Sparrow🪶

She/her | Lesbian | 18 | Multi-fandom

[frankenbirdz]

rocky not enjoy short king status, statement.

[lunarisart]

Hello, I have come with angsty ideas for y'alls Eridian!Grace AUs;

- Eridian Grace is fucking TERRIFIED of going to sleep at the start. Reminds him too much of what Stratt did to him. The whole "sleeping with no dreams and no ability to be awoken" just chills the mercury in his bones and sends him into such a panic the other eridians are afraid FOR him. Adrian and Rocky have to soothe him both in and out of sleeps and make it so the sleeping cycle is as comfortable to him as possible. They also fiercely guard him the entire way through.

- Eridian Grace would more than likely have a measure of limb pain and phantom limb pain from when he was human. All of it basically psychological, no less real. They've found that warm baths actually help his joints and limbs ache less, maybe due to the stress relief?

- probably also has audio processing issues? Since he's lived most of his life as a human with a separate sensory way to see his surroundings, his brain might lag when processing information as an eridian, not because of pure processing capacity but because his psyche is just not used to sight and hearing being essentially one sense. So he takes a longer time to process stuff.

- insanely, ABSURDLY clingly and touchy. Will have bouts of uncontrollable shaking and will basically freak out if he cannot hold claws with Adrian or Rocky at LEAST. Was clearly deeply affected by not being able to touch other living beings for so long.

- gets easily overwhelmed sensory wise too, to the point sound kind of hurts his receptors. Adrian and Rocky have established on pain of Adrian chucking mfers into the artificial ocean of the biodome that if Grace has a "quiet day", then EVERYONE must respect Grace's need for a Quiet Day and if it needs to be more than one day then he'll get more than a day! As many days until sound stops hurting him!!

- He misses being able to see.

[demelly]

future grace

[twiggyart6]

How often do you think Eridian!Grace asks for cuddles from Rocky?

oh like so often

I’m writing more about this in my fic (stay tuned!!) but in my mind Eridians are similar to humans on a social and tactical level. ie: oh yes sir these rock spiders cuddle!! Scratching would be a very common way of showing love, and ofc you gotta watch one another sleep as close as possible <3

Rocky indulges almost every time Grace wants a cuddle (was he gonna say no? This is his best friend, a formerly squishy alien being put into a body he is entirely new to, and someone he loves on basically a cosmic level) the only time he does not is when Grace is genuinely inconveniences him, or when he wants to tease Grace a little bit. In the first few weeks of Grace being Eridian, him and Rocky are practically inseparable- reminiscent of when they first came to Erid. Rocky uses this so his advantage to be silly sometimes :3

Grace really needs the walking practice anyway he is on the struggle bus look at him

[twiggyart6]

Grace the brand new Eridian with the pain tolerance of a clumsy human who had bruises on his legs from constantly tripping and was half burned by a boiling alien atmosphere gets what is essentially a tattoo.

RANTING TIME !

As the Eridians were finishing up his body, they asked if he wanted them to add any carvings or embellishments to it before he moved in- he had expressed that he wanted the scar of Rocky’s claw transferred over, and they could actually replicate what it would look like in the growing process. Sorta just scraping the carapace and letting it heal, doing that until the scar was visible and permanent

he also wanted something to remember earth. A carving of his home planet on his other preferred arm- but when the science team said it would be super easy to carve Into the body while it was inert, he wanted to be in it and conscious to get the carving. It was a part of Eridian culture he wanted to experience.

so he gets the carving and doesn’t realize he’s supposed to be reacting way more to the slight stinging pain of the craving tools. After this Rocky scolds him and makes sure he knows that if he should ever feel that pain or anything close to it- to tell him or anyone immediately- because it means your carapace has been damaged and your now vulnerable to all kinds of nasty diseases and stuff.

Eridians evolved to be pretty much impermeable and very sturdy- it’s not normal to feel really any sort of pain. Humans are kinda just always in some sort of discomfort, so Grace had learned to tune it out so much that he’s kind of a super-eridian who can stand a lot of pain lol

I could keep ranting but I’ll save it for more sketches 🫡

[yexerrr]

im feeling emotional about his lil name tag and the significance of the golden wings🥹

[yexerrr]

canary in a coal mine.

happy doodles under the cut

[tineyincubus]

hi I love your human Rocky very much does Grace get to live on earth with human Rocky and Adrian?

