Stardust

Okay, so I might be as late to these fandoms as possible as of today, but like—

Color coding, am I right? Like, Star Trek is parted three ways: Red for security and engineering, including communications, blue for science, including medicine, and gold/yellow for the pilots and the Captain.

In Project Hail Mary, you have the same thing basically; three people are sent to Tau Ceti, a pilot, an engineer and a scientist. Grace wears yellow throughout the whole thing because he's fated to become the pilot, too. Rocky is brown because he's originally the engineer, but has to take over the other departments, too, especially on Blip A. Adrian is a scientist, as the blue inlays in Rocky's carapace indicate. Stratt isn't assigned a color, because she never goes to space.

Coltlandgentry does this parting too: Grace as the scientist, Colt as the pilot and Captain (in the walking ahead sense), Six/Court as the engineer and the security and the diplomat. (The color partings are fuzzy, but you can see that.)

And, guess what, get this: Supernatural also functions like this. (I'm screaming.)

Sam wears blue, because he's the science guy. Cas also wears blue, because he's the doctor, healing powers and all. Dean wears red, because he's Baby's engineer. Charlie is red (I'd say, it's debatable) in the same sense as Uhura is, doing computer work. Bobby is brown, because he does everything. Crowley isn't assigned a color because he's not a hunter.

And who's yellow? Jack. Captain.

And why do we rather associate Dean with green? Is it his eyes? Or is it because, when they are three, he takes the role of Kirk, the role of ethos? (This color coding (blue, green, yellow) is also the reason why I keep thinking that Jack is more Dean's kid than Sam's, which is not true.)

They put the strange, non-human guy (Cas) in medical and the emotional, safe guy as second-in-command. Because they knew what would happen if they gave the strange guy a reason to be on the bridge with the green guy. Because they had seen Spock. But like McCoy, the guy with the supid nickname, Cas, the guy with the stupid nickname(s), nonetheless always found some dumb reason to be around the action. (And who gave them the nickname?? The green guy.)

Can you hear me thinking of roadkill to avoid manically laughing in public?

Also, here's the thing again where you can (have to) choose your gender, because last time, the time frame was too short, launch is later than we thought:

You mean this flow?

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT BE ABLE TO SPIN?!? ABOVE YOUR HEAD?!?

Court is the immovable object, Colt the unstoppable force, and Ryland bottles them up and lets them clash.

Engineer, Pilot and Scientist.

(Did you see Court fashioning that bomb out of shoelaces and gum in that well? Did you see Colt fly those cars? Did you see Ryland poking that first-ever-human-extraterrestrial-contact astrophage to death with a stick?)

Imagine Rocky being infected after a while, too, because the virus isn't stopped by xenonite walls. Rocky can see Noise, too, because it's somewhere between physical and telepathic. Imagine them showing each other their favorite memories.

Imagine them trying to land on Erid but the Eridians don't want the infection so they can't set foot on the surface. Imagine them traveling back to earth only to be told to build a colony on the moon or Mars instead of touching down. Imagine them, the saviours of two worlds, stranded in between.

Imagine them traveling to New World, hoping to be welcome there. Imagine them finding a home with the last Spackle.

(Gimme fanart of thatttt, like, immediately. Please?)

It's not Cas, the Angel, but Rocky, the Eridian. (To me, that makes platonic Destiel-equivalent, of course.)

"I cared about the whole world because of you."

It's the Hail Mary, not because of the sport-thing but because of their mother, Mary, who they think was killed by an Eridian (that's not true). Colt, the pilot, calls her Baby because of the resemblance to his old earth car, a 1967 Chevrolet Impala.

"There's no such thing as aliens."

"That the problem, Grace have no faith."

Them sacrificing themselves for each other...

The three-claw mark on Grace's arm... "Rocky grabbed tight and raised from perdition Grace, statement."

And so on.

Eselsbrücke ("donkey bridge"):

It's Tau-, like Tau Ceti, like the German word "Tau" for dew. And -moeba because it comes from amoeba, which in German is spelled "Amöbe", with that funny o-Umlaut that looks like a surprised face, which we used to spell "oe" in many words and still do in crosswords. (I like to spell it with a capital letter at the beginning because it's a special word and it reminds you that it's a fictional thing. I don't know if that's normal for English. Don't think that's normal for German, kids! We spell all nouns with a capital letter!)

Justus: Ordnungszwang, verbunden mit dem Drang nach vollständigem Wissen; Lippe-kneten-Tic, Autismus, Hochbegabung

Peter: vor allem Zwangsgedanken, Spiralen von einer Angst in die nächste, verschiedene Phobien; ADHS, beständiger Bewegungsdrang

Bob: Zwanghafte Vorbereitung auf alles Erdenkliche; dauerhaftes Brilleputzen; Gedankenspiralen darüber, was passieren könnte, wenn er nicht gründlich genug recherchiert; die Nachwirkungen von Hypnose und Gehirnerschütterungen, aka Schwindel, Desorienierung und Erinnerungslücken

Skinny: Hat der je etwas getan, das Struktur hatte, oder an sich gezweifelt?; Nachwirkungen von Kadettenschule (oder was das war) und von der Folter mit Elektroschocks... und wahrscheinlich auch von einem queerfeindlichen Elternhaus

Morton: Reinheitszwang, Ordnungszwang

Hugenay: pathologisches Stehlen ("Kleptomanie"); Hochbegabung (konstant unterfordert) (Wie soll der im Gefängnis bitte klarkommen? Der kriegt sofort 'ne Depression.)

Onkel Titus: Hortenzwang, kommt damit aber inzwischen klar; stark introvertiert

Cotta: Ist er nicht eigentlich genau wie Stottlemeyer?, leichte Aggressionsprobleme