Dreaming of a Castle Library

Hobbits through the years. I love these four goobers so much.

a lil bit of merry and pip

Elemental Trauma, baby

Gremlin Pippin has become my favorite thing to draw.

imagine you only have 2 minutes left to live and you go up to a rooftop so you don’t hurt anyone else, but your stubborn employer/the only friend you have comes to save you even though the chances are slim and he’s probably going to die with you if he stays, so you point a gun at him to make him go away and that doesn’t work and next thing you know he’s unbuttoning your shirt and trying to disable the bomb strapped to your chest while you tell him that it’s okay, you would’ve killed yourself by now anyway if you hadn’t met him. meanwhile, new york glitters gently in the background 

And like yeah, obviously there's more to it than that. They're a team, a Grace alone would have probably died trying to get the samples from Adrian. Or, tbh, might have never got out of his original Mental Breakdown phase and just gone fully crazy.

But from Rocky's perspective, this has to feel insane. Like we talk a lot about Grace feeling inferior to Rocky, but there's no way that Rocky wouldn't have a similar (or worse) complex about Grace.

And this isn't getting into the fact that (from Rocky's perspective) the moment he leaves Grace, everything goes to hell again. Goes to hell again because, as he later finds out, Grace bred the taumoeba in xenonite breeder tanks that Rocky designed.

Do we think he wondered, on the way back to Erid, whether things would have been fixed 46 years ago if it had been one of the Blip-A scientists who survived, and he'd just succumbed to the radiation?

Do we think Grace had to reassure him, over and over, that it was if anything Grace's fault for not foreseeing that the taumoeba would adapt to the xenonite, and that there was no way that Rocky could have designed the tanks better?