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Excited Eridians: Grace! We found you a tree!

Grace: What? Really? That's amazing! Where?

Eridians: On this weird rogue moon that floated into our solar system.

Grace: Oh, that's...weird, but cool. Can I see it?

Eridians, bringing the tree into Grace's enclosure for enrichment: Very good tree. It makes lots of sap, question?

Grace, staring at the tree they've just shown him that is visibly oozing blood and looks like its made out of flesh, but who is also a scientist who knows he doesn't know every tree and that there are lots of really weird trees out there: Uh...yeah, that's...probably true.

It takes a lot to set up what the Eridians have dubbed "Grace's Tree" and Grace has mentally named The Blood Tree. They want it to grow big and strong and healthy because they know that having plants around is supposed to be good for a human's mental health, but it oozes a lot and Grace gets kind of twitchy when they mention that the 'sap' might reach the false ocean. So they create some sort of basin so that the tree's sap is collected without spreading, and keep everything nice and contained. They're so proud of their latest addition to Grace's environment.

And like. Grace thinks the tree is weird. It makes him nervous to look at it, and he doesn't really want to touch it. But it's alive, and the closest thing to an actual plant that he's seen here on Erid (he loves Rocky's Xenonite tree, it's beautiful, but it's more like a statue or an art piece than a plant), and the Eridians were just so happy to have found something they thought that Grace would like. So even though it kind of freaks him out a bit, he is determined to take care of The Blood Tree.

He goes out every morning and waters it, keeps a close eye on the soil at its base, and asks for more when it looks like the tree might need more. He looks up everything he can find about trees on the stuff brought down from the Hail Mary to try to figure out how to best maintain it. He still has no idea what kind of tree he's dealing with, but he does find references to trees that ooze red sap. Maybe that's the kind of tree he has?

And of course, this is Ryland Grace we're talking about. So while he's taking good care of his new tree, he's also chatting with it. He tells the tree about his day, about his students, about the Eridians' latest attempt to introduce flavour into the meburgers (it's been mixed results. they almost taste like mint now, which is...yeah. ew). He yaps and yaps and yaps. He calls the tree 'buddy', and acts like they're old friends. He slowly gets used to this super weird plant growing in the enclosure with him, oozing ominous red fluid everywhere, to the point that he's fond of it.

And then one morning when he goes down to the tree to water it, the tree has vanished.

Dismayed, Grace rushes towards where it had been standing, trying desperately to think of where it might have gone. It's not like there was wind to knock it over. Had it died or something? Had the Eridians moved it? Why didn't they warn him?

But then he gets to the plot of dirt, and realizes that there's something else there where the tree had been. Or rather, someone. A man is sitting in the soil, just as bloody as the tree, buck naked and glaring up at Grace like Grace is the source of all of his problems.

Grace just gapes down at the man, completely at a loss for words.

"Oh wow," the man wheezes out, his voice hoarse and gravel-rough. "You can shut the fuck up."

If Grace screams a little bit after that, well, who can blame him really?

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Grace wakes up one day and finds a tree growing behind his house. None of the plants in the biome are real, so where did it come from? It looks like a normal tree from Earth but no plants could grow here. He takes samples to study them but the syringe fills with a red liquid. He does a double take but quickly rationalises it. It could just be that the tree takes nutrients from water with a high level of iron. Even if he doesn't know where it would have found it, trees are known to always find water in the most incongruous places. It doesn't mean that it's blood, even if the consistency reminds him of it. It's a plant that's growing on an alien planet, after all. He doesn't know what it uses as nutrients yet.

After several tests, there's no mistaking. It's blood. Human blood. Grace even uses a sample of his own blood to be sure and it is true. He wishes it stopped there. If only it were the most disturbing. But he eventually discovers that the tree has a pulse. They do an X-ray and, to his horror, the tree is filled with human organs. It breathes but has no airways. The DNA samples he keeps taking can't agree on whether it's human, a tree or both. He doesn't understand. He doesn't know what to do.

He wakes up one morning and the tree is gone. There's nothing but a hole in the ground where it stood before. It looks like it was uprooted. There is now an unidentified creature that goes against nature on the loose in his biome. The huge tracks of blood on the ground aren't helping him calm down. He follows them because he might as well at this point, and it leads him to a cliff. On top of it is what appears to be a man. He's completely unclothed and covered in blood, like a newborn. He seems mesmerised by the scenery. Once Grace reaches him, the man turns his head to look at Grace. Their eyes meet and Grace finds them oddly appeasing.

