends to miss him

Me: DO THEY KNOW

How did she feel hearing that Grace became the science officer of the Hail Mary? Without telling her, without saying goodbye?

Did she think Grace just suddenly cut off their friendship, or did she get suspicious of the government and Stratt because she knew Grace wouldn’t just do that to her?

I see posts sometimes of people being like “oh Grace didn’t have meaningful relationships before meeting Rocky,” and I feel like I’m waving the book around like DOES ANYONE WANNA TALK ABOUT MARISSA HELLO MARISSA THE GRAD SCHOOL FRIEND SHE EXISTS SHE’S REAL

Maybe she wasn’t someone Grace would die for—he couldn’t overcome his fear of death even for his kids, and they’re why he joined the Project in the first place. But she was someone he cared about. And she only gets one. Scene.

[roadstostray]

C'mon sugar!

[theladyphantom]

I see your “Grace somehow gets in the COI universe and ends up helping them so they begrudgingly keep him around as he falls in love with bodyguard/watchdog Simon” and I raise you “No one in the COI has experienced such raw kindness before and they’ve now adopted Grace as their personal scientist/pet and they would literally give him anything he wants (aka Simon)”

For Example:

COI Guard: We’re cold blooded, we show no mercy and will do whatever it takes—

Grace, walking by: hi, Dave! How’s the wife?

COI Guard, instantly perking up: She’s great! Thanks for asking, she really liked the quilt you made!

COI Guard, after Grace walks away: —we’re merciless and cruel and do whatever is necessary to survive—

~~~

Ava: We’ve noticed your interest in the Convict,

Grace, blushing: first of all his name is Simon; and I’m not quite sure—what’s that?

Simon, literally wrapped up in ribbon with a bow stuck in his head sitting in the corner: hi Grace

Grace: uh, hi. What’s going on?

Ava: happy birthday, Grace

Grace: it’s not by birthday?? And that’s a human being you can’t just give him away!

Simon: I’m actually surprisingly okay with being given to you

~~~

Random Prisoner, pointing at Grace: how come you haven’t killed him?

COI Guard #1: how dare you!

COI Guard #2: he’s practically a baby!

Prisoner: he’s older than half the people here???

Grace, walking by and dropping something on his foot: aw, fiddlesticks! That really hurt! Gosh darn

Prisoner: Nevermind he’s a baby, carry on

~~~

COI Member, holding up a book: this says we have to give Grace social time to be with others,

Ava: that book is titled ‘How to Take Care of Your Anxious Pet’

COI Member #2: You idiot! You need to read this one!

COI Member #2: *holding up book titled ‘Caring For Your Socially Awkward Child’

Ava: You both are idiots, this is the proper care guide

Ava: *holding up book reading ‘Raising Your Socially Unaware Baby’

Grace, standing in the corner: I’m right here, Y’know

COI Member #3: Great observation skills! Here’s a lollipop!

COI Member #2: You’re going to give him a cavity!

COI Member #3: he needs encouragement!

~~~~

Grace, holding up a shirt saying ‘If Found Please Return to the COI’: what’s this?

Ava: it’s just in case

Simon: you don’t have a very good track record with these things

Ava: Your husband’s right,

Grace, sputtering: he’s not my husband??

Ava, holding up a marriage certificate: he is now,

Simon, raising his hand to show a ring: Merry Christmas

Grace: It’s the middle of October!

