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1. We Will Break Away Together (I'll be the Shadow, You'll be the Light) by octopiys

   Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Ava & The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon's Mother (Iron Lung)
   • The Father (Iron Lung)
   • David (Iron Lung)
   • Jack (Iron Lung)
   • Ava (Iron Lung)
   • The Blood Eel (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • BloodyMary
   • Graphic Description
   • Blood and Injury
   • Blood and Gore
   • The Convict | Simon Needs a Hug (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Lives (Iron Lung)
   • Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Mutated The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has PTSD (Iron Lung)
   • Bottom The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Tags Contain Spoilers
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • there is comfort
   • eventually we just gotta get there
   • Happy Ending
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Mutation
   • Eden is a Death Cult (Iron Lung)
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Religious Guilt
   • Ryland Grace Needs a Hug
   • Ryland Grace Is Not Graceful
   • POV The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • POV Ryland Grace
   • Slow Burn
   • Men Crying
   • Panic Attacks
   • Near Death Experiences
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Acute Radiation Syndrome

   Summary

   He was fourteen during the battle of Filament Station. Even now, he can’t entirely remember why he was brought there in the first place. But he knows what he did. His memory of what happened after was spotty, and it was best if it was kept that way, he thinks. Some things shouldn’t be remembered. Not when your life is on the line as such is now.
   He spent the next fifteen years of his life as a COI prisoner; that is, until the COI discovered those four blood moons. Then, with a promise of freedom, he was welded into a submarine and sent down a one way trip into the oceans of the fourth moon, AT-5.

   Or, the fic that starts out as a complete movie study of Iron Lung, with a bit of PHM sprinkled in. And the explanation as to how one Ryland Grace and his best friend, Rocky, rescue an abandoned ship in the vast emptiness of space. Cue a lot of bloodymary. There's also gonna be a decent amount of religious trauma in this too. This is probably gonna take a lot of time.
   Tags should be updated accordingly

   Language:

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