Metamorphic au

The side blog for my project Hail Mary metamorphic au!

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HELLO HELLO HELLO!

welcome to my sideblog de project Hail Mary au, where I have taken everyone’s favorite rock and project my dysphoria onto him! /j

on the Hail Mary’s way to erid, grace notices rocky is acting strangely, perhaps sick, rocky waves it off as unimportant, but grace’s suspicions are confirmed when he finds his best friend changed into something almost-human, a scientific phenomenon grace doesn’t quite know how to fix.

during the 3 year trip, grace tries to help his best friend cope with being human and learn to function as one, which is much more difficult and frustrating than they would both like it to be.

Tag categories:

#metamorphic au: anything relating to the actual au.

#metamorphic reblogs: appear much less frequently, reblogs that aren’t directly related to the au, but could serve as future inspiration.

#metamorphic fanart: fanart of my au! Highly appreciated!

#metamorphic asks: asks about my au! Also highly appreciated!

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don’t you just hate it when your alien best friend randomly becomes humanoid and he’s suffering from burns caused by his atmosphere and is experiencing the worst sensory overload of his life?

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Does he try to figure out how to change back?

he’s not good at science so he leaves that for grace to figure out

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When he gained sight, what was the first thing he saw? What was the first thing he saw and recognized?

grace, and grace.

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Does he lie awake thinking about how he's gonna explain this to Adrian?

oh most certainly

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You said in response to another ask that the transformation took place over a longer period of time, then sped up. Is he still continuing to change? Or has it completely stopped now?

It stops after grace finds him because he helps get rid of the pesky little cell/virus organisms. So he’s not completely human, also not an exact copy of grace, to both of their relief.

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What are Grace's first thoughts at seeing Rocky like this? And what are the first actions he takes?

first thoughts were that he had gone insane and was hallucinating until he realized he could actually touch rocky, he then ran back to his little nook, took his blanket, wrapped him up in it, and carried him to a room with less light (and fragile scientific equipment) all while being very much NOT calm.

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Do Mary and Armando have any responses to Rocky's new form? Does he register as a human to them?

For the first day it registered him simply as an entity unknown to the hail mary’s database, grace corrected this later to simply being “rocky”

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When it comes to Rocky's mate mark, do you support the idea that it's a piece of Adrian's carapace? If so, does he still have it? And what does he think of being able to see the colour of Adrian's carapace?

yeah, I think it makes the most sense for mate marks to be little chips of carapace, don’t know what else it would be lol, he still has it, most of the carapace from that arm managed to cling onto his skin, he thinks the colors are beautiful (much more interesting than his, his words not mine, I am certainly not the writer and he is a character with real opinions)

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A few questions, sorry if you’ve answered them already

How long does rockys transformation from eridian to humanoid take approximately? And if it’s a decent length of time / not instant how freaked out did he and Grace get during the process

And do you plan on making a fic or comic or something bc I adore this idea and would love to consume a long form version of it (not pressuring tho, I understand making stuff like that isn’t for everyone)

The transformation went about two weeks undetected, just small things grace or rocky barely noticed, rocky started feeling a bit off roughly two and a half weeks in, and once the worker cells were completely switched up it led to a kind of faster full transformation.

And yeah, I hope I’ll get around to making a fic/comic, I have a little outline on notes but I don’t know if it will be finalized yet, adhd problems lol

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You said before that Rocky had his hair cut because of the sensory issues it caused- what sensory experiences has he really enjoyed?

Eating ramen, hugging grace, watching movies, the works.

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I need to talk about my au so badly PLEASE GUYS I NEED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND DUMP USELESS LORE RANDOMLY

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I dreamed an alien took human form and was then very upset that his new body had bones. Bones were undignified.

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I am delighted by the number of recent fictional aliens I can insert here.

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perhaps a rock shape alien

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What does he think the first time he sees himself in a mirror?

Probably a little unnerved, but he also likes his hair :)

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mandatory vaguely James Ortiz shaped human Rocky art, bc human rocky lets me project my Problems (light sensitivity headaches :) and such).

My human rocky design is Very inspired by @kit-screams-into-the-void , whose Rocky is incredibly Little Guy coded. Gremlin thing. Engineer who climbs through vents. I REALLY like the opaque visor as a nod to eridians not having uhh faces.

Anyway my really self indulgent headcanon is Grace and Rocky having Star Trek-esque sci fi adventures and shenanigans on the trip to Erid - in this particular episode they just ended up falling through the Speculative Biology Wormhole™️ (woah!).