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so when simon, absolutely traumatised from his Big Blood Holiday and missing an arm, is brought aboard, he refuses to speak to grace. not because he can't but because he doesn't trust for a moment that this is real. it's clearly enough one of the blood eel's tricks, and if simon starts talking to it again, more fucked up shit is going to happen

grace ofc takes this in his stride because hey, its not like he remembers what's normal around here, he doesn't even remember his own damn name. and he's more than willing to speak enough for both of them

so he yaps about what he does remember (and for the sake of Plot let's say the computer doesn't tell him his name, like in the book, but also he's free to access all areas of the ship, like in the film) which is mostly that they're in space and there's this stuff called astrophage eating the stars

simon gets really animated when grace mentions that so grace figures, okay, we have the same astrophage problem, let's see if we can solve it together

also i like to imagine that grace, after explaining his memory loss to simon, goes by a new name every day in search for the Right One. he has the entire Internet to look through after all, eventually one of them will fit right?

so at the beginning of every day he greets simon, tells him his new name, and simon will wish him good morning via the whiteboard grace so handily has on board. as they know each other for longer, simon gets much braver at sassing grace for his name choices

"morning! feeling like Bernard today, what do ya think?"

simon, after scribbling on his whiteboard for a couple minutes: makes you sound old. so it's probably correct

and of course grace would ask simon what his name is, but simon is so reluctant to tell him. the last time he said his name out loud, some kind of eldritch being used it to get in his head, and then he got ava killed. it must have some kind of bad omen attached right?? he's only just beginning to trust this man and believe he's real, he doesn't want to get him killed just because simon is bad luck

so instead he hesitantly writes 'Convict' down and after grace finishes inwardly freaking out about potentially bringing a space prisoner onboard, he decides, no! this guy isn't going to be called Convict! not on his watch! and shoves the names list in from of him until he picks something less dehumanising.

and simon, who can't relate any of the names in here because he knows what it should be, decides fuck it and writes down Connor Victor with a smirk and grace is so taken aback by the playfulness and the shine in simons eyes that he doesn't even fight him on choosing names as close to Convict as possible, and instead starts referring to him as Con

just give me two people trapped up in space together, figuring out their identities by helping each other. and once they discover rocky he's more than happy to help grace work out his name. he throws in some eridian options which grace can't even attempt to mimic but he tries all the same, and inwardly simon's nickname for grace is ray, like ray of light, cos how the fuck can someone be this positive and energetic when they know they're going to die

eventually grace remembers his name of course. maybe around the same time he remembers that stratt had him drugged and forced onto the mission. to him 'Ryland Grace' represents someone who was too cowardly to do something that would save his planet — someone who was too scared

and he cries for the life he was forced to leave behind, and his kids that have long since grown up, and for the names that don't fit right on him anymore, and that rocky never knew the truth about what a coward he'd actually been

and Connor or Victor or hell, fudging Convict is there rubbing his back and making these shushing noises which is honestly quite endearing, and then there's a quiet moment as grace is calming down and he just hears "Simon." whispered next to him

he whips his head round and simon is giving him a shy smile and then they're hugging or kissing or just being next to each other, and then the taumobea are leaking through the xeonite and they have to save rocky

simon of course thinks this is his fault for saying his name out loud but grace shuts that down real quick, and tells him that they will save rocky. simon tells him that he isn't very good at being a coward

then rocky is saved and the earth is saved and simon is saved and living with grace in erid

Leon S. Kennedy/Luis Serra

944 words | Gen | cw: smoking, scars

ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/82394521

Leon finally comes home to his husband. They kiss about it.

Leon can see the smoke curling away from the balcony long before he sees the man responsible. It spirals gently in the evening air, a coil of twisting white that's breathed to life by Luis' lungs, before dissipating entirely. The sun sinking low over the horizon glints off the simple gold band wrapped safely around Luis' finger, the burnt orange of the sky matched only by the orange burning at the end of the cigarette.

would you give up your brothers to do the right thing?

would you give up your freedom for the cause?

would you kill just to be the one that makes it out alive?

would you give up your only escape for answers?

would you give up your body in the aid of something bigger?

would you give up your life in the hope of giving humanity another chance?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79861451

Relationship: The Convict | Simon/Jack

Summary: 'Before Jack can make any further moves, the sub begins to shake. A dreadful, familiar, grinding crunch of metal fills the air as the hangar doors open and the chains suspending the SM-13 above that roiling bloody sea begin to lower.

They’re going down. Jack is going down.'

i can't stop thinking about a mike wheeler who is trapped in his own mind, forced into Normal Life by vecna whilst also slowly becoming increasingly aware that Something Is Wrong™

songs seem to speak to him directly, begging for a realisation. a sign. for him to wake up. his friends aren't quite Right in ways that keep him up at night, cataloguing their reactions, going over their speech patterns. all the things they say but more importantly the things they don't

all his friends' personalities copy and pasted over the top of cardboard cut out people who laugh and cry without it reaching their eyes

posters around his room seem to change every day but he never removes them. never puts new ones up. will's painting is always on the wall and isn't it funny that he never thought of it as el's painting. going near it makes him feel sick and hopeful and as though he doesn't have permission for it to be there

whose permission?

every hour of the day passes by with a molasses like quality but the days pour through his hands like sand and what year is it?? he graduated yesterday, two weeks ago, five months ago, a year ago, but it's 1987 and he hasn't graduated yet. 1987? does he remember that year?

they don't talk about anything before 1989. was there anything before then? he wakes up in the middle of a conversation with will and his mouth is moving and will is smiling but that's not Will

he remembers will. he knows will. he knew when it wasn't Will's body being pulled from the lake and he knew when it was the mindflayer talking through will's mouth and now he knows that this cardboard cut out copy pasted Fake isn't Will

where is will? where is el?

where is mike?