Knowing me, im going to have plenty of things to add and explore more of UCW. So here's a "Master Post" that acts as an archive to all things UCW and will be updated with each piece!
Contains: Art, playlists, analysis...
(Things will be posted individually, but the links will be here!)
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human!rocky with an AAC who uses pretty much the same grammar as canon rocky. occasionally people will ask grace why he talks like that (even if rocky is right there) and rocky's reaction to it is wholly dependent on the age of the person. example:
child: mr. grace, why does mr. rocky talk like that?
rocky, with a big smile: is faster! rocky want to keep up with conversation! can't talk normal same speed with device as you can with voice.
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grown ass adult: dr. grace, may i ask why your companion speaks... the way he does?
grace: well, he's â [gets elbowed] oh, rocky's telling you, hold on
rocky: ...
rocky: ...
rocky: ...
rocky: As I'm sure you can imagine, it takes considerably more time for me to respond in entire grammatically correct sentences due to the limitations of my device. Most natural communication does not allow for ten full seconds of dead air at regular intervals. Also, you're a dick.
Yes, just would love more content from it and would be interested in what a sequal would contain, I just fear that Hollywood would ruin it by incorporating some bullshit love story b-plot (specifically with Grace) after the first movie was so focused on the beauty of platonic love...
Adrians fanon design so popular and well known through out the fandom, that when my friend finished PHM for the first time, she looked to me and said, "Im surprised i didn't see that really large, green Eridian at the end, I thought they'd make an appearance?"
Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:
âGrace says he would like half of dome to be water.â
âOh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?â
Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. âNo. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.â
âTell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.â
âNo. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.â
This BTS scene of the Rocketeers / James going through lines from the script...
I cry about it cause that "You keep teaching Earth now", at least how im reading it, Rocky didn't want ti think about Erid or Adiren, cause then he'd miss them too much.
Learning about Earth is a good distraction for him
(Also James' little whale song impression is amazing)
I think it would be funny if most of Grace's eridian students went to him and asked for earth pronoun designations instead of picking for themselves, because they think it's cool to get word-gifts from the coolest teacher in the galaxy
and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it
he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??
eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh
