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^ simon is making it up to rocky, helping him fix rocky's bed. this takes MUCH less time to do than when grace initially helped build it, despite 1 less limb in the equation

^ simon and grace are divvying up the clothes they have, seeing who gets what and which clothes they're gonna share. simon basically says "whatever" to "owning" any of the clothes options, despite grace's best effort to get simon to claim some clothes for his own

^ grace and rocky have a show they've been watching episodically day by day (just as an activity for them to look forward to and not go stir crazy), and damn them if some blood covered mutant human is gonna break their streak. you can headcannon for yourself what show it is

Theories: 1. They're an independent group of scientists that are paid to do illegal experiments by 3rd parties. Explains why they're lying about their experiments (you can't just "save stars") and maybe Rocky (Robot made by Grace? ACTUAL alien?) Will likely do psychological experiments on me, may have already started. Keep on your toes.

2. We're on the other side of the QR. Don't wanna think about this one too much, it'll hurt if it turns out to be wrong.

What I've told them: 1. "I don't know how I got here." Seems good to start with a straight truth

2. "I'm not religious anymore." They seem more familiar with Pre-Eden Christianity, anyway, which is weird (time travel?)

3. "I'm from somewhere without stars or planets." Didn't know I had to hide that one until it was too late. They know about the QR & that some stations survived. I'm keeping the moons a secret.

4. "The COI & Eden are organizations that hate me." Not much more. I'd rather die before I talk about the Eel.

I've already told them more than I want to. It'll be harder to get them to slip up.

This journal belongs to Simon

They gave it to me so I can have a "private space" to keep my thoughts. "They" being Grace & Rocky. Or "Dr. Captain Ryland Grace" & "Rocky, Partner of Adrien, born of the mountains" something something

Cool. Whatever. and I'm the Butcher of Eden. They're insistent I write here for "mental health" or something, since I'm clearly not going to spill any secrets to them. I'll give them one thing; they may be fools but they're not stupid. I wouldn't confide in them if they were the last people (aliens?) in the universe.

Just to keep track, here's what they've told me so far: 1. I'm on a ship called the "Hail Mary" (seems true)

2. The planets and stars are ok (we'll see about that) 3. We're going to Erid, where Rocky's from, and it'll take 3 years. Currently no plans to go to Earth. (not like I had plans in the first place)

4. They don't want to hurt me (sure.) 5. They saved the stars by breeding alien life to kill alien life?? ("Don't touch the breeders" they say. Sure, because these can save the stars)

the cut content! more like a scrapped idea.

i considered having the tendrils be what replaced the torn out eye but then i realized:

simon would not only be missing an arm but also his left side sight/depth perception. which really just sucks

it didn't feel clear enough that they were tendrils coming from the eye socket, or that this was an eye socket at all. further rendering would only make it a little bit more clear

id have to keep drawing it over and over which. i dont waannnaaaa i already have to draw all those teeth

What I've told them: 1. "I don't know how I got here." Seems good to start with a straight truth

2. "I'm not religious anymore." They seem more familiar with Pre-Eden Christianity, anyway, which is weird (time travel?)

3. "I'm from somewhere without stars or planets." Didn't know I had to hide that one until it was too late. They know about the QR & that some stations survived. I'm keeping the moons a secret.

4. "The COI & Eden are organizations that hate me." Not much more. I'd rather die before I talk about the Eel.

I've already told them more than I want to. It'll be harder to get them to slip up.

What I've picked up on: 1. They can't be hallucinations. There's no way I could make any of this up. I'm not sure the Eel would stoop this low either.

2. They're RICH. Food, oxygen, water, plants <- they feel like the Mother

Food may be a problem, though. I eavesdropped.

3. They're scientists and they wanna experiment on me. Haven't said it out loud, but I can read between the lines. Guess I gotta prepare for that.

4. They're both from planets, Grace is directly from Earth. The idea of not being from Earth specifically is foreign (No space colonization?)

5. They're the only ones on the ship. Other crew seem to have died (there's 3 human beds)

6. Definitely not Eden, probably not COI. They care about "progress" like the COI, but the COI wouldn't waste this amount of resources on 3 people