Ok. Here i go. Ive been infected with these two. And lately i was wondering how to creaturify grace. Well, ive seen some wing stuf floating around so.. behold
Winged cosmic creature Ryland, and deep bloody sea creature Simon.
If simon gets to have a bunch of cool abilities and stuff than so does ryland. Turns him into bird…. Hmm… that makes me think . You can actually make some pretty good parallells with that. Somthing about cosmic hope and horror. Birds and fish. One above one below. …
He has barn owl wings btw. Idk i thought it's fitting. silly lil owl man.
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this will be somewhat similar to the post i made about fish simon head cannons
At first i was thinking of making him more ghost like (but not literally dead) in that he isnt affected by gravity (can float or stand anywhere) and could just, survive in space vacuum. Like some kind of entity that isnt affected by the laws of the universe or somthing… he could survive any pressure or atmosphere, eat anything maybe or not idk. But basically make him the most adaptable creature in space. Im a fan of him having like a barely visible halo
Maybe he can do all that, AND he has wings, because that makes him even more ethereal. Imagine him , free and happy, with a smile that Literally brightens the room, flying unrestrained around in space. Nothing holding him back. An infinite expanse he can fly through worryless.
Of course give him a bunch of bird and eridian instincts to season it a lil. Classic ruffling of feathers when scared or exited. being an owl man does give him very good directional hearing. this probably means i need to give him mobile ears, or ears that can move, so that he can better figure out where the sound came from ,or even a very mobile neck. one that can turn around not completely but a whole lot more than a normal persons neck. and nigh vision, but eh. he is very silent when he needs to be(cuz owl). hell makes a lot of noises otherwise . When startled his wings spread a bit. Lots of sounds… HOLD UP!!!! YOU KNOW HOW LYRE BIRDS AND PARROTS AND STERLINGS ARE EXCELLENT AT MIMICKING SOUNDS!!!!??? BIRD GRACE CAN BE SOO GOOD AT IT THAT HE CAN BASICALLY SPEAC ERIDIAN!!!! its like rockys translator but in reverse!!!! Yeah , so , as i was saying, he makes lots of sounds, just stimming sounds and stuff too ( i make A LOT of stimming sounds, yes, this is me projecting. Wow ive never done that before, rrihihieee ! I like it. I should project my unstable ness on others more often). sharp teeth cuz owls are predators.more feathers in various areas... for no particular reason . eyes that dilates when he sees somthing shiny. Oh i just know he collected seaglass when he was on earth. My boy likes his shinies. Maybe eridians would hide shiny (to them just smooth) things in the sand for him , because they loved how happy it made him. Grace. Sees shiny thing in the sand “exited gremlin bird noises” picks it up and runs to his house with it “rrrriiiieieieiie!!!”. he's probably really light. cuz hollow bones or somthin (unless we go with defying gravity grace). on the opposite end , simon is probably rather heavy. to be able to sink in the blood ocean.
I had some notes written down on headcannons of him being more eridian. ‘pulls em out’
“Standing in the petrorva line ,idk, unlocked? A potential of adapting in his genome. Aka he can now sorta evolve to survive erid ,(Could have been a leak into the dome which slowly made it even inside with the outside),Can echolocate, Resists higher temperatures, Can breathe ammonia, Taps his foot twice when asking questions 🤷♀️, Kinda “hears “ where things are, Probably has rougher skin , Wide vocal and hearing range, Subcounciously has his hands like 🖖 as default .” Idk. He would look human on the outside
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Puts them in space
found some silly bird quirks online :
Upside-Down Acrobatics: Inspired by nuthatches, grace might prefer sitting, eating, or observing others while hanging upside down or moving head-first down surfaces.
The "Head-Twitch" Observation: Like a white-tailed kite, grace might move their neck forward intensely to focus on a task, acting with high intensity and laser-focus.
Forced Interaction: Inspired by pet parrots, grace might purposefully drop items (or throw themselves) to the ground just to make someone else pick them up, repeating this constantly.
Hair Nesting: Some birds love to preen; grace might try to "preen" their friends by playing with their hair, tangling their fingers in it, or nuzzling into it, similar to a lovebird.
Random Object Hoarding: grace may have an unhealthy obsession with shiny items, or specifically, placing leaves on their head to show friends, similar to galahs.
"No Touchy!" Mentality: grace might be social and friendly, but absolutely refuse to be touched, biting or snapping if someone tries to pet them, yet still demanding to be near people. ??? idk bout this one tho...
