The Ghost Maestro

I've read so much good fanfiction that canon means absolutely NOTHING to me. Let me live in my own world.

imagine forcibly sending your second in command to space and erasing his memory and having made peace with it for 26 years but then you finally get the back the information that will save the world and you find out that he woke up all alone because the other two died on the way and he didn't know what was going on and he was so scared but he manages to make first contact and he figures it all out anyway AND he might be able to go home with the astrophysics the alien gives him and you feel a part of your heart that hasn't felt alive in decades start to beat again because he might come back in just a few months if what he's saying is right and then you watch the last log and it turns out he needs to go back to save an alien species and he is going to starve to death and you feel the grief all over again.

do you guys think that after grace died his area was filled with ammonia and the temperature was brought up so rocky could go in and hug him knowing that his body would be badly burned but doing it nonetheless just so he could actually and properly say goodbye to his best friend and thank him for everything he did for everyone and for rocky

Earth, finding out about MeBurgers™️: *intense online debates about the ethical ramifications of auto-cannibalism* Meanwhile, Ryland Grace, PhD, after half a decade of eating nothing but coma slurry, microorganisms, and synthesized vitamin drinks: give me the meburger right now or I WILL gnaw off my own arm while looking you in the eyes and that is a Threat