Done with life

For added context, people who don’t remember the 1980s, there were a serious of deadly shootings carried out by postal workers against their coworkers.

“The point is,” DuBois said, “you are, somehow, special to Ms. Stratt. I had assumed you two were engaged in sexual congress.” My mouth fell agape. “Wha—what?! Are you out of your mind?! No! No way!” Pg 320 Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Grace who does jazz hands and taps when he's asking a question and says some words three times like Rocky. Grace who makes chirps and trilling noises when he's happy.

Grace who starts thinking and dreaming in Eridian, who sometimes has dreams that are just sound, no visual. (Grace who, if he ever goes back to Earth for whatever reason after years on Erid, forgets some words in English and speaks in the sentence structure of Eridian because he has to translate from Eridian to English when he speaks outloud).

Grace who does scarification (even if Rocky protests at first) - I've read some fics where he does the Voyager pulsar map, or dots and lines showing his route from Sol, to Tau Ceti, turning around towards Sol, and then the line going all the way back to Erid. Even though he already has the scars from Rocky saving him, maybe Rocky's family crest. A scar showing his rank as Captain of the Hail Mary - maybe something to represent her, too.

Grace who wears Eridian gems, as earrings, in a chain for his glasses, in strings draped over him that clink together when he walks - the most important ones, like the earrings he wears all the time, the color of the blueish-green gems (or spots?) in/on Rocky's carapace.

Grace who wears a bracelet on each arm that have ribbed marks like on Rocky's arm so he can properly say goodbye (not something he had to do, but something that felt right to do, something that made him feel more like himself), sound included.

I like to hc that he legitimately *didnt remember lab safety* until he recovered the memory in that exact moment and went oh fuck.

Meanwhile, Eva Stratt, post-prison break, through the same STS Simon experienced, ends up in the Iron Lung universe. She is captured by the C.O.I. under assumption of being a member of Eden, and ends up under Ava’s control. But Ava quickly realizes that something is different about Eva, and the two team up to figure out if the astrophage had anything to do with their Quiet Rapture. It’s very dystopian grunkpunk femslash vibes (Evava? IronPrayer? How does StarSalvage sound? Lmk y’all’s thoughts).

Meanwhile every other chapter is about the hijinks Grace, Rocky, and Simon get up to on Erid in a very healing, soilpunk queerplatonic polycule thing.

Stratt: I don’t have the time or emotional capacity to be sad or stressed about this.

Stratt: GRACE!

Grace: On it!

And I propose.

Since Eridian brains seem better with memory and such.

(I wonder if, because their brains are basically a big crystal, the reason their memory is so good is because it literally gets carved into the crystal so they can revisit it whenever with no problem.)

Imagine they manage to basically transfer Grace's consciousness into crystal brain into Eridian body.

and suddenly Grace is one of the smartest bitches on Erid (not that he wasn't already smart, or that the Eridians didn't already view him as smart, but now they have an easier way to comprehend how smart he is) because he no longer has the feeble flaws of a human brain with it's weird memory and stuff.

Rocky when Grace is human: This is my very smart, squishy alien friend.

No.

60% of all Bloodymary fanfic: Grace and Rocky find a submarine floating in space...

Me: A SUBMARINE? tell me more

60% of all Bloodymary fanfic: Simon iron lung is there