a phm red string doodle comic~ followup to this post!!
just fyi, this got out of hand so it's long as fuck❤️ enjoy!! ->
timeskip 🫶🫡
REEKS of artstyle inconsistency. but also love 🫶 and my insane ramblings over the course of mutliple weeks. i wanted to get a semi-coherent storyline to post so here it is!!
shoutout to @kikithepink for this post, for ideas about the eridians' version of a fated soulmate; because they use echolocation, not being able to see the string, but instead hearing special vocalizations/a special sound to let them know that they are "tied"! every reference to rocky hearing grace's heartbeat is for you!
hopefully this post wasn't too difficult to understand- i did the timeskip because i wanted to get adrian in there AND! i love comics framed on memory, so them reminiscing on how stupid they were in communication ugh. i love it. hopefully it's comprehensible LMAO
so they basic premise is that grace initially didn't tell rocky that they were tied. he's nervous! and they also didn't know each other well yet.
they did talk about it after rocky tells grace about adrian, and then details to grace the "mate thrum" though that means something a little different for eridians. essentially feeling a "big big energy"; i'd like to think it's a very low-frequency tone (like the color RED! get it. red string.) but very powerful and unmistakable.
and rocky didn't bring it up to grace because he thought grace knew! LOL. but also navigating the "my soulmate is an alien" landscape, and it became clear to him (during the eridian mating conversation) that grace, in fact, did NOT know that rocky knew that they were tied/fated.
i'll probably make more fleshed out doodles about grace getting tied to adrian as well (i wanted to keep this one basic/short [well..]) but they were tied on first meeting (just like rocky and grace)!
and little easter egg, but every frame of grace and rocky sitting post-time skip, they are sitting on adrian! i too am not immune to big adrian propaganda, i love it so much, here's a more detailed look into my psyche:
anyway. i think that's it! thank you for all the love for this au, and if you got this far down the post. 🫶 til next time 🫡
I had a dream where Rocky had died and Adrian was burying him but before burying him they took some parts of his carapace (his tattoo things, some of the green gems) and took them to this massive cave thing (jt actually might of been the bio done they just made it safe for eridians to be in I can’t remember) where they carefully arranged the pieces next to hundreds of other gems and carapace pieces then as they left they made a small high pitched noise and it echoed off of all the gems and carapace bits and my god did it make the most beautiful music I’d ever heard and basically the idea was that even after someone they loved died their loved ones could still hear them sing
after Adrian left the cave the dream sort of panned over to me what parts of Rocky were left (mind you it was still playing the music) and next to Rocky was graces teeth and some of his bones that had been carved out into flutes
granted I know very little about eridians and their rituals/ erid in general (I need to read up on it) but needless to say I woke up sobbing
Rocky, once again, being baffled and STRESSED about human biology and the things his human does to keep healthy
i dont think mr "my whole crew died of radiation sickness" likes the fact that his alien and most things on his planet needs it for survival very much xD
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