"It's beautiful," the man says, voice like the hand of his mother running through his hair.

"Yeah," he answers, struck dumb by the whole situation.

"Is it yours?" the man asks, with the warmth of the sun.

"More or less," he answers, totally lost.

"You're lucky," the man says, each of his breaths is like sea wind.

Before Grace can answer, the man's eyes turn hazy and he tilts forward. He then passes out. Grace barely manages to catch him before he hits the ground.

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Tree Simon my beloved.

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Tree Simon love post. <3 I wanna sit under it in a blood-proof exo suit and yap about nothing for two hours.

His leaves are shaped like all the people he's known/has killed. Man. If that thing could speak... I'd be asking about every single one.

It's the purest visage of his being in a metaphorical sense. It's fucking gorgeous.

spunfromthesheep

Thinking about tree mutant Simon and wondering if the mutated parts produce pollen. Not in a sexy way, in a Grace-has-allergies way.

Synthesizing Zyrtec becomes a top priority.

“Simon, there’s nothing to be ashamed of, this is all very natural. In a… mutant-y way. But. I really need to prune you. I feel like crap.”

He does get pruned, but then they realize that if they let Simon’s tree parts grow out during its self-determined spring, they could get trees for the dome. Possibly mutant person trees, but trees.

“Oh this is wonderful. Right? Trees are good. Maple syrup!”

……

“I’m going to sleep in my classroom from now on, please tell me when it’s over.”

howl-osullivan

Kinda silly thought but fun concept to me.

AU where the eel god and tree god split custody of simon like divorced parents that are only being civil for their kids sake. Constantly arguing over if simons on the right diet, is he healthy? Bored? Oh so now its my weekend? Were going fishing!

Simon has to deal with both voices giving him instructions and his mutations shift to reflect whichever has "visitation" at that time.

If bloodymary, neither are sure about grace. On one hand, no one is good enough for their weird kid, but on the other god so we actually think simon has the social skills to get litterally anyone else?

Bonus. Both the eel and tree think rocky and the eridians are abomination. Not plant. not meat. Weird creature. Like a mushroom?

Idk im tired. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

th3-dark-abyss

"no, fish Simon" "no, tree Simon"

BOTH!! HAVE WE CONSIDERED BOTH?? Two sentient entities (The Red Eyed God and the Seedling/Tree) tried to claim him simultaneously, do you really think they wouldn't fight over his body?? Fish instincts vs plant instincts vs what little human is left of him. Working against each other. Possibly coexisting in the future! Give him gills AND teeth AND a tree arm AND leaves growing from his skin AND visible veins that are both green-brown and red-purple AND a corrupted red eye AND vampiric blood cravings AND water/sunlight cravings AND the need to be barefoot in the dirt at every possible opportunity. Do you see the vision!! I need to draw a design but do you see the vision!! Mutate the shit out of this man!!

minori-choco

So I do in fact love Bloody Mary (and Bloody Mary on the Rocks) like generally, period.

And I also love mutated fish Simon (because of the radiation poisoning among the many other afflictions my man has—).

But now that I know that the tree is like a THING, I’d very much appreciate seeing—(damn do I need to do this myself)

Tree person Simon! I’d love to see Tree-Person Mutated Simon! He was of Eden—where their bodies became the soil??? Has no one popularized Tree Simon yet! Dryad adjacent Simon? (I know that he’s not Greek… is there a Korean equivalent? Lemme see here… I dunno if there’s a specific naming convention in Korean Shamanism, but Tree Simon!)

So we can have Mutated Fish Simon, Mutated Tree Simon, Tree Bonded Simon, Ghost Simon, Demi-God Simon, God-Touched Simon, Vengeful Spirit Simon, Psychic Simon, Seer Simon, (hell maybe Blood Bender Simon), and so so many more! I’d love to see what else we can create and come up with for Simon in and outside of the ship in how he’s depicted! :D!

tabbety

guh help me hellppp my lungs are filling with iron im drowninnggg heeelp im turning into a treelike growth of human bone and viscera 😟😟😫😫

this took so freakin long. medium: alcohol markers and colored pencils on cardstock

trexiva

Incredibly random, but I feel like we're not taking full advantage of the possibilities the mutations would've done to Simon

Don't get me wrong, I love each version of him that every artist and fic writer has, but considering the state he was left in at the end of the movie, he's gonna have a lot of shit than just some gills and a side mouth

Everytime I see a Simon fanart where he's more mutated than on average, I get so happy

Maybe that's why I love your treel!Simon so much- let him have all the mutations!

