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    A Rocky POV of Project Hail Mary, but add in a sprinkle of originally named astrophages, petrova lines, and extra, extra worldbuilding.

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    One day, his strumming was not answered.

    The silence that answered his one verse of song was horrible and grating. Incomplete. Empty. A sick, horrible fear built up inside him.

    (He was going to die out here. Alone.)

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    01 May 2026

  2. Rec 43

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    An angsty reimagining of Rocky and Grace's saviors of the universe party in the Don't Go Crazy room. Rocky learns how short human lifespans are when compared to an Eridian's. Grace also accidently tells him he was forced aboard the Hail Mary.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    'Rocky, do you remember the expected, average human lifespan?'

    I ask it conversationally but Rocky freezes in place all the same.

    'No,' he states.

    'No?'

    'Yes, Rocky remembers. No, do not want to talk about this.'

    I lean back and fold my arms.

    'Rock…'

    'Grace. No. Bad bad bad.'


    Dr Ryland Grace is an old man. Dr Ryland Grace knows what he wants to happen when the time comes. Rocky doesn't want to talk about it.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    ‘The irony of finding it near impossible to warm himself up on a planet whose boiling temperatures would kill him the moment he stepped outside wasn’t lost on him. Heck, he had thrown out a joke about it to Rocky during one of his many visits to the ailing human soon after he was first moved into his biodome.

    Of course, Rocky didn’t find it funny. Not that Grace could necessarily blame him.’

     

    Or: Rocky visits Grace in his biodome as he continues to recover from his brush with severe malnutrition following their arrival to Erid.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    He stops swimming to float on top of the water, feeling the artificial wind and sun on his face. He didn't realise how much he missed mundane things like just enjoying sunlight hitting his skin or wind blowing on his face. When he'd ride his bike to Grover Cleveland Middle after his stop at the diner he would always enjoy just feeling the wind hitting him, especially right before summer break where the air would be warmer and he could smell all the flowers that had finally finished growing. He wishes that Erid had plant life like Earth did, it would be interesting to see how they looked or how they smelled. Though, Eridians don't have a sense of smell so maybe the plants wouldn't develop a scent at all.

    He's so lost in his thoughts that hearing a sudden screech scares him enough that he starts flailing around in the water, water getting into his mouth and up his nose. "Grace ♪♫, question. Danger danger danger!"

    Or, Grace decides to finally take advantage of his beach but Rocky didn't know humans can swim, or float.

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    18 Apr 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 18

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    Grace had thought that explaining his decision to stay on Erid for the rest of his life to Rocky had been difficult. Turns out trying to explain why it is he’s so content to die without a mate might just beat that conversation.

    Grace tries to explain to Rocky something he’s never really explained to himself.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Adrian's love has returned to them from the stars and brought along... an alien. All new things take an adjustment period. Some are just stranger than others.

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    18 Apr 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 42

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    Ryland Grace writes a letter to Eva Stratt to send with back to earth with the beetles.

    It takes him a few drafts.

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    15 Apr 2026

  9. Rec 43

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    Rocky is the last of his crew. He’s been the last for twenty-three (Earth) years. Every cycle it gets harder and harder to carry on, especially when he knows he’s the worst person for this impossible job.

    If something doesn’t change, and soon, he’ll be as dead as the crew-mates he cares for cycle, after cycle, after cycle.

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    15 Apr 2026

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    For Eridians, the six of six of six is special, and today marks Grace's 216th anniversary. Measured, of course, by Earth's orbit around its star Sol.

    In the morning, while the fog is still high, Adrian finds Rocky at the beach.

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    15 Apr 2026

  11. Rec 54

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    Rocky talks about his family all the time.

    But Grace has no one. No family, plenty of acquaintances, but no friends. He remembers not having to tell anyone but his school that he was disappearing to a boat in the middle of the ocean, never took a slot on the phone he knew was in action somewhere on the ship. He never even looked for it.

    It’s just that he’s always been a little weird and a little hard to love.

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    15 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 40

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    During a routine visit, Grace's knee gives out on him.

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    13 Apr 2026

  13. Public Bookmark *

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    Ryland Grace went into a coma 10 days before the Hail Mary launched, and his crew were put into their own comas. Turns out there's a ten-day difference in wake-up time, too; and, unfortunately for Ilyukhina and Yao, ten days is enough time to make first contact.

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    12 Apr 2026

  14. Rec 18

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    A drabble about alternative systems of measurement.

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    07 Apr 2026

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    Rocky spends several years talking exclusively with an atonal human. This has some significant effects on his speech patterns.

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    07 Apr 2026

  16. Rec *

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    As he settles into Erid, Grace finds himself wanting more and more to better blend in with his new neighbors. His biology is a hard bridge to cross, but he gets a few ideas when Rocky gifts him some Eridian gems.

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    07 Apr 2026

  17. Public Bookmark *

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    I don’t think the mission was a failure. I don’t think Rocky’s dead — I can’t bring myself to believe that. They’re alive. Oh, Universe. Please say Rocky’s alive.

    It’s been just over 600 (eridian) years since Rocky left. The crew was assumed dead long ago; the mission, declared a failure. But when a dim light reads on the petrovascopes, it’s all Adrian can do not to cry out in joy. The whole planet is carapace-deep in celebration…until they realise that — oh, goodness — that’s not the original ship; and they get word that everything has gone so, so terribly wrong.

     

    * You don’t have to have read the other story in the series to read this!

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    05 Apr 2026

  18. Rec *

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    Now on Erid, Rocky brings Adrian to meet Grace. The two of them get along like two peas in a pod. Rocky's ecstatic, Adrian is curious, and Grace is a leaking, emotional mess.

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    05 Apr 2026

  19. Rec *

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    In relative terms, the trip from the Tau Ceti system to the 40 Eridani system takes the Hail Mary a little over three Earth years.
    This is what happens when you put two snarky aliens in a small, enclosed space for that long.

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    05 Apr 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 70

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    Rocky is concerned about the time away from Adrian. He has nothing to be worried about.

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    05 Apr 2026

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