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Until Contact Is Reestablished by 3AMThoughts
Fandoms: The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015)
05 Jan 2026
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I was in the middle of my usual circuit the first time I saw them. Her? Him? Whatever. The important part was that they were standing in the middle of the Hab like it was their living room - perfectly nondescript. No explanation as to how they’d gotten through airlock protocol, because I definitely hadn’t missed the first home intrusion on the planet Mars.
I froze, mentally running through every scientific, mathematic, or psychological explanation for this. I feel like I would've remembered if humans could spontaneously mitose out of sheer loneliness.
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Or in other words - Mark Watney is alone on Mars, and his brain, unfortunately, has opinions about that.
A persistent dream-companion starts showing up in the Hab, and Mark thinks his way through it, prepping for the worst: isolation, stress, maybe the early stages of losing his grip on reality. Just another problem to manage.
What he doesn’t expect is conversation. Or banter. Or the slow, dangerous comfort of not being alone anymore - even if it’s only in his head.