He found his way home

[delete-laterrrr-nya]

Random idea I had surrounding Grace becoming an Eridian:

I think it would be neat if exposure to the environment of Erid (even if he's dome'd there's still the soil and he still interacts with just Eridians) turned him into one slowly.

It could start as Grace being able to hear slightly better and then over time it would escalate until he wakes up fully a rock one day.

[tinytinybumblebee]

★Ryland Grace regressor hcs☆

- Headspace age fluctuates greatly. Sometimes he's a goofy pre-teen utterly focused on whichever video game he's found and other times he's just a baby boy so captivated by the "puppet shows" Rocky does.

- He regressed before Hail Mary. Typically just something that helped him unwind after a rough work week. You try and be a teacher of 20-30 pre-teens who are well, jerks, because they're still learning to be people! You don't ever take it personally but oof it's wears you down and sometimes a couple episodes of Blues Clues n' Sid The Science Kid help xD (is this projection....hush)

- Regression was definitely...hard to explain to Rocky. Yeah sometimes the human brain takes all the stress and upset and compartmentalizes that by making you feel and act...younger.

Rocky thankfully tries his best to understand! Humans are so interesting! He doesn't mind it because honestly Grace is much easier to "manage" when he's tiny xD

Aka: When Rocky feels/hears Grace getting all huffy n' fussy, Rocky is just like "Grace take sleep. Now."

And instead of getting the usual "I'll sleep later." He gets a "M'kay," as Grace rubs at his eyes and willingly lays down (and of course Rocky watches over him)♡

Rocky also will trill/chrip tones that he hasn't translated with Grace yet. When Grace is big he'll try and decipher but, when he's tiny, Grace just listens with wide eyes and lil responding noises (kinda like when parents are talking and baby doesn't understand what's being said but they understand the tone and the safety of it being their carer's voice♡♡)

- Medical traumaaaaa. Grace will instantly regress when he's faced with needles or anything that requires him to be held in place. On Erid, they did need to preform some medical test on Grace (equally for health and equally for pure scientific inquiry and also to aid in nutrition discoveries!) and Grace tried so hard to be a brave boy! But, the moment he sees the needle-like object coming towards him- he's crying and not letting the scientist near him.

They look over at Rocky like, "??? He's leaking from his face, why?? Why is he scared??"

So Rocky has to almost basically lay on Grace (weighted blanket rock spider buddy xD) and trill in tones reserved for baby Eridan's in order to calm Grace down enough for the other's to preform the medical task♡

- Grace kept Ilyukhina's teddy bear. It will never smell like earth again but, it's still grounding to hold it and help him remember that it was once on earth, like him and Ilyukhina and Yáo had been ♡

[tinytinybumblebee]

I saw a comment on a tiktok that Grace would be roughly 3 years old in Rocky's perspective. 😭😭😭

Yessss oh my gosh😭

Like the life expectancy of an Eridian is around 600 years old! So imagine being Rocky, you've been alone on Blip-a (you don't even call it that yet)for 46 (human, always human years) years, you're reaching middle age (291 years old) and suddenly, after you've basically given up hope you see another ship!

Now, cut to a few months later. You've basically moved in with this weird soft fleshy alien, but he's really smart and has been helping you understand what happened to your crew (helps you know that there was nothing you could do to fix it) and you two are working on saving both your respective suns!

Then, the topic finally comes up. Age.

You think Grace is surprised by your age because you're still technically young, at least younger than your crewmates had been!

Then you ask him.

"I'm 33."

You drop your tools, clicking your fingers together, surely he ment to say 333! Right?? Because there's NO WAY they sent a 3 year old in space!!!

But nope, you ask again and nope, you heard correctly.

Grace human is a pebble! A pebble who shouldn't even be leaving the cradling arms of his parents let alone be IN SPACE ALONE.

It all makes sense now!

Grace eats so messily because he's still learning! He sleeps all curled up because that's how pebbles sleep! He gets so grumpy and fussy because pebbles aren't quite in tune with their emotional regulation yet!!

