hey, don't cry. rocky laughing, ok?
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hey, don't cry. rocky laughing, ok?

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a favourite little moment of mine in the book and movie
Rocky + Movement Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller
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Here's a compilation of Grace fawning over Rocky in the book (might've missed some)
From that, they concluded that I must be able to see the Petrova line. They're smart. [pg.148] They connected my airlock to theirs, with a wall in the middle. Clever. [pg.166] "I like you, Rocky! You're a genius!" And he is! [pg.183] Brilliant. Simply brilliant. [pg.186] I bet Rocky's the captain! He puts himself at risk by talking to the scary alien. Everyone else stays back on the ship. That's what Captain Kirk would do. [pg.195] I've never seen him be wrong on arithmetic. [pg.211] Wow, he's quick. [pg.254] The closer we get, the more I respect Rocky's astronomy skills. [pg.278] "You're an amazing engineer." [pg.287] Rocky - ever the talented engineer [pg.309] He really is a genius. I wonder if all Eridians are like that, or if he's special. [pg.310] "Smart," I say. [pg.348] Rocky seems to be able to do pretty much anything. Either he's gifted, or all Eridians are like that. Either way, I'm incredibly lucky. [pg.365] the world's best engineer [pg.377] I don't doubt him for a second. The guy knows engineering. [pg.388] Rocky delivered on the testing apparatus as promised. As always, everything worked flawlessly. [pg.388] At this point I trust Rocky to do any engineering task. Heck, if he wanted to do open-heart surgery on me, I'd probably let him. [pg.410] Rocky's ad-hoc fuel bays are perfect, of course. [pg.419] "you're my best friend." [pg.425] I wish Rocky were here. [pg.438] I always wish Rocky were here. [pg.438] Rocky tends to find elegant solutions to complex problems. [pg.444] He's one of the most talented engineers on his entire planet! [pg.445] All of the hard stuff is already done, thanks to Rocky. [pg.451] There's nothing Rocky can't fix. [pg.454] Rocky could probably whip something up if he were here. [pg.457] I wish Rocky were here to help me save Rocky. [pg.457] "I have full faith in your abilities." [pg.488]
good grief GET A GRIIIIPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm reading the epub so idk what page but its 95% of the way thru the book
Also I found the answer for why Rocky didn't die of radiation poisoning despite spending 46 years at Tau Ceti and presumably repairing things all over the place during that time:
ohh shit. Once Rocky arrived in the Tau Ceti system and got to work, it no longer mattered when he left the engine room to run around the ship (trying to use lab equipment and fixing things and trying and failing and fixing on and on and on). The reason Rocky didn't die of radiation poisoning during the 40+ years he was in the Tau Ceti system is because he was parked in the petrova line. His entire ship was in a cloud of astrophage. He never succeeded at capturing any but the fact that he never stopped trying quite literally kept him alive.
He tried so hard and got nowhere, but all along it was keeping him alive long enough to meet Grace, and save everyone after all.
From the book:
“‘I tried to make replacement [astrophage sampler]. Failed. Tried. Failed. Tried. Failed. I put ship in path of astrophage. Maybe some get stuck on hull. But…no can find any. Astrophage very small.’
His carapace slumps down….he dips his carapace when sad, but I’ve never seen him dip it this far.
His voice drops an octave. ‘Fail fail fail. I am repair Eridian, not science Eridian….science Eridians died.’
… ‘I’m a science human. You’re good at making things. Together we’ll figure this out.’
He raises his carapace a bit. ‘Yes. Together.’”
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“Math is not thinking. Math is procedure. Memory is not thinking. Memory is storage. Thinking is thinking. Problem, solution. You and me think same speed. Why, question?”
“Rocky, you can make screws, right?” “Yes. Easy. Why, question?” “I dropped one.” “Hold screws better.” “How?” “Use hand.” “My hand’s busy with the wrench.” “Use second hand.” “My other hand’s on the hull to keep me steady.” “Use third han—hmm. Get beetles. I make new screws.”
“Not forever. We save planets. Then we have Astrophage technology. Visit each other.” I give a wry grin. “Can we do all that within fifty Earth years?” “Probably not. Why so fast, question?” “I only have fifty years or so left to live. Humans don’t”—I hiccup—“don’t live long, remember?” “Oh.” He’s quiet for a moment.
Interesting and consistent distinction here between having information perfectly preserved and being able to recall it. It's the difference between having a comprehensive archive on your hard drive and realizing when and what you should look up in it.
Of course Rocky knows that humans have only two hands and live only for a few decades, but his thinking patterns have stable associations for things like these based on the Eridian standards, and he hasn't developed a habit of thinking about them in human terms like he does with the numbers he has to covert every time.

