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BloodyMary Au except I'm dropping them into the backrooms movie universe.
Ryland Grace dragged and forced into this secret dangerous project and Simon, a criminal, made to go inside and explore the backrooms. Rocky and Adrien, either humans similarly in the same situation as Grace or both entities created inside the backrooms. Simon sees a version of himself but also a very fucked up version of people just all clumped together (The Eel) and Grace, fighting, having to both watch over and hope that Simon makes it back because he's the only one who has done so for this long. Adrien and Rocky having to constantly make sure all the equipment is working or else this friend they've all made will die in there alone and painfully.
Welcome to another episode of me projecting onto Simon for some reason!
Simon can’t throw away or replace anything he owns.
Because of Eden and the general world he’s from, he’s of the mindset that ‘if it works, then there is no need to replace it’ which would be very okay! (I say because I do this) Except his version of ‘works’ is highly different of Grace’s version of ‘works’ that it causes a problem.
Mostly because Grace whilst a very intelligent man with a degree and everything- I very much doubt would go long with what he has if dropped into the world of Iron Lung in the way Simon is dropped in phm- he would stand out like a sore thumb and then without a moments hesitation, be jumped and robbed of his good material clothes and items.
But I had this more specifically in mind for a modern au where Simons phone is cracked to hell on the sides but majority of it works perfectly great, similarly the phone case he has is torn and really, Grace even wonders what it’s protecting anymore. Grace keeps telling him to get a new one, at least a new phone case to protect the clearly holding on to life support phone. Simon won’t hear of it- if the phone screen works and he can do what he needs to on it- it stays. If the phone case still holds onto the phone then the case stays.
They are both very stubborn on this and Rocky has started to make jokes on if Grace should hire an assassin to take out (throw away) the phone case.
Hold on- please hear me out on this because I think it would be funny- but a BloodyMary AU where Simon and Grace have the 'alien crash lands on Earth and falls in love with the human and they have to run/hide away from the government together' romcom type of dilemma.
An au built on the specific idea that if IronLung!Simon and PHM!Grace meet and are both from different universes then there could be a big chance that there is a version of them that exists in the other’s universe, so a version of Simon exists in the world of phm and was just one of the normal many of billions of people on Earth that played no part in the Hail Mary Project but in Grace’s case in the world of Iron Lung, it’s either he’s most likely in the larger percentage that disappeared OR in the small percentage of the few that survived and is the similar situation as everyone else- and this is where I think the funny part should come into play.
Simon would not be the alien in this au dilemma, he won't be the heavily mutated person that crash-lands on Earth to find normal human Grace- nononono, IronLung!Grace and IronLung!Rocky would be the aliens that find themselves on PHM!Simon's backyard.
Like- imagine with me now;
Grace is a part of COI and, similarly to the first submarine that was sent in the ocean with an actual team, Grace is sent with his own team on a different mission set apart from the blood ocean to look or find something and in a similar fashion his team dies with only him as the survivor except he finds life- he finds a ship- Rocky. And whilst not the same man from the other universe, it is still Grace. And this is proof that there can be life, and there is even after the Quiet Rapture but this is when Grace finds out Rocky is in a similar situation as him- worse so because Rocky is just the only Eridian left now, unaware of what happened to his home until he's told by Grace. So Grace did truly find nothing but a friend, and Rocky is a friend, in a way he hadn't thought people like him can still make.
Except now it's just Rocky and Grace, Grace's team is dead and this was just a one way mission and he knows- he knows- that if he went back with Rocky, then COI won't let his new friend live without being opened up and experimented so in a way they both sort of accept a death with someone they can call a friend rather than in a painful slow agony that can only be brought by humanity's want to survive.
But similarly- because I'm a delusional freak who finds insane concepts funny, they both somehow make it to the world of Project Hail Mary- EXCEPT, they aren't just drifting in space anymore, maybe because they were located in where Earth once was, or maybe because it's a story and a delusional God can have what they want as long as the creations entertain them, but they somehow just end up on Earth- either crash landing or in the similar way Simon just randomly appears on the Hail Mary in other aus. But it isn't just them crash-landing anywhere- it's them crash-landing into an area either home or for work, Simon (Normal Earth Simon) frequents- and he comes upon these two, and has to go through many different loops mentally to end up helping them but he figures out one is clearly a very beaten and malnourished Ryland Grace- the astronaut sent into the Project Hail Mary mission, but also there is an alien.
