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"how can grace live longer in the salvastra au?" uhhh fun alien chemicals or something also do you know what's reeeally funny about chemistry-

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Grace and Rocky pick up... The President of the Galaxy?
Rocky and Grace pick up some hitchhikers
Lesson #13 telepathy!
***Edit 1 I hate the new google!! It gave me a completely wrong definition of what I was looking for sorry for any confusion Balistomorph is wrong
*** Edit 2 telekinesis (I’m dumb)
This post is a mess I’m genuinely sorry
By very very popular demand here is throwing things!! I hope I did it justice if not I’ll do a part two! :D
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Grace, your friend is an apex predator.
Eridians dont know about time relativity and people are NOT talking about it enough imagine sending a person on a dangerous mission like 70 years ago and when they finally come back and they look like they only aged 10 of those years and tell you "oh yeah time just works different there" when you have no concept of that that is INSANE rocky explaining radiation to eridian scientists (already insane concept) and going "oh yeah btw time works differently in space" "what" "time works differently in space. what we thought would be a 16 years trip was only a 4 year trip for me, the solarians call it something like time-depending-of-position-in-space, is pretty trippy" "....WHAT"
Based off this post by @7-inches-of-satanic-panic
Something that I wanted to add to Mikey's original design was his stickers. April just happened to have a few. Eridians can't see colors, so all Mikey sees are the shapes, he still likes them a lot!
I want to make more comics related to the plot of the movie (spoilers), so if you haven't seen it I recommend you do! it's really good!
oh damn it also only clicked with me now. Rocky insisting on giving Grace the astrophage fuel to get home, actually saves fucking,,, everyone. Like that one act of kindness, that one insistence of "no I will not let my friend die like this". "I could not save my crew but I sure as hell will save you." and that changes everything. this movie makes me unwelllllll
Like. Rocky gives Grace to fuel to go home, at the cost of reaching Erid 6 years slower. So, Grace starts the journey back with the samples, instead of just sending them back on drones and waiting to die - crucially, this allows him to realise that the samples are escaping their containers (and destroying/eating his fuel). If he had just sent the samples back in the drones by themselves, before containing them in something else, who knows if they would have reached earth intact. Grace would never have known that both missions have failed, leaving both him and Rocky to die alone in their respective ships.
Instead. Because Rocky gave that fuel to Grace, Grace can safely send the samples to Earth, return to Rocky, save him from the contamination of the samples (and the radiation goddammit), therefore also saving all of Eridian. Just because Rocky was like fuck you, you're going home. wow.
kindness and mercy come so NATURALLY to him too.
like in the book he actually has a hard time understanding why grace does not assume rocky will perform acts of kindness, like the fuel tank fix. I will never be over the fuel tank fix so now we're talking about the fuel tank fix, they gloss over it in the movie and I really hope that was just because it was cut for time and there's a deleted scene somewhere that shows Grace trying to clean out the fuel tanks from the initial taumoeba leak on the way back to the Blip-A from Adrian (which was also cut from the movie) and he can't get one of them clean so he has to eject a third fuel bay after losing two over Adrian and now he doesn't have the space to store enough fuel to get home before he runs out of food.
And Rocky's only explanation for why Grace would assume that he would leave the system without making sure Grace was actually going to make it back to Earth okay is that Grace was literally too tired to remember that Rocky's his friend and that he knows how to make a goddamn fuel tank. Like Rocky spends so little time thinking about it he immediately jumps to ''when was the last time you slept'' after he finds out why Grace is huffing and puffing about. You know. Potentially still starving to death in space after everything. Rocky doesn't even get the idea after asking clarifying questions like with the astrophage he just immediately jumps to "uh, duh, obviously I'm going to make you more fuel tanks. The fuck did you think I was going to do, leave you here, question?"
And it's a really good dichotomy between the loss of autonomy and like, working together and being dependent on others for survival. Because we're social creatures, we're all dependent on each other in some capacity and like. Like nearly every time Rocky has to step in to save Grace's life (with the exception of the last time he has to do that but I'm getting to that) it's because Grace has lost his autonomy in some way.
Like it's the result of another living thing, it's either Stratt forcing him onto the Hail Mary, or the astrophage spinning them out over Adrian, or the taumoeba embedding itself into Grace's fuel tank.
And just like how Grace's last act of mercy decouples the idea of mercy and luxury because the thing that lets Rocky's initial kindness chain react into saving two planets isn't abundance, it's the beetles, which were solely made out of the desperate fight or flight need to survive, Rocky's last act of mercy decouples autonomy from independence/isolation.
