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The Study of Cross-Species Astro Neurobiology (The Official Ryland Grace Guide to Alien Flirting) by powerxtrip
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
02 Jun 2026
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Grace and Rocky survived the trip to Erid. Now, all Grace has to do is live on a planet meant to kill him, charm his best friend's mate, and figure out why all these Eridians keep giving him rocks. Easy right? As long as he doesn't die of scurvy, first.
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“Why me?” He made no attempt to hide the exasperation from his voice.
“A question I’m sure you’ve asked yourself many times, at least when it comes to Arthur.” The look Hosea gave him was too heavy and knowledgeable, oppressive as this goddamned air. Charles gave no response. “In any case, I know that boy has a talent for finding himself stuck in colorful situations, to say the least. I can’t trust someone like Bill or John to go after him without making things worse for us all. I need someone with some sense.”
“Some sense,” Charles replied flatly. He wondered how much sense Hosea would attribute to him if he knew how foolish he’d been more or less any time he was alone in a space with Arthur Morgan. Hosea only nodded encouragingly.
“I know he listens to you, respects you. If you told him it’s time to come back I’m certain he’d return.” Hosea leaned a little closer, lowering his voice to a conspiratorial hush. “And if he has a black eye and some bruised ribs it won’t be the worst thing that happens to him.”
Charles is asked to retrieve Arthur from whatever sorry corner of Saint Denis he's found himself in, and after a drunken fight, he starts to see the cowboy differently.
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- Part 2 of The Romantic Mistakes of Charles Smith
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Arthur rides away from camp in anger, but Charles follows him, refusing to leave him alone with whatever is weighing on him. Their tense argument slowly turns into honesty, forcing Arthur to admit that Charles’s care affects him more than he wants to confess. Beneath the quiet forest and moonlight, Arthur finally stops pretending, and Charles gives him the safety, patience, and closeness he has been afraid to want.
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Ave María, ¿Cuándo serás mía? Except it turns out 'cuando' is really relative when it's time travel, y'all by Des98
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
18 Jun 2026
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“We call this ♪♫.”
“The color or the rock?” I tease, earning myself a low staccato noise not unlike what a human might sound like when faking a laugh.
And then, from one second to another, he straightens. I sense the shift in the air, and as I rise from my squat, Rocky's gaze follows me very, very slowly.
“What?” I ask.
“Say name of this again,” he says, and I tilt my head. He’s never needed me to repeat something before. His hearing is immaculate, and he’s never once forgotten something I’ve told him.
“It’s a rock.”
He doesn’t move. He stares at me with his featureless face until even that feels more unsettling than eye contact.
“Grace,” he says flatly. “You are fucking kidding me, question?”
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Or: Rocky learns the meaning behind the name Grace gave him.
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rocky escape closet by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
14 Jun 2026
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Rocky emerges, and his body language alone is enough to get me going. I struggle around my laugh, clamping my hand over my mouth. He waits patiently for me to gather myself.
“Eridians are gay,” he declares. “I escape closet for all of them.”
I fail. I tuck my glasses into the collar of my shirt so I can put my head in my hands, wiping tears as they come.
“Rocky,” I say between giggles, “Rocky, I don’t think—I don’t think you can apply human sexuality to Eridians.”
Something in him shifts, then. He perks to attention from his relaxed state, and though he has no eyes or facial features, I swear I can feel his gaze narrow on me.
“I also read about gay rights,” he says slowly, warily. “Read that gay humans are hated some places. Bad.” He comes closer, looking up at me with all the accusation his flat face can muster. “You hate gay, question?”
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Or: Rocky learns about another human custom, and as always, he makes it Grace's problem.
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cut me open, take me apart by Anonymous
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
24 May 2026
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I'd thought before that I'd trust Rocky with anything, even open heart surgery, and I really, truly did. Given a few hours to read up on a topic Rocky could blow any equivalent human out of the water, and his adaptability, intelligence and dexterity gave me absolute confidence in his ability to do anything he set his mind to. The real difficulty would be on my end: my confusing squishy organs and the time limit we were on, my incompatibility with his atmosphere, and, most concerningly, the fact that the only anesthesia the Hail Mary had was local.
Grace has appendicitis. Rocky has to cut it out.
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- Part 2 of grocky fics
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Tonight, too, is a repeat. Jacob sometimes wonders if God has already smited him and this is his personal circle of hell—one where he is made to commit sin upon sin, made to succumb to lust and homosexuality until he finds the strength to walk away.