Teamwork Chaos: Inspired by ravens, grace might work with others (rocky) to distract a target while stealing their belongings.
i don't know as much about birds as i know of fish , cuz i do marine biology and the birds i DID learn about where sea birds, which i guess might fit grace, but that would maybe just give him water proof feathers and salt glands (expels excess salt from body (from sea water) through tears )
if any of you have any cool or cute cosmic/bird ideas PLEEAASEEE tell me. :3
also adding this here. he should also , just for fun and some lore stuff idk, have mercury blood. angle wings and silver blood. sounds fitting to me
Grace arriving on Erid: "So I know i'm an alien and your scientists are probably like super curious about me, I just want to say you can totally do minor, noninvasive experements on me provided you run them by me first. You can totally take like hair and nail and blood samples, i'm willing to run a maze of two, everyone's been super polite in not asking for anything but I promise im not offended. Are you sure you don't want a blood sample? I swear i'm fine with it, want to scan my eyes and brain activity while I look at different colors? Heck pretty much anything short of flat out vivisection is on the table for discussion here. Please experement on me I really want to know what you find out."
The Eridian Governments: wtf WTF wtF???
The Eridian Scientists: *celebrating like they've won the intersteller lottery*
THREE MONTHS LATER
Grace, showing the beginning signs of appendicitis and clutching a bottle of local anesthetic: "Soooo, about what I said before about vivisection being off the table. . ."
Really funny to think about the knowledge gap Eridians and humans are going to have about each other the next time they make contact due to Grace spending the rest of his life on Erid (plus all the information aboard the Hail Mary, and especially the laptops Stratt put basically entire internet on!)
Eridians are going to have a fairly solid grasp of the English language (and possibly even some others), an intimate understanding of the environmental conditions a human needs to thrive as well as their nutritional and psychological needs, a solid grasp of a number of scientific concepts discovered by humans, and decent familiarity with human culture and customs (if probably an American-centric one). Some Eridians might even be explicitly trained as diplomats or ambassadors with the expectation that one day the two cultures might interact more regularly.
Whereas humans are like. Well. There sure are talking rocks in space somewhere!
me: so you see, even if andy weir says he didn't intend for your story to be political, there remains an intense underlying political message in your earth's journey to survival. hope and collaboration are just as political and perhaps even more radical as dystopia in this day and age. and to just throw all that away and say we're all reading into it is a disservice both to the readers who fell in love with you as a character, and to the very ideals you represent.
book!Grace, who i just transported into a pocket universe specifically to rant to him: RYAN GOSLING??? I'm RYAN GOSLING??
me: yes obviously, now stay on topic here. what im trying to tell you is that all art is political, no matter its supposed intentions. the global trolley problem of it all, ortiz's portrayal of rocky as an alien who gets to be as weird as he wishes he could be, the world's decision to choose a woman to be the scapegoat of humanity's survival--
movie!Grace, also trapped here: they did what to antarctica???
Green eyes shouldn’t actually be considered an eye color. It’s just not common enough, it’s a VERY SMALL percentage of the population, 1-2%. Green eyes are also caused by an irregular mutation. Most people have blue or brown eyes, so those are the two eye colors.
All the “green eyes” positivity is actually a bad thing, by the way. Having green eyes is linked to higher rates of retinal melanoma. You’re celebrating something dangerous that can cause suffering.
And besides, most people with “green eyes” lean closer to blue or brown anyways. They should just make up their minds and be brown eyed or blue eyed. And if it’s too hard to tell, they should get corrective surgery (because green eyes are dangerous, and associated with more difficult medical care!) or at the least wear contacts so they don’t confuse people. But also they should be required to
I hate to sound like this, but green eyes are a far more recent development than blue eyes in the mutagenic history of humans. So humans weren’t created to have green eyes.
And hazel eyes? Those are just a variant of brown eyes—come on, they’re far closer to brown than green. They just have a couple greenish traits. And there’s no way there’s that many green eyed people, or a wide variety of eye colors… It’s just not natural.
I don’t have a problem with green eyed people, they didn’t ask to be born that way—but there’s just too few of them for it to be an actual eye color. We don’t need all this “green eye positivity” or putting green eyes in media. The internet is making people delude themselves into thinking it’s more common than it really is.
‼️ THIS POST IS ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF INTERSEX PEOPLE ‼️
✅ I HAVE GREEN EYES THIS IS SATIRE ✅
⚠️ PLEASE DON’T SEND ME ANY MORE THREATS OF VIOLENCE IN DEFENSE OF PEOPLE WITH GREEN EYES?? ⚠️
💧 THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT EYE COLOR?? IT’S ABOUT INTERSEXISM AND BIGOTRY 💧
sex position: you, sitting on your throne. me, standing behind you, resting my arm on the back of your throne and sniling so sneetly at your ministers like i have any right to be there