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a drawing of a figure peering at a small person in a green cloak in the palm of their hand. melting, unreal eyes melt off of the figure.



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    FUNCTION.HEARTBEAT is a canon-adjacent series with a focus on a more realistic/harsher Providence, deep diving into characterization, and generally trying to make a bit more sense of the handwavey and inconsistent bits of canon.

    And, of course, making Rex have a bad time.

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  1. Public Bookmark 39

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    I never noticed. There are no mirrors in my house; there are no mirrors anywhere on Erid, at least not in the sense that we understand them. There’s reflective surfaces, but not intentionally so. My attention has been tugged this way and that, always something new to discover, or else something new to research in the endless encyclopedia I was left with. I had no reason to look at my own body beyond what was necessary to keep it clean.

    But now I’m sitting here, and it stares me in the face. Emphasized by my position, my stomach rises up and over my waistband, forming a soft mass that spills slightly over my sides.

    “Oh,” I say out loud. I run a hand over this new pudge that probably isn’t new at all, startling slightly at the texture of it. Soft. Yielding. Slightly cold from the water evaporating on it. I touch my body like it isn’t my own, because for a long, long time, it wasn’t. I touch it the way Rocky touched me once he finally had the option to, committing everything to memory, matching it to what he already knew.

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    Or: In the two years that he spent on Erid, Grace has changed in just about every way imaginable. But one way in particular feels more significant than the rest.

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    13 Jul 2026

  2. Rec 63

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    Somewhere between Adrian and Erid, Rocky invents the xenosuit to help Grace. It turns out they both needed it.

    "The thing about sharing a spaceship with a guy in a hamster ball is you end up doing the grunt work. So here we are, en route to an alien planet, and I am once again hanging off the side of the dang ship. At least this time I’m securely fastened and not watching us sink toward our doom."

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    06 Jul 2026

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    How old was he, even? He’d been thirty-five when he left Earth — would that make him seventy-five, or forty-six, or forty-two once he returned?

    Grace is returning to Earth, but what will that mean for him?

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    26 Jun 2026

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    "Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.

    "You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."

    "And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."

    "Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"

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    24 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 63

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    cynosure, noun (cy·​no·​sure ˈsī-nə-ˌshu̇r)

    1. a fated partner, typically romantic
    2. the draw to one's fated partner
    3. [archaic] one that serves to direct or guide, from the northern constellation Ursa Minor
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