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It doesn't have to be romantic, and by the movie standards, that's fairly unlikely to make for a good connection.

Glados is there.

Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen has all the main characters giving up huge pieces of themselves.

Hawkeye's mind and what being a doctor is shifts. He was this talented up and coming surgeon but he's going to find fulfilment as a family doctor in a small town.

Mulcahy loses his hearing and can no longer preform confessions, or even listen to people which is how he was of service in a place he felt he had little to offer at times.

Charles and the solace music brought.

Klinger gives up Toledo

Colonel Potter has to leave Sophie, and he will be retiring from the army as well.

To see his family, BJ has to give up Hawkeye.

What Margaret is losing is a little more subtle, but the military has been her entire life. That's the only home she's really know, but it's also intrinsically connected to her father. She's been through a war, made friends with people she felt diametrically opposed to and found that she didn't need a man, she was enough. No need to desperately find a man to cling to and no need to made dad proud. She can do what she wants.

But also from her point of view that is giving up a huge part of herself. She's giving up her commission. She's no longer Major Houlihan.

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

teenagers citing his videos and data as primary sources on their school projects (how do you make an mla citation for a home video filmed in space?)

grace's final goodbye to earth getting billions of views on youtube

sexy edits of grace ALL OVER tiktok and instagram

grace becomes a whole scientific field unto himself. teams of scientists dedicate their lives to the study of his research and his contributions. maybe some of those scientists were his students once upon a time.

grace x rocky ALL OVER ao3

books on eridian language and culture hit the shelves and sell out immediately

eridian culture reignites conversations about the construct of gender, eridians become nonbinary/agender symbols

space is suddenly back at the forefront of the public mind. space-travel units are introduced to grade school science curriculum worldwide. entire classes are taught solely on grace and his scientific discoveries. EVERYONE wants to be an astronaut

of course, hollywood makes a big-budget Dr. Ryland Grace biopic. it's a box office hit. a huge online movement results in ryan gosling playing grace, and everyone agrees the likeness is uncanny. stratt is the villain of the story.

a series of heartfelt videos from grace to stratt, in which he says hello and goodbye and i hate you and thank you and i miss you, are found in the database and reposted online. there's suddenly a massive outcry of support for her, which results in her release from prison. some youtuber makes a gritty but surprisingly touching short film about her story

people coming together to make earth better. trying to repair the damages from the sun's dimming, trying to repair the environment, trying to repair global relations. they want to be an earth worth saving, an earth that grace would be proud of

space travel becomes a huge global priority, the nations of the world pool resources and there are huge advances in technology (especially with scientists studying xenonite!)

the project hail mary launch date becomes a huge global holiday. there's a parade in almost every city all over the world in honor of the hail mary. people lay candles and flowers at memorials for yao, ilyukhina, annie, and dubois. murals of grace and rocky cover building sides. people gather in the streets and remember those who saved them, and banners that read "grace rocky save stars" flutter in the wind above the crowds.

coca cola airs a VERY insensitive commercial with some low quality eridian puppets. the commercial is slammed online and company stocks plummet

But in Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde, the thing that's driving Hawkeye's mania - at least from Trapper's point of view, uneducated in psychiatry as he is - is his lack of sleep. And Trapper's a doctor; he knows what mental hospitals are like, and these are 1950s mental hospitals. A general's coming to camp. He cannot let a general see Hawkeye like this, because Hawkeye will be sent to the mental hospital.