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1. if you never eat, you’ll never grow by flamestormed

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types  

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

   16 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Ryland Grace/Reader
   • Ryland Grace/Original Female Character(s)
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky & Reader
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • Ryland Grace
   • Reader
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Angst
   • Established Relationship
   • Doomed Relationship
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Journey to Erid (Project Hail Mary)
   • Stratt’s vat
   • And even from before Stratt’s Vat
   • Idiots in Love
   • Hope given and then taken away
   • Choices
   • Guilt
   • Food Issues
   • Burns
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Memories
   • Academic Ryland Grace
   • Academic Admiration
   • Developing Relationship
   • I’d like to think their trajectory points more towards a queerplatonic relationship
   • Chosen for the Hail Mary before anything can run its course
   • Ryland Grace is a Leaky Space Blob
   • Ryland Grace Has Memory Issues
   • Ryland Grace Has a Bad Time
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • Ryland Grace Needs a Hug
   • But he’ll not be getting hugs forever or he might die that’s the problem
   • No beta we die like Rocky’s crew and Yáo
   • Canon - Project Hail Mary (Book & Movie Combination)

   Summary

   Ryland’s whiteboard has cycled through a couple different phases. First, it held his scattered inventory of memories. Then, calculations charting the path to Rocky. And now, having saved Rocky, columns of figures devoted to rationing food for the journey to Erid.

   Near the bottom corner, circled three separate times, are the words: WE WILL MAKE IT :)

   Well, you learn that there is a special kind of hell reserved for the first person to discover a problem, because now, even four words scrawled across a whiteboard can mock you. You see, here’s the problem you’ve found: Turns out there isn’t enough food on the Hail Mary for both of you to make it to Erid alive after all.

   —

   OR: The Hail Mary has enough food to get one person to Erid. Unfortunately, there are two of you. And worse, you’re in love.

   Language:

   English

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