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If you were to ask Grace when this all-consuming longing for his engineering roommate started, he’d say around the beginning of their third year of college, the time that he started dragging said roommate, whom he didn’t exactly talk to beforehand, into his awful morning routine. And said roommate, for whatever reason, decided that he wanted to hang out with Grace every other second of the day, anyway.
But if you were to ask the same question to the aforementioned roommate, Rocky, himself…
Well, er …the truth is that he fell in love with the oblivious nerd the day he moved into their apartment.
or, “trust me when I say that I’m usually a blunt and direct person, so I also don’t know why I can’t tell my roommate that I’ve been falling for him for the past year that we’ve been living together.”
or, the five times that rocky fell for grace, and the one time that he finally told him.
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- Part 3 of Grace Rocky Roommates!
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15 Jul 2026
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a million and one impossible things by Cuddly_Art_Mage
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Fall Guy (2024)
08 May 2026
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“You trust me?”
“I… yeah. Of course.”
Rocky stopped working, not because he needed to in order to carry on the conversation, but to make sure I was sure he was giving me his full attention. He was thoughtful like that. His carapace tilted up. “Rocky fix beetles, send to Erid. Then Rocky and Grace go to Earth. Grace will live. Grace see sibling again. Rocky promise. Rocky fix. Grace trust.”
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- Part 1 of for we are a paradox, together
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14 Jul 2026
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pointing at stars that already died by serafinaweiz
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
20 Jul 2026
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I reach out and clasp his hand. It's his left, and there are no raised ridges dug into his skin where my atmosphere had once burned him. His hand is ice cold, just as I expected, and I've missed it. I've missed, missed, missed this skin and its press against the xenonite that had once permanently divided us, and I marvel at being able to truly feel Grace's fingers wrapped around mine. I can hear him even better now that we're touching, every gross, leaky bodily function sloshing around in that fragile body of his, pulsing in waves from the point where we are connected, and it's wonderful. I never want to let go.
I belatedly realize that usually, introductions go both ways. I may know Grace, but Grace doesn't know me; I push the thought away. "I'm Rocky."
(You gave me that name. Do you remember?)
"Rocky," he repeats, "like the movies?"
(You're the one who showed me those movies. Do you remember?)
"No, like the rocks," I say, because it's a stupid thing to say but if I say it seriously enough, Grace will laugh.
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Rocky POV of “I’d wave my hand, reveal the stars” by WyvernQuill <3
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10 Jul 2026
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from the other side by starspaceace (explosivecreeperking)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Jul 2026
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Adrian’s below us. A beautiful swirl of greens. With a view like that, I can only stay a little mad at it with the little “almost killed us” fiasco. Unfamiliar constellations and the arm of the Milky Way fill the rest of my view. I start panning my view closer to Tau Ceti when I spot it.
It’s another Hail Mary.
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Grace and Rocky come across a parallel duo. (Multiverse / Human!Rocky and Eridian!Grace AU.)
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02 Jul 2026
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On their way back to Erid, Rocky and Grace discover a mysterious box. Upon opening it, the two discover some strange changes. Well, perhaps way more than strange.
Rocky finds a new marking on his arm similar to Grace's scar, and Grace finds markings similar to Rocky's on his arms and legs.
Rocky begins to dream and can easily wake from sleep, and Grace can stay up for much longer than a normal human should.
Grace starts seeing sound when it's too dark to properly see, and Rocky starts seeing pops of colour in his sound vision.
Neither can understand what's happening to them and how they're seemingly linked together, but they know there's nothing in the world that could tear them apart.
(TLDR: This fic will include almost everyone's favourite things! Rocky learns about how Grace got on the Hail Mary (Including Rocky witnessing the memory of Grace being sent on the Hail Mary)! Grace can survive in Rocky's atmosphere! Grace will live as long as Rocky! Rocky and Adrian reuinite and Adrian meets Grace! Grace will get to go back to Earth with Rocky (for a bit and then go back to Erid)! Grace will get to confront and get closure with Stratt! Fanart included!)
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02 Jul 2026