The final cuntier

murderbot: im so good at not making faces 95% of the time its basically my job

A quick bloodymary sketch

We NEED to talk about this scene because it shape-shifts when you watch the movie a second time???

On your first viewing, when Grace leaves the party to join Stratt on the deck, you’ve been following Grace's POV for the whole movie. You can feel how he's trying to break the ice and connect with Stratt via humor: "Permission to come aboard, captain?🫡"

And Stratt being Stratt kills the joke immediately: "You’re already aboard." And by killing that joke she also kills his attempt at connecting with her. That's her thing. You feel it in the knock-knock scene and you feel it here because Grace is feeling it. He stammers and he's nervous ("Talk too much, that's my problem, like right now"). His attempt at human connection is painfully unrequited (again).

When you finish the movie, you learn, however, that that is not true at all. You hear Stratt's voice crack when she has to do what she has to do, and you realize how her carefully constructed armor fractures because of him. He is not nothing to her.

And when you (inevitably) watch the movie again, and your POV is not limited to Grace's anymore but you can shift your view to Stratt ever so slightly, then suddenly the whole connecting-via-jokes business drops away to make room for the metaphorical meaning of "coming aboard".

"It is okay to be in your space? Am I allowed to be closer to you?"

And her answer?

He is already in her space, behind her defenses, and he doesn't even realize it (blissfully unaware about SO many things in fact). He is asking to be allowed inside the house while standing in the damn living room.

Of course watching a movie a second time will always deepen your understanding of the characters, but it's remarkable that Stratt's answer does not just gain a more differentiated level of meaning. Instead, it is transformed into it's opposite, from a very clear "I am not letting you in" to an equally clear "You've come in uninvited a long time ago", and both can be true at the same time!

anime girl pose

through the pain of being sick

he’s just outta there

(Thank you @star-critter, @ironthingcreation, and @attorney-gender-al for the inspiring comments and tags!)

There must always be three puppeteers, to represent the three man crew that were on the Hail Mary/the sacrifice of humanity. Grace might have lived, but all three of the humans were sent to die.

The singing voice for Grace is traditionally done by a pebble. Because a pebble is the only one that can get the right pitch and limited vocal range of a human. Every Pebble ever cast to play Grace gets a pair of ‘glasses’ to wear. (This kicks off a fashion trend in Erid youth of stylized glasses worn like jewelry) 

Any time Grace is in the scene, a heart beat is constantly heard and is at the tempo of a how at rest or active Grace’s would have been at this moment. To represent what Rocky remembers hearing at that time. Whenever Grace went on a space walk outside the ship, the ever constant heart beat of the play would stop, leaving Rocky alone again. It would only start again when Grace returned from the airlock.

When Grace sings of his lost memory, it’s in a very haunting way. It’s a horrifying idea to eridians to awaken to a blank mind. Eridians have perfect memories. Any Erid that doesn’t is incredibly rare and usually actively dying or horrifically injured.