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once a teacher always a teacher
I always think there's a period during the 5 year journey to Erid where Rocky had to learn how to touch Grace and I mean that in the most general, safety first, way possible. Even through the mesh, a wrong pinch of the claws could Shatter Grace's bones since Rocky comes from a double gravity and has no nerves on his carapace to gauge pressure with.
I imagine him practicing his gentle touch on a doll or a puppet he had made from frail materials because he needs a lot of finesse and motor control if he wants to come in contact with his favorite space oddity without tearing his skin off like the foil off a sandwitch.
Grace constantly covered in deep angry bruises because Rocky bumped into him too hard or reached to hold his hand too excitedly. Grace never telling Rocky because he was trying so hard to be controlled already.
Rocky deciding to keep himself as still as possible when Grace hugs him because a single wrong move could end up with Grace's delicate limbs under +300 kgs of solid mineral.
Physical touch being hard earned and the result of a surgeon's precision.
Rocky and Grace had a lot of arguments at some point because Eridian scientists asked to dissect Grace once he dies to see if any parts of his body could advance medicine or teach them about biology and Grace is all for it but Rocky’s like “NO??? NO ONE ALLOWED DEFACE GRACE BODY AFTER DIE??? WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME???”
bickering once again. armando has a lot to deal with ,,,,
alienfuckers on Erid after learning that the only alien on their planet is asexual
ok i'm actually going a little insane over the parallel between when Grace and Stratt are on the deck, and Grace says "it must be hard, asking everyone to ... y'know", and Stratt answers "actually it isn't"
cut to when he's saying no to going on the ship, and she says "don't make this harder, please"
because this is the bit that is hard. asking her friend to go, knowing he's going to say no, but knowing your last memories are going to have to be forcing him onto the ship anyway.
Grace sends this off as a "fuck you" to Stratt and unintentionally eases 40+ years of horrific guilt.
(40+ factoring in the Hail Mary mission, then the time it would take to get back to Erid and the time it would take for the message to get to Earth. Probably closer to 50+ actually).
(I do think Stratt felt bad. She did a lot of terrible things to save the planet, and obviously felt guilt for sending Grace off. I imagine the time waiting to hear back from the Hail Mary was torture for everyone, but she essentially sent three people off to their deaths, one unwillingly. Hearing that Grace made it out alive would be a huge weight off her shoulders.)
I think people forget that Stratt amnesticized Grace with the goal that Ilyukina and Yao would be there to help him, y’know NOT DIE, and then THEY DIED before he woke up.
So like she gets the recordings and realizes Yao and Ilyukina are dead before he wakes up so he’s got no pilot, no engineer, and no memories.
And then you also have to remember that the EXISTENCE of these recordings and the fact they were accompanied by the Taumoeba means that an amnesticized Grace somehow managed to save earth without a pilot or engineer and shoddy memory that only vaguely gives him enough to work with as he works.
Like what the fuck man.
Because poor Dr. Grace was never meant to be up there with a dead crew and no memories :,)
Based on this post by @the-immortal-restless
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Obsessed with the fact that one of the first things that happens (in the book) after Grace figures out how to communicate with Rocky is that he promises a time to meet back up and then oversleeps and misses that time by two hours. He’s just like me fr
can't get over the mental image of grace seeing the eridian space elevator for the first time, and hysterically thinking that yao was wrong
there might not be elevators on the hail mary, but there certainly are elevators in space
One thing that's so underrated about PHM is Eva Stratt's appearance. She doesn't have the lipstick, sleek bun, pencil skirt (or even pantsuit), and heels look that is so often the uniform of female characters in similar roles. She doesn't wear makeup (as much as any other actor). She wears her hair down or in the simplest ten-second buns. She wears softs, easy to move in clothes that are weather appropriate. Why would she spend extra time making her physical body less efficient?
TFW your very best friend is also a Very Large Rock (so you need to be saved by an Even Larger Rock)
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rocky probably knows that the most common meaning for grace's name is elegance, because that man is not graceful at all. he finds it endlessly funny that his silly creature that somehow trips on air was given grace of all names.
so when rocky finds out the word "grace" also means mercy, unmerited favour, and not to mention saving grace — a redeeming factor. grace was rockys redemption, he was the one who saved rocky, he gave rocky the solution to the dying sun, he turned back for him.
grace was rockys message of mercy sent by the universe itself.
and for the next 8 (human)hours, grace finds himself absolutely smothered by rocky, who's suddenly overcome by the human urge to cuddle.
first run of the xenonite suit (grace naively thought he was going to be able to play it cool)
im rereading project hail mary already dont judge