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More greek au with the curse revealed. I know someone suggested Ellie being Scylla but she actually the curse itself. SO imagine being a sacrifice only to become the monster. Fun stuff. Also people miss out making mutated Simon more eel like all the time.. So I made him the biggest eel. Don't worry we will undoom this man.
Other greek myth au doodles 1 2
Also look at this gulper eel making it'self into a balloon
Early 2010's shippers on tumblr did not work overtime coming up with some of god's most unhinged crack and crossover ships for people in the 2020's to try and claim that smashing together Ryan Gosling and Markiplier's conventionally attractive doomed space men is some kind of absurdity.
I feel Grace flips constantly from being arrogant to having crippling self doubt because he would look at the evidence right and he would see that he is smart (leading astrophage expert) and he is brave (savior of two suns) but in the other hand he’s been SO wrong before (his entire thesis was proven wrong by Astrophage and Eridians having internal water based systems) and he wasn’t brave enough to volunteer, he doesn’t feel brave.
So I like this constant internal battle and cognitive dissonance he has to reckon with of being the most confident cocky “Captain Doctor Ryland Grace” and then also “I’m not an astronaut”. He had the character development obviously but he didn’t have his full past as he became more brave and I think after he does get his memories back he has this internal battle of ‘who am I?’ because humans tend to think in extremes and black and white sometimes and it’s hard to reconcile that you can have a cowardice moment and not BE a coward.
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i love the fact that in this fandom specifically it seems like we all struggle with having so much we wanna make and getting frusterated that we dont have the time/multitasking abilities to make it all
bloodmary but they’re both equally wary/off put by each other, yet so fascinated by each other in the same breath. grace who’s gone without human contact for so long and simon who’s amazed by the idea of alive stars and plants and animals. simon who’s scared that this is all just another hallucination by the false god and grace being scared because his last interaction with humanity was a betrayal. bloodymary who set this wall between them with biting banter, playful not-so-playful insults and sarcasm traded back and forth and back and forth. every eye squint a challenge, but they’ll both immediately step back if the other gets too close. bloodmary where grace knows he’s a coward, that he can’t get too close to simon, but he’s a scientist at heart and curiosity already sent his cat on a one-way ticket to space. it’s like this game of playing with fire, but the fire is each other and who’s gonna tell them that the burn won’t be as bad as they think it is?
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The ship was silent, eerily so. Without the Eridians, it was as if the life in the ship had been sucked out of it, along with the chaos and the warmth. Even Ryland seemed to be a shell of himself. A ghost that haunted the halls. Simon followed him, wanting to keep an eye on him, but Ryland didn’t do much, and he didn’t say much either. He talked, and Simon replied, but he couldn’t seem to keep the conversation going, and Simon sure as hell didn’t know how to.
It reminded him too much of the submarine, jerking himself away from unconsciousness, forcing his eyes to open, going through the motions. Simon worked on regaining his strength, and Ryland did whatever it was that he did as they waited.
He watched Ryland come to life on their daily check-ins at the radio, and then curl back into himself like he was having fuckin’... Rocky withdrawals or something.
“So, why’re you hiding out underneath your desk?” Simon nodded his head to it.
“Oh, uh, you know,” Ryland sniffed and shrugged. “Space.”
“Space?” Simon echoed.
“Gets me down sometimes,” Ryland said. “It’s a big ship for one- for two people. I like it better when there’s more people on board.”
Simon remembered suddenly that Ryland said his crewmates died, getting sick. Two others. He nodded in response. It must bring back bad memories.
“I miss Rocky,” Ryland admitted. Simon’s eyebrows rose. It had been two whole days.
“He always makes the space feel smaller, you know? He’s a little guy, but he takes up the whole room.”
Simon frowned. Yeah, that was why he didn’t really like Rocky, but he didn’t say that.
He said something much worse, blurting out, “I don’t know what you see in him.”
Thankfully, Ryland just chuckled. “Hey, that’s my best friend you’re talking about here.”
“Yeah, you two are… really close.”
Ryland shrugged, but he had a small smile on his face. “He saved my life.”
“Is that all it takes? To be your best friend?” Simon tried not to tease. He wasn’t trying very hard. It was… easy to tease Ryland in a way Simon didn’t want to examine.
“I’d say the bar is low but, uh… he really raised it. Yeah, he saved my life, but he also…”
Simon waited, watching Ryland’s face soften.
“... gave it meaning, I guess,” Ryland said softly, surprising Simon. “He’s loyal, and smart, and hella sassy, but- he’ll never give up on you. He’ll never give up on anything, really. You should have seen him when they were making my biodome, or worse- engineering my food- the absolute hell he put those poor scientists through-”
Ryland leaned his head back against the wall, the column of his throat moving as he laughed. Simon found his eyes tracking it. “He’s probably driving them crazy right now, bossing them all around.”