YEAHHHHH I fucking love the treel!Simon stuff bro

Gently pats the top of Simon's head, this bad boy can fit SO many mutuations

A personal favorite mutation of mine that I very seldom see if the angler fish lure. I LOVE IT when people give him that shit (yes ik only female angler fish have lures, do I care? No. No I do not.)

Give that boy fucked up teeth and fucked up sea creature shit and tree shit. Give that boy so many mutations. Make him look barely human. DONT make him look human. Make Grace realize very very slowly and with dawning horror that this *used* to be a human. That he's still human on the inside, even if they were raised in extremely different ways. And make Simon HELLLLLLLA insecure about the newness of his own body. He barely saw himself as human before, and he knew that others certainly didn't. And now? Now there's certainly no way that anyone can see through all of this. There's no way he'll ever be recognized as human again. But if anyone could try, it would be Grace.

pippinoftheshire

… i’m never not thinking about iron lung

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Simons mutations reference sheet

Here’s my take on a partially mutated Simon after being rescued from the blood ocean! I took heavy inspiration from the film, but I thought it would be cool to give him a tail since he was transforming into an aquatic (bloodatic?) creature like Ellie.

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@bronzeplates 's fic called 'Virtual insanity'

Love it sm

Og under the cut

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Simon Scarring & Aftermath Speculations

I just saw this on Instagram, had to double-take and then went "OH THIS IS CANON SCAR PLACEMENT TO ME" ... and then I saw who liked the post too.

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The visceral tone difference between the colorful blanket and utter destruction on Simon's face. This is the kind of jarring shit I want to see in this crossover! The chunky black sutures, blind in one eye *taps symbolism pinboard aggressively*, the blood acting as an acid and leaving permanent marks across his eyes from where it hit him in the face and then mutated earlier into red splotches.

Grace, Rocky and Armando alone would've had to entirely remove the masses on his face plus the bone cancer that was rapidly infecting his skull and jaw area ("teeth") while simultaneously trying to save his jaw. He'd have spent probably a long time with his mouth wired shut, would have a dysfunctional TMJ and facial nerve damage. He'd probably only get to smile with one half of his face. Simon would be lucky to even be smiling at all... and I think that would scare him.

Grace would unfortunately be watching Simon for reoccurring bone growths after that, probably all up in his neck in skull area. If not for the radiation (which we've pretty much disproved since SM-13 has lead shielding), after studying the SM-8's cellular structure and gene sequencing samples provided by the film, I can ballpark that AT-5's blood leeches onto and tricks your genetic code into thinking that the foreign body is sending signals from your own body. It's a fucking hijacker and stops your white blood cells in their tracks by just... adapting into your bloodstream, and it's an extremely unstable mutagen without something to control it (e.g. The Eye... somehow... still working on that one). It's dangerous. It can grow entirely randomly and it's terrifying.

The samples we were given were crustaceous in nature if you can believe it!

Anyway, AT-5 blood absolutely got in Simon's bloodstream. The dangers aren't over at all because Simon's at risk for spontaneously having the above photo happen to him. Again. Dude's a walking time bomb.

Man. I want 100k words of Simon trying to figure out how to live while being half unrecognizable and on borrowed time. Ugh. Give me brutal realist takes on a post-canon story. Save him and then torture him some more, I say!

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Everyone knows the first day of Friend Grace’s class is nickname day. It’s the day when every pebble is on their best behavior to try and make sure they get a cool nickname, something unique that they can brag to their friends and classmates about.

Sometimes, Grace will do it without thinking. That’s how Kiddo and Buddy got their nicknames. Often, Grace will nickname students after their coloration. Gaia got his nickname because he’s blue and green, and apparently looks a lot like Earth. Violet got hers because she’s purple. (She was initially disappointed since color means nothing to Eridians, but then Friend Grace showed them violet flowers and said that humans often associated purple with wealth and royalty, and she changed her tune.) Most of the time, Grace will give his students what he calls “regular human names” like Abby, Carl, or Martin.

But the most coveted nicknames are ones named after Earthen creatures. When ♩♪♬ 🎵 ♩♪♬ 🎵 first introduced themselves, Friend Grace immediately perked up and shouted “Robin!” After a bit of explaining himself and a few videos of bird calls, Robin was trilling and chirping happily, excited at having a nickname that felt like a 1-to-1 translation of their own.

Even well after Friend Grace is gone, his legacy remains. A hundred years into the future, when humankind finally launches a new ship with the express purpose of properly meeting their Eridian neighbors, one of the first messages exchanged is “Hello! My name Robin.”