And now these three have to piece together what the hell is happening all whilst Simon is trying to hide both of them in his home because whilst Ryland is human- he's recognizable, no way the world didn't broadcast the photos of the three heroes that had gone to space to save them except the man in front of him is clearly malnourished, dirty and heavily traumatized.
So both versions of Simon, Rocky and Grace exist in the same world- except they are all having such different kinds of stories lightyears away from each other.
IronLung!Simon is having a literal psychological and physical horror with the slow comfort burn of a happy ending whilst PHM!Simon is having a sci-fi comedy adventure with moments of horror and emotion.
IronLung!Grace is having a dystopian sci-fi adventure where he meets an alien friend he'd die beside and then crash lands into PHM!Simon's backyard to be thrown into a pre-dystopian slow comfort hiding from the government story. When PHM!Grace is living the science fiction, adventure with a few moments of thrill in between.
ROCKY- IronLung!Rocky is legit going through the wringer- he is the last of his species- Adrien, his mate, is gone, his planet, is gone. He is legit having a psychological and emotional breakdown every few seconds, he is depressed, okay? He has to be made to eat somedays by Grace because it gets that bad.
PHM!Rocky? He's living the good life, trauma? Oh 100%, he slowly saw his crew die in front of him and had to be the only survivor in a ship for about 40 years before even meeting Grace and that in itself causes it whole bunch of trauma but he heals, at least, he heals a lot quicker then IronLung!Rocky, because PHM!Rocky returns to Erie, to Adrien, not only with the solution to the problem but with a literal alien soulmate he met and cannot wait to introduce them to.
tbh I've missed the meme "that's so sad alexa play despacito" it was a HUGE part of my vocab then i realized just how evil alexa is. so anyway, I'm proposing we bring it back but use Mary instead
"that's so sad mary play amaze amaze amaze life on erid"
The problem of being mentally ill and being part of fandoms is that I had to turn towards the car window and hold in literal tears for a good half hour because I was just on my phone looking at phm fanart and ‘See You Again’ starts playing on the radio and I instantly imagined Rocky and Grace- instant damage. I had no chance.
Has anyone done ‘The Night We Met’ by Lord Huron from Rocky’s perspective after Grace’s death??? If so I need some links- please, I’m on my knees begging
I need you all to know that when I talk about any bloodymary headcanons my consensus of default is that Simon panics and cries just as often as Grace does. No matter what. The difference is that Simon’s panic is just more in the moment all at once, hell of a lot more cuss words whilst constantly in motion and Grace’s panic on the other hand is him hiding that slow build up of emotions until it just bursts. Crying is similar too except reversed, Grace’s is in the moment reaction , even when he tries to hold it back and hide it too, whilst Simon’s is a slow build up that just comes out raw and ugly later.
Why not have both mutations since both Simon, the eel and that seed were in all very close vicinity of one another- so highly mutated Simon that when Grace and Rocky first encounter him they don’t even assume human, they just think it’s another alien! New life! More life! Oh no! Life is hurt and in pain! Must help!
The horror and confusion that Simon was once human isn’t something that’ll be first brought upon because Simon will be unconscious and his own blood and cell work is gonna be a mass of fucked up, because Grace recognizes the cellular structure except it’s not that of an animal, it’s not a plant it’s somehow some fucked up mix of both that somehow is able to keep going?!?!?! Or maybe it wasn’t! Maybe that’s why Simon’s in so much pain!
But the horror and confusion slowly begin to set in when x-rays are done and it’s so close to human skeleton and organ set up and Grace has to pause, but this can be explained, like Rocky once said they could be related in some very, VERY, distant way and maybe this alien was just in some way closer.
The confusion and horror slowly setting in when Simon does wake up and speaks or speaks something close to English?? That it can understand Grace without a moment as if it’s know English it’s entire life because Grace doesn’t yet understand Simon was human once.
The horror of something that instinct is telling you is inhuman being once human, mutated to a point where the only thing that Grace can recognize as human is the build of the physical body, I think that would fuck with him.
THEN SIMON’S PERSPECTIVE????
Something monstrous that had not just hunted him down, but played with him before devouring and another made of high worship, something worth the sacrifice of blood, he would be all that and it would be in the shape of humanity.
Would he even consider himself human when he realizes one day that he hasn’t breathed in hours and it’s only because Grace came back and Simon saw him breathing? Would he view himself as he or as it when he notices how he slowly wilts and his skin would seem to bruise and discolor and yet it would heal so quickly the moment he’s taken in water and needed minerals?? Minerals that aren’t safe for human but something close to Eridian’s food. Would it be when he closes his eyes yet he can still somehow ‘see’. Would it be when the teeth begin to grow in because the eel is a part of him now too, the same way the tree was the eel lingers and it mutates him worse. Eyes slowly going black, a second fucking jaw????? All these changes and mutations and the only ones Simon can see are his eyes and teeth but every other change is underneath his skin, it’s all inside of him. Hidden.
