You Can't Compete With This Level of Random

Virgil: I was expecting "I'll fight them'

Well... Yes and no.

The last time Ryland Grace was CONSCIOUS of any human touch was when he was knocked out. Absolutely true.

But the last human contact he would have had was Yao and Ilyukhina. Who were told that he was scared about panicking during launch and asked to be sedated. Who did all the pre flight checks before the Hail Mary launched. Who would have carefully, gently carried Grace to his bed in the dormitory, made sure he was secure, and initiated his coma procedure.

There would have been love there. Remember Ilyukhina throwing her hands high and saying "welcome to crew!" Remember Yao saying how he hoped Grace would say yes. Remember how much the crew trusted Grace, Stratt's First Officer, the guy who helped them so much, and was so kind to them, and was the one who they entrusted their preferred methods of suicide to. Who thought they were wonderful and brave.

They would have tucked him in. Maybe brushed his hair out of his face. Maybe said something kind to him before initiating their own coma procedures.

example: we know he was institutionalized because of an aside in a coloring book. we know he’s on some kind of psychiatric medication from an aside in the DS game.

big eepers

bonus doodles:

im combining these bc it gave me an idea!

im not too attached to any one way they met, but pup named scooby doo is fun so why not have them meet as kids :) plus since they're kids, i think they'd be more open-minded to monsters/humans/ppl who aren't like them

so!! i think they'd all meet as kids, and either daphne fred n velma have already known theyre all monsters OR they all find out first and THEN shaggy and scooby are the only ones in the dark. maybe they solve a mystery or play together, and scooby keeps catching them doing monstery stuff, but everytime shaggy looks over it's normal.

eventually, though, the secret is revealed that theyre all monsters... but shaggy's had such a nice time with them that he doesn't mind! scooby follows soon after, and they all become friends who don't have to hide from eachother :)