Shadow_Fathom



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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Murderbot and ART's crew go on a mission to a distant planet. They find the planet to be unexpectedly inhabited with interesting alien life, and somehow one single human.

    Or, how can I make the characters in the MB series hang out with Rocky and Grace from Project Hail Mary?

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    13 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    After weeks of an unimaginable journey, he finally remembers how he got into space. He ends up back at the mirror in the bathroom before he goes to say bye to Rocky, questioning every memory he had reconstructed his identity with. Who was Ryland Grace? All he was sure of was that Ryland Grace was a coward.

    Tears run down his cheeks and Grace splashes water in his face. Rocky’s waiting, he reminds himself. He scrubs at his eyes, blinking them open to find his head inches away from the glass.

    He notices the mole first, of course, then his imagination conjures up the makeshift handle of the Big Dipper that extends from the mole to the first cluster of freckles on his left cheek. His brain helpfully identifies the rest of the constellations he mapped out years ago, stretching across cheek to cheek.

    After a few moments of staring, his heart clenching at the swirl of emotions in his head, he blinks hard and amends his statement from earlier: Ryland Grace was a coward, but a coward compelled to the stars.

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    i give Grace freckles and make them a metaphor

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  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Grace and Rocky explore the Hail Mary’s library and learn more about each other’s cultures. (Or, how Rocky learned the human word for friends.)

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    One Grace-sleep is not so long.

    It is not “night,” but Grace calls it night, and so Rocky does too. One human night. One third of one human day. One three-hundred-thousandth of Rocky’s life so far.

    This is what Rocky tells himself. He folds up on his xenonite shelf above Grace’s sleeping area, and he listens, and he fiddles with his clock, and he tells himself that it is not so long.

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    Rocky has lived through the deaths of many of his friends. He does not want to lose Grace.

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    "Grace sad, not good. I fix."

    "… Um. How?" I ask. "Oh, God, please don't make me a human-shaped robot to hug. That would be so creepy."

    "No robot," Rocky promises.

    (Or: Grace was touch-starved even before he left Earth. Rocky attempts to fix.)

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