At what point would Simon look at himself in the mirror, see himself, see a human and not believe it? Would it be when his arm somehow, if it does, grow back? When he sees a limb sprout from someplace different than the normal human body? When sprouts begin to show in his hair and he would need to keep cutting them out? Would it be when he tries to eat and Grace freezes because he saw the second jaw come to take a bite and drag the food down Simon’s throat. Would it be when it does show above the skin? When his skin becomes thicker, scale like and yet so closely resembling bark?
I love mutated Simon but my brain wants the mutations to be horrific and confusing in a way where Science can no longer adapt too because of how inherently wrong it is. Give me body horror to a point where curious scientist Grace is horrified that Simon even exists and the horror of self Simon will have to go through as a mutated mess of something he was raised to protect and something monstrous that had killed him and all that is left is him, his consciousness.
Anyways, I was thinking about this the whole time when in art today cause I forgot my headphones, I might have to crack open a text book to see how this shit would change him
Now, I am one of the few who didn’t watch Iron Lung when it came out so it’s largely why I consumed phm like a drug because it was still there both book and movie but I’m trying to write a fic (read again: T R Y I N G) and I was dumb and wanted to write it in Simon’s perspective even though I didn’t watch the movie and the smart move would be to write it in Rocky or Grace’s but I’m stubborn-
ANYWAYS- point of the matter, I’m using the iron lung wiki a lot, use a mix of both movie and game info I can find and whilst I fucking love mutated Simon, I want a different take on it based on wether or not the wiki is correct with the ending.
SO SPOILERS I GUESS???????
If the wiki is correct when Simon is dying the blood mutates not only him but the seed in his pendant- thus transforming his body into a ‘Blood Tree’ which is a mix between a mutated human and tree seed.
Now.
I love me mutated Simon- but what if wasn’t an aquatic mutation? No gills, scales or fishy/amphibian attributes? Nothing like the eel he’s feared in his last moments but a tree? A symbol and life he’s grown up to worship or at least respect to the highest degree? What if his mutations were plant-like? Tree-like.
What if instead of gills Simon simply doesn’t need to breath- not in the way animals do, not Grace, not Rocky, even the eel had needed to breath it’s own way as any creature does but Simon? He breathes- it just isn’t in the way anything close to an animal can, his lungs don’t move, his lungs have stopped working because he did die- he died in that ocean but maybe for Grace to find him, the seed and the mutation with it kept him alive, the seed lived and thrived due to the mutation and because it is a living thing and Simon was mutated with it- so did he. He was saved by the very thing they’ve been taught to worship.
What if Grace looks into his cells and just stares at something completely new, clearly resembling animal cells and plant cells but it isn’t, it isn’t either or maybe it is and this is just mutation speeding along an evolution that would’ve never been possible unless in the circumstance Simon was in.
Because maybe Simon doesn’t need to eat anymore, maybe he needs something else, gas and specific minerals- maybe he doesn’t need to drink water in the same way as either Grace and Rocky and he seems to have some part of his skin in contact with the water for his body to soak it in.
What if he feels less pain now? Or maybe he becomes to highly aware of the pain because his body is doing what it does with two different process and trying to heal.
What if Simon gets two arms again except the arm grows back slowly- painfully, abnormally, a tougher skin, maybe, something darker then his own skin tone and yet it’s similar, it’s his and wrong.
What if the way Grace finds him isn’t because something is swimming around in an ocean or inside a submarine, what if they find something old, something thriving, not a creature but still life.
It wouldn’t be far off to want a sample, to see it closed and maybe they look at the photos and Grace has to clean his glasses because the photos show someone within that tree, sees their arms almost rooted into it and Grace’s hand trembles because what he sees is a human face in agony but his instincts still scream that something is wrong, something isn’t right here, that isn’t human.
But it is, he was.
And maybe Simon as an eel mutation has to live with the horror of being monstrous, but there were still so many things that would still be human. So what if he had gills? They were needed to breath like his nose was. So what if he has fins? We largely get our own balance from small little organs in our ears! So many overlaps that he can convince himself he’s human, even if mutated.
