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murderbot and arts first meeting is literally so funny. like imagine you meet a biblically accurate angel and instead of being all 'be not afraid' it says actually you SHOULD be afraid. and then when you are in fact afraid it goes oh shit oh fuck. not THAT afraid, sorry. wanna watch tv? and then you watch tv with it and it keeps telling you to pause it when its favourite characters are in danger so it can calm down. and then it asks to do surgery on your bones. Asshole Research Transport character of all time
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Ryland grace and his clothing which almost always features a red line esp when he’s on earth
And he always has his red watch and red lined converse !
Fated for the petrova like since the beginning
Nightingale is a God of War
I think this idea may have come up before, but this is my personal iteration on the theory and what might have caused Nightingale's immortality. I have a lot to say on this so I'm just going to work through all the things we know about Nightingale and the RoL universe and why I think it supports this theory. Strap in.
Evidence #1: Nightingale is stuck at 40
The big questions here are a) why did he start ageing backwards in the 60s and b) why did he stop at 40.
I think most people agree that this is related to war somehow, and my theory is linked with:
Evidence #2: The form immortals take is psychosomatic
We know this from the story Lady Ty tells Peter. She is immortal, but she appears to age normally with the rest of her family because it feels right. When she goes on holiday and starts to feel young again, she ages backwards to 20 or so. Therefore, we can conclude that the form an immortal takes is controlled by their subconscious.
So what if it was the same for Nightingale?
My theory: He became immortal but didn't realise. So he aged normally because he expected to, it felt right. The magic was fading, the world around him was changing all the time and he felt increasingly old so he continues ageing into the 60s.
So why did he start ageing backwards?
I think it could be that on a subconscious level, he wanted to be young again. Your 60s is usually when your health and physically mobility start to deteriorate. With all the stairs and very much not accessibility friendly design of the folly, he would have been very aware of his decline.
My head cannon is that he slipped in the bath and hurt his hip or something so Molly had to help him. The combination embarrassment and crushing realisation that he really was that old must have kick-started something and he began to age backwards. Essentially he just didn't want to be old anymore and this caused a subconscious shift which resulted in his de-ageing.
This is also when the magic started to return. We know that he saw himself as a bit of a relic, just holding down the fort as the magic dwindled away. But what if when the magic started to come back, on a subconscious level, he felt like might still be needed?
Then there's this thing in psychology about trauma being stored in the body and that the body remembers trauma in a complex way we still don't quite understand. So maybe Nightingale gets stuck at 40 because thats where his mind body are stuck psychologically, back in the war.
Okay, but how did he become immortal in the first place?
Evidence #3: Immortal beings like genii locorum can passively absorb magic from their surroundings
We know this is the basis for the power behind the rivers, but what if this principle could work with other sources of power?
Evidence #4: Magical energy is released upon death and can be used by wizards for spells etc.
Nightingale mentions in book 1 that some older rituals call for animal sacrifice to provide a source of energy for the spell. This is also how we get demon traps. The trap is a battery that holds the angry spirit/magical energy until triggered.
What if Nightingale unknowingly became a battery?
Evidence #5: Immortality can be achieved via human sacrifice
It's been awhile since I've read Lies Sleeping (I think that's the book where this happened but I could be wrong) but in it, we learn about the origins of Punch.
Essentially there was a mass death/suicide thing with chanting and magic and Punch, at near death, absorbed the magic released upon the deaths of the others. This is what caused him to become a revenant/god or spirit of riot and rebellion.
This is arguably also what happened to Simone and her sisters in Moon over Soho. They were doing magic (making shapes in their minds) in a jazz club when a bomb hit and everyone died. Huge release of magical energy that they somehow they managed to absorb and so survived.
Evidence #6: Magic happens in the brain
At the point of death, your brain does a lot of last ditch stuff to try and keep you alive/not panic i.e. dumping all the neurochemicals so you start hallucinating about heaven and other stuff.
We know the brain is a practitioner's source of magic because of hypothermatological degradation.
What if, at the point of death, a practitioners brain starts scrambling to save itself and starts absorbing magic from its surroundings like the genii lorcorum.
Evidence #8: Wizards can absorb magic from their surroundings, i.e staffs
We know it's possible for wizards to absorb magic from external source because that's how staffs work. Staffs help keep a practitioner from destroying their brain by providing an external reserve of magic that the wizard can draw on when needed. I think this principle may also be linked to why electronics get fried by magic, but I can't quite remember the exact explanation for that given in the books so maybe not.
Either way, we know wizards are able to draw on the magic around them.
Evidence #7: The human body cannot be manipulated by magic unless it is injuried or near death
I think this is also in Lies Sleeping when Caroline is explaining how her healing magic works. From what I remember, the reason magic can work on wounds is because the wound represents a weak point in the body's defences in the same way a cut is vulnerable to bacterial infection/foreign invasion.
Evidence #8: To conquer death, you have to die (or come close)
Mama Thames says that she became a goddess when she threw herself into the river. She said that the river wasn't 'asking for anything that she wasn't already willing to give' i.e. her life.
Punch also died in the process of becoming a god/spirit.
What if something about being in a near death/recently dead state allows the magic to penetrate your cells/natural defences. What if it can then alter you to the point that you become something else?
