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grace and rocky are great because it's like, they're best friends. they're just two aliens getting codependent due to shared trauma in space. grace is rocky's dog. they're platonic soulmates. rocky adds grace to his polycule. they're just two bros hugging. rocky watches grace jerk off. for science. they are both gross to each other. they are trying to figure out how to smoosh their alien anatomy together. take your pick, the options are endless
It's evolving
the most surprising thing to me about how people portray grocky is that rocky isn't clingier. dude was alone for decades in silence as a member of a species that relies on sound and that is very social and vigilant about looking after each other, and (yes i'm a book fan) grace is a very loud organism who saved him more than once, including being burned really badly by rocky's carapace and then his atmosphere in trying to save rocky's life after rocky pulled the broken chair off him. gave up a shot at going home and burned 6 weeks of his comparatively very short life and then several more years just to come back and save rocky and take him home because he realized rocky was screwed and would die out there confused and scared and alone in a derelict ship and erid would similarly be shit outta luck. grace who throws himself out on a line into the void of space and bangs on the blip-a with his wrench to make sure rocky knows he's there. puts the wrench to his helmet and yells as loud as he can with his chin to the faceplate in the hope rocky can hear him.
"Rocky!" I yell as loud as I can. "I don't know if you can hear me! But I'm here, buddy! I'm on your hull!"
I wait a few seconds. "I have my EVA suit radio on! Same frequency as always! Say something! Let me know you’re okay!”
I turn up my radio volume. All I hear is static.
“Rocky!”
A crackle. My ears perk up.
“Rocky?!”
“Grace, question?”
“Yes!” I’ve never been so happy to hear a few musical notes! “Yeah, buddy! It’s me!”
“You are here, question?!” his voice is so high-pitched I can barely understand him. But I understand Eridian pretty well now.
“Yes! I’m here!”
“You are…” he squeaks. “You…” he squeaks again. “You are here!”
“Yes! Set up the airlock tunnel!"
"Warning! Taumoeba-82.5 is--"
"I know! I know. It can get through xenonite. That's why I'm here. I knew you'd be in trouble."
"You save me!"
"Yes. I caught the Taumoeba in time. I still have fuel. Set up the tunnel, I'm taking you to Erid."
"You save me and you save Erid!" he squeaks.
"Set up the darn tunnel!"
"Get back in you ship! Unless you want to look at tunnel from outside!"
"Oh, right!"
his ass is never letting grace be unattended again. anxious rock tarantula, that one. absolute delight, deserves nothing but good things.
and hello???? adrian???? grace literally saved rocky over and over again, saved their whole planet and made sure rocky made it home to them after so damn long. adrian being casual about grace either?ɀ̣ i don't think so.
throwing my hat in the grocky ring. rocky and grace are absolutely pathetic about each other in the book and i have a primal NEED for movie only fans to understand they are absolutely not normal about each other.
grace calculated the precise amount of time/distance it would take before he could no longer see rocky's engines firing when they parted because he was regularly turning his off so he could use the petrovascope and watch rocky leave. he calculated where rocky would be and when so he knew where rocky was at at all times. when he goes back and has to find rocky's derelict ship, he fires his engines then fires up the petrovascope to basically make bootleg space IR sonar so that he can find rocky, and repeatedly does this until he finds the blip-a and then aligns himself with it so he can be certain it's on an exit trajectory because nothing on an exit trajectory would still be in the system unless it was recent. when rocky finds out grace'll run out of food, he immediately tells him to leave and go to earth and that maybe erid will send another ship because he doesn't want grace to die. they are GENUINELY UNWELL ABOUT EACH OTHER.
Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw
Wishing everyone a very Happy Earth Day with Stratt, who always put Earth first! 🌏🌱
i like to imagine the eridians having similar conversations that we're having about their alien
I keep hearing “grace wears science pun shirts to break the ice with his students” “aww grace wears those shirts to make science more interesting to kids”. Bullshit dude, in all of the classroom scenes he’s wearing business casual. His dumbass science shirts are for the love of the game and nothing else
I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?
i like when mary and armando act silly too
rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and grace's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.
Happy Mother's Day to these two
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bonus fetal position grace:
It's commonly accepted in this fandom that humans have extremely fragile bodies in comparison to Eridians, but I think that's actually an oversimplification.
Because while Eridians are incredibly strong and tough on the outside, on the inside they are actually quite fragile:
They have no immune system, so anything that makes it past their enclosed carapace and internal heating will pretty much kill them
They have no natural defenses to radiation of any kind
In general they have very little organic matter so anything that targets their cells directly is quickly lethal
They are partially cold-blooded and live at a very narrow temperature range (about 20 degrees C)
They rely almost entirely on one, highly developed sense and are helpless if deafened (can't even remember the layout of a room)
They are completely helpless while asleep and can't control when that happens
They will forcibly become dormant after eating AND when badly hurt enough (their equivalent of going into shock)
They require more energy to function than humans do, and have very little organic matter to burn in the case of starvation
In contrast, humans:
Have an aggressive immune system and internal mechanisms for dealing with cell damage
Have adrenaline which allows them to temporarily ignore injuries and perform abnormal feats of strength
Are persistence hunters built for economy of movement and capable of extreme levels of endurance
Exist in a very wide range of habitats and on a diverse diet
Are very hardy in general, able to survive massive injuries, lack of sleep, prolonged starvation, and intense environmental conditions if given proper care
The quintessential example of this dichotomy between strength and endurance is the Going Fishing incident in the book: Rocky is able to survive and move in G forces that are killing Grace and to physically wrestle off the chair crushing him, but he collapses from his injuries almost immediately after. Despite being injured himself Grace then carries his 400lb friend up a ladder, is badly burned returning him to his atmosphere, and then proceeds to get some basic medical care, hype himself up on pain meds and keep working (albeit rather badly, lol) while Rocky forcibly sleeps.
The TL:DR is that Eridians are harder to damage, but easier to kill. They're like an rpg character with high armor and low health. I think Rocky would consider Grace to be very delicate at first, only to be blown away by how deceptively tough his friend can be.
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