Goths, Ghouls, and Ghosts Oh My!

Like, let this man be gross and monstrously mutated, let Grace have his gentle mutated boyfriend. Such sadge.

THAT'S WHY I'M WRITING MY OWN!!! Chapter Two of "The Beauty in The Ugly" is now available to read on my wattpad!!

He understands that their circumstances were absolutely shit and people only wanted to survive. Hell, he gave hope to the COI to find the Black Box so they can find answers. He knows (now) Eden was a cult and was likely driven by desperation before crumbling into despair after the Last Tree died.

However there will also be a part of him that hates the COI and Eden because of the amount of trauma they put him through. Theres always the impulsive nature that hates them both and wants to see them crash and burn, despite understanding they're all humans that wanted to survive a shitty universe that was crumbling.

I just want to live. Is that so wrong? Why doesn't anybody else want that?

I think that Bloodymary also broke a cliche I had see around in ships or dynamics between a scientist and a religious person that is making the scientist to hate humanity and the religious person to have faith in them, that love them. However, with Grace and Simon the roles are inverse.

Simon may be a religious man, or at least once he was, but he struggles to have faith in humanity thanks to all what he has live, in the start of Iron Lung he doesn't think that they can be save, nor the stars or planets, he even gets to think that they dissapear not the stars, and that they have got lost without remedy. It isn't until the end of the movie after he has time reflect and see value in life that he gets to accept that the little hope the information that the blackbox of the SM-8 will bring to humanity is more valuable that his own life.

Grace is a scientist, a man who life is dedicated to discovery, logic and science, but yet he has a blindly faith and love in humanity and life in general. I think in part this is thanks to his job as a teacher, in which he was faithful for the future that his students were going to build. In the book and movie Grace has faith in people in a way that is almost painful, which leads to many of his scenes with Stratt in which he can't understand completly Stratt's coldness, because he can't picture seeing the world as she does. When he wakes up in the Hail Mary he is sure that he was there voluntarily, because he could not even imagine otherwise, he in a way have faith in the version of himself that he thought had accepted to be part of the crew. However, when he realizes that he was sent against his will that faith crumbles, making him question the mission, himself and even humanity. Of course in the end his love for humanity and life is what keeps him going.

Bonus points if bloodymary’s already a thing but either

1. Ryland’s brothers don’t know.

Or,

Some doodles :)

Touch-starved Simon is everything to me raaahhhh

TW: animal abuse

I did NOT plan to deal with 10 img limit but alas, the story is gonna be abit more jumbled than I anticipated but Ill find a way for it to work

SIMON THE BUTCHER U ARE

Sometime after the canon Simon FreakOut, Simon realized that he can use this to his advantage in an attempt to court Grace.

For Example:

Rocky: Grace spend too much time with Simon!

Grace: Rocky, we’ve talked about this. Simon is very clearly a species where he needs skin to skin contact on the daily or he doesn’t feel well

Simon, literally holding Grace on top of him: *in eel speak(?)* ~yep, totally need that. It’s not just cuz I get crabby when you don’t cuddle me~

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Grace, thinking aloud: your species must be such social creatures! I can’t imagine a whole planet filled with people who have the need to cuddle daily!

Simon: ~Yes…social creatures…~

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Grace, seeing Simon wearing the harness: oh! Is that a cultural thing? For modesty? Would you be more comfortable if I wore one?

Simon, quite literally foaming at the mouth at that idea: ~YES PLEASE~

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It’s even better if, for whatever reason, Rocky can understand Simon’s eel language but doesn’t say a thing because Grace clearly needs the contact that Rocky can’t provide

That doesn’t mean he’s happy about it, though

Rocky: Simon hog Grace, statement.

Simon: ~Cry about it~

Rocky: *rolls over his foot*

Simon: ~You son of a—!~

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Rocky, watching them cuddle* Simon is little baby

Simon: ~I will kill you~

Rocky: Rocky like to see Simon try, statement.

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Grace, watching them talk to each other while Rocky had turned off the translator: I wonder what they’re talking about, maybe their species can become friends!

Rocky, to Simon: Little bitch boy!

Simon: ~stone faced little asshole!~

Rocky: Clingy sad man!

Simon: ~Jealous rock head!~

Rocky: Ugly fish boy!