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I have this headcanon that eridians have soulmates that they can recognize by a specific song or melody.

For the eridian culture which sound and songs are so important, they have this idea that if you find all your soulmates (platonic or romantic) you can create an harmony with their songs, an harmony unique for each eridian.

For Rocky is easy to know that Adrian is the one, because their mere presence, the way they move and sing is just right, it is the melody that Rocky had been chasing since he knew about soulmates. After finding his romantic soulmate Rocky - thinking that there was no way that the song that Adrian produced could be better- assumes that he was destinate to only have a romantic soulmate and that his harmony is already complete.

It isn't until he is deep in the space, far away from Adrian and everything he has known, that Rocky discovers that the hearbeat of Grace turns to be another piece of his harmony.

When they get to Erid and Rocky is able to present his platonic soulmate to his romantic one he can finally hear the harmony that he didn't know he was longing for.

When Graces dies, so does the harmony. Rocky can still rememeber his hearbeat, he has perfect memory, he is able to recreated in his mind, but is just not the same.

lasagnaforem

Do you think that eridians, being a species that puts so much emphasis on body markings, would find it incredibly sad how much shame we place into our natural markings?

We desire for smooth skin, perfect angles, while eridians thrive in the bumps and texture -- its how they see and differentiate each other!

We hate how our skin wrinkles and bumps and how our hair changes color with age. They would be delighted to find out that if you're happy and smile enough, you gain a marking that represents how much time you've spent laughing with loved ones. How our hair turns a "color" nearly impossible to (healthily) replicate naturally, unachievable by alteration and dye, just by being alive long enough. (This is magic to me). How our veins with our life-liquid, the ones that look just like the rivers on our planet carrying life-liquid, get more apparent with age. We're so connected to our squishy, organic planet

I think the "ugliest" bumpiest, most scarred humans would look the prettiest, most natural, and most appealing to eridians.

macabro

This is literally just the plot of camp rock.

hi-its-the-blackmold

Simon’s ability to navigate is cracked asf to Eridians!!! /pos

OKAY so idk if this is canon cus I can’t find the post but someone made a post about how Eridians apparently don’t have a spacial memory/recall/remembered spacial awareness like we do, and therefore if they walked through a room and “saw” it, then tried to walk through the room “blind” aka deaf and unable to echolocate, they’d be totally lost. They don’t retain awareness of how to navigate that space. Unlike humans, who can mentally visualize the navigable area of a room they can no longer see, allowing us to walk around in the dark with some semblance of where things are. That post mentioned how confused Eridians would be seeing Grace walk around his house in the dark and not run into Everything, he actually seems to know where he’s going.

And then I had a realization while rewatching Iron Lung. THEY WOULD FIND WHAT SIMON DID INCONCEIVABLE. Absolute freak of nature shit. And what I mean is his ability to map his surroundings and learn them and navigate them. Simon literally could never effectively see things while moving, all he had was a proximity radar and occasional shitty photos that would only ever be “how things looked 3 seconds ago”, and he mapped the area in the blood ocean with decent success and at certain points no longer even needed his map. He managed to gain a sense of his surroundings outside the ship, and understand those surroundings, navigating essentially blind. Only knowing/discovering if something is in front of him once he’s right there almost up against it, close to collision. Building a visual of the space by approaching a direction until he is stopped. And that method of navigation?

In all reality, what most accurately describes the way Simon navigated is by feel. Simon navigated by touch.

….and I think I need to make some fanworks about that.

helloilovefanfiction

ok listen I LOVE that andy weir gave us a ton of info about eridian biology (even a whole google doc abt eridian biology that he used for reference) but i want to know about eridian CULTURE. the most we got was the references to the thrum and the fact that some eridians, at least on Rocky’s ship, had specific tasks that they were good at.

I want to know abt eridian society! do they have jobs? are there different social classes? do they have currency? pleeeeeeease mr weir release the economic data for erid

slif-art

Went down the bloodymary rabbit hole last night bc my grandmas dog kept me up and this is the result.

I based his carapace on cinnabar bc not only is it bright red and very pretty, it’s the main source of liquid mercury aka Eridian blood, and has been associated with immortality in ancient China. It just felt so perfect hehe.

aesthetichoney2111

Our saving Grace.

macabro

If eridians had ao3 this one would go crazy.

shastafirecracker

eridian children in Grace’s class interested but slightly disappointed to learn that much earth life is bilaterally symmetrical with even numbers of limbs

Grace going “oh!! But!” and teaching them about starfish, to their absolute delight

new eridian schoolchild trend of starfishing aka flopping flat down with all legs out and moving by wiggling and squirming around, giggling. parents hooting at Grace in despair. why did you teach them this

countingshapes

i can’t stop thinking about how utterly horrific humans must be to eridians.

what do you MEAN you have your protective structure on the INSIDE?? how does that make any sense??

and, like, 50% of your sensitive organs are just… out. just. vulnerable?

on top of that, you LEAK? your body produces so much fluid that you leak for all sorts of reasons, even unnecessary ones.

and your body is capable of reversing your digestive processes to expel MORE FLUIDS.

i can only imagine it’s equivalent to meeting a species that stores all their muscles on the outside of their body and is constantly leaking trace amounts of blood and water everywhere. like an impossibly tall, skinned man. jesus christ.

i wonder how repulsed eridian society was at first.

valewright42

Hey, y'all! I have here a list of potential Eridian insults, swears, and slang myself and some others came up with in a bloodymary discord, and I want YOUR opinions on MORE!

