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#ryland grace is not graceful

also. i need GIANT ahsoka. giant ahsoka with giant montrals

But the moment Rocky touches down his behaviors are erratic and nervous and he is consumed by his concern for Grace and ordering and instructing other Eridians on saftey protocals and medical needs of this alien he picked up. Adrian wants Rocky to notice them but he's completely fixated and terrified. Then Adrian sees the Eridians carefully move his xenonite shell with Grace in a stretcher behind it. Adrian does not have a frame of reference for what a human is supposed to look like but if there's anything an Eridian knows on a primal level is when an animal is sick. Eridians evolved a close system eons ago to survive deadly pathogens. It's an instinctual pull as old as time.

Any grudge goes immediately out the window because Adrian understands the severity of the situation so they put their feelings aside and begin research immediately on everything there is to know about keeping humans alive. They learn that he has been losing blood from scurvy and iron deficiency, Grace is this fragile soft thing like prey that has had it's shell or carapace torn off for consumption. Adrian learns about Grace's muscle structure and how it's crucial for locomotion and vital behaviors and learns what starvation looks like on a man. Adrian learns about his open wounds which used to be long-healed scars and writes notes when he explains through his foggy state that the Eridian doctors need to turn him over more often when he develops bed sores.

Adrian's concern quickly turns to nuturing as it becomes clear that although Grace is an adult by his species standards, he still has the same lack of wisdom and nievety that would be akin to an Eridian child. He needs constant changing enrichment and socializing. He's a needy complicated creature who shows boredom with his diet and requires water he doesn't intend to drink in his biodome simply because it brings him positive stimulation. He misses very specific wavelengths of light emissions because his medical bay is a "depressing gray everywhere."

Often when Adrian asks him questions about his needs to help his condition Grace will crack a weak joke. Adrian begins to learn his vocal tone for when he's being genuine or not. Grace is afraid.

Rocky's restlessness doesn't stop until Grace begins to stand on his own and return to a more acceptable weight. Rocky never notices that he needed to be focused more on Adrian because Adrian had stepped up to the plate to become more involved in understanding Grace and through their diligent work, Rocky could lean on them enough to relax a bit. Rocky is very thankful for it and reminds Adrian often that he's lucky to have them.

During this time Grace has gotten the impression that Adrian is much more serious than Rocky, quieter too. He gets the sense that they don't like him much, but they have been gentle and kind nonetheless.

When Grace is finally capable of living in his shack both Rocky and Adrian help him get home. Adrian watches carefully as Grace leans on their ball Rocky is still in his ball at this time so he gently bumps into Grace's hip and offers him an air hug. He asks Grace a million times if he's comfortable in his new house.

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Things Rocky does when he got back from Adrien that weirds out other Eridians:

He (subconsciously) picked a facet of his body as his "face" and turns it sometimes to orient towards people or objects he's paying a lot of attention to or concentrating on. 

That thing I've seen Chinese people on social media discuss where they use their own characters to reproduce an English word phonetically, with the actual meaning being a fun sidepoint. Rocky reproducing his closest approximation of words without existing Eridian equivalents (relativity, caffeine, all the colours) that sound like gibberish or odd mashes of existing Eridian terms. 

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Making "random" components of structures transparent for no apparent reason (Grace can't be here, Grace will never be in this part of Erid, but if he were, he'd be able to see)

The Eridian word for "See" is probably something to do with detecting light. Rocky would use this odd, scientific phrase the way a human uses "Oh, I see!" to mean "Oh, I understand." Like someone saying "I've used a Geiger counter to verify the radioactivity of this abstract concept" when they mean, "I get it."

You need to be Silent when watching someone sleep because you could wake them up. A completely incomprehensible idea to Eridians.

You discovered it, you get to name it! No, actually you're Not allowed to call the new molecule "Low Friction, high thermal stability two-parts-carbon-to-four-parts-fluorine" try naming it after your pebble!

1, 2, 3, eyes on me! (Eyes being another phonetically assimilated word)

of course hopefully you see it since you made yourself anonymous

this is for the colors

R1: 5 sc in MR = (5 sts)

R2: inc in each st around = (10 sts)

R3: {sc 1, inc} 5x = (15 sts)

R4: {sc 2, inc} 5x = (20 sts)

R5: {sc 3, inc} 5x = (25 sts)

R6: {sc 4, inc} 5x = (30 sts)

Straight Rows

R7-15: sc around (9 rows) = (30 sts)

Decrease Rows (invisible decreases Q)

R16: {dec, sc 4} 5x = (25 sts)

R17: {dec, sc 3} 5x = (20 sts)

R18: {dec, sc 2} 5x = (15 sts)

R19: {dec, sc 1} 5x = (10 sts)

R20: dec 5x = (5 sts)

but! but.

what i can is knit.

rites of passage

closeups:

1. academia

2. teaching

You're not alone out there

Let's write a song, make up the melody

If you're looking for me baby

You know you can find me

Following the sun