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Exploring Eridian’s biology. Most of it are taken from the book, but I want to add to it :)

My headcanons:

-Rocky and Adrian had kids before Rocky went away. They are now in their (human equivalent) 20s.

-Adrian and Rocky used to be around the same age, now Adrian is MUCH older.

-Baby Eridians are called pebbles (like baby goats are called kids). Yes, this is all Grace doing.

-Eridan’s eggs are like geode.

-Eridian’s eggs (canonically) are laid together when mate and then merge. I however, also think that they would usually go for two at a time for protection (they can watch each other sleep as they get older).

-Rocky name his two new pebbles after Grace and the Hail Mary.

-I’m not a geologist and very much not knowledgeable about rock, but I believe that the green/blue we see Eridians have (movie ver) could be caused by the various level of metal element on their rock layer, like copper and bronze, interacting with the elements over time (Verdigris).

-Baby Eridians are smooth rock. As Eridians grow, they became sharper and more complex looking, caused both by natural aging and external elements.

A relatively messy study/fanart for project hail mary, the last month has really awakened my inner space loving child again

she finds herself standing with grace under the earth stations, laughing, smiling and she could feel the fondness clawing at her eyelids. grace asked her is she had a plan for the next twenty years. of course she did, she was Eva Stratt.

but that plan had started to morph on its own. ryland grace was dimming her dull and secure plans just like that pesky astrophage.

and then eveything exploded.

she ordered grace to be sedated and forced to his death. she did that, and she cried, and cried some more. and then he was gone. she sat in her office the day after the launch and cried more pathetic tears.

god, she was livid. she made this so much harder for herself. logically, she knew grace was the only option for the popualtions survival - its a simple numbers equation, one life against billions. but it was not supposed to hurt his much.

but the next day it dawned - who am i to feel angry? - she had not been murdered by the people she lived with;she had not being dragged of her home to go and die; she had not fallen in love with her mysterious boss who ended up betraying her. who the fuck did she think she was?

so the depression started. and it stayed for a very long time. she destroyed the earth to have a shot of survival. and then the lengthy prison sentence came and god what sweet relief it was - she was finally being punished for the murder she orchastrated. but it wasn't never enough. nothing would every truly be enough.

and then their salvation came. grace had done it. the man with the wonky glasses and wonky haircut had fucking done it. he had saved them. he had done it. ryland grace, the high-school teacher who wore the sweater his mother knitted him if it got paticualry cold at sea, had saved them. she watched that final message more times than she wanted to count. grace looked the exact same when she killed him.

so that night, when the stars came out to gleam their taunting heat, stratt looked up as she always did. now she knew he was up their somewhere. she smiled the same way she did that fateful day that the lab exploded, when grace's destiny was stabbed into the constellations. grace was looking back at her, the stars blinking back at her just like the twinkle in his eyes.

she just wanted to see him one last time. to tell him she was sorry and that she was so proud. that he was a good man. that she loved him and only felt it after he had gone.

eva stratt died that night, with a polariod of grace she had secretly took of him in his lab. she was smiling.

conch canaries

UPDATE! They found the original photo!

TFOFC-VERSE: PROJECT HAIL MARY FAKE BOOK RECS

The Father of First Contact: the Uncharted Life of Ryland Grace by Dominique Reid. (If you only read one book about Dr. Cpt. Ryland Grace, make it this one. Reid really humanizes him in ways that he deserves + this one has The Declassified Records. You know the ones.)

Amaze!: Languages of the Hail Mary by Ray Tamaguchi. (The Hail Mary Accent Book For People Who Want to Get Emotional About An Accent Shared By Two Beings And Other Cool Language Stuff Too.)

Microscopic Empire: The Fight For Taumoeba 82.5 by Thandi Mazibuko. (Mazibuko makes lab work feel like a forensics thriller, I never want to see someone say scientists can't write well ever again.)