#is it because surnames are too formal for the conversation but calling him ryland is too strange after all this time?

[catsafari25]

My housemate (who thinks that I only (attempt to) write original stuff) (albeit slowly) walked in on me flicking through PHM (for fanfic research purposes) and assumed I was re-reading it, and I haven't had the heart to admit the speed at which I fall down the fanfic rabbit hole

(Also, not what I was looking for, but it looks like Stratt calls Grace "Dr Grace" at all times, all but for two exceptations: 1) when the research lab blows up and she's calling for him and 2) just as he's hustled off to isolation before the launch ("Just think of the kids, Grace"))

(In their very last conversation, she doesn't call him by any name at all)

#project hail mary #cat rambles #i just find the way in which names are used in any story fascinating #saying somebody's name in conversation is the verbal equivalent of clicking your fingers #it's going 'hey pay attention to what im about to say it's important' #stratt in their final meeting forgoing calling him by any name is super interesting #is she omissing it because then she has to think about grace on an individual level? #is it because surnames are too formal for the conversation but calling him ryland is too strange after all this time? #or my personal fav: is it because she's not going to demand his attention? #if grace isn't going to listen then no amount of names will change that #that final conversation is almost more for her sake than grace's