Ava: Happy Halloween then, your honeymoon starts tomorrow

Grace, blushing bright red: …okay

~~~

Grace, about to go through portal to Erid with Simon in tow: bye everyone!

COI Guard, crying: they grow up so fast

Ava: call every week! Take good care of yourself!

COI Member: remember to eat your vegetables! Be careful!

COI Scientist: Visit at least once a month!

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(If anyone would like to continue/make a fanfic, please just credit/@ me so I can read it too!!!)

[idgabuck]

I want to add more because I kept giggling to myself whilst reading this.

COI member #1: *drops something* ah fudge it!

COI member #2: you just said fudge instead of fuck-

COI member #1: HE IS RUBBING OFF ON ME!

*Two COI members and guards fighting*

Grace: my hand is up! *has hand up*

They instantly stop fighting.

Grace: we don’t fight and yell in this classroom! (He says classroom because it’s force of habit) Now, one at a time, tell me what happened.

Simon: fuck I’m endeared by this man-

Prisoner: so wait- you guys just let him do whatever he wants?

Ava: within reason. We don’t let him do experiments on anyone. Governor wouldn’t allow it. We would if we could.

Prisoner: I don’t like where this is going honestly….

Grace peaking out from behind Ava: I wouldn’t experiment on you. I just want to test your blood-

Prisoner: YOU ARE GONNA KILL ME?!

COI Guard: Dr Grace couldn’t hurt a fly.

Simon: it’s true. Tried to teach him self defence because, you know, and he ended up punching me in the face and then cried and kept apologising.

Grace: I BROKE YOUR NOSE!

Simon: and? I’d let you do it again.

Grace: what?

Simon: what?

COI guard #1: Did you see what the butcher did earlier?

COI guard #2: no what?

COI guard #1: he brought Dr Grace some water and when Dr Grace smiled at him and thanked him, I swear I saw the butcher smile and turn red.

COI guard #2: I mean, I would too. Dr Grace’s smile is amazing.

Ava: here is the samples you wanted.

Grace smiling: oh! Thank you Ava! I appreciate it! I’m gonna get to work on them right now!

Ava to Simon: I might steal your husband. Keep him as a pet.

Simon: you do that and I will end you-

Grace hearing this: please don’t murder anyone.

COI member: I’ve noticed Dr Grace hasn’t been sleeping much recently-

Almost every single COI member and guard: WHAT?! He needs his sleep!

They then proceed to come up with a plan to make him sleep.

[sillylittlestoryteller]

Plan to make Dr. Grace sleep:

Step 1: Give him the convict to cuddle

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Succes!

[idgabuck]

Accurate 😭

[birthofcassiopeia]

gulps ......... dearest mutual ...................................... have you considered trying to draw fem!bloodymary (fem simon and grace). i feel like they'd look amazing in your style.

Last night I stayed up late enough to forget and then rediscover the fact that lesbians existed and in the resulting euphoria I managed to accidentally throw myself off my bed at 4am.

anyway

FEM BLOODYMARY 💥💥🗣️💥🎉✨✨🎉✨

I love women so so much guys I can’t-

Rylie and Simone are about to be frequents on my blog because oh my god I’m in love with both of them

@exiledmemories it’s yuri, bro, it’s yuri for u 🥹

references under cut;

I think fem Grace would look a bit like Elizabeth James from the parent trap.

yeagh ;-;

[jasperwithproblems]

mermaided them <3

Also a Rocky:

[singularityhorizon]

Simon with his Emotional Support Plant (FEAT. Adrian)

I headcannon that Simon had to learn Eridian without a translator because he was sent to space as a PILOT and doesn’t knows a thing about science or engineering, but hey at least he can do the mechanic work, that’s something right?

He also misses a lot of words because he hasn’t been awake for very long so limited vocabulary, they’re orbiting Tau Ceti here :)

I’m deciding not to do a full comic and just snippets instead of the important scenes, if I get to it I might consider writing a fic, no promises

[cannibal-walleye]

How to Train Your Dragon AU

Guys I've made another Grace/Simon/Mark au, help, I've got so many ideasssss,,, yapping about them below

Basically the plot is going to loosely follow the original plot of the first HTTYD, but there are some Major Differences because Grace is Hiccup, but Simon and Mark don't have direct counterparts, and that changes the story up quite a bit. I'm very excited about this :)))

Also headcanoning that sandwraiths are kinda like chameleons, and they can color shift. Ellie is a boneknapper because she's covered in the remains of other dead dragons, which is just perfect. Simon's still got a tragic backstory, Grace is still an uber nerd, and Mark is the blacksmith :D

[pajaritocoleebri]

guh.. . I love your bloodymary stuff 🥹... can I request a humble bloodymary yuri of any kind.. holding my hands out like a poor starving Victorian urchin on a street corner

of course!! thank you for all your kind notes and likes btw, i haven't forgotten ^^

[b3lov3dnth]

Trying pastel pencils for the first time :D