Back On My Bullshit

He pilots better while buzzed, and he gets really sarcastic and sort of jovial for a little while at the bottom of the trench.

Laughing my ass off, because I'm imagining him getting lit while not in a trench and being a complete fool.

I wonder if he often drank before having to go "do his job" for Eden. You think he was sober for Filament?

Rocky: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Why room so messy question? Ugh!

Grace: It isn’t that bad.

*a long silence. Rocky freezes, his carapace, assisted by only a few steps, slowly turns 180° as if to stare Ryland Grace dead in the eyes. He breathes harder than Grace has ever seen, low and steady. Rocky’s entire body begins to shake and hum like a horror movie*

I love Ava. She's complex; an insanely cool character with an amazing performance, and I am NOT demonizing her in any way. The whole point of the movie is to look at these characters as humans and know that they can also be monsters, and still feel bad and acknowledge their pain anyway.

But... something was wrong with her. Something was really wrong with her. Her decisions were erratic, her crew was scared of her in some ways, and she repeatedly seemed to shift very quickly between emotional states.

I think Ava was in some kind of mental break during this movie, or at the beginning of one. Her dynamic with David is just... so strange. Like David continuously was shocked by her behavior, and if you remember that line where he says, "she's had a consolidated stick up her ass since the Quiet Rapture"...

The Quiet Rapture was ~21 years ago.

They'd been a crew for at least 20 years, and now Ava's scaring him?

What happened to her? What changed? The mission? What was this crew like before the Quiet Rapture? We know the Tow Ship is equipped and knowledgeable about salvage.

BloodyMary Swap AU but it’s Rocky in the SM-13

Does it make sense? No. Do I care? No. It’s funny. Have a silly comic

Also, it would be a wonderful parallel to Rocky’s carapace carvings (I think it’s canon that they include info about his own mission)

Imagine if Rocky had a pulsar map to Erid somewhere on him too

Nerdy space bros with nerdy space tattoos.

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