hiiiii I’m the Hail Mary hc anon from a few days ago YAYYY TIME FOR GRACE REGRESSOR HEADCANNONS (I’m working on some regressor Rocky hcs but I’m working on my versions of baby eridians first… but Soon.) also heads up this is LONG
❤️ ohhhhhhhh I adore baby regressor Grace with all my heartttt, babbling and rolling around, which Rocky finds adorable… until Grace bonks his head on something because spaceships aren’t baby proofed!! which makes Rocky so so so sad because Grace is so so so sad!! so once Grace is big again they make a “playpen” for baby Grace- which is basically just a section of the ship where there’s no sharp corners, there’s some extra blankets n pillows, and room for Rocky to move around without risk of running over his lil pebble!! ❤️
🪐 uhhh I also like to think the first demo of the “skin”tight xenon suit was designed because little Grace kept getting sad at Rocky sitting behind the glass wall or in his hamster ball, because why can’t he touch friend?? friend doesn’t wanna play?? cause little Grace needs Cuddles like big Grace needs… well cuddles too but that’s a different story 🪐
🌟 I do think there’d be an adjustment period where Rocky learns there’s a biiiiiiiiig difference between tween/kid Grace and baby/toddler Grace!! Rocky tries to play a cartoon for Grace because he knows when Grace is small small small (as opposed to small small or just small), he likes the shows with the colors and not-real-computer-made characters, but he plays something that’s just a bit age-inappropriate (not like Family Guy or anything, more Courage the Cowardly Dog; something a little too loud and scary for a tyke) and has to learn the hard way when Grace starts BAWLING. They now have a list of a approved shows for different ages :3 🌟
🌕 Ohhhhh, when they’re flying to Erid, the closer they get the more Grace has to eat the ameba slurry or the chalky stuff that kept him alive in the coma instead of real food, and Big Grace starts struggling to eat. so Rocky has to get as much food into him as possible when he’s regressed; it still tastes terrible and it breaks Rocky’s heart when tween Grace gags, and when kid Grace asks why Rocky is making him eat this, and when baby Grace tears up and starts making the most upset itty bitty noises, but they’re all still more susceptible to eating than their Big counterpart, so it’s a necessary evil (even if Rocky hates it). 🌕
💙 You mentioned Rocky making things for Grace……. ERIDIAN MOBILE. it has a little Hail Mary and blip-a and Rocky and that little human model and some stars!! Grace just stars and coos at it, letting Rocky have some Him Time to work (in very close proximity to Grace, he would never leave a hatchling alone!!) 💙
🪨 ADRIENNNNNNN Rocky has to do some Important Engineering stuff so he sends Adrien to visit Grace and they get there and Grace is curled up on his bed under the covers, crying and whimpering Rocky’s name. Rocky gets whatever the Eridian equivalent of a hundred missed calls and when he finally talks to Adrien they’re also freaked out because “oh my god Rocky I broke the human, I fucked up I fucked UP.” and he has to walk Adrien thru human baby care. 🪨
ok that’s all I have for now I’m so in love with age regressor grace like let that man have some stress relief!!
AAAAAAaaaaaa oh my goodness 🥺🥺🥺🥺!!!!!!!! (Also oh my gosh, regressor Rocky...GALAXY MIND)
- Waaaa baby Grace just being a cooing lil guuuy ROCKY CALLING HIM HIS PEBBLE MY HEAART😭 Rocky loves letting Grace explore and play, that's such an important developmental thing for both human babies and eridian babies!! So he definitely wants to have a "baby proof" area because it only took one head bump/knees scrape for Rocky to be like "Okay need safe place for baby Grace." because it HURTS to hear those distressed noises and watching Armando apply a bandaid to the ouchies area💔
- There's both an upside and downside to everything being archived on the ship; all the kid shows in existence but also *all* the kid shows in experience...aka: Rocky doesn't know the difference between Peter Rabbit and Watership Down 😭😭
So, when Grace is big, the two go very throughly through the shows and decide what's "tween-y Grace" "kiddo Grace" and "baby Grace" appropriate- a lot of times when it comes to baby Grace, Rocky just does a puppet show with his free arms while working or puts on the pretty forest environment in the screen area ♡
- Oh my goodness 🥺 Big Grace being the most defiant when it comes to eating the sludge/coma slurry because he's more aware how this stuff isn't as nutritionally dense. But the smaller Grace is, the easier it is to at least convince him that the slurry is going to keep his tummy full and help him!
Tween Grace gags, pushing the bowl away (of course Rocky having to do the "you don't leave the table until it's done" thing😭). Kiddo Grace needs encouragement ( "plug your nose, three more big bites") to help him get it down. And baby Grace just looks at Rocky with utter betrayal whenever Rocky puts the spoon in his mouth (Rocky made an adjustment to his ball/suit so that he can spoonfeed baby Grace without you know, boiling Grace's flesh-)
- the skin tight suit and the mobile 😭😭😭 Rocky knows that humans like closeness, it makes them happy and safe!! He also knows the hatchlings like moblies because they're good practice for their echolocation- so Rocky does both so they can mix both cultures into Grace's regression (but waaa baby Grace being so confused when he tries to pass his toys to Rocky to play with but his blocked by the pannel lil guy just cant grasp the concept that the pannel is keeping them both safe!!😭)
When Rocky perfects the "coat" Grace is sooo excited because now he and Rocky can really play!!!
- ADRIAAAAAN oh my goodness 😭 your mate of almost 200 years brings back a human who is attached to him at the leg and despite helping them save their planet, is also a baby sometimes??
Of course Adrian doesn't have the same human language understanding like Rocky has (Rocky's had 5+ years!) ! So there's a huuuge barrier between them in conversation ;^; Grace is trying to understand where Rocky is and Adrian is trying to figure out what Grace is saying! The translator just isn't picking up on Adrian's tones so Grace is just crying and Adrian is tapping and clicking anxiously because they are so sure they've broken the human!!
Thankfully Rocky does return a bit later and walks through how to take care of a tiny Grace- showing Adrian tones and chrips that Grace can translate and Rocky teaching Grace tones he can use that Adrian can understand ;u; (and eventually one day, Rocky peeks into the dome and finds Adrian n' tiny Grace building sand castles, no language needed just proximity ♡♡)
aaaaAAAAA thank you so so much for sharing and blessing us with these fantastic hcs!!!!