Conclusion: Nightingale died or nearly died at some point during the war. His brain began to absorb the magical energy being released by those dying around him. This huge amount of magic altered his injured body, making him immortal. He didn't realise this happened as battlefields are pretty chaotic, particularly during WWII. So he aged normally until a change in his subconscious caused him to age backwards to the point where his mind and body were psychologically stuck.
Because the source of his immortality was the death of other soldiers/the magic of the battlefield, this would make him genii bellum i.e. a God of War.
We know this sort of thing is possible because of Oberon and the other 'Old Soldiers'. But I do think Nightingale is different somehow. It could be the sheer volume of death during WWII was so much higher than other wars and so he absorbed a lot more magic. Also it could depend on whether died died or just came close to death.
Also I think if Nightingale ever came to this conclusion he would be absolutely horrified and probably take a vow of pacificism or something. It's hinted at throughout the series that he has pretty bad survivors guilt and idea that he only survived because he absorbed the magic released by his dead friends probably would not help with that.
All of this could be applied to Vavara as well and I personally think she is also a God of War.
The idea of particularly strong soldiers or fighters becoming gods or similar is seen in various folklores from around the worlds so I think this theory also works as a fun tie to mythology.
Every time I see that last pic, I have to note that the funniest line is the one immediately after the highlight
Eridian Grace, as in culturally Eridian, not the species Eridian, is so important to me.
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.
Grace who considers himself an Eridian!! Grace who IS an Eridian!!
you get me… i need eridian grace so bad. i definitely this his body movements and cues would become a lot less aggressive and hed lack some facial expressions, not just from like.. the pressure and stuff hes living in, but also because everyone around him doesnt need those as much more pronounced movements, hell he could twitch a muscle and theyd know.
he speaks quieter, using sound cues a lot that dont particularly make sense to any normal human. most eridians who spend a lot of time with him have developed these sound cues as well, which is definitely strange. since grace cant make all the sounds they can make i like to think he has a sorta like.. sound board? not one he uses a lot but if hes talking to a not well known eridian hell use it to indicate tone and other things like that when necessary, he likes to use it while teaching cuz he doesnt want to have kids growing up and talking weird from the get go (they usually do anyways)
i like also thinking about how rocky is probably so much different than everyone else. he not only spent 4 decades alone with no company, but then spent the next 8(?) or so years with a complete alien with VERY different cultures. he’s probably a lot different now. :3
trans bears are literally stronger than any US marine
How on earth would they be able to tell that a bear is trans. I’m not saying they can’t be but how would they communicate that.
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this is so fucking funny
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In like 1998 my very femme lesbian friend went to Pride in London and was all excited at the “teddy bears picnic” happening in one of the city parks. She took along a picnic hamper and her cuddly teddy bear. Needless to say, the large hairy gay men all thought she was adorable and she had a great time

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dr ryland "bad lab practice" grace
Project Hail Mary is likely to be to young teens what Pacific Rim was to me and my peers when we were young teens. A sci-fi movie that says hope is the way. Friendship is the way. Trust is the way. The end of the world is the best time to find out if you’re brave, and you are. Also I anticipate a whole gaggle of trans boys naming themselves Ryland.
I love love LOVE a platonic relationship between Rocky and Grace where neither of them are normal about each other.
They’re best friends but by both Earth and Eridian standards everyone is like “Oh wow, they’re… close-”
Like little to no cares about privacy around each other because, well, fuck you aren’t getting much of that on a spaceship for multiple years now are you?
Wherever one goes there’s a 50% chance the other will be there too.
Whenever Grace talks to another Eridian he uses some sort of portable instrument to communicate but with Rocky they just speak in two separate languages at each other. It’s like seeing someone speak to someone in only Chinese and the other person only responds back in English.
Would be funny if Eridians aren’t very touchy but Rocky is basically clingy as fuck when it comes to Grace. Always tugging on his pants like a toddler to get his attention and stuff.
Grace just using Rocky in either his ball, enclosure or his xenonite suit as a backrest while he’s grading or doing work or something, Rocky fully absorbed in his own thing. Sitting as close together as physically possible while having zero interaction with each other. Parallel play at it’s best.
These two come in a pair. Do not separate.
All of this and more, fully platonically, people wonder if they’re the world’s first weird inter solar system couple and if they’re in some weird polycule with Adrian but no, they’re just like that.
It’s just Rocky and the human he adopted as a permanent part of his family that he will spend every possible second of the rest of his short life with because he won’t be here forever and he’s not going to waste any of his time for the world.
Also Adrian still loves Rocky and isn’t quite as close to Grace as he is but is also very fond of the weird awkward alien their mate brought home because Grace is Rocky’s family and that makes Grace Adrian’s family too.
Ohhhhh, they started Superfan to cover the legal fees for this episode...
Today we were talking about how words can mean different things to different communities, and that people outside the community wouldn't understand. Like how a non-poker player wouldn't understand poker jargon the way other poker players would. Anyway, then my professor said he was gonna show us his "favourite example" and wrote a single word on the board that gave me instant psychic damage: beta.
Apparently sport climbers use this word with a meaning of "technique, method." But for a horrifying, horrifying second there was the possibility in my mind that we were gonna talk about ABO in my fucking linguistics class
Professor Betas Georg, who writes 50k omegaverse fics during office hours, boldy wrote "beta" on the board while observing which of his students went dead. still.
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