Viden Rambles

So basically both Ava and Simon have been isekaied into the Hail Mary. They both arrive at the same obvious conclusion: Captain Dr. Ryland Grace is the leader of a very wealthy, independent, self sustaining ship likely apart of some secret government operation from before the quiet rapture. This is only further proven by the existence of his small alien engineer and large alien biologist.

They believe that Grace only has enough resources for one of them to stay (They have no reason to believe other then heavy trauma). So while both are stuck in quarantine, they try to show Grace how eager they are to work and subtlety put the other down.

Unfortunately Grace is a dumbass who hasn't interacted with people in nearly a full decade at this point. So they are completely oblivious to this competition and are just so happy to have such cool and dedicated new friends.

Hey so y'all remember that headcanon where Grace is in charge of science communication?

What if small AU where politicians prefer talking to Grace significantly more than Stratt or any other scientist on the task force. Stratt brought him along once he was able to break down stuff and answer their questions so easily they ask for him back every meeting afterwards.

What would have usually been many hours of explaining why they need funding for something and how they can't do it any other way, was shortened to a little over half an hour of answering questions and doing demonstrations with a handful beanbags he seemingly pulled from nowhere.

It was by far the easiest meeting Stratt had ever been to. As they leave, she plans to tell Grace he will be the main scientist attending these with her. Unfortunately he is busy puking his guts out saying how he barely held it in till the meeting was over and please never bring me back to one of these I will die.

Whoever she brings to replace him is trying to explain why they need funding for something, and the world leader are just like "Yeah we're gonna need the other guy."

Eva's external dialog: I will see if Dr. Grace is free for a meeting Eva's internal dialog: Dr. Grace has puked every time I even hint at bringing him to another one of these meetings

Both planets are extremely isolated from other planets with sentient, they are each others closest neighbor.

Eventually Earth and Erid find a way to do quick travel between planets

One of the most popular tourist destinations for eridians on earth is the Middle School where Grace taught.

America is so fucking smug about the fact that an American made first contact.

Grace's bio-dome is considered the Earth embassy, Earth creates a bio-dome near Grace's old house.

I think humans and eridians have the same relationship as dragon rider and dragon. "Hey look at my cool eridian" "Hey look at my cool human"

There is a wikipedia page dedicated to keeping track of earth songs that accidentally say eridian words. The longest and most updated lists are expletives.

It becomes an eridian trend to find a song that says your name

It becomes an earth trend to carry around an instrument and say eridian swear words

What if Ryder just thinks Grace is a really cool dude?

Like he would still over play his interest to annoy Colt but when alone he just thinks Grace is a chill guy to be around.