Trenchcoat

but no one talks about Félicette, a french cat sent into space. She was sent up with electrodes in her brain, and electrocuted during the flight to stimulate her legs and muscles to move. Félicette survived the flight only to be euthanised so that her brain could be studied.

Félicette was chosen on a mission, survived despite the challenge only to be put down.

Félicette had been trained with 13 other cats. one was sent up after her, but upon a failed launch, the second cat had been exploded. most did not survive.

but no one talks about Félicette, a french cat sent into space. She was sent up with electrodes in her brain, and electrocuted during the flight to stimulate her legs and muscles to move. Félicette survived the flight only to be euthanised so that her brain could be studied.

Félicette was chosen on a mission, survived despite the challenge only to be put down.

Félicette had been trained with 13 other cats. one was sent up after her, but upon a failed launch, the second cat had been exploded. most did not survive.

-simon wakes up and immediately freaks the heck OUTTT and slams grace into the wall

-and promptly passes out

-when they make it to erid, rocky and adrian have two very sick men, both starving, one full of radiation to take care of

-when they cure grace, he gets to work helping to cure simon and when they fix him it’s a hug fest

-simon HATES the ocean enclosure because obviously the blood ocean fiasco, so they enlarge the enclosure and make a forest for simon to live in (there’s mountains too, simon loves the mountains)

-grace is taller

-there’s an age gap 😼 (simon is 30ish?? and grace is almost 50-or older?-when they get back to erid)

-they buzz their hair because hair holds memories and they’re desperate to just start over

-they’re all in a sort of giddy daze for the first couple of days because they SURVIVED, they’re ALIVE

-but after that wears off it’s kind of like death

-they’re miserable

-grace, not so much, because he’s finally safe, finally somewhere people love him, but he has trouble sleeping sometimes and he MISSES his kids like nothing else

-but simon? he has nightmares at night and wakes up screaming so he tries not to sleep

-rocky? all he can think about are his crewmates that he couldn’t save and their families who grieve

-and adrian? their mate, their rocky, is different, so different, and somehow the same, and it’s strange and they don’t know what to think, but they are determined to figure it out

-and it takes a while

-it takes a LONG time

-but eventually, walking beside each other the whole time, grace and simon and rocky and adrian are able to heal

please get home safely, Artemis II

I was simply going to draw them making out and call it a day.... and then I thought about Laika and Félicette and I got sad so I decided to take it seriously.