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“One equal temper of heroic hearts" by Just_an_aussie_otaku_hermit for sunderstruck
Fandoms: The Martian (2015), Armageddon (1998)
04 May 2026
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Summary
Mark Watney had become something of a folk hero.
On some level it was kind of dehumanising. Mark Watney, the Man Who Lived On Mars, is storybook—a bedtime story told to children to keep the magic in their hearts alive. He’s something kids will be studying in a hundred years’ time. He’s got blood sweat and tears on the soil of Mars and his heart and soul woven into the space programs across the globe.
He knows it’s quite the same for AJ.
Being “the twenty-something who stopped the planet from getting hit by a civilisation-ending asteroid” is quite the pedestal to be placed on. It’s only thanks to the combined efforts of NASA and various branches of the US Government that he’s not stalked everywhere he goes. That when he visits the graves of his family he can have the peace and space to share his stories with them. To laugh and cry and sit in comfortable silence with their headstones.