Bloodymary having to ration their food on the way to Erid. They only have small supply of nutritional paste packets.
Rocky still doesn’t like Simon all that much. He is far more concerned about Grace’s wellbeing than Simon’s. Simon feels the same. It’s Grace’s ship and he already wasted so much medical supplies on keeping Simon alive after they found him.
Simon finds a way to access Armando’s storage and starts returning his rations. He likes his space when he eats so Grace isn’t too suspicious about him wanting to be alone.
Simon gets caught in the cargo, ration packet in hand.
“Dude! Are you stealing more rations?! I thought we agreed to rationing! Neither of us can survive if we aren’t careful- you know this!”
Simon dropped the packet in hand, frantically turning back, “no! It’s not what it looks like-“
“It looks like you snuck in to the cargo to sneak more food.”
“I did sneak in but-“
“I don’t wanna hear it! God-!” Grace stormed off. He was beyond starving and there Simon was taking food.
Rocky heard it all as he does most things on the ship. He went to Grace’s side once things settled, bumping his ball against the human’s side. “Why Grace upset?”
“He’s been stealing food Rocky…”
Rocky leaned his carapace back and forth, a subtle display of uncertainty.
“What? What’s that for Rock?”
“Simon not been stealing food. Simon been putting food back”
Grace paused, putting food back? Why would he do that? He needed to eat, wasn’t he hungry? He hadn’t been losing weight like Grace had been. It only made sense for him to be getting more.
“Are you positive Rocky?”
“Yes, Rocky certainly” he continued his faint swaying, tipping his front down a bit.
“Why didn’t you tell me?? He needs to eat Rocky! You go off on me if I’m even two minutes late to eat!”
Rocky folded his legs under himself, tilting his side towards the edge of his ball like a cat begging forgiveness for knocking over a glass.
“Grace need food. Simon not want food means more food for Grace. Grace more likely to survive”
That was… sweet in a way. Both of them. They were both worried about him.. It wasn’t fair though. Grace sighed, looking over his shoulder towards where Simon was most likely still stowed away. He sighed and stood, he needed to apologize.
He kept making assumptions about Simon and Rocky. He’d always prided himself on being open minded, it was the reason his kids liked him so much. One of the reasons at least. Now, he couldn’t even extend that courtesy to his closest friends. He was far from the best representation of humanity to extraterrestrials life. He thought maybe he wasn’t like the rest of humanity. He never related to humans, and yet he had the worst pieces of them engrained in his own being.
Zomburger bag head cannons because I found a bag maker on picrew??
Order is Doctor, Francis, Conrad, Cesare
(Details and links under the cut)
Doctor!!
- He got the bag at a consignment store in New Mexico on vacation at 17 and it has been his personality ever since
- he makes food for himself, Frances, and Conrad so they all have matching bentos
- notebooks for recipe ideas and doodling. He likes to be organized so he has one for recipe ideas, one for to-do lists, one for business notes, and one for doodling on break
- extra contacts so he can still get home if he loses the ones he has in. He learned his lesson after getting pepper juice in his eye and walking to the wrong apartment complex because he couldn’t see his way home
- EpiPens and inhaler because he is sickly. He has very minor asthma but the heat in the truck can make a flare up during the summer. He rarely needs an EpiPen but it never hurts to have one for himself or someone else
- cinnamon mints because you can’t have gum on stage, why is in the truck any different?
- flip phone to be niche and quirky because he hates social media, busted phone with no service for music and puzzle games
- extra makeup for touch ups obviously
- prescription bottles for whatever he wants in them. No one asks questions if you keep Advil, WalDryl, and weed gummies in a professional looking bottle
Frances!!
- she goes between different tote bags that she owns. She’s been meaning to switch to a bag with a zipper since her totes spill in the truck and she just never has
- bento with lunch from doc because she can’t be bothered to cook for herself and he can use an air fryer
- eyedrops for her eye socket since it tends to dry out
- notebook for doodling and writing when they aren’t busy
- astrology and whatever fantasy book she’s on for the long drives to their place for the day. She’s been getting into tarot and astrology despite everyone else in the truck telling her no
- extra makeup because she’s the makeup queen. She can make a two dollar grease paint hold up through the rain on an 80 degree day without a single smudge
- strawberry monster. She’d usually get a coffee or tea but Cesare uses monster in some of the recipes so she can bum them off of him when he’s feeling nice
- 3ds purely for the Legends of Zelda games
Conrad’s stuff!!!
- D&D planning notes. He loves writing campaigns for people to use even though he doesn’t play too many campaigns of his own. He likes writing stories but he couldn’t stick with writing a regular story
- disposable camera to take photos for scrapbooking. He likes having real photos of people rather than digital
- medical box because despite doctor being the one to take pre-med, he’s the one who remembers to carry around proper bandaids, gauze, and burn care
- extra socks because those boots blow through socks like a cannon ball through truck walls
- snacks! He gets them for himself but he’s always sure to have extras to feed Allen and Frances. Frances likes to steal his food because “it tastes better from your bag”, and Allen forgets to pack enough food for himself
- switch for smash bros and Pokémon cards just to look at and organize. You’ll never know when someone will want to trade
Last but not least…
Cesare.
- he uses a bucket that he found on the side of the road because Doctor insisted the glove box was not a good enough container for his personal items
- I imagined this being his things pre-re-revival so scrolls for jobs from LDG
- evil schemes notebook that is DEFINITELY not full of drawings of him on the beach or new ideas for burgers
- old bandaids that he used to patch himself up with and forgot to throw away properly
- extra socks for the winter months. He figured out how to weasel them down through his collar to his feet and put them on around the suit. It’s truly impressive, like a reverse of Hansel’s undies
- phone for human things and burner phone for other human things. (He found an extra covered in blood inside the truck when he bought it so it’s his now)
- monsters for Allen and Frances because he can’t have his employees falling asleep on the job and he got coupons! (He likes Francis and sometimes Doctor uses the can like an ice pack when it’s hot and he definitely doesn’t watch)
- Pretzels for Conrad because the big man’s gotta be fed. And the bag smells good. He misses food but smelling it is nice
That’s all I got… I might do this again for the bigtop crew. I have less ideas for them but it’s fine shhhh
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Knowing what objects are important to someone
Conrad likes digging. He just digs. Some people like chopping wood, hiking, wood working. He likes digging.
He bought a house with a big screwed up backyard just so he had more places to dig holes.
He’s not looking for anything. He doesn’t want the dirt. He doesn’t want to bury anything. He just likes digging. One home gets too deep, he starts another, and then he keeps going until the whole lawn is too unstable to walk on.
He gets new dirt and fills it in, only to start again.