today's fic writing so far has consisted of me writing an outline for again writing a time travel au for my eridain shifter au and again splitting that spinoff into two potential directions: one in which grace suffers through elementary school with decades of knowledge and memories and once they hit middle school then finally goes "im over it" and then graduates high school early so they can power through college and then start prepping for Rocky's arrival
and then there's the crackfic version.
in which grace, at 5 years old, sits through approximately a single day of kindergarten, decides they can't handle sitting through the american public school system again, and stops hiding how smart they are, causing the school district to lose their minds when they make an exemption to the typical American public school system's GED rules and allow this 5 year old to attempt their GED and then has to figure out what the fuck to do when this kid passes with a nearly-perfect score (listen, social studies was not something grace remembered much of let alone cared about. plus they remembered a lot of history that hasn't even happened yet). then they sit and gawk as this kid proceeds to begin taking college courses, all while their parents tear their hair out trying to figure out what to do with their genius child who has a high school degree at 5, then manages to get through as many non-practical college courses as needed for a master's program by 8, and then said child comes up to them and asks to be driven to the nearest college campus to complete all of their practical labs so they can complete their undergrad and then grad degrees. people gawking as this 8yo awkwardly but expertly maneuvers their way around labs in their modified PPE, finishing their practicals and labs by 9. then proceeding to dive headfirst into getting two PHDs (micro and molecular biology) and then GETTING THEM by 12. and then everyone is astounded by the stacks of papers being dumped into the inboxes of every relevant scientific journal any time there's something new discovered or invented. somehow the 13yo dr. ryland grace, double PHD, is coming up with theories and innovations and experiments for brand new technology and discoveries. somehow the 15yo dr. ryland grace synthesizes a brand new material that they call "xenonite", even though they have no experience with materials science and focused on biology rather than chemistry. the world is baffled as this kid continually makes groundbreaking discoveries, alongside their insistence that the goldilocks zone is bullshit and that water is not required for life, just some form of liquid, and while at first, everyone assumes this is just a child's wild claims, they also slowly realize that those are the still the claims of a child genius who broke records in education, has dozens (coming up on hundreds) of published papers in multiple respected journals, and someone who has been correct about a lot of things that they have no business knowing about or having the time to study, so maybe they're right. maybe.
and then, when dr. ryland grace is in their late 20s, they suddenly publish two new papers, the day after irina petrova emails out her findings about the IR light and dimming of the sun. dr. ryland grace ignores the world as it explodes when their papers go public, and pull some strings to ask a bunch of scientists to look at a specific point in the sky for the petrova frequency. when they see a point of light, they merely smile, before publishing another paper, this one a bit rougher (after all, they're not an engineer), about the possibilities of using astrophage as a clean energy source. the world explodes again all while grace minds their own business and practices their eridian.
and then the deep space network picks up a radio signal from that point of light, with dr. grace already on nasa's doorstep, carrying a 3 ring binder and a late-90s hard drive. they shove them into the nasa director's hands, sidesteps security, and plops down in front of a computer, already sending a message back to the origin of the radio signal.
the world then explodes a fourth time as on the hard drive, a baby dr. grace waves, and begins listing off everything from historical events to scientific discoveries to astronomical observations that at the time of that recording, had not happened yet, and then baby dr. grace says, "the eridians will be bringing the natural predator of astrophage to us in like twenty years. maybe a bit more. depends on how well they do with learning about special relativity and all that."
the world is in an uproar, pure chaos, until the eridians' ship gets close enough to get an image of it, and dr. ryland grace, the impossible child genius, laughs as everyone whirls on them, astounded, because at this point there's no denying that somehow they've time traveled
the eridians make contact. manage to land safely. grace is first to make contact, of course. they and rocky cling to each other, rocky clad in a sleek xenonite suit.
and then the world loses their entire mind a fifth time, because live on camera, the feed being streamed to literally every single platform and network and everything out there, dr. ryland fucking grace turns into an eridian.
i did not format this post nicely my bad yall
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