(List below cut, plus reasons why I couldn't just use "fuck" or something similar at the bottom)

the-one-and-only-vic-lociraptor

I love these!

I think I’ve also read “you eat with three hands” as an insult which I found very funny.

ramsaybaggins

Because I'm an absolute sucker for Grace becomes an Eridian (still human, but he belongs on Erid with Eridians):

We don't really know much about Eridian beliefs or religion, right?

What if they believe in soul reincarnation?

Panspermia has become proven at this point, and it's become very clear that Grace loves Erid, and he belongs there and fits there better than he ever did on earth.

What if the Eridians just sort of collectively decide that in a previous life he was an Eridian, but during reincarnation there was a bit of confusion and he ended up on the wrong planet. They have common ancestors after all, right?

And then after more thinking, they decide actually he was put there on purpose because he had to be the one to meet Rocky so they could save the planets together, and then he could finally come back to where his soul finally feels at home.

Grace would find a lot of comfort in that idea, I think, even if he doesn't necessarily believe it himself.

convocation-conduit

My take on Eridian reproduction from my Scientific Method fic. Feel free to use in your own fanworks; credit is appreciated but not necessary <3 please cred if you repost the diagram though

Edit you can buy this as a print now if you want

vaserlord

So Eridians use echolocation and sonography that allows them to hear through solid materials. And we know that Rocky can basically hear the whole Hail Mary without problems.

We don’t know much about planet Erid beyond the very basics, but planets that have iron core usually feature volcanic activity and therefore magma and other materials movement underneath the planet surface.

So considering this…

Do you think ancient Eridians ever lied down on the ground to listen to the voice of their planet? Keeping very still and waiting for a faint and distant sound from down below to reach them.

I would imagine that to be possible mostly near the volcanoes, where magma comes closer to the crust (planet surface). So do you think those ancient Eridians were coming to the fire breathing mountains to listen to planet’s songs?

Did they consider their planet alive in those long ago times? Maybe they worshipped it as their creator and parent? After all, their bodies are so similar to its. They sing to each other just as the planet sings to them from time to time.

Imagine Eridians’ one and only ancient god being the planet itself.

petrova-line

I just know the arts game on Erid goes crazy. Especially fiber arts like lace-making—I like to imagine that they have huge, complex pieces that incorporate xenonite and precious stones. They convey stories, culture, and memories.

Bobbin lace is probably the most common. You're most likely to have a shirt with those decals on it or use it for decoration. Having that many limbs makes it easy to sit down and make a design; it's a common gift for parents to give to their grown children expecting pebbles.

Needle lace however is a lot more complex. Huge, intricate pieces that take years to make even with 5 arms and a crystalline brain. A finished lace tapestry can take years with several Eridian lace-makers who dedicate their lives to the craft. Thrums are often used to get the product done faster, with 5 Eridians on each end working outward and communicating in sync. It's a beautiful process to watch. A traditional technique is to start at a single point and work outwards with no plan, making a complex and unique piece. These are rare and usually owned by Eridians with high-ranking jobs.

At the memorial for Blip-A's crew is a massive tapestry meticulously created over the course of a decade. Small pieces of the families' carapaces have been woven in alongside an intricate, sectioned pattern. The piece can be read like a book—the lace echos back the frequencies of the crew's voices, immortalizing them in Eridian history forever.

In Rocky and Adrian's home is a tapestry from the ceremony of the night they mated, a common tradition for Eridian couples. Over the course of the event, the Eridians in attendance work off the hexagon representing the couple's courtship. No one involved is usually a master craftsman, so the work is a little all over the place. It functions as a quest-book, echoing the memory off the walls of their home.

It's an art that can never be lost—it's so ingrained in their culture. Lacework is everywhere you look on Erid and one of the most common arts for sale (next to glasswork, something just as complex). But then Grace shows up and tells them that their work is beautiful and while he can't read it like the other Eridian's can, he's able to see the colors. He's frequently "borrowed" from the bio-dome to consult on projects after that.

lunalovesangst

Big fan of the idea that, from Erid's perspective, Grace is probably kinda scary, at first.

Like his language consists of noises that are simultaneously very simple compared to the overlapping eridian notes, and weird clicking/hard sounds that no one could even begin to try to imitate. To begin with, that's a weird combination.

And there's a popular headcanon going around that Grace can pronounce certain simple words in eridian without his piano thingy, and he would sound like a pebble learning to speak. Let's make it creepy and assume eridians also have a fear of the uncanny valley.

Grace getting better with time at imitating simple words, therefore accidentally making himself sound more and more like a pebble, sounding right enough, but not quite. That shit would be creepy as fuck.

Imagine an alien that can imitate the way the children of your species sound like. At first you'd freak out! Yeah he saved your planet but. It's like a fucking mimic. Then you'd see him trip over nothing and fall face first and you'd calm down.

This is probably a stretch but I don't care. I like to imagine eridians and humans have some very similar fears, and the uncanny valley potential is just too good to ignore.

aroace-madness

I absolutely love it when people mix Eridian culture from the book and the movie

More specificaly speaking, the shirts

And like, Rocky not wearing a shirt on the Hail Mary wouldn't be that wierd, I mean if I was trapped in space for 40+ years i'd also start not caring about clothes or anything like that

But I just know that when Grace realises that Eridians do actually wear clothing he is so definitely ratting Rocky out to Adrian

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