But as this? As a mutated combination of something so highly regarded? So highly worshiped? His inhumanity wouldn’t stop at his views they would travel to the way he can’t convince himself he’s human, he doesn’t need to breath with his lungs and nose, doesn’t need to eat with his stomach and mouth. He feels something brush his skin and it’s as if he can feel it on his fingertips exactly and anything that’s animalistic and human he doesn’t need nor does it seem to function in the same way anymore, not even to something that should make sense.
In a way, Rocky and Grace have more in common biologically than Simon with Grace, Simon is far closer to Rocky than Grace but in the end Simon was human, he was human and now he isn’t, not even in a way where he can convince himself to be.
A doodling attempt at learning Rocky from memory- funnily enough I finished this, was starting a new page and a few moments in a friend called me to see if I wanted to watch the movie with them (Their first my second watch) It was just as amazing as it was the first time and I loved watching my friends reactions to certain scenes.
So, my dear friend, if you find this (which I doubt you will, you Twitter fantic) and recognize it because I thought the coincidence funny and wanted to show you the doodle-
I am grateful for having met you at the time that I did, for having been your friend for as long as I have and for how ever long either of us can. I do not know what happens in the afterwards, when I can no longer hold your hand and the end credits roll but I do hope, that in whatever does exist, we meet again even when against the smallest of circumstances.
I hope to be your friend for as long as this life will allow us, it still won’t be enough.
You ever talk out loud to someone randomly and your not really thinking about what your saying because your doing something else but there’s a topic and conversation and suddenly you say something that you have to sit down for a moment and like process of what you’ve been saying is utter bull or something you’ve come to realize?
Example I’ll use because I have no other ways of putting it down into words.
*Me and Friend silently hanging out through call, she’s on her phone and I’m on mine on Twitter*
Me, a Stratt Fan: *Sees Stratt Hate and suddenly gets very annoyed and fussy enough where I make noise*
Friend: hmm?
Me: Nothing, sorry.
Friend: Hmm.
Me, after a few seconds of silence: …I just don’t get it.
Now scrolling on tumblr and not really thinking of what I’m saying anymore: Why do people hate Stratt? She’s so human in the way Grace is. The only difference is that she’s the human we need to be when in position as conductor of the trolley problem.
She’s a history major who was given the power to be not only above the US Government but every worldwide government and power all whilst knowing that she’s dragging her crucifix to where those same governments will nail her to for the choices she makes. She’s putting her life into this knowing she’ll be punished for every little choice she makes, of course she’s gonna seem corrupt and make choices that make it seem she’s abusing that power but it’s not only an issue of who’s gonna stop her but what difference will it make towards her punishment in the end? Maybe she can abuse it to take people here and there faster, use it to kidnap people, use it to overstep laws but her punishment stays the same in the end, the difference these choices make is the time used to figure out how to get Project Hail Mary into a reality. She has a goal and she is there to reach the goal swiftly because time isn’t something they have.
However, she has all that power and yet she is human in the way where she asks Grace for his opinion on whether they should put the three travelers into coma or not. She may have had her mind made up when asked but she, a human being, needed to speak to someone and share even a piece of that burden because she’s the one being handled humanity’s survival, she’s being made a sacrifice of blame wether or not humanity lives afterwards.
The difference between Stratt and Grace is that Stratt is aware of what she is carrying on her back and how those same powers will have her nailed to it. Stratt was not placed there as a last resort, she was not placed there because the governments believed in her, she was placed in her position due to deliberate choice. A sacrifice in the way she was chosen because she could be punished for the crimes she needed to take to make sure they all survived.
She made those same sacrifices in Grace but the issue there was that Grace was a last resort, he was only made to be in that ship because the explosion killed their only two trained scientists, not only that, but they didn’t have the time left to train another, to find another with the coma gene. And Grace was all of that and more, he was not only the needed speciality of scientist they needed for this mission, he was someone who worked closely with astrophage before- he was the one to name it, he also had the coma gene they needed, but also has a good understanding of the engineering that made the ship.
He was perfect and Stratt saw him and turned to look at humanity and knew she didn’t have a choice anymore.
Or she did, but her choice is a chance of time or a chance of unwilling sacrifice.
A chance that should they take more time to find and teach someone who was willing to die in space for the cause, who had the understanding to be sent up there and be trusted to solve the issue because that’s the crux of the matter- all three were needed for this mission but the engineer and pilot’s biggest adjective, even if unsaid, was to take the scientist to Tau Ceti to figure out what was happening. How long will that take? Did they have that time? Antarctica was something that bought them time but how long will that last? Was there enough time? The coma itself was a huge risk, can they risk this more by giving away more time?
