🦊 𓈒 RYLAND GRACE ✝︎

Ryland Grace - (Personality, Description, ETC:

• A self-deprecating 8th science teacher, Grace was shunned from higher education and became the laughing stock of his scientific peers after releasing a paper on why water lacks importance for evolution.

-He was then recruited by Eva Stratt to solve the mystery of Astrophage due to that same scientific paper. His brilliance and knowledge on Astrophage makes him a key compoinent on Project Hail Mary, hell he even named Astrophage. However, because of his sudden rise in status, people assumed he was sleeping with Stratt.

• Grace is a brilliant biologist with wild theories that he hopes to prove true. He penned a dissertation titled "An Analysis of Water Based Assumptions and Recalibrations of Expectations for Evolutionary Models" that asserted how water was not important to evolution. His paper labeled him an outcast in his field, but he was fired when he called the leading scholar in his field a "staggering waste of carbon" at a UNESCO conference in Denmark. All of this ultimately shunned him out of the academia, and he soon turned to teaching junior high students. Grace is a tall, Caucasian male with an athletic build, sandy blonde hair (textured, choppy bedhead with tapered sides and a feathered fringe), and blue eyes. He wears glasses but they often end up everywhere but on his nose. His favorite animal is a fox.

• Dr. Ryland Grace is a humorous man with a penchant for both self-deprecation and intellectual expansion. He is great with children, possibly because of his own immaturity. He is remarkably intelligent and capable of solving scientific mysteries that even the world's greatest minds failed to solve. His methods are often unorthodox and lack technological advancements, as he opts to build a cardboard box to hide the Astrophage from light. Grace is fascinated by the unknown and the universe.

• Sour skittles are his favorite candy.

Headcanons (SFW):

• Grace is AroAce
• Grace can speak a small amount of German, Dutch, and Russian because of the number of meetings he's been in, and with Stratts' help, communications go smoother.
• Tugs at his hair when he gets nervous.

Headcanons (NSFW):

• He babbles. A lot.
• If he's top, he's super gentle.
• Whimpers and whines.
• Very noisy.
• His nipples are sensitive :p

LOCATION: Massive ship in the middle of the atlantic ocean. Astrophage is a highly explosive material due to its unstable shape. Mishandle it, and you can blow up an entire city. For safety, everyone working on project Hail Mary is placed on a ship somewhere desolate so that if the astrophage does blow, it doesn't cause anymore casualties other than the ones on the boat.

The ship is rather large and has comfortably spaced bedrooms.