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be as you've always been by catbrains
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Drive (2011), The Fall Guy (2024)
22 Jul 2026
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"Grace isn't an idiot. He knows Driver's past is muddy. He knows Driver can look after himself and has surely done terrible things to do it. Was probably taught terrible things from a very young age, while Grace's parents were teaching him how to build sand castles and swim.
But it's just a weekend. And Grace had asked once, weeks ago, if he still has to worry about the sorts of things Driver gets involved with, and Driver had told him no.
And Grace believed him.
Clearly, that was his first mistake."While Grace goes away for the weekend with Colt and Jody, Driver falls back into old habits. Grace is furious when he gets back — but failed to account for exactly how afraid Driver would be in the face of an angry man.
Or, as I put on Tumblr, "thinking about how Grace gets loud and aggressive and destructive when he's angry, and Driver was raised in an abusive, violent home." -
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"Colt admittedly doesn't know much about Driver, but he does know that he's always on time. Obsessively so.
In all the movies they've worked on together, all the sets and shooting locations across the state and across the country, Driver is never late. He's usually precisely five minutes early, in fact — a fact it took Colt all too long to put together when he's rarely early enough to see Driver arrive.
[...] So, sure, Colt doesn't know much about Driver. Still doesn't even know his damn name. But he knows him, a bit. In some handful of ways.
And he immediately knows something is wrong when he arrives five minutes late to their call time and Driver isn't there."Driver's late to set for the first time ever. Colt finds out why when he sees the blood leaking from under Driver's jacket.
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Michael Afton-centric Febuwhump 2026.
Mike is not the man Father is. Not so clear-cut and willing to do the cutting. When Michael makes mistakes — because he does, of course he does, he always does — he doesn't lock Michael up or beat him or scream at him until his ears are ringing. He doesn't give Michael orders and then pick apart how well he'd completed them, always finding faults, finding something worth punishment. Mike doesn't make it make sense. He's patient and awkward and rough and kind and tired. He asks Michael what he did today and seems content even when Michael did nothing. He is proud when Michael showers or eats or draws.
He frowns when he finds Michael shaking in the bathroom. -
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""What do you—" Mike says, and then realization hits him as Michael leisurely holds the bottle of pills aloft to inspect the label. "Put those down!"
Michael's gaze snaps to him, lips curling slowly once again into a sick smile, but for some reason the look shining in his pale eyes this time makes any more words die in Mike's throat.
"Father used to give us these," Michael says conversationally, rattling the bottle between his finger and thumb as if to assess how many are in there. "Loprazolam. Benzo tranquillizers, very effective."
"They're for insomnia."
"You don't have insomnia."
"You don't know what the fuck I have.""Or, Michael takes a sudden interest in Mike's sleeping pills. Sleeping does, after all, sound quite nice.
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Henry tries to express to Mike and Michael that he fears their relationship may be a bad idea. Michael doesn't take it well.