Or, do they take their chance to not waste anymore time, to stick with the departure they scheduled and send with it the scientist who found out how to breed astrophage, who has a degree in the science they needed to be sent up there to figure something out. Someone who also has a good understanding of not just the science but of the engineering that was made into the Hail Mary. Someone who’s all this and has the coma gene.
The only thing that goes against that choice, is that it will be unwilling. It will be a sacrifice.
But she isn’t the one on the tracks, she was placed here because someone needed to be the conductor, the one punished for either running over millions or one. She had a choice but in the end, one unwilling life vs. over a billion lives- that isn’t a choice anymore. That’s a conclusion, she just has to be the one that lives with it.
And I think those who hate Stratt are those who can’t put themselves in her position, can’t imagine being in that position of choice. Can only imagine themselves as one of the billion who survived because of that choice because then they had no part to play in the making of that choice. Blameless. And really, who likes being blamed for something they actually did? Being caught for a choice they made?
Or they imagine themselves as the one being sacrificed, they imagine themselves as Grace because he was afraid and unwilling and who hasn’t?
Who hasn’t been afraid and unwilling?
It was cruel for her to point out that Grace had no one? Not even a dog? Yes. Oh absolutely, it is cruel to use that as more reason but in her position it isn’t not a reason.
One life with no long-lasting connections vs one billion interconnected lives.
Don’t look at that choice and imagine yourself as that one life, don’t look at that choice and imagine yourself as one of the billion, don’t imagine yourself as one of the billion who had no part to play in making this choice, don’t imagine yourself as the one life, as Grace- imagine yourself as Stratt. Be the conductor who has to take the chance of choice that is either killing one unwilling life or a billion unwilling lives.
You can’t hate Stratt for choosing the one unwilling sacrifice and not hate Grace for also choosing his own life. They are both human.
Because you can’t say Stratt isn’t human. She’s as human as Grace is, the difference is that she’s in the position of conductor and in the way Grace loves life, she loves humanity.
I think Grace and Simon should be feral in their own right when they meet, Simon in the way one does when attempting to survive and Grace in the way that he hasn’t made a single contact physically nor verbally with another human being in years (dare I say that he may even lie sometimes to the Eridians taking care of his dome about certain things because now he doesn’t need to worry about the societal norm because who’s gonna know? Just him, and he didn’t really like that norm anyway-)
AND SPECIFICALLY THE ROCKY AND SIMON DON’T GET ALONG- IT WAS SORTA FUNNY AT FIRST BUT I CHECK UP ON THEM AND I FIND OUT THEY WERE FIGHTING- THEY ARE WONDERING IF THEY’RE STILL FRIENDS AND WHEN I TRIED TO HAVE THEM MAKE UP BECAUSE I THINK SIMON STARTED IT AND HE WAS APOLOGIZING, ROCKY HURT SIMON’S FEELINGS AND NOW SIMON IS JUST DEPRESSED BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T MAKE UP. AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO
LIKE ANOTHER ONE OF MII’S ARE MARRIED NOW AND I CANT EVEN ENJOY IT BECAUSE SIMON AND ROCKY ARE ONE WRING MOVE AWAY FROM JUST HATING EACH OTHER AND I CANT HAVE THAT BECAUSE SIMON AND ADRIAN ARE LEGIT BEST FRIENDS AND RYLAND AND ROCKY ARE BEST FRIENDS AND IM FREAKING OUT BECAUSE I DONT KNOW IF THAT WILL PLAY PART INTO THE OTHER RELATIONSHIPS THEY OVERLAP IN??????????
AND SPECIFICALLY THE ROCKY AND SIMON DON’T GET ALONG- IT WAS SORTA FUNNY AT FIRST BUT I CHECK UP ON THEM AND I FIND OUT THEY WERE FIGHTING- THEY ARE WONDERING IF THEY’RE STILL FRIENDS AND WHEN I TRIED TO HAVE THEM MAKE UP BECAUSE I THINK SIMON STARTED IT AND HE WAS APOLOGIZING, ROCKY HURT SIMON’S FEELINGS AND NOW SIMON IS JUST DEPRESSED BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T MAKE UP. AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO
LIKE ANOTHER ONE OF MII’S ARE MARRIED NOW AND I CANT EVEN ENJOY IT BECAUSE SIMON AND ROCKY ARE ONE WRING MOVE AWAY FROM JUST HATING EACH OTHER AND I CANT HAVE THAT BECAUSE SIMON AND ADRIAN ARE LEGIT BEST FRIENDS AND RYLAND AND ROCKY ARE BEST FRIENDS AND IM FREAKING OUT BECAUSE I DONT KNOW IF THAT WILL PLAY PART INTO THE OTHER RELATIONSHIPS THEY OVERLAP IN??????????
