I love love LOVE a platonic relationship between Rocky and Grace where neither of them are normal about each other.
Theyâre best friends but by both Earth and Eridian standards everyone is like âOh wow, theyâre⌠close-â
Like little to no cares about privacy around each other because, well, fuck you arenât getting much of that on a spaceship for multiple years now are you?
Wherever one goes thereâs a 50% chance the other will be there too.
Whenever Grace talks to another Eridian he uses some sort of portable instrument to communicate but with Rocky they just speak in two separate languages at each other. Itâs like seeing someone speak to someone in only Chinese and the other person only responds back in English.
Would be funny if Eridians arenât very touchy but Rocky is basically clingy as fuck when it comes to Grace. Always tugging on his pants like a toddler to get his attention and stuff.
Grace just using Rocky in either his ball, enclosure or his xenonite suit as a backrest while heâs grading or doing work or something, Rocky fully absorbed in his own thing. Sitting as close together as physically possible while having zero interaction with each other. Parallel play at itâs best.
These two come in a pair. Do not separate.
All of this and more, fully platonically, people wonder if theyâre the worldâs first weird inter solar system couple and if theyâre in some weird polycule with Adrian but no, theyâre just like that.
Itâs just Rocky and the human he adopted as a permanent part of his family that he will spend every possible second of the rest of his short life with because he wonât be here forever and heâs not going to waste any of his time for the world.
Also Adrian still loves Rocky and isnât quite as close to Grace as he is but is also very fond of the weird awkward alien their mate brought home because Grace is Rockyâs family and that makes Grace Adrianâs family too.