“So you… don’t care that he’s rude because of what he’s done for you,” Simon surmised. That made sense.
Ryland looked at him with a frown. Slowly, he said, “It’s more than that. It’s not just what he’s done for me. It’s not that I don’t care that he… has flaws. It’s like, I find them endearing? They’re just a part of him, and I love him so that stuff doesn’t matter. I understand why other people, or you, might not like him, but it doesn’t make me love him any less.”
He was shocked to see another red suit in the airlock of Hail Mary.
“Simon?”
An arm waved aggressively at him. Grace shook himself out of his shock and pressed his radio.
“Simon, what are you-”
“Are you out of your mind?!”
Grace winced, but tucked the black box close and then, with one arm, grabbed his tether, intending to pull himself back to the Mary.
Simon grabbed the other end and yanked him forward as he ranted, “You turned off your radio in a highly dangerous fucking blood-infected submarine that's still alive. It attacked you and still you-!”
“Grace is stupid!” Rocky’s robotic voice crackled.
“Yes! Grace is stupid!” Simon ranted, tugging Grace closer until his EVA suit bumped into him. Grace probably should be offended, but he was just glad to have someone there to catch him. He hated jumping between two space vessels. The infinite yawning all around him.
Grace gently clunked his helmet against Simon’s with a breathless smile. Simon abruptly stopped his rant.
“I got it.”
Simon’s eyes were wide behind the thick glass.
“You... got it.”
He caught his breath for a second, feeling Simon’s arm clutching him tight even through the EVA suit. His chest was overflowing with warmth. Simon came out to rescue him. Simon was terrified, and still, he was going to go get Grace without knowing if something bad had even happened. Grace knew he was in trouble, but he couldn’t really let the shame sink into him, just yet. He was sure it would hit him later.
Shaking himself from his wide-eyed stare, Simon pulled back and slammed the button that closed the airlock with an air of aggression. The air hissed as the airlock acclimatized.
“You were coming to save me,” Grace said, stupidly. Whoops.
His back turned to him as he stiffened. After a moment he growled, “You’re too reckless. We had no idea if you were dead or being overrun by the fucking-”
Simon was breathing harshly as he cut himself off. Mary beeped at them to indicate the pressure and atmosphere were stable. Simon struggled to twist off his helmet, his breath fogging up the plastic.
Grace immediately went over to help and twisted the helmet enough that Simon could yank it off his head. He immediately glared at Grace.
“Do you have any idea how stupid that was?” Simon demanded as Grace twisted off his own helmet. “Do you have any idea what those things could do to you?”
Grace immediately thought back to the arm, welded to the pipe, covered in gore and dangling.
“Yeah,” Grace murmured. He looked down at his hand, covered in crackling tendrils. Simon flinched back.
“So you know, and you still did it? I told you to retreat,” Simon's voice was hard, and Grace frowned.
“I’m not a soldier in your army, Simon,” Grace said, and Simon stiffened. “I had to get the black box. It was too important. I was careful.”
Simon scoffed and gestured to his arm covered in agroglobin mess.
“I was! They die within seconds of exposure, so I cut small pockets into them and then-”
“I don't care how clever you think you were- you still could have died. You’re in space, Ryland. What if it cracked your helmet? What if it tore your suit? You’d be dead in seconds.”
“It was worth the risk-”
Simon made an aggravated noise and started to wrestle himself out of the suit.
“I don’t know what you want from me,” Grace said, “I got the black box! Isn’t that what you wanted? Isn’t that the reason you- that you-”
Simon glared at him, daring him to finish his sentence.
“It… it was too important to you for me to give up,” Grace admitted. “It was the first thing you asked for when you woke up and I… I didn’t even think to try and get it. I had to make up for that.”
Simon’s eyes widened for a fraction of a second, and then he was back to glaring.
“Don’t tell me you were willing to risk your life just because it’s important to me. That’s stupid.”
“I mean, that was part of the reason.”
Simon’s face loosened slightly from his glare, but he shook his head as he finished pulling his suit off, leaving him in the casual clothes he was wearing before, without the protective suit underneath it- like he rushed to get to Grace. His chest hurt.
“I don’t get you,” Simon huffed and then pushed himself toward the Hail Mary interior.
He pulled himself through the opening door as Grace called back, “Well, I don't understand you either!”
Grace huffed as Simon disappeared down the hall out of sight, and he was left facing two Eridians staring straight at him.
I love bloodymary as a ship because the origins of the concept is really sweet.
