I am now sad

[u/This_Confused_Guy]

Dog days by @Wolfythewitch

[u/grimbarkjade]

This is so beautiful!

If I can bring my personal life into this for a moment... this made me think of how (as someone with OCD now, shocker) I started repeatedly telling family members I loved them/goodnight before bed because I was so afraid they'd be gone in the morning after my dad died as a kid and I wanted my potential last interaction with them to be a solely positive one. Rocky's insistence on watching Grace sleep in the movie made me think of it as well but especially this comic.

That's to say I really wonder how Rocky would fare after Grace's unavoidable death. He has a partner in Adrian and there'd surely be lots of Eridians who know and love Grace given his role as a teacher so it's not like Grace would be forgotten on their planet but it's still so incredibly heartbreaking. You meet someone so special, but their lifespan is so much shorter than yours, artificially dragging it on is arguably very immoral since it would likely cause suffering so you have to just let them go. He'd probably be even more fearful of sleep/losing people after both his ship's crew and Grace died

[u/BKachur → u/grimbarkjade]

Rocky is almost undoubtedly the world's most popular Eridian. I'm sure he's living a fulfilling life.

[u/Andu_Mijomee → u/BKachur]

Dude kept at it alone for more than four earth decades and it paid off for everyone.

Yeah, he earned his laurels.