Livy

adult vs. younger selves

• Sandra Voyter (Anatomy of a Fall) - absent older sister w/ a sizeable age gap. Leaves home almost immediately. Minimal contact with family (resents her childhood in a "shithole in Germany"). She sees her sisters appear on TV, sometimes. Eva a hotshot at the ESA (headquartered in Paris, not so far), and Mika making a name for herself in European cinema. Some form of them make it into her books, but Sandra never picks up the phone to call. She thinks they're better off without her.

• Eva Stratt - a dutiful, studious child. Older sibling energy despite being younger because she didn't have Sandra around for much of her life.

• Mikaela Sanders (Sibyl) - You think Stratt's blunt and self-serious? Meet Mika :)) She's two years younger than Eva, but so alike that as children, people often mistook them for twins. Another director (of films, this time). Mika is as capable and collected as both her elder sisters, but lacks the endless reservoir of calm stoicism Eva seems to have. Pulls herself together quickly but is frequently on the verge of breakdown. Barely remembers Sandra. Eva's biggest fan until they had a falling out in adulthood (haven't decided what kind but it would explain the lack of a relationship). Mends her relationship with Eva after a couple of volatile years in her personal life, but doesn't get much time before Stratt is chosen to lead the Petrova Taskforce.

Additional stuff:

• All of the sisters enter careers in the arts/humanities and achieve success :)) Maybe too much success, for Eva.

• 2019. The premier of Mika's latest film. Mika calls Eva after she finally severs ties with actor Igor Maleski, and they reconcile. Later that year, Sandra's high-profile trial for the alleged murder of Samuel Maleski* begins. Eva shows up to every single session open to the public as a show of support. Following Sandra's acquittal, she makes an effort to reconnect with Eva, and Mika, too. Daniel meets two aunts he's never heard of before.

* Justine Triet likes douchebags named Maleski...

• Also in 2019: the discovery of the Petrova line. They don't know it yet, but this is goodbye, for Eva.

• Somehow people don't make the connection between the siblings (different surnames, different fields) until Stratt's imprisoned and the media dig into her life post-launch.

• Eva used to be the bridge between the two, but Sandra and Mika grow closer in the long years Eva is absent leading up to launch, followed by the even longer period of Eva languishing in prison.

• Out of the three, Stratt dies first from all the stress :D) She gets out of prison, helps repair the sun, then one morning simply does not wake up. Sandra gets out of retirement to publish one final book. There's enough changes for plausible deniability, but it's clear to everyone that it's about Eva. Also you all know how in coltland twins stuff they always ask Colt to play Ryland in a blockbuster biopic? Guess what happens to my good friend Mika. She declines. She's in the director's chair, for a reason. Creates a three part documentary about the first and second phases (30 years apart) of Project Hail Mary; documents the impact her sister had on saving the world.

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Eva Motherfucking Stratt

Everyone forgets (especially movie fans since I don’t think they even brought it up for y’all) that Stratt wasn’t a scientist like the rest of her crew. Sure, she was definitely smart enough to understand most of what they told her, but it wasn’t her field of study. She wasn’t a biologist or a chemist or an astrophysicist, she was a historian. She was also recommended for the project because she was an incredibly talented diplomat. Canonically, she’s fluent in at least seven languages, and probably speaks several more- give her a day, and she’ll understand Eridian almost as well as Grace. The atmospheric testing, the experimentation with Xenonite, that’s all her crew. But getting to know an alien race, learning all about their language and their history and their culture? That’s her thing, right there.