Like it's really a ship that started in an attempt to give these characters (mostly Simon but in some minor facets Ryland as well) a happy ending. To give them a new connection that will make them happier. Like there was legitimately no other reason to put these two together beyond that + "bc it sparks joy" + the fact that the respective movies were released close together. I'm well aware of crack shipping and how wacky it is, but it's still a wild connection to me, sure it makes sense in hindsight but at the beginning?
People looked at Simon in Iron Lung and his very human plea of wanting to live, and was like 'y'know who understands the horror of being the sacrificial lamb and also happens to have a high-tech spaceship? Ryland Grace. He and his best friend are on their way to save you now. You're gonna have a life, and people that love you like you deserve.'
And people looked at Ryland, who has a loving family (Rocky and Adrian), and a happy ending by all definitions of the word and thought, just in case you ever feel this primal dread knowing you'll never see another human as long as you live, just in case it keeps you up at night that the very last time human hands touched your skin it was so terribly violent, here is a potential human connection for you. One that doesn't replace Rocky or Adrian by any means, but adds something newly valuable to your life. Gentle hands for both of them, when they had so little of that previously.
And I adore the fact that bloodymary doesn't have to be romantic. Like I love the romantic stories, don't get me wrong, but I love the queerplatonic ones too. It's called a ship but it's not 100% about finding either of them a romantic love interest, not really.
And it actually baffles me how well these two universes fit together, like puzzle pieces.
They each have their trolley operators, Eva and Ava, who want to treat Ryland and Simon with humanity, but knows they cannot because of the number of lives that rest solely on their shoulders.
The will to follow through on the task that would save humanity despite being hurt so badly by other people (Ryland Grace continuing his mission until the end even after remembering, Simon retrieving the black box knowing he won't make it out alive).
They each have the religious - specifically Christianity related - symbolism present in their stories. Hail Mary, full of Grace (which is a concept that still makes me giggle btw). The reference to the garden of Eden, with the spaceship name, the cults (unfortunate) beliefs in sacrifice and sin, and the last tree. The incident being called a rapture. While still not being a religious movie, and still being rooted in and true to their respective genres (sci fi vs horror).
The stars dying out vs the stars and planets disappearing. There is so much you could play with in that concept. There's of course the parallel universe thing, the "Simon comes from a future where they failed" thing, and even 'Simon and the other ships did end up in a pocket universe with nothing' thing, like Simon had wondered about. Explanations about what the Light Simon saw might be and how it could be connected to astrophage. So much possibility.
Simon died in a universe that got an unmerciful and indifferent entity pulling the strings, and people outside the story gave a shit enough to create the potential for a gentler ending. One that opens up a world of possibilities for both characters. (Also to be clear I'm not dissing the canon ending to either movie by any means. I adore how Iron Lung and PHM was written - and fanworks don't overwrite that at all).
It almost reminds me of that one quote from Brennan Lee Mulligan, y'know the one. It's somewhat stupid to apply it to a fictional ship but it comes to mind nonetheless.
"In the same way your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't."
It's just. Sweet. And kind. Such a fundamentally kind ship.
Where Simon challenges The Father. Because!!! It shows he is smart, he’s always been smart. He challenges authority when it he doubts what they are saying.
Do you know how dangerous a doubting child in a cult is??
The Father laughs like he likes the question and that’s the trick because Cults hate questions and doubts and independent thinkers- but they pretend to love questions.
Especially from new members. Simon is a new member (came from Mars- that one conversation with his mother “I don’t want to go- Simon don’t be like that.”) They love to answer questions from new members because it offers them a chance to nip any doubt in the bud, answer with absolutes and half-answers and usually end in humiliating or tearing down the person who asked the question. Not to get personal on main but trust me. You just see their teeth sharpen when you admit to a doubt or ask a question as a kid. They’ll make you feel stupid for asking and if you keep not understanding their half answers (asking more questions) they will get angry at you for persisting.
That’s why I headcanon that Simon has always been a doubter- especially with his monologue later about “what’s more likely? The stars disappeared or a few space stations?” (Paraphrasing) but it’s a very difficult and painful life for a doubting child growing up in a quite literally inescapable cult. But doubting doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t listen. Doubting doesn’t mean he didn’t fall for the dogma. He can still doubt and be their Butcher. They made him a solider, they made him loyal, and just because he privately thought it was all horse shit doesn’t mean he didn’t learn to not to challenge authority (that he still struggles with). That the belief sank into him like thorns, that he can’t help but feel a religious reverence for the seed despite hating what they did in the name of the Last Tree.
Religious trauma is just so complicated and especially cult trauma because they are literally masters of manipulating large groups of people and they have systems in place to keep their members there even if they don’t believe and even if they do escape, they leave lasting gashes.
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