i love the "grace somehow lives as long as an eridian" interpretations of the movie ending cuz i honestly think something like that could happen in cannon and it wouldn't feel out of place.
like they all are solomely accepting the fact that grace is going to die in like a scary amount of eridian years, and then as he gets to like 90 everyone is bracing for it, but he just...keeps aging. he keeps his mobility- if anything his back is getting worse cuz of the slightly increased gravity, and his health seems to be steady. on the day of graces 122nd birthday (the oldest a human has ever lived) the eridian scientists that study grace are like. hey. what the fuck. and grace is like ┐(´~`ˇ)┌
1. Grace breeds Taumoeba, speedrunning its evolution.
2. Grace eats Taumoeba but who said it will stop evolving just because Grace thought it should?
3. Taumoeba evolves in Grace’s body, binding itself to his DNA as so many things have done before during our own evolution.
4. Grace becomes capable of consuming Astrophage (the most energy efficient organism in the known universe).
5. Grace’s organism becomes more energy efficient as well and therefore its internal structure ages a lot slower.
6. Magic happened, now Grace can live just as long as his best mate Rocky.





















