#carland

[ascoev-s]

goofies

[skelerangart]

"I'm Slowly Forgetting Your Face"

Flowers:

Roses - Love

Forget Me Nots - Memory

Purple Hyacinth - Asking for Forgiveness

[quartermastr]

I have a headcanon that the Skittles and Twizzlers on board The Hail Mary were put there per Carl's request.

Just the mental image of Carl watching Grace get transported after being sedated. A man, who prior to that moment, his most vivid memory consists of them finding world changing discoveries with plywood, duck tape, and copious amounts of sour skittles. A man who he associates with the exhilarating feeling of wonder and life. A teacher teaching, a scientist finding, a man living.

But suddenly, that's not his most vivid memory. Suddenly, what first comes to mind when he thinks of Dr. Ryland Grace is the image of him running away, of chasing him through the compound, of the look on his face when they do inevitably catch up to him. He can't hear the excited laughter of the previous memories without them eliciting the desperate pleas for life.

I wonder if he ever gets to see the videos. How would he feel if he knew that his name was the first one that Grace remembers. Foggy like the thing he misses most about earth.

Genuinely, can't stop thinking about how his name is Carl, like the fog that covers San Francisco is named Karl, and Grace misses the fog. I'm gonna be ill.

[starrose17]

Grace: "Hey Carl, have you ever...you know...tortured anyone?"

Carl: "What exactly do you think government agents do?"

Grace: "Well you seem to hang around me all day."

Carl: "Have I ever tortured you?"

Grace: "Not unless you start denying me Skittles."

Carl: "Then no, I haven't tortured anyone."

Grace: "....why do you hang around with me all day?"

Carl: "I'm tasked with protecting the highest asset of the project."

Grace: "Sooooo why are you hanging around with me all day?"

Carl: ".......seriously?"

[tube-time]

They know each other's coffee orders by heart I can feel it

[flippingthevan]

Imagine Ryland and Carl are out walking around San Francisco when they happen to run into a group of Ryland's students. They stop for a moment to chat, and then one of the kids looks at Carl and asks, completely out of nowhere and with no filter: "Are you Mr. Grace's husband?" Ryland nearly chokes on his own spit. Carl doesn't miss a beat and just says: "Working on it."

The students think this is hilarious and immediately decide that their science teacher has the coolest boyfriend ever. Ryland spends the rest of the day pondering whether that was basically a proposal.

[herewithstupid]

Carl looks so fucking sad in the room where Grace is being told he’s expected to be the new science specialist. Like. That man’s heart is BREAKING. Whether you see it as platonically or romantically, Grace was IMPORTANT to Carl and it makes me tear up to think about.

[enthyrea]

it’s just a burning memory