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I'm useless. I have no magic, no great destiny. I can't even lift my father's staff...

so sasuke went professional in those 12 years lol

✨️Outsider POV edition✨️

I adore a good ol' Outsider POV fic, so here are my favorite Project Hail Mary ones I've read:

Grace Under Pressure by One_Real_Wrimonkey (~3,800 words)

Grace from the perspective of the primary PHM crew. Loved this one! 10/10 fic

Volunteers...of a Sort by One_Real_Wrimonkey (~2,300 words)

Yao's POV on how Grace and the other scientists were recruited by Stratt

Project Get Loved, Dr. Grace by brysbeddixt (~6,300 words, 3-part series)

Dr. Grace as seen by the Petrova Taskforce/PHM team. Such a sweet and loving fic! Very feel-good and fluffy. 10/10

Gratia Plena by OneLineInTheSand (~3,000 words)

Dr. Lokken's perspective on Grace and her relationship to him

I'll watch you sleep Author anonymous (~8,000 words)

Four people (A student, Carl, Stratt, and Rocky) who watch Grace sleep during various circumstances

but he didn't even have a dog by SmollymaukTheBard (~1,000 words)

The random, seemingly insignificant people who feel Grace's absence when he's gone

The Best Mind in The World by StarlightPheonix (~2,800 words)

Abby (Grace's student)'s POV on Grace leaving school and joining the taskforce

My mommy said we're all going to die soon by LisaBonn22 (~43,600 words)

Grace's time working for the taskforce/ going to space from the POV of his parents. Very well written and bittersweet. Great fic

Where Do They All Belong by blcwriter (~8,800 words)

POV of 5 different people who missed Grace once he launched, and then one who didn't (spoiler: it's Grace). Great OCs in this fic

Dear Mr. Grace by CubeTime (~4,600 words)

Abby's POV (along with some other students) of figuring out where Grace went

Know You Are Beloved by DuskySunbird (~1,000 words) [Currently unfinished!]

5 people who loved Grace on Earth and one Eridian who loved him in the stars. [Currently only one person's POV has been written, more yet to come]

Five Times Ryland Grace Surprised Someone and One Time He Surprised Himself by Katrina (~9,500 words)

Grace from the POV of various Petrova Taskforce characters

The Many Graves of Ryland Grace by kkomaism (~1,600 words)

Five letters written to Grace by people he left behind and one he wrote to them

Something Good On All My Bad by Canadian_cee (~1,600 words)

Grace's dad's POV when he gets a visit from Eva Stratt after the launch.

of cowards and heroes by macs_paperclips (~2,000 words)

like. imagine you are grace. you have a life you enjoy where you get to teach kids you’re fond of about a subject you love. you’ve been hanging out with your friend marissa weekly for years (!) and you have a lot of peers on project hail mary who you respect and even have fun with. but! you’re also like 40, and you know how the world works - at the end of the day, at the end of the project, all of those people will go back to their parents and families and partners. the people whose names are on their emergency contact forms and birth certificates and marriage licenses and apartment leases. no matter how much you care about them, and no matter how much they care about you, there is always someone else in their life who is Above you, and Before you, because That’s How The World Works.

so like… yeah. lmao. aroace grace not opening himself up all the way because he anticipates pain and wants to avoid that is a kind of protective hedging that i find very likely for him to engage in? even if he opens himself up to the people around him, the fact is that most of those people will only reciprocate to whatever degree they/society deem acceptable for friendship, even if they like him a lot.

Is that what I think it is? Is that a very subtle reference to Project Hail Mary?

:)