I wonder what sorts of mundane misunderstandings/differences Grace and Rocky had?
I imagine that Rocky wasn’t too fond of Grace cutting his hair or clipping his nails the first time he saw that. Body modification and all that (not at all like chiseling your legs)
Dreams and nightmares are a common one that I’ve seen. Eridians sleep like their on anesthesia- pass out and nothing until they wake up.
Rocky discovering color can be seen would be a huge discovery for all Eridians. All of human culture revolves around color-Eridians don’t have that.
Grace chews on things, usually pencils or his glasses legs. This definitely confuses Rocky. R: Why chew but not chew eat? G: It’s relaxing. Stress relief.
Not a cultural thing, but biological: random muscle spasms, shivering, goosebumps, and sweat. Also things like teeth grinding, snoring, sneezing/sniffles, coughing, drooling, yawning. Humans are so noisy and wet to Eridians.
R:The human body is weird and gross and way too noisy.
R: How did you ever manage to avoid predators? Too many fluids, leaky blobs.
(And poor Rocky who’s spent 40 years alone in space without a single sound and must have been so overwhelmed and over stimulated by Grace when they first met)
And that’s without mentioning sleep talking/walking must have really freaked Rocky out the first time it happened. Like oh yeah, by the way, humans talk/walk in their sleep when they’re stressed. It’s really any wonder to Rocky how early man managed to survive when they made so much noise in their most vulnerable state.
And I’m thinking about how oceans have salt, making the ocean in the Bio-Dome undrinkable. How confusing and stupid for a race to rely on water so much, whose planet is completely covered in water, but didn’t evolve to be able to drink it.
R: Water in front of you. Much, many volumes as requested. Why not drink?
G: *drinking water out of a cup from his house* It’s salt. Humans can’t drink salt water. It dehydrates.
G: Then it wouldn’t smell like the ocean.
And like, what’s the deal with rain water? Why does Grace let that enter his system? It’s so loud and wet-why ask for it in the first place?
Speaking of weather, Grace wants cloudy days. He makes shapes in the clouds-how does a cloud look like something else? It’s a cloud!
He does the same thing with the star-projection. Leo the Lion star? Taurus the Bull star? It’s a dot of light how are they anything? He makes new names when Erid’s stars are projected: Blip-A, Hail Marry, Rocky, Armando, Adrian-B. Why do stars need names anyway?
