grace and rocky would make constant love confessions hidden underneath their language barrier.
grace has the usefulness of english's ambiguity with regards to the meaning of 'love.' he can just say 'i love you' and tack a buddy or bro on the end and that makes it platonic. but he also has many, many pop culture references that rocky doesn't know about which he can use too. things like 'as you wish,' 'i'd be happy just doing laundry and taxes with you,' 'you had me at the tiny hail mary model.'
rocky obviously has the fact that he can fully speak in tones grace can't hear at all. and the fact that eridians can have multiple conversations simultaneously. so what he's saying About grace is essentially 'you are the miracle i longed for while all alone in the void. you have saved me and my people. whenever i think about how short your life will be my whole body aches' but what he's saying To grace is 'can you pass the wrench through the airlock thank.' plus eridian cultural norms like giving grace a tiny piece of his carapace that grace wears as a necklace. in front of other eridians, eventually. who are politely not mentioning it while simultaneously gossipping with EVERYONE at a frequency grace can't hear, while he's in the same room.
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the carlgrace baby is a real human baby - a quantum entangled baby!*
she just, appears in carl's room on the day the hail mary is launched. carl is like ??? i have. enough going on without a BABY??? WHOSE BABY IS THIS??? WE LIVE ON A CLASSIFIED RUSSIAN BLACK SITE AND STRATT IS GETTING ARRESTED TOMORROW???
SOMEONE NEEDS TO FESS UP TO THE MYSTERY BABY.
anyway in all the chaos, carl ends up smuggling the baby out of russia and home to america - specifically to death valley. he wants her to have as normal an upbringing as she can have on a cooling planet.
he calls her gracie because as far as he's concerned his friend died to save them all, and grace deserves to be remembered. (and carl deserves to be reminded every time he looks at her why he stood back and let them take grace down.)
he raises her for around four years in peace. he still doesn't know whose baby this is, but the world is changing, and he understands now how people end up abandoning children they don't know how to care for ... even if he hates whoever gracie's parents are all the same. he thinks about trying to find out, but the people on the project typically weren't the kind of people who had their dna on 23&me, and genetic genealogy is a struggling field in a world entering another ice age.
one day, gracie disappears.
carl is distraught. he tries to find her, but the systems that exist to help look for missing children are barely hanging on by a thread, let alone for a little black girl with a single father. so it's just him.
what carl does not know is that gracie just found herself aboard the hail mary, smack bang in front of a guy who just woke up from a coma.
grace is flabbergasted. WHO PUT A BABY ON THIS SPACESHIP??? who put HIM on a spaceship?? and the kid's not helping him figure that one out! she's four. she can barely explain that she's looking for her dad and she keeps crying. WAIT, HER NAME IS GRACE?
if i had a nickle for every time a confused person named grace woke up on the hail mary ...
anyway, after a day, gracie disappears again. grace puts that one down to a REALLY intense just-woke-up-from-a-coma hallucination.
gracie reappears in her room, in her house, and carl finds her straight away because she's crying, and he puts the whole thing down to kids wandering off and getting into the weirdest places.
the next day gracie disappears again.
and grace has to deal with the hallucination baby being back on his space ship. it takes a few days, but grace realises she's not a hallucination when he sees footage of her on mary's monitors. so he starts investigating** - he's able to determine she's human, yay! and then he determines. he's her biological father? nope. definitely not. contaminated a sample or something. linda? what is he saying, linda was white. and that doesn't even make sense timeline wise. how the fu-
the status quo continues for approximately two weeks ... until carl manages to get out of gracie the fact that she's met a nice man named grace (he was scary-looking at first but he showed her the little mermaid in a big circle room and he lives on a spaceship!)
so. the next time gracie is due to disappear, carl tucks a letter into her pocket, and hopes for the best.
*i've been watching physics videos on youtube for weeks about quantum entanglement and i still don't understand fuckall, we're basically doctor who style sciencing this one. aka it's basically magic.
