[aroace-ryland-grace]

I took this video at like 3 am last night and I can't stop laughing at it...whatever. go my rocky

[hachinana87]

Boss…

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the most evil thing grace did was not tell rocky that the hat he made him had "saviour of the universe" written on it actually

[loving-jack-kelly]

grace and rocky get to erid and both of them are hitting every eridian squarely in the uncanny valley because they've both absorbed so much of each other that they feel both too eridian and not eridian enogh. rocky faces in the direction he's paying attention to and it feels like he's trying to hide something, the way he and only he of the eridians seems to always be showing the same face of his carapace when he speaks to somebody. he speaks in metaphors that only make sense to somebody who understands light-based vision. his intonations are funny, rising on questions when they otherwise wouldn't, falling flat, his sarcasm goes to space dry and restrained and comes back with such force it almost feels like he's lying instead of joking sometimes.

and grace who is so alien, but reflects eridian mannerisms that they've never considered strange before but coming from a creature so soft and strange, it just doesn't feel right. grace who stomps his foot twice when he asks a question, and it rings out flat and dull instead of the strong, sharp sound of an eridian hand on the ground. grace whose voice is so alien, so one-note, so full of articulations that are sharp and round and everywhere in between, but who echoes the melodies of eridian poetry and music, sometimes on accident but sometimes perfectly in time with what rocky translates him as saying, and later, perfectly in time with his keyboard.

rocky and grace who mirror each other more similarly than they mirror their own cultures. who speak to each other in a strange pidgin eridian that nobody else quite understands fluently. who share jokes from movie and tv shows from earth filtered through eridian folktales, plays, and musicals until they only make sense to the two people who know both cultures. they're not strange to each other, but it puts other eridians on edge. even adrian, at first. they've changed each other, you see.

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

number one rule! never believe ur thoughts after 10 pm . unless its about The Character then believe all of your thoughts wholeheartedly

[aroace-ryland-grace]

sometimes I think about how scared rocky must've been the first time grace went back into the hail mary even though he knows it's not sensible and even though he knows he should be back any moment but he can't fight off that terrifying feeling of being so alone again and then I explode

[avoid-avoidance]

now imagine grace leaving the tunnel (which rocky at least made himself, which rocky is at least confident will withstand the horrible emptiness of space) and going back into his awful little oxygenated ship. from what rocky has observed, he's pretty sure that this alien can't perceive rocky at all when he's in the ship with the airlock door closed. the alien is choosing to be alone, as far as its own senses are concerned, instead of being near rocky.

imagine that every time grace starts to walk away, rocky begins involuntarily emitting an eridian distress call. unfortunately, the call is pitched outside of a human's hearing range. but at first, rocky wouldn't know that. he'd think that grace is walking away while hearing rocky keen in panic and anxiety and loneliness, and he just... keeps walking, without even acknowledging the sound.

[sunny-st0rm]

Based on a recent dream of mine

[gawronka]

this ship can go two wildly different ways and i love both of them dearly

[noontimeofday]

Based off this thing I saw where Simon gets pissy, shouts at Grace and throws something and Grace, being the sensitive guy he is, starts crying and Simon, not used to his words having any sort of power like that, instantly is like I'm the worst person ever. Grace has been nothing but kind and patient with him and here he is making him cry. He apologizes over and over again, sent into a baffling state of desperation and hysteria to try to make up for it.

Grace shows him mercy, sinking down and giving him a hug and a kiss to the forehead to talk him off the edge. He then tells Simon he still needs time to get over it and the hurtful words Simon said, but that Simon doesn't deserve to punish himself so severely, just be more controlled next time. The start of Simon learning hes the only one in control of himself, he can't make excuses here and he won't be punished severely which creates even more pressure for him to grow as person.

[vendulan]

Rocky when he finds out they didn’t give Grace a choice

[one-billion-marbles]

Simon finally feeling safe on the Hail Mary, finally letting himself believe that this isn't some kind of trick from the Eel, or the COI, or whatever God that may be watching. Finally believing that Grace really does want him safe, and happy, and alive.

Grace seeing this, finally feeling like Simon is stable enough to see the Greenhouse. I mean, the guy had a breakdown over the screen room, Grace was not going to risk his reaction to REAL PLANTS until he was sure Simon could handle it.

Grace excitedly leading Simon towards the Greenhouse. Opening the door. Watching for Simon's reaction, hopeful, but knowing it could be too much.

And it finally hits Simon.

Not relief. Not awe at the greenery, the abundance of life.

His purpose.

What else are plants meant to feed upon?

[trexiva]

Sorry I'm thinking Simon's tendency to apologize to inanimate objects rn

Grace gets frustrated with a tool or something and tosses it to the side as he does. And Simon picks it up and mutters an apology on Grace's behalf under his breath. Cut to Grace absolutely breaking down to Rocky later, taking off his glasses as tears stream down his face bc, "he apologized to the tool, Rock. I threw it and he felt the need to apologize. On my behalf." Him feeling a bit like an asshole for throwing a fit

Ok that's it that's the post hit send

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Stratt: Oh no.

Stratt: I don’t have the time or emotional capacity to be sad or stressed about this.

Stratt: GRACE!

Grace: On it!

Grace: *starts sobbing and going into a full panic attack*

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Stratt, on one hour of sleep in the past three days and 37 cups of coffee: Okay thank you, I—one minute—where are we on the research grants?!—ok—you, have you contacted—hold on—no I’m not available right now—NASA where are we with the ship?—good—yes I need all of them here—no, redesign that—I cannot talk to the press right now—hand me those charts—why is the patrova line up 4%?!—and you do not have clearance—no time for that right now—the button is over there—do I look like I have two seconds—one minute everyone I’m getting another effing call—WHAT?!

Grace, on the other line: Carl and I made a baby :D

[silly-jellyghoty]

Something something i was bored and drew a Rocky vision of Grace

Freaky leaky guy and his weak inner carapace and top part fuzz

[aceteroiid]

:)

[connor-dioda]

adrian just keeps getting bigger and bigger with every passing fanart so might as well take it to its logical extreme. rocky and his skyscraper-sized gender-neutral mate-wife <3