Agent Rouka's Blog

it's fine keep 'em coming and i DO i love you complex female characters i love you morally grey women i love my cancelled wife

The video diaries aren’t just Grace talking to Earth. They’re Grace talking to Stratt. Doing what he always did for her, explaining the science, breaking it down. It’s not clear how much of the rest of his life he remembers over the course of the movie (and beyond) but he absolutely remembers her, she is what he has left of Earth to hold on to up there.

It’s undeniable that she’s the one he’s addressing in the final entry, when he says goodbye. But I didn’t realize it was all of them. She is the “Grace friend” Rocky asks about. It puts her there on the ship with him, as long as he can communicate to her they’re still connected, he still has a sense of her presence with him. And how much more of a gut punch that makes his memory of the sedation, as he grew to trust her all over again through his flashbacks, as he felt closer and closer to someone who was light-years away. Only to remember that she betrayed him, that he failed her, that the friendship he was still relying on as he pieced himself back together was already gone, and even if he went back it could never be the same.

Under the rule of a family that abused royal privileges, and arbitrarily harmed commoner women without remorse, it's understandable that the commoners miss Daemon. This also reflects Daemon's good reputation among the common people.

...and before he can stop himself his brain is like OH CENTRIFUGE BUTTER STORY TIME and halfway through he's like "shit...."

you can actually see stratt being a bit interested too (she's a history girl ofc she is interesed)

oh stratt the character i mourn like a real person