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Can give you Astrophage now. Then we both go home!” “Yeah.” My smile fades. “This is happy! Your face opening is in sad mode. Why, question?” “Going to be a long trip and I’ll be all alone.” I haven’t decided if I want to risk a coma on the way home. I may have to for my own sanity. Total solitude and nothing to eat but chalky, nasty coma slurry might just be too much. For the first part of the trip, at least, I definitely plan to stay awake. “You will miss me, question? I will miss you. You are friend.” “Yeah. I’m going to miss you.” I take another swig of vodka. “You’re my friend. Heck, you’re my best friend. And pretty soon we’re going to say goodbye forever.” He tapped two gloved claws together. They made a muffled sound instead of the usual click that comes along with the dismissive gesture. “Not forever. We save planets. Then we have Astrophage technology. Visit each other.” I give a wry grin. “Can we do all that within fifty Earth years?” “Probably not. Why so fast, question?” “I only have fifty years or so left to live. Humans don’t”—I hiccup—“don’t live long, remember?” “Oh.” He’s quiet for a moment. “So we enjoy remaining time together, then go save planets. Then we are heroes!”
It's interesting that Rocky seems totally fine with the idea of reuniting with Grace only for a while, and no sooner than within one or two Earth centuries. I guess Eridians' feelings don't have an expiration date. That would make sense considering their perfect memory. It also works well to explain why Rocky and Adrian are still together after he's been gone for a whole human lifetime: they feel about each other just as strongly as before.
This moment also provides a bit of friction between the readers' expectation and the textual reality, a touch of alienness to Rocky's mostly humanlike characterization. This isn't what we want to hear, right? It feels surprisingly cold that he can let Grace go so easily. Which is precisely why I think it's a valuable canon data point.
I think the ways grace and rocky go about saying "hey don't be sad we are competent" are 1 really sweet and 2 sososo funny because grace, ever the teacher, will be like "hey don't be sad, I'm a science human, we'll figure it out together" and rocky will be like "oh my god stop crying you dumbass, I figured out how to solve the problem twenty minutes ago. lack of sleep is making you stupid. idiot." And they're both like, wow this is exactly what I needed to hear <3
This isn't even an exaggeration, btw
Actually I do feel the need to defend Rocky's honor because there is also this
Grace mentioning to Rocky that he used to watch his ship every evening after they parted ways (and do complex math to figure out when he's going to lose sight of it completely). Grace is. a little bit embarrassed about the whole thing.
Rocky is ecstatic.
"Grace watched Rocky sleep, question? Even though we were apart??"
"...yeah. Yeah, pal, I guess I did."
"Grace refuses to add the swears to the vocabulary" WRONG! Rocky refuses to add the swears to the vocabulary. Grace (book!Grace, at least) is in his thirties. It's like a four-year-old baby by the Eridian standards. Rocky is not teaching the baby the swears, it would be so irresponsible!!
Also, it's so funny to think about how this conversation went. I'm not sure what mental image I love more: a) Rocky stopping in the middle of the rant to explain what he is saying so that Grace can add it to the dictionary or b) Rocky interrogating Grace on the Earth insults beforehand so that he can go on his rant uninterrupted. In any case — oh, to be a fly on that wall. I love them.
One of my favourite bits of Grace's characterizations in the book is his Very Conscious Efforts to fight against zero g to make his silly lil gestures. Look at him. He's pouting, darn it!

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studies of the astrophage sampling scene from the film, text from the book!
as much as I love the angst we as a fandom have been writing and thinking up based on graces sickness and recovery on his trip to erid/on erid I think maybe we should write a little bit more about the time they were apart when they both assumed they were going to their respective homes. it may have only been a little over a month but grace was fucking MISERABLE the whole time. consider grace balling up his extra blankets and cuddling around the ball and desperately trying to convince himself it is rocky watching him despite not being nearly as warm and angular. or as loud. he misses rockys trills and breaths and he misses being watched and it feels wrong to sleep without him around. and the next thing he knows he is crying into his feeble ball of blankets and that doesn't help because he misses the way rocky would call him leaky and gross. he misses everything about rocky but separation was necessary, he tells himself, as he stares at the leftover xenonite panels on the walls through his tears. he just wishes that maybe it wasnt.