mindgrapes & thoughtsicles

lil sketch that got away from me, two planet saviors chillin on an artificial beach. im pretty sure eridians dont just fall alseep like humans but it could be that rocky does now after spending so much time with grace on da hail mary (and feeling more than safe to do so) ? just focus on that beautiful form.. 10/10 loaf rocky

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The Future, Somewhere Far Away From Here

Some dejointed drawings and doodles of my own post-canon headcanons! Where humans send a ship to their neighbors in order to meet them, and make sure their sun didnt die in case Rocky wasn't successful, but end up finding a very much alive Ryland Grace, looking younger than he should and living his best life on Erid

I'm just fascinated by the idea of ​​humans and eridians collaborating and what that would look like. We are so advanced in some areas they lack, while they are so advanced in some areas where WE lack due to our respective biologies, the progress from both sides would be insane.

Finally done this after a couple days! I love drawing movie stills.

When I initially started this I hadn't seen any art of Grace as the sun with planets orbiting him, now I see so many!!! It's an obvious idea so I was wondering why no one had done it. People had LOL. Anyway, here he is <3

And then — the unbelievable offer of a reprieve. Release. Relief. His slumped shoulders straighten with an indrawn breath before he turns, and we see his face. He lets Rocky see everything, and doesn’t wipe the tears away. And that’s the part that really gets me—he doesn’t look overjoyed at first. He’s trembling. He’s profoundly relieved but he also looks almost devastated. I wonder if those were the final moments of truly feeling the grief of what had been asked of him. He could feel it, now that there was an end to it, a way out. It wasn’t too enormous anymore.

searching for a memory

The man is a trained, distinguished molecular biologist with access to a state of the art biochemistry lab and the entirety of human knowledge.

It's hard for me to imagine a years long trip where he doesn’t make at least some attempt to synthesize his own nutrients.

Whether by engineering different strains of taumoeba and other Adriatic life, engineering himself and/or his own microbes or other handy Terran samples, or pure synthetic chemistry - personally, I tend to envision a combination thereof.

I can totally imagine Grace making a clumsy attempt, failing, and mopily becoming resigned to the malnutrition, but is Rocky really going to let him just mope for the rest of the trip? No! He has to try again!

I just think like, yeah, sure, even an alien planet is going to give you some advantages in terms of sourcing raw materials and building new equipment, but why wait to start on the whole process when you already have the guy involved who's most familiar with Terran biochemistry who's a trained molecular biologist and you have all of this knowledge and equipment and so much raw material in the form of taumoeba and probably a decent range of reagents in the lab? Not to mention whatever medical substances the medbot has on hand and (in the movie) the contents of the autohydroponic garden.

No I don’t think you heard me

GRACE REMEMBERED. THE REASON HE WAS ON PHM IN THE FIRST PLACE. AFTER HE WILLINGLY ASKED TO SEE ROCKY’S SHIP. AND WAS WELCOMED INTO THE COOLEST THING HE’D EVER SEEN ATP. They put that memory and Rocky’s ship next to each other to contrast. They contrasted one of the worst moments of his life with (arguably, at least at that point, pre-Erid) the coolest. They put together the scene where Grace had No Reason and Every Reason.

I think it represents Rocky's crew with those 23 shapes. The 3 big ones might have been the leaders/pilots of the mission, while the 3 trios could be the specialists (scientists, mechanics, doctors...) and the others the general crew.

By the way Rocky points at the panel and Grace's face changes I think Rocky was talking about them and how they decided who went to space.

It's not easy to see, but to me the wall resembles the wall in the Mary with the golden plaques with pictograms of Earth, science and the mission; which at the time helped Grace remember about the project, so this one could help him remember why was him specifically in space.