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1. Wassup Earth, It's Ya Boy Mark by StoryTimeWithSquiggles

   Fandoms: The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Mark Watney & Ares III Crew
   • Chris Beck/Beth Johanssen
   • Mark's Mom/Mark's Dad
   • Mark Watney
   • Rick Martinez (The Martian)
   • Chris Beck
   • Melissa Lewis (The Martian)
   • Beth Johanssen
   • Alex Vogel
   • Mark's Mother
   • mark's father
   • Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
   • Venkat Kapoor (Mentioned)
   • Mindy Park (Mentioned)
   • Mitch Henderson (Mentioned)
   • Annie Montrose
   • Original Characters
   • Amy Beck (The Martian)
   • Post-Mars
   • back on earth
   • PTSD
   • Dissociation
   • Depersonalization
   • Derealization
   • Oh yes all three
   • Hallucinations
   • Flashbacks
   • Panic Attacks
   • Touch-Starved
   • Separation Anxiety
   • Mark is straight up not having a good time
   • Plants
   • There are so many plants
   • Cuddling
   • Canon-typical language
   • The M rating is due to the language there's a lot
   • Mark's got the mouth of a sailor and the heart of a golden retriever
   • Potato Hate
   • Therapy (in the background)
   • Crew as Family
   • They are Found Family: In Space
   • Shameful misidentification of common birds
   • not-quite suicidal ideation
   • Past disenchantment with life as a concept
   • Recovery
   • Mark is too hard on himself
   • Solitary Confinement
   • NASA's plant nerds coming in clutch
   • Identity Crisis
   • Possibly suicidal Mark
   • He's not but it's definitly discussed a few times and implied that he was a lil bit in the past
   • People are concerned
   • Self-harm kind of
   • Mark loves nature
   • High Mark but it's doctor-sanctioned
   • Mark talks to himself
   • Hospitals
   • Discussion of nonspecific eating disorder
   • Very bad relationship with food
   • Camping
   • Prescription benzodiazepine use
   • Excessive infodumps about plants
   • Storms
   • Not-quite castaways
   • The public can be jerks sometimes
   • Out of character a bit

   Summary

   Mark's back on earth, and struggling to figure out who he is post-Mars. Luckily, just about everybody in the world is (and always has been) there to support him.

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

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