I had been playing with the idea of Adrian and Rocky watching a lot of rom-coms and romantic movies in general (they have dates in the Hail Mary, those are their movie night) , thinking that this is how human courtship rituals work decide to give a handy hand to their humans and become matchmakers.
I keep thinking in Rocky telling Grace to take off his glasses in front of Simon, because he saw in many movies that people with glases are perceived as exponentially more handsome if they take off their glasses. When Grace refuses to do such a thing, Rocky procedes to hide the glasses, leaving a very blind Grace on his own, this leads to him tripping on his own feet and Simon having to catch him in his arm, making Rocky feel as if his mission was a complete success.
Other ideas:
Adrian trying to brush Simon hair so he is more preceptable.
Rocky choosing a beutiful (or at least what he thinks) outfit for Grace, extra points if is a dress because I love Grace in a dress.
Rocky demanding for pasta and meatballs to the eridian scientists, because it is crucial for human courtship.
Adrian and Rocky trying to make a a candlelit dinner, but using to many candles, or forgetting the candles completly. Like making Simon and Grace not able to see each other by the blast of the fire or because they are in complete darkness.
Adrian, who is the most artistic between them, trying to replicate music and soundtrack of romantic movies so Grace and Simon can read the mood.
Also Adrian (who i'm convince works on the maintenance of the dome) making it rain all the time because they really love when people kisses under the rain in movies.
Adrian trying to teach Simon ballroom dancing , so he can invite Grace later (Grace doesn't know how to ballroom dance, but those are jus details for later).
Rocky telling Grace that maybe he should try to be a "bad/rough guy" and dressing him with a leather jacket.
Rocky trying (the key word is trying) to write a love letter to Simon pretending to be Grace to confess their feelings.
Rocky who just watche Pride and Prejuice, and didn't understood at all how the courtship worked in that movie, and tells Grace to tell Simon that he founds him disgusting.
Rocky would help mostly Grace, because he knows that Grace has feelings for Simon, and Adrian would help mostly Simon because they know that Simon has feelings for Grace.
Extra:
I don't know if it would be funnier if Grace and Simon doesn't know about all this, or are desesperate enough to acknowledge that they need the help.
I also think that if only one of them knows could also be funny.
If Grace knows is because he also watched those movies and he can see the patterns, and Simon would be ignorant of all because that man hasn't see a movie in his life (At least not until he got to Rocky and Grace).
If Grace doesn't know is because he been aroace and that mixed to his usual social awkwardness make him inmmune to romantic clues (he is a charmer, but he doesn't know he is one or how it works).
If Simon knows is because he himself wants to courtship Grace, but has no idea of how to do it, or do it in a no Eden (cultish) way , so Adrian and Rocky (self-proclaimed experts) are willing to help.
P.S: This whole idea originaly came of me thinking in that scene of Litte Mermaid, in which Sebastian is singing to Eric to kiss Ariel, but in my mind Simon was Ariel, Grace was Eric, and Rocky was Sebastian (I suppose that through elimination process Adrian is Flounder.)
This, but Adrian and Rocky like different kinds of Romances and so Adrian is using ideas more specifically made for the young adult romances where the girl comes back home and sees a childhood friend/ex that’s doing some work nearby vs Rocky loving the comedic enemies to lover romcom and absolutely causing the same mayhem that happens in those ones.
Even funnier is that even with the fails that happen with some of the other attempts, the lack of candles or too many candles. The fact that they are both trying to reenact two different kinds of romance often leads to their attempts cancelling each other out. Rocky tries getting Grace to be the bad boy kind of look and so often has him over-layered as shit and Adrian is over here trying to get Simon to do work around the dome shirtless because that’s what always happens in the romcoms they enjoying watching.
I love seeing posts about Simon and Grace whilst both being human they are speaking very different languages due to both the time they’re from and situations they come from.
I love it more when English is like, the Latin of Iron Lung. That shit makes me giggle so much. It also is kind of fun to play around with because one has to ask themselves how that may play into the world of Iron Lung, Eden and later when Simon and Grace meet. Like, from what I’ve understood, Eden isn’t just one of the few space ships left, they are specifically one of the few Martian colony space ships left, their population is largely of those from Mars colony and they are very proud to having been from Mars. Whilst those of COI are largely from off-world space stations and there might be an overlap but I think it might be enough to differentiate maybe a language barrier even in that world.
