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   sailors fear the jellyfish by Ria_Writes_Stuff

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   17 Jun 2026

   Tags

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   • Ryland Grace/Eva Stratt
   • Ryland Grace & Eva Stratt
   • Ryland Grace & Marissa
   • Ryland Grace
   • Eva Stratt
   • Marissa (Project Hail Mary)
   • Aromantic Asexual Ryland Grace
   • Aromantic Asexual Eva Stratt
   • Asexual Relationship
   • they're the weird third thing
   • what if we were both just really weird about each other
   • what then
   • Alternate Universe - No Astrophage (Project Hail Mary)
   • Getting Together
   • First Meetings
   • Autistic Ryland Grace
   • Autistic Eva Stratt
   • POV Ryland Grace
   • Teacher Ryland Grace
   • Dating
   • Sort Of
   • theres a technical slow burn but its more for them then us
   • theres a lot of time between them meeting and getting together
   • but i skip that bit
   • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
   • They're younger than in canon
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Older Woman/Younger Man
   • but theyre still the secret third thing
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Long-Distance Relationship

   Summary

   title shortened from: 'Sharks just want to play, experienced sailors fear the jellyfish'

   In the canon universe we know, Eva Stratt and Ryland Grace would never be able to have more than what they did: a fleeting friendship, brushing the surface of what they *could* be but never dipping deeper. Stratt had a job to do. Grace had a world to save.

   Here, however, meeting years earlier and in a universe where the sun will never dim, things go a little differently.

   OR

   aroace strattland working themselves out in the world, figuring out how to settle into the secret third thing that makes their lives so much better. Domestic fluff, years worth of waiting, two souls that just connect, even if they could never explain quite how, A shark and a jellyfish, bobbing their way through the ocean.

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