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東歐百合組

In the book, Eva most probably gets thrown to the ground by the explosion. As soon as she recovers, the very first person she calls out to is Grace, asking if he's okay.

Alright, maybe that's just because she knows he's the closest person to her.

But that's not what sticks with me.

What sticks with me is what she does next.

She physically goes to him before reaching for her radio to find out what actually happened.

And I kept asking myself: why?

Grace already answered. He said he was alright.

So why not grab the radio immediately? Why not assess the situation first?

Why did she have to go to him?

Because she needed to make sure he was actually okay.

Because she needed to see with her own eyes that he was still there.

Because maybe, no matter what had just happened, she knew she could deal with it as long as he was still there.

Before anything else, she needed to know that Grace was safe.

I actually can't with Eva.

Then there's the movie.

There's a small movement Sandra Hüller makes that you could interpret as Stratt checking on Ryland for a split second before she runs toward the explosion.

But what really gets me is Ryland.

Stratt takes off running without a second thought. It's dangerous. They don't even know what happened yet, but she runs toward the explosion like her life depends on it.

And Grace follows her.

This is the same man who's defined by his fear. The same man who believes he's a coward. The same man who couldn't willingly sacrifice himself for humanity.

Yet when Eva runs straight toward danger...

...he runs after her.

It's the first time we see him willingly throw himself into a dangerous situation without her forcing him or cornering him into it.

It's his own choice.

His instinct isn't to run away.

His instinct is to follow her.

(I love your style!)

Kriegsbringer

This is based off of Hans Thoma's painting "Mars" from 1906

The first time they have to use it (over something stupid like a tiny ammonia leak), Grace wakes up to like three different foghorns and a hundred camera flashes going off at once and is like HOLY GEEZ THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US

(eta if someone with art talent wants to make this a proper eridian welcoming committee comic please do!)

based on @justcakethanks' eridian welcome committee

“bless you” origins

Imagining carl bringing up that eyesight can change over time on the jet flight back and eva turning their plane around, marching back into the building, and changing her order because god forbid her scientist isn’t able to see all his important science stuff.

Imagining grace floating around with cracked glasses that don’t really work that well for most of his flight back to erid until he digs to the bottom of the storage area and finds a small pack with like 6 pairs of glasses with slightly different prescriptions.

But then one day, later on early in their time on Erid, Rocky and Adrain are watching over him while he sleeps, only for Grace to go ‘hello?’ And it startles him awake, and then for the rest of the day they are trying to convince him that no, Grace, you said hello and woke yourself up! Rocky and Adrian did not wake you!!