So, because of this thought, I like to think that Simon can speak his own language, Eden’s, fluently but he can somewhat understand COI’s more used one (Since COI is made up of various space stations I like to think there are multiple languages in theirs, but they’ll have one language that’s the most used like English is today) but whilst he can’t fluently speak or write it he can read and understand when verbalized mostly because he’s a soldier who must read/hear a lot of COI soldiers in battle or signs from largely COI maintained ships (Filament Station or any ships they’re able to scrap off of COI) and he picks up on patterns very quickly, he gets a small gist of vocabulary (definitely not enough to have a nice chat with, but enough to for directions or, maybe even, ask for mercy in his death and isn’t that a thought? Wonder how he learned those words 👀)
So like, Grace out of his own curiosity when Simon’s opened up and they go through the alternate universe or whole other part of the universe conundrum finally brings up how Simon’s English is a little shaky or worded strangely and if it’s because Simon’s own language isn’t English or because those left in space in his world don’t speak English.
Simon then has to explain to him that English is in a way, a dead language, but it’s used so often for smaller things in the way Latin is used in the English language now that Simon is able to make out some words and completely guess the rest- cue Grace now understanding their mass miscommunications near the beginning of everything. Grace makes the connection of English being the Latin of Simon’s world and asks if it’s like Latin and Simon has to sit there a moment because he doesn’t know wtf Latin is- and promptly tells Grace that. This leads to Grace asking Simon to speak how he normally would and as Simon does Grace is met with the most confusing ass language in the world because I stand by the fact that if English were to play the part of Latin in a space world- we’d all be screwed. Because what the fuck do you mean ‘knight’ and ‘night’ are said the EXACT same way??????? Look me in the fucking eyes and confess when you genuinely learned the difference for there, they’re and their and your and you’re- cause I will, I was fucking 15 when I finally figured that shit out. I hate the English language, okay?
It does not help that Grace can actually make out some words in all the things Simon is saying but it’s just sandwiched in between other words and syllables Grace can’t even come to understand together.
He would be so fucking fascinated by it in the way he was Rocky’s.
But this also leads to very hilarious moments because as a bilingual speaker, sometime you just forget words! And sometimes you just don’t have a word for the word that’s in another language! Other times you know one word in one language but not in the other! So you have to have explain the object with your hands by motioning what it may look like or does, explain verbally what it does, looks like, even sounds like or all of the above to really sell the point across.
Non-Personal Examples I thought of;
Simon’s way of translating is what leads to a lot of worrying looks from Grace and Rocky. Specifically the headcanon where the sayings Simon uses rather then ‘thank you’ being something like ‘may you rot’ because of the whole tree business? That. Except in Eden’s language (Edenish? Edenese? Saplish? Martish? Martianese? I don’t know-) it’s a few words but it’s a few words that carry a larger meaning to them, words that he doesn’t know how the fuck to translate in a dead language so he tries his best and his best is ‘May you rot’
Personal examples I want Simon to be put through because they happened to me;
Rubberband? Hairband? Whatever it’s called- Did not know the English word for that bitch, that to me was a lega, okay? A Lega.
The bilingual curse of needing to explain shit ‘the button ringer that announces when your outside’ the fucking doorbell- I forgot the word doorbell
Also to add to that one, having to explain it without knowing or having the vocabulary to properly explain it, I had to explain to my parents when they wanted to renew some security stuff and when some dude from the company came over to sell more things I didn’t know the fucking word for equipment- machines, yes, but not equipment and I didn’t know how to explain the word I was trying to use was ‘equipments’ so everytime I needed to say equipment (which was a lot) I would just gesture to the catalogue of stuff they were selling and saying ‘todo esto’ or ‘estas cosas’
HOWEVER, Specifically, I want Simon to go through something my ass went through. I want Simon asking for the most generic thing in the world but the word he’s using isn’t even one that’s correct in either English or Eden’s vocabulary, it’s just a word he and his brothers often used enough that it stuck.
Like context, I’ve noticed, and I don’t know if this was a Spanish speaking thing or my weird ass family thing but we made up words for certain things, like we gave them nicknames and the nickname for the object was often times the sound it made, always the sound.
I want to give him the one I grew up with because I think it’d be funny as shit and it fits perfectly to a situation I can see occurring.
