Some more Project Hail Mary Atlantis AU sketches just because haha
okay, I already said this in a comment to this post, but these last two images basically imply one thing:
Grace being some kind of long lost atlantean royalty descendant.
Cause remember, the crystal in the atlantis the lost empire movie only takes those of royal blood and it simply won't chose another one.
And there are three possibilities that I can think of for Eva stratt in this super niche AU there:
A) Withmore standin but more morally grey, has basically blackmailed and sent in grace onto this expedition to tau ceti atlantis against his will
B) Atlantean quasi queen in charge but not really of royal blood herself, basically there was an Atlantean expedition back to the surface world to track down the one lost royal heir and Carl kidnapped Grace back down to them
C) Eva Stratt is the Crystal herself. She just knows it has to be Grace. (the most silly possibility, but still one I wanted to mention)
one idea regarding rocky:
him being there with Adrian living in the underground world type stuff, but them both still being aliens and having initially been from Erid. Why are they on earth? Probably first generation space explorers or something and their ship ended up crashing into the oceans of earth and these two just happened to be lucky enough to survive that and the aftermath of it.
They had enough time to get accostumed to their new perma home and to study the humans underground and learn the atlantean's language (hence why Rocky may later on be able to understand/talk with Grace)
ADDITIONALLY: both Rocky and Adrian just know the Atlantean crystal is there. They can hear it in the frequencies too high for human ears to be perceived, they do kinda communicate with it and it lowkey freaks them out a lot, because that's just an unholy mysteriously floating eridian brain hivemind to them there. But the crystal is also lowkey responsible for making sure that they both still keep on having food and were able to survive for as long as they did, same way it did for the atlanteans.
They may also as a consequence of meeting mostly atlantean humans think that humans live as long as them if not even longer. Until they meet grace and that is all like "wdym a dozen centuries is NOT the natural human life span, question? hold on, humans usually mature HOW FAST again, question statement?!"
Grace obviously of course at first thinks that rocky and adrian are just normal for the underground world environment until they tell him otherwise. like wdym this is not your natural habitat? hold on it kinda is but also not? hold hold on, were these other rocks we found in the entrance your former crewmates!?
guess who just found all the other already existing doodles... I've been waaayy off...
