#imogen malory

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you cannot count on one person's hands the amount of times that ryland, in his life, has gone outside in the rain regardless of the kind of clothing he was wearing or his health and gotten sick/more sick, just because. he doesn't really care. he finds the delusions brought on by no sleep and cough syrup have given him some good hypotheses in the past.

(he also likes to be taken care of when sick and malory likes to take care of him so really, it's a win for everyone. she does scold him for it though. getting sick is expensive.)

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mind too consumed with girlfriend to daydream buttt i saw a picture on pinterest that looked like ryland and imogen and it made me think about an au where ryland dies in the explosion and imogen gets forced to go on the mission.

"malory have mate, question?"

"uh... yeah. i think- yeah. well... i remember having one. he was... clever, really smart, but dense. really good scientist, really good husband, i think. really good dad. but i don't... some parts are foggy still. i dunno what happened."

"...malory find out what happened when go home to mate."

"er, yeah. i hope so. hopefully before then."

and did she ever.

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one time, ryland and imogen ask rocky to make them a giant xenonite ball like those plastic things on earth that they can roll around in (grace calls it a hamster ball. malory dislikes this). its all fun and games rolling back and forth on the beach until they roll in the ocean and quickly discover that, unlike the ones on earth, this will not float. hood thing rocky stayed to supervise.

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ryland sort of comes to terms with the mission after remembering what stratt did, but when he tells malory, she is PISSED. she barely wants to finish the mission. she stops making recordings for earth with grace, she slows down her work, she's snappy and short-fused—she's kind of scary. no matter how many times ryland tries to tell her that he doesn't care(regardless of the level of truth to those words), she won't listen. she can't find it in herself to be logical or objective imagining the fear he must have felt and the stress he must have been under, especially right after the explosion. most of all, she feels guilty for not being able to stop it, even though she had no chance and her words couldn't have convinced stratt otherwise.

eventually, she calms down. logic wins over, and after some convincing by rocky and ryland, imogen agrees to continue. but even then, once they send it all back and start heading home, then turn back to erid, she can't help but second guess herself. it planted a seed of doubt in her, and against her best judgement, made her a little paranoid.

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malory reveals her lack of swimming skills when they get to erid and grace decides to drop into the ocean and imogen just kind of. stands there. looking stupid. and he tries to coax her in, but when she can't feel the floor she flails about and kicks him in the stomach accidentally and he feels unwell for the rest of the day.

"...how does one become an astronaut without knowing how to swim?"

"there aren't that many bodies of water in space."

"but, but- zero gravity!"

"it's not the same thing!"

"IT KIND OF IS!"

rocky is on imogen's side because he, too, cannot swim and thinks its a stupid activity.

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what if ryland has the me burger and imogen has the you burger okay bye.

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malory takes grace to meet her family and it takes a record-breaking 3 minutes for him to get overstimulated and tweak tf out.

THIS guy, who teaches middle schoolers science and probably lives next door to an angry old couple who have arguments every night. little did he know the ferocity and the level of noise made by a gaggle of malories is enough to deafen a small child.

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pride month daydreamer pt 2!!

tboy!ryland grace and his polyamorous bisexual girlfriend

one day malory is talking about a past relationship, and grace, who was only half listening, started getting confused when it sounded like her partner was arguing with themself, so he asks her to clarify, and she reminds him it was a polycule and asks him if he's stupid. ryland grace did not even realise that you could date more than one person at a time (though he wishes he knew sooner) and elects to say yes. he is stupid.