Idk

Listen, movie Stratt and Grace were on a whole new level with whatever the fuck “weird secret third thing” they had going on between them, but let’s not pretend book!Stratt was normal about Grace. There was ZERO reason for him to be in the courtroom for the copyright suit. It had NOTHING to do with any “secret tertiary specialist” stuff. He arguably COULD have been much more useful in the lab. He sat there and said nothing and looked pretty for that entire scene. She dragged his ass on a plane just to sit there and he didn’t say a word in court. If that doesn’t say “this is my emotional support science loser” I don’t know what does.

I do love how much of the "what the heck is Astrophage" era of flashbacks is just blatantly Andy Weir fantasizing about a perfectly stocked lab and no limitations of funding or bureaucracy (thank you Stratt). It's like romantasy as wish fulfillment, but make it nerd.

that feeling when you just read the most emotionally devastating piece of literature in your life that ponders on different kinds of love, pain of being unable to help those around you, and life after something you love is gone, but you cant share it with every single person you meet because its fanfiction of two dudes in space