Grace: I swear I didn’t teach him this! I promise!

Adrian: LOOK AT WHAT YOU’VE DONE!

Rocky: Watch me macarena statement. My hands are in the air as if I simply do not care. I have also learned the whip and, additionally, the nay-nay.

Adrian: I’M CALLING A DOCTOR.

I like to think that Rocky feels like a lot of words in English are superfluous, so he tends to cut the "unnecessary fluff" on purpose, despite knowing perfectly well how it's done correctly. A small part of it is also just personal defiance, he's not ashamed of being an eridian and sees no reason to adapt to humans more than necessary. Friends and strangers alike understand him just fine, and that's all that matters.

He sometimes also kinda mockingly uses it almost like "baby talk" with Grace, since this particular syntax and lack of conjugation is the result of him originally dumbing down his wording in Eridian just enough for Grace's roughly cobbled together translator to make sense of it until Grace learned it properly later.

So when Grace act stupid, Rocky will speak stupid with Grace too. The next step of Rocky's particular brand of sarcastic "you're being an idiot"-ese would be to start miming at him "puppetshow" style.

You know he's being concerningly serious when he starts actually talking in English with full, perfect grammar sentences.

I also wanted to make a little gif to visualize how the range of motion for his mechanical arm functions, since I keep drawing it come up from behind different shoulders haha

Just the mental image of Carl watching Grace get transported after being sedated. A man, who prior to that moment, his most vivid memory consists of them finding world changing discoveries with plywood, duck tape, and copious amounts of sour skittles. A man who he associates with the exhilarating feeling of wonder and life. A teacher teaching, a scientist finding, a man living.

But suddenly, that's not his most vivid memory. Suddenly, what first comes to mind when he thinks of Dr. Ryland Grace is the image of him running away, of chasing him through the compound, of the look on his face when they do inevitably catch up to him. He can't hear the excited laughter of the previous memories without them eliciting the desperate pleas for life.

I wonder if he ever gets to see the videos. How would he feel if he knew that his name was the first one that Grace remembers. Foggy like the thing he misses most about earth.