Our word for spray bottle in my family wasn’t ‘botella de spray’ it was ‘peesh peesh’ because that was the sound it made and I didn’t know the proper word for spray bottle in Spanish (technically I thought that was the word for it in Spanish) or English to close to 19 years of my life and I only learned because when I was trying to ask my friend for the spray bottle and realized for the first time in 19 years that I did not know the English word for spray bottle, I asked my friend, who too, spoke Spanish, for the fucking peesh peesh and she looked at me like I was insane and I need that.
I need Simon to ask Grace for the spray bottle because it’s nicer for the plants that was in the ship and I need that fucker to look him straight in the eyes and ask for the ‘peesh peesh’ and Grace stare in genuine confusion before Simon has to like gesture with his hands whilst making the same noise. Like making a gesture as if using the spray bottle and saying the ‘peesh peesh’ and Grace genuinely thinking that Simon means a gun at first before Simon has to explain that he needs the thing that he always uses when he waters the plants and Grace thus realizing that he meant the spray bottle.
Anyways, I don’t know if you can tell but I enjoy projecting a lot of random stuff onto Simon, he’s my playdoh and I enjoy my time making his little mold. I also really like the idea of them technically speaking different languages and the fun that shit can do.
I’m one of the people who got Tomadashi (I’m a very weak-willed person, okay) and like many individuals I have many- MANY characters in here, this includes Grace, Simon, Rocky and Adrian. I went all out for them, gave them their own little corner of the island where I gave them their own private beach and essentially their own little ‘Erid’.
I’ve been debating whether or not posting this cause like, I doubt many would care much but genuinely I just want to share it.
These four are making me S I C K, okay? Like- like- they are sweethearts- neither are married (MiziSua are my only married pairing right now) but they are both the longest pairing of sweethearts in my island with Simon and Grace hitting like day 30 now???
Anyways- Grace tried proposing once, failed (THAT SHIT WAS SO DIFFICULT I AM NOT A GAMER AND I WAS ASTONISHED) and they stuck to being sweethearts and go on dates and go on double dates with Rocky and Adrian a lot but I am sick of how sweet the random stuff they do are.
Rocky and Adrian will sing love songs to each other and listen to each other talk about the random lingo conversations I have made up. They love cooking together, I find them often at homez or hanging out with Grace and Simon. Rocky always asks to show appreciation to Adrian and I always type out anything lovely I could think of because I think Rocky would and watching it is just really really sweet.
Grace and Simon will also sing to each other but I’ve noticed they’ll also hang out together by the fires a lot to just talk and often near the night fall and it’s always on their little private island. Simon is often the one to ask how to show their appreciation and I always click the ‘Just…Thank You.’ Because I cry a little bit in all honestly when I watch it. Grace similarly has asked and I click the same one.
Once near the beginning Grace asked how to show appreciation to Rocky and I similarly also clicked ‘Just…Thank You.’ And I have not healed from that.
I need you to know how much these four have me just sobbing.
Anyways- other little things about my island that have make me smile a little bit.
Simon and Grace want to marry each other and Rocky and Adrian also do but none of them have brought it up to me to help them and I’m just checking everyday to see for the small chance that MAYBE just MAYBE they’ll actually try proposing.
‘Erid’ has a lot of pine and palm trees, blue flowers and grass, rocks here and there. Out of the whole island it has the most plant life and I’m a little proud of it.
I did a thing where I now made Simon scream and I quote, ‘FUCK YOU. I LIVED.’ To the ocean.
Simon is the only one on the island who curses- I’m debating on giving Rocky some, I just don’t know what curse words he’d use.
I have to constantly make sure Simon and Rocky get along- I’m not joking, I wish I was. I check up on their relationship and it’s either They aren’t getting mutually along or one side isn’t getting along with them and the other is barely tolerating the other. I have to constantly make sure their relationship is friends at most and getting along at the least.
Hilariously too, Simon and Adrian get along rather well! I don’t gotta check up on them often and when I do the lowest their relationship had gone was friends but their usually best or ultra friends.
Simon is best friends with Avery and Derek from ‘Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist’, more specifically Avery, this is when I first started playing it and I didn’t understand a few things.
Grace loves hanging out with Adrian and Rocky, always hanging out in that trio whilst Simon is off on his own or hanging with Avery. He tends to join a few times.
Double dates. I love when they have double dates doing whatever it is they’re doing.
I like giving the music albums to not just Adrian and Rocky but Simon too, he listens to them often at the public beach or in his own room.
I can’t recall what else they’ve done or do but it’s largely these things.