When Grace gets to Erid he's completely dependent on Rocky and the team he puts together for survival. But he also has more autonomy than he ever did in the Earth flashbacks. He has stronger connections with other people than he did in the Earth flashbacks (connections, mind you, that aren't visibly different in nature from the ones he had on Earth: he's still a teacher, he still has no immediate family, etc, Grace and the people around him are just more open to the kind of connection Grace wants), and most importantly, in both the movie and the book, he spends the epilogue either communicating his wants and needs and having those respected ("Can we talk about the water temperature a little bit?" "Tell the biodome illumination team that it's perfect now"/"You no want it sunnier than this?"/"You know I'm a sucker for the fog" and of course the famous "Can I think about it?"/"Think about it long time" sequence) or having had those wants and needs respected for a long time (Grace uses a cane and an AAC, he explained that a day/night cycle is critical to his mood and so that's what the dome has, the taste tests for his vitamin shakes, the wristwatch)
At every turn, Rocky is meeting Grace with all of the kindness and love and friendship his five little alien crab hearts can muster and at no point is Grace ever expendable to Rocky, he is always making it as clear to Grace as he possibly can that Grace is his friend, because he needs to fix things, he cannot stand it when the people he cares about are suffering and he can help, and he cares so deeply and so fucking much. Like Rocky doesn't just love to the point of invention, he loves to the point of preparedness and of sacrifice and of accommodation and of being prepared to let go but not being afraid to tell the other person you hope they stay.
And so at the end of the fucking movie, when he and Grace are walking down the beach and Grace is safe and home and happy, and when we finally get the payoff for the foreshadowing when, right after Grace first encounters Rocky's ship and he's trying to figure out how to open the xenonite container, the camera spins and Grace lands on his feet? When the camera spins for the last time, when the ground starts out on the same side of the shot and in the same orientation as it was the last time Grace saw Earth, except this time instead of being pinned down, Grace is facing up, Grace stands up, and finally walks out of the tailspin he's been in for the entire movie?
It's because Rocky got him there.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Project Hail Mary (2026) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ryland Grace & Rocky Characters: Ryland Grace, Rocky (Project Hail Mary) Additional Tags: Friendship, Redemption Summary:
“The truth came out three weeks into their trip back to Erid.”
Rocky finds out how Grace ended up onboard the Hail Mary.
in the book Grace helps carry around Rocky around and it made me think of other ways Rocky could be held... so backpack! it seems awfully convenient. Rocky would even have 1-3 free arms to do whatever. it would also give Grace a proper workout lmao also in the movie I loooove Grace's tattered up cardigan on Erid at the end
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I love the thought that after containing the taumeoba spread on his ship and realizing that Rocky has the same problem only worse, Grace calculates his possible trajectory to rocky, washes up, sits down and thinks. He can go home or he can die. He can save earth and doom his best friend and his best friend's planet, or he can maybe save earth (he can't be sure that the beetles work) and definitely save rocky and his planet.
And you know what? I want him to not realize it, but he makes that decision in less than three hours.
ok so we agree Grace is something of a crier, yes? And we know about him calling a guy “a staggering waste of carbon,” yeah? Ok great. Keep those things in minds and walk with me here.
Part of the reason people cry is for emotional regulation purposes. That’s just how that works. It can happen when any emotion is running high. Sadness. Happiness. Anger. Still with me? Okay excellent.
Now I invite you to imagine with me a Grace that was on the verge of tears while defending his thesis, and telling a man he was a staggering waste of carbon.
Come hold hands with me in this world.

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I am not a huge fan of the sci-fi trope of humans as boring or special, which can be troublesome sometimes. Mostly I’d like if there was more of a pendulum effect instead of aliens being flabbergasted by us all the time or being condescending.
Sure, it’s fun when a tasty human snack is something very poisonous to aliens, but I wanna take that gag about species differences further! Rather than “har har, the Nonsensoleans can’t eat spicy peppers like us,” and leave it at that, show me the Nonsensoleans being aghast at the things humans eat willingly, but also the humans who found that amusing doing a double take when the Nonsensoleans find the ship’s extremely toxic cleaning supplies, remark on humans keeping “the spices” in weird places, and having a good old fashioned Nonsensolean barbecue, which is so poisonous smelling it is dangerous.
Aliens that are surprised and impressed by the temperature differences humans not only can withstand but willingly subject themselves to, but find subjecting themselves to levels of sensory deprivation humans would consider torture a useful mental exercise.
The “your species is so weird (admiring, slightly worried)” is so much better when it cuts every which way. Galactic community is full of freaks and nobody is 100% sure what everyone else can do.
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