Hello

I thought Grace would already be freaky with just the ability to perceive light alone but it would probably be way worse when it gets learnt that he has three additional senses over Rocky and all other Eridians for that matter.

Like,

Rocky: Constructing the biodome will be easy. The only thing we'll struggle on is sight since humans have 3 senses instead of 2.

Grace: 5.

Rocky: what?

Grace: we have 5 senses. debatably 6, though its unproven. sometimes people even think we have a 7th.

See it from her perspective: Stratt was conscripted into Project Hail Mary just as much as Grace or any of the other scientists who work for her. She has complied without complaint, even though it means putting thousands of deaths on her conscience, even though she knows she’ll be villainized by history, even though she suspects she’ll be imprisoned for life if not executed after launch. She sacrifices herself because it is what must be done to have the best chance of saving humanity. And when she asks Grace to make a similar sacrifice, he refuses. He refuses even though, unlike her, he won’t have to sacrifice his conscience and, unlike her, he’ll be remembered as a hero.

Now obviously, Grace deserved to choose his own fate and what Stratt did was wrong. She knows that. But she also sees Grace as astoundingly selfish for choosing himself over the entirety of humanity (even if some of that choice was motivated by a lack of self confidence) and, on a personal level, for refusing to see things from her perspective and sacrifice himself to spare her one more death on her conscience. Grace is betrayed when the closest thing he has to a friend murders him. Stratt is betrayed when the closest thing she has to a friend forces her into the role of murderer.

A mini PHM comic about Grace growing old. I wanted to explore two ideas: Rocky dealing with Grace’s dementia and Grace wanting to donate his body to science. I spend so much time on figuring out the dialogue (some part still feel clunky to me) but I hope it express my thoughts on where I think Grace’s life would go :)

This was where my mind was the whole time soz gang

Not to mention Zuko calling a man attractive and Sokka saying Zuko has a beautiful face

You cannot study STEM without the arts, and you cannot study humanities without the sciences. In that tiny capsule we sent to the moon, we sent physicists who are also photographers. We sent poets who are pilots.

We sent experts on exact scientific maneuvers who also express precise emotion and experience that will be quoted for decades. They play with a stuffed moon in the background of a broadcast and have Chappell Roan as their wakeup music. They drove around the far side of the moon.