**working with the assumption that the hail mary has the equipment necessary to sequence dna because tbh it should, right?
rocky finding out about Rare leaking events because grace gets a nose bleed and then he's like i didn't know That was supposed to come out of There and grace says well it's not really Supposed to but sometimes it does. and rocky's like. where does it end. when does it ever stop. the fluids can just come out of anywhere???? any hole????? and grace explains well not any hole and also you can sort of tell how bad things are by the color sometimes??? which is horrifying because rocky can't SEE color. and then every time they're getting freaky with it and grace has an orgasm rocky has to stop and check the viscosity by vibrating it between his fingers and be like what color is it. be specific. is it red. is it green question. and grace is like. this is the worst pillow talk in the whole entire universe and i can actually say that as a qualified expert. and rocky says expert. be serious. two humans an one eridian does not make you an expert. so grace just has to be like. my semen is white.
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If it's during disciple days, he might be able to sense binghe's spiritual energy and help guide him into forming his foundation, at which point lbh will notice that something is up and eventually fall in love with the sy flea sucking his blood... Eventually by feeding flea sy enough spiritual energy-dense blood sy might be able to cultivate a human form and get wifed up
if its in binghe's post-blackening harem era, SY would probably figure out a way to whisper about any enemies in court that are trying to shmooze up to the demon empreror before striking at his back. binghe would soon fall in love as SY soothes him that he doesnt think binghe is an evil irredeemable monster with his little flea body, and binghe soon feels he should get his little flea darling a real life body. ensue plot where binghe gets his own way
ryland grace is aroace on earth because he's never been attracted to a human. then he ends up discovering that he's actually very demiaroace when he starts feeling strange things about a rock alien and is like Oh my Effing Heck people weren't kidding. they weren't doing a bit. this attraction stuff really does make you feel fully insane in the entire brain. what the hey. what the gosh darn hey
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Rocky and Grace probably have so much blackmail they could use on each other if they wanted to. like they spent years isolated together on the trip to Erid they’ve no doubt seen each other at their weirdest
Rocky pisses Grace off one day so while they’re in the company of friends he randomly blurts out “did you know Rocky was naked for the entire trip home? I didn’t even know you guys wore clothes until we were in orbit”
spiritually, pre-launch grace is a twig to me. but the infinitely funnier option is that he has amassed gosling levels of brawn because he still frequently gets pissed off at his students and coworkers and his primary anger management strategy is gym. he can swallow it down but only for so long. and if his routine gets interrupted for whatever reason the other teaching staff will eventually notice and someone will pull him aside and go "hey not to be insensitive but youre being kind of a bitch. unrelated question, when was the last time you punched stuff recreationally?"
I'm the one thinking about how Rocky's crew might have always joked about him dying first if something happened to the ship because he's the one close to their bomb of a fuel.
Hua Cheng : I have all those cute symbolic things that remind me of His Highness like the pearl, the umbrella or the tattoo on my arm 😊
Xie Lian : So, I have this silk my parents used to hang themselves, this sword people stabbed me with a hundred times and two cursed shackles to remind me of that one time I attempted mass murder
Grace as an adult doesn’t give me “neglected by his parents as a kid” vibes like I’ve been seeing in a lot of headcanons. He gives me “raised by his grandparents” vibes.
Which to me makes more sense than his parents being absentee and then passing away when he’s an adult. I feel like they died when he was a child and his grandparents raised him with a great love of academia before passing of old age when he was older.
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i know we’re not exactly taking andy weir’s word as gospel or anything, but. thinking about that interview where he basically implies rocky wasn’t all that special on the blip-a. he’s a brilliant engineer, but he wasn’t first engineer. first engineer probably wouldn’t stay holed up in their workshop anyway — they’d be moving about the ship monitoring and fixing things. consulting with leadership and such. eridians are social and communal problem-solvers, so the engineering department is itself a small thrum, contributing their own sub-specialties, being extra hands when needed.
rocky’s like, third engineer. he’s quick and creative but he’s also bossy, impatient, and blunt; not really leader material! he thinks of himself as a cog in the machine and appreciates the freedom it gives him. plus he’s a bit neurotic, and flinches at the thought of having authority because that means everyone else will answer for his fuckups. noooo thank you. he’s content to be in the background and good at his job.
