Roorise



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    It's not III's job to explain the physiology to the families. Sometimes, the families don't even know why III is there. But as they cry and say the things they wished to say before their loved one had died, III is present, passing on the messages, and sometimes, passing some back.

    Just one more word. One more I love you. III ignores the requests if they're not centered in love. They aren't being paid pennies to ask the recently departed to uncover the families secrets - they are there to soothe and support the transition. They're there to speak when the brain and body is holding on but the soul has decoupled from the physical. He holds their hands or their bodies close in the spirit realm, watching light come back to their eyes when they realize that it doesn't hurt anymore.

    There is no such thing as pain in the spirit realm. It's a mortal concept. III stays as long as they need. And when they are ready, if they are ready, they lead the soul into the gentle hands of Death's reapers.

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    don't be scared of the mcd tag!!!!! it's there but it's not the be-all end-all!!!!

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    27 Jun 2026

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    Excellent!

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    A Rocky POV of Project Hail Mary, but add in a sprinkle of originally named astrophages, petrova lines, language barriers, trauma recovery, and extra, extra worldbuilding. Includes pre- and post-canon!

    La traduccion al espanol by MichiHolmes! Gracias!

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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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    "Iz huhg," Grace sniffled out, sucking back in moisture from his noze, too. There was moisture and water and everything all over the place. "Huhg meens grayt, grayt, grayt affekshun."

    "Oh," he said tentatively. Another hewmin thing! He shuffled closest to the wall Grace was huhging and leaned in. "Oh. Am I doing correctly, hmm?"

    "Yis," Grace sighed out, calming down. He still leaked, though.

    Oh, well. Leaky hewmins were his favorite, after all.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    So good! Currently 41 chapters long and they're all amazing. 💜

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    "Grace upset?"

    "Not exactly, thinking some dumb human thoughts."

    Normally, an answer like this prompts a very nosy Rocky. This time, however, the Eridian lets it go.

    "Ah, yes. Leaky space blob thoughts. Will not interrupt. Come to lab once you are done."

    Grace watches him roll away, feeling like he's already losing Rocky. It's a dumb thought, but he's a dumb human, and it seems his dumb heart has come online for the first time ever.

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    Grace catches Feelings with a capital F and believes he's alone in them. Rocky shows Grace he will never be alone again.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    Chapters: 5,
    Excellent, looking forward to more!

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    If this record is a confession, let it be a complete one: the human-thinking-machine Rocky was gifted has everything on it. With the aid of the device Rocky had made back aboard the Mary that translates light on Grace’s human-visual displays to texture on Rocky’s Eridian-sonar display, accessing all of humanity’s combined wisdom is as easy as making a database query.

    Rocky consumes approximately 1,600 Earth-hours of human pornography before the ship’s engines cease to function, leaving it dead and stranded in space. Again.

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    25 Apr 2026

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    So good! At time of bookmarking: 2 chapters.

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    Ryland Grace expected a lot of things to change when he decided to go back to Blip-A and save Rocky, but he had no idea things would get this complicated. Namely, this emotionally involved.
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    Ryland Grace will starve on his way to Erid without figuring out a new food source. In this universe, Rocky offers to help create a food Ryland can eat during their journey on the Hail Mary together by hybridizing Ryland's DNA with food from his planet. As a result, Ryland begins taking on... different traits. Traits that make it possible for him and Rocky (and eventually, Adrian) to get closer than any of them ever thought they would be while the three of them start a life together on Erid.
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    To simplify, Ryland Grace becomes the mate (and eventual pebble incubator) to Rocky and Adrian.

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    16 Apr 2026