Hey :)

I really wanna digitalise these later😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Absolutely fair!

The hard part here is the opposite—what headcanons do I have left that I haven’t been posting incessantly for the past three months XD

I’ve given Carl the headcanonical name Carl Weaver. He comes from NASA, an administrator/management role there similar to Eva Stratt in her position as an ESA administrator. They met very early on after the discovery of the Petrova line and the conclusive proof that the sun was dimming and that these things were related. Stratt was the leader of the ESA’s Petrova Taskforce at the very beginning, before anyone had even started proposing solutions yet, let alone settled on any. Stratt was representing the ESA in a meeting with NASA about getting a probe to Venus ASAP to see what the Petrova Line actually even was, and Carl was the person there who seemed, to her, to actually truly understand what an existential threat this was going to be. The one person she talked to who seemed to realize that this would not be a quick fix, that this was going to alter the world in unrecognizeable ways forever. Even among the panic and frenetic work by the other scientists on the early Petrova Taskforce trying to figure out what the hell this was and what they were even dealing with, there was this sense to her that… it just wasn’t sinking in for them. What this was going to mean. In Carl she saw someone who got it. And it scared him as much as it scared her, and because of that rather than despite it he was ready to actually face what had to be done about it for the long haul, and that’s when the global Petrova Taskforce 2.0 was truly born.

Stratt saw the implications rolling out ahead of humanity very early, before anyone else was willing to emotionally grapple with it. In Carl Weaver she found someone else who was also actually seeing the long-term vision and was willing to commit to what needed to be done about it, way past just launching this probe real fast.

Stratt had hoped she’d found the same thing in Grace—a glimmer of something fierce and brave and seeing what the future held and refusing to let that happen—and was just. Perpetually frustrated and disappointed that he refused to be that man again after those first astrophage trials.

Carl was the one Stratt planned to hand over the keys to the project to if/when anything happened to her. But she expected Grace to be there, too. Carl gets her and she kept trying to get through to Grace, kept hoping that it would finally click and he would get her too. She does want to be understood! To have the people she’s been trusting with the fate of the world more than she trusts pretty much anybody else understand what that means! And Carl does, and Grace keeps refusing to. And it hurts. Because they were all kind of supposed to be a team, together at the end of the world after the Hail Mary launched, and. well. that was not allowed to happen.

Gimli: "It's true you don't see many dwarf women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for dwarf men. And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf women, and that dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!"

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