You are Rocky and now own this shirt:

[roxineedstosleep]

Peeble Grace Prt. 2

(Rocky, literally every time Pebble Grace asks him about his jumpers)

Pebble Grace! who adores being "covered up" because he can’t stand the idea of being without some kind of garment. He kicks up a fuss whenever Rocky or Adrian try to take away one of his makeshift jumpers. And he doesn't care one bit that he’s always bumping into things whenever he tries to walk around wearing one.

Pebble Grace! who, for some reason (without fully knowing why), still uses "human" motor commands for an Eridian body. That’s why he doesn't speak properly and struggles to move his limbs with any fluidity.

Pebble Grace! who, in reality, is "echolocation-nearsighted." He has to wear an orthopaedic device (the equivalent of prescription glasses) to get around on his own. But he absolutely loves being carried everywhere by Adrian.

Adrian and Rocky, being protective parental units with their little pebble. Because he’s so tiny and bumps into everything.

Adrian and Rocky, who can’t help but dote on Pebble Grace, because they find his attempts at chirping for the first time absolutely adorable.

Pebble Grace! who couldn't speak properly for at least a couple of years. He understood what Rocky and Adrian were saying to him, but when he tried to say it back... it was impossible for him to mimic.

Pebble Grace! who literally has no problem eating in front of anyone; he really doesn't get what the taboo is.

Pebble Grace! who, when he first started trying to speak properly (Adrian began taking him to a speech therapist because he wasn't speaking with the same fluency as his pebble mates), would just come out with unintelligible babble. And he’d get so frustrated he’d "cry." Rocky or Adrian had to act as his translators until he finally figured out the trick to pronouncing his thoughts correctly.

Pebble Grace! who doesn't hesitate to demand "Puppet Theatre" from Rocky to no end.

Pebble Grace! who loves playing in the Xenonite version of the Hail Mary and pretends to navigate it whenever Rocky is around.

Pebble Grace! who watches his own lecture videos from when he was human and gets frustrated because he wants to correct things in the video. Adrian thinks it’s dead cute to watch his little pebble trying to correct his "notes" (they're just scribbles that nobody can decipher, seeing as he still can't coordinate his limbs properly and lacks opposable thumbs).

[rockrockgrace]

Sort-of expansion of this general idea. What if not every Eridian was happy to see an alien on earth? What if they don't all see him as a hero but as some sort of monster - even a fake - and blame him for the deaths of their loved ones?

What if Grace gets attacked - punished - for what he 'did' Imagine Adrian and Rocky not knowing, having to rush to his rescue. Imagine Grace managing to put up a pretty damn good fight in spite of it being a losing battle from the start - because if there is one thing we know about Grace is that he wants to LIVE, damnit - and now that he has a hope he will fight tooth and nail for it. Just imagine that not every single Eridian sees Grace as a friend, as an ally, as a SAVIOR. But so many of them DO, and in the end - that's what keeps him safe - because he has a family on Erid and he IS loved - and he ultimately will be protected. Because if you think about it - if the roles were reversed... HUMANS PROBABLY WOULD BE SUS AS HELL. Not to MENTION the concept of having scientists that just want to EXPERIMENT on this alien... I do love his happy ending tho - GRACE DESERVES THE WORLD. (But also... imagine Grace PROTECTING HIS STUDENTS, if someone dare threaten him or his class because of what he is. Imagine him BODILY SHIELDING THEM - just showing more and more that Grace is GOOD and brave.) TLDR: Gimme hurt/comfort/angst with Grace being attacked, and being badass but also being so very loved and cared for in the end.

[rockrockgrace]

Quick and very rough sketch. What if not everyone on Erid was so happy to see an alien abomination catered to when so many Eridians never go to come home? What if an Eridian, so incensed with anger and grief breaks into his biodome to punish him for all that he represented. To punish him because their mate was never coming home and yet he dared to exist exist exist when their mate should be existing instead? I would LOVE to see more of this concept tbh...

[honey-fluxx]

Bro’s become a native Eridian 😵‍💫😳

[hailed-marys]

I love your Eridian formal wear Grace he's so cute 😭😭 would you draw an equally bedazzled Rocky to match, question? (If you feel like it ofc)

grace rocky have that shit on, statement

[rexlottie]

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