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A new us has begun by ChaoticEldritchEntity
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 Jun 2026
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“Oh, it’s a way for humans to tell each other they’re taken. To remember,” I say, popping a bunch more gummy bears into my mouth. Rocky makes a disgusted sound and I smile as I chew. “It’s just a nice way of showing they have someone they committed to.”
Rocky freezes. I don’t notice for a good few seconds, not until I get the pressing sensation that he’s staring at me, his lack of eyes irrelevant.
I turn to face him. He’s jittering, something like shaking from excitement or anger, I’m not sure.
“Rocky?” I ask.
“Grace have ring,” he points, and oh no. “Grace have mate? Why Grace no say!?”
I hold up my hands before he can get too excited, though I can already hear a familiar sound, a repeating joyful and confused song start to escape from him.
“No, no, no!” he freezes again. Deflates, a little. I sigh and run a hand down my face. “It’s… complicated.”
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29 Jun 2026
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Wolf House by ChaoticEldritchEntity
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
29 Jun 2026
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And he had a name.
“Doctor Ryland Grace!” he exclaimed.
He put them both down on the board. Eva—did he call her Eva?
He gave up and wrote her whole name next to ‘mystery woman’. It wouldn’t hurt to remember her surname, in any case, he thought.
He smiled and wrote RYLAND GRACE at the top of the board.
He clasped his hands in front of him.
“Okay. I’m starting to look like a person. I’m somebody!”
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Ryland Grace, though he didn't know his name, woke up alone and afraid. Things didn't really get better after that.
Not until he met a friend.
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29 Jun 2026
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Wolf Mother by ChaoticEldritchEntity
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 Jun 2026
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He trusted her. He wanted to help her.
She tried to make herself believe, again, that this was ill advised. That it would sabotage the project.
She was steadier, had better concentration. She could afford to spend a few hours only thinking of a single other human being who needed help with meeting his needs, and who then would look at her with that stare, that utterly and honestly impressed gaze. She could hardly bare it, most times. It was too much trust, and it scared her still. She wasn’t scared of the world trusting her, because she didn’t doubt that she was competent and driven enough to see the Hail Mary through. But this man, a single person, not a number, not a vague recollection, giving her that same magnitude of trust, was unsettling.
She had gotten attached, it was undeniable.It was helping. Perhaps, it would be the thing that carried the project to its end.
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Eva Stratt can't afford to be friends, especially not with a man whom she sometimes only tolerates for his scientific knowledge. She can't.
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29 Jun 2026
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The end is here by ChaoticEldritchEntity
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
03 Jun 2026
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“You’re making a good choice,” he said to her, hushed like she always spoke to him in the dark.
He felt the vibrations of her voice through her shoulder, in his jawline and cheekbone.
“What choice?”
“I don’t know,” he adjusted his position, leaned the book on his legs. “I respect you too much and don’t know you enough, to think I know what you’re going to do. But it will be the right thing.”
She sighed. Her breath shuddered.
“Good and right aren’t the same thing.”
“I know,” He risked it and put his hand over hers. She responded with a twitch of her fingers. “I don’t know if all your choices have been good. I spent a lot of time wanting to tell you they were horrible; I’m not so sure now. I think most of them were both. Good and right.”
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28 Jun 2026
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You come back with gravity by ChaoticEldritchEntity
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
01 Jun 2026
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“I’m scared,” he said. Eva nodded, resting a hand on his cheek. Still stoic as ever, always the same, unchanging, unwavering. He breathed easier at the thought.
“It is scary. But I can guarantee you it will be taken care of, manneke. Nobody will hurt you.”
He closed his eyes to blink, but found the darkness beneath a comfort, enough to wait a few seconds to open them again.
“Promise?” he asked her.
Eva froze, though only for a fraction of a breath. Then she smiled again, her eyes bearing all the weight of her words.
“I promise.”
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It's hard to not take part of each other, when so much time is spent together. They're coworkers, they're something else, they aren't friends, but they have pieces of one another in them, now. And it's hard to not seek respite in the only person who has offered it thus far, when your very life is threatened.
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28 Jun 2026