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scrapped painting,, thought i might as well post it

i want to put my thoughts behind this: this was supposed to be a piece for pride month, titled "you were loved". the sky is the color of the aroace flag (just upside down)!

basically, i wanted to show an aroace person — an old aroace person, to be precise. being aroace myself, i am always told that i will forever be lonely and miserable if i don't get a partner. so showing grace, who is aroace to me, as old and happy and fulfilled and oh so loved by his best friend, was really important to me <3

kateammann

Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

scarlct-vvitch

happy pride to everyone but specifically happy pride to ryland grace, aroace icon of all time, patron saint of literally saving the world with the power of friendship

bstrdr

Eridian Grace, as in culturally Eridian, not the species Eridian, is so important to me.

Grace who does jazz hands and taps when he's asking a question and says some words three times like Rocky. Grace who makes chirps and trilling noises when he's happy.

Grace who starts thinking and dreaming in Eridian, who sometimes has dreams that are just sound, no visual. (Grace who, if he ever goes back to Earth for whatever reason after years on Erid, forgets some words in English and speaks in the sentence structure of Eridian because he has to translate from Eridian to English when he speaks outloud).

Grace who does scarification (even if Rocky protests at first) - I've read some fics where he does the Voyager pulsar map, or dots and lines showing his route from Sol, to Tau Ceti, turning around towards Sol, and then the line going all the way back to Erid. Even though he already has the scars from Rocky saving him, maybe Rocky's family crest. A scar showing his rank as Captain of the Hail Mary - maybe something to represent her, too.

Grace who wears Eridian gems, as earrings, in a chain for his glasses, in strings draped over him that clink together when he walks - the most important ones, like the earrings he wears all the time, the color of the blueish-green gems (or spots?) in/on Rocky's carapace.

Grace who wears a bracelet on each arm that have ribbed marks like on Rocky's arm so he can properly say goodbye (not something he had to do, but something that felt right to do, something that made him feel more like himself), sound included.

Grace who considers himself an Eridian!! Grace who IS an Eridian!!

jigget

Another sketch of the best space friends, might colour it later. These guys are sooo precious, gonna watch the movie tonight again, can't wait.

a-bottle-of-tyelenol

i think grace is for those of us who are afraid and whose fear is seen as disgraceful. you are just as worthy of life as someone who is brave.

im so late to this so i doubt there is anything i can say that someone else has not already said but,,, idk its not often that you see a scared protagonist who is not seen as bad for being scared/cowardly

grace is human and that is the greatest thing about him