Thus, he whispers not a prayer for protection, but a plea for forgiveness—for the scriptures have ridden the tides of history and translations and adaptations and yet there are only two absolutes: that Eve will always take a bite of the forbidden fruit, and that Jacob Palmer will always fall into Sebastian Wilder's bed.
Or: Jacob Palmer has an extreme case of religious guilt. This does not stop him from sleeping with Sebastian Wilder.
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Dutch is probably losing his mind, the gang is falling apart, Arthur is having an existential crisis by a creek and Charles responds by being annoyingly wise and emotionally available. Arthur learns that disappointment and love can apparently exist at the same time, gets called kind, nearly has a breakdown about it. They end up fucking in the woods instead of dealing with all the problems of the world.
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Arthur squints through the morning light and finds Charles' face, drawn tight in an expression he has never, ever seen before. His eyes are open sores. He's never looked more like an angel.
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- Part 19 of Kinktober '24
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In every sense of the word, it was a miracle Dr. Ryland Grace lived past 50. Between a forceful medically induced coma, the incident above the planet Adrian, and the close call with starvation on the way to Erid, Grace by every right should not have made it. He chalked it up to being bad at most things, including dying, somehow.
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All of Erid, including Rocky and Adrian, have accepted and come to terms with their savior preparing for the end of his life. One Eridian hasn't.
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- Part 1 of Rebirth
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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known by SerotoninShift
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
19 Jun 2026
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After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.
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Edit: I made some minor continuity and grammar edits on 6/20, this is the final version!
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I couldn't help but rationalize it to myself: if Rocky could see me getting off anywhere on this tiny ship, did it really make a difference if I did it right in front of him?
Plagued with newfound attraction to his best friend, Ryland Grace decides he might as well show Rocky how he jerks off.
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- Part 1 of grocky fics
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a crash-course in eridian anatomy by Anonymous
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
14 Jun 2026
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The things you get up to stuck in a tiny spaceship with your best friend who you owe your life to.
Or: Rocky lets Grace explore his hole.
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- Part 5 of grocky fics
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Arthur watched Ennis and Old Boy disappear into the night with their riders in tow. They headed in opposite directions, intent on keeping away from camp a bit longer before they returned to Horseshoe Overlook. 'We should all go it alone right now,' he had said, but he could feel Charles’ stare on him and, when he turned Galahad off the road, he heard Taima following.
He didn't think he was being too presumptuous, and he only had to wait until they broke the treeline for Charles to prove him right. The other man said one word, “Arthur,” and it was all the prompting he needed to pull Galahad to a stop and drop from his saddle.
Instantly, Charles was at his chest, pushing him back, back, and into the trunk of a tree. The horses snorted their offense at their riders’ antics but Arthur barely registered the sound. Charles’ knee was already nudging his thighs apart, his grip on Arthur’s shirt pressing the collar hard against his neck and leaving him gasping.
Charles and Arthur take a little time for themselves following the Pouring-Forth-Oil train robbery.
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- Part 2 of Identity Beyond the Grave
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In Wait, Inaction by vicariously kingly (pelted)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
04 Mar 2019
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The first time Charles and Arthur kissed, it tasted of gunmetal.
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- Part 2 of One Half a Whole AU
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After the events of Chapter 6, Charles finds Arthur on the mountain. Charles takes him West. Hidden away from prying eyes, they heal together.
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“If you don’t want me talkin’ ‘bout him like- Y’know, I’d understand, he was yours, at the end.”
“... I miss him,” Charles echoes John’s earlier statement and John nods roughly, “Burying him… It was odd, I felt relieved. He was suffering, and then he wasn’t.”
John raises his brows then huffs weakly and shakes his head in disbelief.
“Only you, Charles,” John mutters, “Could be so fuckin’ selfless.”
“I’m not-”
“I wasn’t relieved, I was miserable, I wanted the world to end,” John rubs at his eyes again, “Felt like it had. He told me to go be ‘a man’... I know what he meant, and I knew I’d never live up to it.”
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Death’s messenger arrived in the form of the front page of The Saint Denis Times. TRAGEDY AT SEA! CARGOSHIP THE OQUENDO SUNK FIVE MILES OFF GUARMA COAST!
Or: Charles Smith, Sadie Adler, and the two deaths of Arthur Morgan.
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“It was a nice wedding,” Charles says.
The little bird sitting on the top of Arthur’s grave tilts its head and peers at him, then flutters off in a burst of chirps. Charles draws in a lungful of smoke, holds it there for a long moment until it burns, and exhales. He sets the unfinished half of the cigarette at the base of the cross, the smoke spiralling skywards like a prayer, and runs a thumb over the fading knife cuts in the wood.