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science is hard, ok.

Crying because Grace reached the closest thing to immortality a human can get - it's going to be millenia before he's forgotten. And I don't mean in a general 'saviour of the world' way, I mean in a 'knew him personally and he was dear to them' kind of way.

Obviously Rocky and Adrian will outlive him, but he would be the uncle to their kids (assuming they have any). He'd be the fun uncle that passes when they are young that they grow up missing, but still remember so fondly.

And when they have kids, those little pebbles will be brought up being taught about Grandpa Grace. Their parents will talk about how Grace use to lift them up so high and spin them when they were little, and their grandparents will gross them out with stories of how squishy he was (but also how kind he was, and how loved)

By the time humans make contact with Adrian again, maybe 600, maybe 800 years in the future, Grace would still be known. There would still be Eridians that could walk these new humans through his biodome and talk about the time he chased them along the beach. There would still be Eridians that remembered exactly how he whistled when he made coffee in the morning.

There would still be Eridians who would say 'We miss him', long after the last human who could say that died.

I just think that's beautiful, that the man sent to die in space because he wouldn't be missed is the one human who would be missed the longest.

cheeseanonioncrisps

I see your “Rocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans can’t hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words mean” and raise you “Rocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that ‘bad bad bad’ isn’t actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.”

Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rocky’s been saying is “shit shit shit”.

cheeseanonioncrisps

Eridian government representative: Greetings Rocky, Saviour of Erid, and Grace, Saviour from Beyond the Stars. We are pleased to welcome you home.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Rocky: GRACE STOP TALKING NOW NOW NOW I EXPLAIN LATER

hailed-marys

ive been thinking about grace and eridian formalwear.... idk how to design clothes/outfits at all so this is me throwing random stuff at the wall

not-equippedforthis

thinking about a very specific scenario of a grace with no video logs, with no xenonite failure, who comes back to earth as rocky comes back to erid, heart full but missing a very distinct piece. ten, twenty years go by, and grace is not malnourished nor does he look even half his age, but there's a deepset something in his eyes that has nothing to do with stratt's actions being revealed or the press or adjusting to earth again. about earth getting news of a ship coming down, whose atmosphere is fundamentally different now and causes trouble for that ship. damages sustained on that ship. a red light in the sky. suspected eridian contact as confirmed by dr ryland grace. thank you tom, anna temple here and we're live at nasa's makeshift landing pad, ready to receive, watching- oh, my- a row of officials that cannot pin down ryland grace this time as he, live on air, tears apart every country's anxiety of eridians by ripping from the crowd and jumping the fence into the launching area. a camera pan that judders from dr grace sprinting, the most energetic he's been in years, to a brown eridian kareening towards him in a xenonite suit. prepared to catch ryland's tackle and embrace him properly, there on the green grass, for the very first time. first contact.

whatisamildopinion

'rocky learns to swear in english' is great and all but have we considered the equally hilarious alternative: rocky makes grace a little harmonica so he can use tone indicators in eridian, does not realize how terrible of a mistake this is until it's too late. grace catches onto tone indicators FAST and he is DEVASTATING with their application. grace does not use eridian swears but rocky gets to hear "are we choosing kind words" and "I'm not mad I'm just disappointed" in eridian roughly thirty times per day

manyblinkinglights

#grace figures out Disappointed Teacher tone indicators in less than twenty four hours#the first time he uses it rocky is suddenly shaking with flashbacks to being a 30yo eridian in school#pov you are stuck in deep space and your middle school teacher alien roommate has just figured out how to scold you in your native language#rocky is a mechanic. they are immune to being cussed out but the Teacher Voice works on them solidly seven times out of ten#when the beatles get back to earth stratt watches the hail mary footage and every time rocky cringes as grace harmonicas at him#she's like 'ahhhhhh the teacher voice <3 I do miss that'#because when he was still on earth stratt would sometimes sicc grace on members of the phm team#because sometimes the Disappointed Teacher Voice was more effective than the Angry Boss Voice

oifaaa

Have you watched/read project hail mary yet? I think you'd love it. If you have mayhe a little doodle about that

if not... Usopp

I have not watched or read it but I have been on the internet in the last two months so I believe I got the jist

cloudabserk

dry erase markers + xenonite

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

being friends with english majors is so fun you'll send a text like hey are you free for brunch and they'll respond with some shit like "haven't the faintest clue, my schedule is utterly fucked"

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

english majors so used to talking like 19th century british aristocracy they think this is a joke about busy schedules

mundayme

tocourtdisaster

I've seen so many posts lately about how Grace wouldn't add swears to their translator but I 100% think he did.

He's not morally against swearing, he said holy fucking shit when he saw the Blip-A for the first time, the only reason he doesn't swear normally is because he trained himself out of it because he teaches middle schoolers. If I'm remembering right, he even calls one of the kids a smartass in his internal narration at one point. He's spent so long not swearing that he's not just going to fall out of the habit immediately.

We know that at some point, he learned Eridian swearing anyway because Rocky swears in the final chapter of the book. And I think he learned most of them when Rocky reamed him out after leaving the taumoeba collector out at room temp.

Plus, Rocky is an adult and Grace treats him like one, which includes adding swear words into their translator so that Rocky can express himself.

critter-of-habit

They're just silly

lurkingdorkness

I'm still thinking of how damn funny it would be if you make a bloodymary au where Simon is just, occasionally in the background of all of Grace's logs that he sent back to Earth.

The teams are watching these, and at first they don't think much about another human and assume it's one of the other two. Except Simon talks in one and that definitely isn't either person that got sent up. In fact, Grace definitely sent back that the other two passed on the voyage, so who the hell is that?

Cue chaos as Earth tries to figure out where a whole new human turned up from. Rocky is comparatively normal; that's obviously an alien. Why the hell was there a human out in Tau Ceti? Why didn't Grace send anything back about this?

sleepdeprivedcinnamonbun

Stratt: you don't have a romantic partner in your life because you're scared your heart might get broken

Grace:

Grace: that's uh that's personal ok but uh has no one told you yet

Stratt: told me what

Grace: *looks around at guards about to go sedate him*

Grace: hey guys if I yk die in space can someone get this woman to look up the word "aromantic" please I just I think it might help her

vylinkang

there are 3 wolves inside of you. first one is a aroace!grace truther. the other one ships grace/simon. the third wolf believes grace belongs in a polycule with Rocky and Adrian.

these 3 can coincide harmoniously.

we are gay. anything is possible for us.