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You're mostly settled in this odd, new arrangement on the surface. Honestly, it's better than you expected. You have a room, a school duty, and a pretty boring but solid routine. You stop waiting for the other shoe to drop and cautiously start enjoying the predictability. For the first time in forever, life is pretty much OK. You could do without Frisk complaining about you scaring off your classmates, sure, but it's a small price to pay for other kids leaving you two in peace. You get regular meals, eight hours... well, alright, eight hours of opportunity to sleep and something to be looking forward to every day. Even if that something is a boring math lesson.
That is, until your dead Mom appears in the school hallway and the whole world around you starts crumbling.This is fine.
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Things are not fine.
With Toriel's sudden appearance, the short period of peace is officially over. Chara starts spiraling out of control, and despite your best efforts, you're helpless to stop them. With your frantic search for solutions and stolen monster food hidden under your bed, you can't shake off the feeling that you won't be able to turn things around this time.
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- Part 5 of Grow your anger, eat your fears
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So it turns out that surviving on the surface is significantly harder than saving an entire civilization, build-a-bearing a body from sheer spite and force of will and outliving a whole world being wiped out of reality. Who knew?
Chara and Frisk have somehow crossed the barrier and now it's time to brave the surface together. It goes as well as anyone could expect.
Some backstories are revealed. (Some more reluctantly then others.) Some food is scavenged, salvaged and eaten. Some... is not.
Frisk and Chara learn a great deal about each other and grow even closer than in the Underground. They might be technically homeless but when has that ever stopped them?A direct continuation of It's not chocolate but it's still pretty good. Just like with any installment in this series, you don't need to read the other works to enjoy this one.
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- Part 2 of Grow your anger, eat your fears
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How can a songbird sing when you bind its throat? by Anemone_Hepatica
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game)
29 Apr 2025
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You are staring at the underside of Chara's bed, casting a shadow over your own. There are uneven gaps in the bed frame, showing bumps of a yellowed mattress. They're not very interesting to look at, but your eyes are glued to them, too tired to move.
Your thoughts are slow like you're freezing over. Everything feels distinctly unreal. Hazy, muddled, and fading like a dream. You want to get up to check on Chara but you can't. You can't move. Your body won’t listen. It's like it isn't really yours. Maybe it never was? Maybe you just borrowed a vessel that was never truly yours to begin with and now you're finally drifting away, freeing it from your influence.
Or: Frisk is having a rough evening and Chara helps.
A companion piece to Taking root Both can be read independently.
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- Part 3 of Grow your anger, eat your fears
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When Chara wakes up from a nightmare, they reach for the knife. Frisk has another idea.
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- Part 4 of Grow your anger, eat your fears
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It's not chocolate, but it's still pretty good by Anemone_Hepatica
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game)
23 Mar 2025
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They say that those who climb Mt. Ebott don't ever come back. It's a good thing, then, that you don't intend to. Or at least that’s what you tell yourself until the voice in your head gets a name and so does the suddenly-not-so-empty space in your chest.
Or: Frisk and Chara through many, many resets. From the beginning to an end.
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- Part 1 of Grow your anger, eat your fears
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Roche Limit by spektrewrites (BadForTheHeart)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 Apr 2026
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Roche limit: the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the second body's self-gravitation.
As the distance between the Hail Mary and Erid shrinks, as the language and cultural barriers disappear, Grace's health deteriorates and Rocky's worries skyrocket. Scurvy, cabin fever, malnutrition, tension and arguments – their friendship is put to the test when they are faced with challenges they cannot science their way out of. When a sudden Taumoeba emergency disrupts their journey just as they are about to reach Erid's radio range, they are forced to take a detour to Threeworld's Petrova-line to prevent Grace from starving to death. It's one thing to complete a mission when at full capacity… but how do you tackle obstacles you cannot fix with math and engineering?Series
- Part 1 of "Ki i te tau e tangi atu nei"
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13 Jul 2026
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i'm so curious about you, boy by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
28 Jun 2026
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It’s obscene in a way that has no human equivalent. I think seeing human genitals on him would’ve shocked me less, because at least that’s something you might reasonably show to another person. But this, the place that is both mouth and everything else to him, that I’ve seen exactly once and then never again because it’s viewed as so private and intimate that even an Eridian’s mate does not get to see—that’s something else. The only time he would reveal himself like this to someone else would be to lay an egg, and even then it would be something you don't draw attention to, something necessary but shameful.
And now he’s showing me.
Not only that, he’s offering.
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Or: Just because the mission is over doesn’t mean Rocky and Grace are done exploring.
Bookmarked by Anemone_Hepatica
12 Jul 2026
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To Live My Life As It's Meant To Be by thederpypikachu
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
30 Apr 2026
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"It takes me another moment before I realize that I wasn’t hurting from the fall. There’s no struggle to get air back into my lungs. I’ve tumbled end over end, and sort of landed upright. All my limbs are sprawled in every direction.
Rocky skitters down to my level, right up against the xenonite. “Grace fall! Hurt question? Okay okay okay?”
With all my brainpower, I focus on responding. 'Y-ye-es,' I manage to chirp. I freeze. Process.
That was definitely not English. Or any other human language. I didn’t move any muscles to speak.
'Y-ees,' I say again, and the same chirping note comes out. Inside me, I feel the shifting of five gas-filled… things. That note came from me. But it sounded like Rocky."...
In which Grace wakes up as an Eridian. And then a human. Eridian again.
Figuring out how to walk and sing is the first step. The rest will have to come later.
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- Part 1 of Eridian Shifter AU
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11 Jul 2026
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What Does the Fox Say? by Shadowgay
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
27 May 2026
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Grace gets transformed into a Fox. Why? Who knows. Certainly not Rocky
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10 Jul 2026
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Run, Boy, Run (This World Is Not Made For You) by Antilocapra
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
12 May 2026
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“Please,” Eva whispers, her voice shaking, “don’t make this harder.”
Grace would be more shocked by that show of emotion if he weren’t currently standing on a countertop, attempting to fend off two suit-wearing goons with a ballpoint pen. His daemon told him they were goons from the start, but he didn’t want to believe her. And now look where they are: betrayed by a friend, and menaced by goons.
Daemon AU of selected events from Project Hail Mary.
Bookmarked by Anemone_Hepatica
10 Jul 2026