"grace never forgives stratt!" "rocky hates her!" no, i think grace comes to understand pretty fast that he wasn't sent because his life was worthless or because he had nothing holding him to earth. he was sent because he truly was the only person for the job, there was literally no other option and time was running out, and i think grace and rocky both come to understand that.
i think that if grace ever met stratt again (which could never happen, there's no way grace is leaving his home and his partner. but if he did meet her again, with rocky at his side, obviously), she'd say with tears threatening to fall 'i wish i hadn't had to violate you so,' and he'd wrap his arms around her, and she'd cry for the first time in a very very very long time, and he'd cry for the fifth time that week
'i don't forgive you 'cause there's not anything to forgive. you saved the world as much as i did. as much as rocky did.'
'two worlds,' rocky would add, leaning against grace's legs, radiating comforting warmth through his exosuit
'yeah, it sucked. i was scared. i hated you for a while. but if our positions had been reversed...' he pauses. 'no, let's be real. if our positions had been reversed, earth would be a snowball by now. i could never be as organized as you, are you kidding? but in theory, i... I'd have done the same thing to you. and i'm always gonna remember what happened, but i don't blame you. because you didn't do the wrong thing.'
her getting that moment would be so. so cathartic. and she kind of got it when she saw grace's video logs and he says she was right. but that woman deserves to be hugged and explicitly outright told she isn't to blame alright i love her so much
god just. eva stratt is as much of a sacrificial lamb as grace but she doesn't get any recognition or exoneration, she gets sent to prison and reviled, and for what? for the crime of doing what she was tasked to do, the sacred task to save the earth no matter what? fuck. the scapegoat is never mourned as the lamb is. and for what? the transgression of having been born a goat?
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