Nina

Imagine for a second you are Adrian surname The Eridian. Your spouse has been missing and presumed dead for around a decade, and suddenly one day an alien spaceship comes into orbit. And you cheer "Yay alien species have realized we have the same problem and have come to either give us a solution or join or efforts, too bad my mate is still gone."

Except he is not actually gone, because the eridian equivalent of a carebear decided to save them. And he doesn't want anything in return, in fact he is well aware that he might die A PAINFUL SLOW DEATH, shortly after fighting just to get the love of your life back to you. But it's ok :) because Rocky (yes he gave them a silly name) is my best friend! Oh- Are you ok-

Imagining carl bringing up that eyesight can change over time on the jet flight back and eva turning their plane around, marching back into the building, and changing her order because god forbid her scientist isn’t able to see all his important science stuff.

Imagining grace floating around with cracked glasses that don’t really work that well for most of his flight back to erid until he digs to the bottom of the storage area and finds a small pack with like 6 pairs of glasses with slightly different prescriptions.

THATS THE FUCKING POINT

they had the vocabulary of a 2 year old and rocky was already flaming grace :')

grace : rocky…… do you think adrian hates me…?

Grace sends this off as a "fuck you" to Stratt and unintentionally eases 40+ years of horrific guilt.

(40+ factoring in the Hail Mary mission, then the time it would take to get back to Erid and the time it would take for the message to get to Earth. Probably closer to 50+ actually).

Everyone wish my husbo a happy birthday today! It's entirely a coincidence this cake idea happened around now lol.

Cake communication based on a suggestion by @anna-neko !

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So like she gets the recordings and realizes Yao and Ilyukina are dead before he wakes up so he’s got no pilot, no engineer, and no memories.

And then you also have to remember that the EXISTENCE of these recordings and the fact they were accompanied by the Taumoeba means that an amnesticized Grace somehow managed to save earth without a pilot or engineer and shoddy memory that only vaguely gives him enough to work with as he works.