There's a grace in space

I'll give you my best shot

Y'all cant trust me when I say im going to make good drawings because then I dont

no one expects him to do this, not even himself but there is Danger (tm) and she did not respond quick enough for his taste so she is now in his arms/over a shoulder, and they are getting out of here expeditiously.

After this? The protection detail has to reevaluate Grace completely, eventually sticking him into a special category that's about 85% "VIP normal civilian, high-value target, to be protected", 5% "minor trouble-magnet" (because Grace is a Protagonist and also not scared of mouthing off to people, and he's potentially vulnerable to any kind of 'pull on his heartstrings to lure him away from the group and get kidnapped' ploy), and 10% "emergency getaway runner for Stratt in the event that things REALLY go to shit".

Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 1/?

Bonus:

Like. Imagine one of the scientists studying Astrophage gives Grace a paper detailing their recent findings and Grace being locked in on something else, he just looks up, skims the paper, then pulls out a red pen from somewhere and marks it, “B+, you forgot to account for…” then after a 5 minute lecture on how to improve, he goes back to typing or smth. The scientist just standing there baffled thinking ‘B+? What are we in? A classroom?”, and kind of bum hurt that they only got a B+ (bc ofc they want an A) so they go back to researching with a new ferocity cuz dammit they’re going to get that A. Cue the science team being fueled by Dr.Grace’s grades, them just rubbing it into each others faces if they get A’s or A+’s. Headcanon 2 is that he just keeps gold star stickers in his pockets so for example: All of them are in a meeting, Dr. smth pipes up with a good suggestion and he goes, “Great job! You get a gold star.” And just puts it on their phone case or badge and moves on, everyone is flabbergasted and a bit jealous except for the scientist who is just vibrating with happiness and a bit of fear because the co-dictator of the world just gave them a gold star.

Extra: Grace also hits Stratt with the 1 2 punch of “A+! Here’s a gold star.” On one of her presentations after staying up for 36+ hours and slaps a gold star on her forehead before conking out on the desk. Carl is in the corner desperately trying not to laugh bc Grace just did this in front of the entire Petrova task force while Stratt is just staring at him in confused amusement. Extra-extra: The mess hall on Stratt’s Vat has a ‘Fridge-board” which is a magnetic board acting as a fridge for all of their papers with A’s on it. Grace just being mortified when he learns that he’s been grading and giving gold stars to the top minds of the world and Stratt having to assure him that is boosts morale and that it’s fine.

(Once he gets sent off to space, everyone in the task force keeps their stars to remember him, because he never said goodbye.)

We know that Grace is always going on about how talented and skilled Rocky is, but there's a line in the book I feel I should bring up.

"You have idea already. Not question. I know you. You have idea already. Tell idea."

-page 396

Rocky thinks exactly the same about Grace and his science skills. He has just as much unwavering trust in his capacity to think their way out of a problem as Grace has in Rocky's engineering skills.