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• the great tribulation by aloremrem for Ikira

  Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  17 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • Ryland Grace
  • Ava (Iron Lung)
  • The Blood Eel (Iron Lung)
  • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
  • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
  • assorted C.O.I members
  • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
  • Ryland Grace & Rocky are Best Friends
  • Ryland Grace Needs a Hug
  • Touch-Starved The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • The Convict | Simon Needs a Hug (Iron Lung)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • The Convict | Simon Lives (Iron Lung)
  • Post PHM Canon
  • Project Hail Mary Spoilers
  • Spoilers for Iron Lung (2026)
  • handwavium science
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • we throw grace into the iron lung universe this time
  • not meet-cute not meet-ugly but a secret third thing (meet-wtf-is-going-on)
  • Happy Ending
  • POV Alternating
  • Self-Worth Issues
  • No beta we die we die we die
  • do they count as roommates if one of them is chained to the wall
  • Pining
  • yearning even
  • Ryland Grace is a Leaky Space Blob
  • Everyone lives/Nobody dies
  • (except yao and ilyukhina sorry)
  • Getting Together
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Kissing
  • They get hugs!!!!
  • The Convict | Simon Is Down Bad (Iron Lung)
  • this is a hopeful fic btw don't be fooled by the 'grace in the IL-verse'
  • grace alters the genre of the universe from cosmic doom to cosmic hope by just being there

  Summary

  When Grace gets seemingly teleported by means unknown into the SM-13 right as it was nearing The Light, both Simon and Grace have no idea what is happening. Grace knows he was supposed to be in his house on Erid, Simon knows this new guy cannot possibly be a hallucination, and Ava, upon hearing Grace ramble about theories for how he got there, knows that new guy is Smart. Could-Secure-Our-Survival Smart.
  She orders Simon to bring Grace back to the surface, and thus begins Grace's ordeal in a starless universe.

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