Clover

Red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus)

This guy doesn't even go here! Recent high winds blew him over to Iceland from his typical American homeland. Awww, kinda like me!

adrian doodles before bed... ive been slowly building a design for them in my head. i love big adrian which seems like a pr universal headcanon which is grand, but for me a very important element is Big Chunky Round Feet that seem disproportionately small compared to their bod

He kinda looks like a turtle.. With 5 limbs. It's not good XD

whatever predator caused the need for eridians to watch each other sleep is still very prevalent even in densely populated areas. and it turns out they’re some kind of slow moving, low to the ground stealth predator that takes a lot of intense focus to detect even when in pretty close range. fortunately grace can see them coming from a mile away with some good lights on.

imagine grace gets a proper xenonite atmosphere suit and he puts it on for teaching the pebbles so if any fall asleep (involuntary for eridians) then he can just scoop them up and keep them on his desk for easier watching. when the parents find out they’re thrilled because dang that’s a good watching strategy, easy for the whole class to see!

alternatively a majority of his pebbles fall asleep mid class and he dons his xenonite suit to come in and pile them altogether to watch and just hangs out with the remaining few who’re still awake. makes them feel included and helpful and answers less educational questions and jokes around because they’re too small to actually be effective for watching for predators and he needs to keep them calm. a pile of pebbles are appealing prey and he ends up with a pile of 6 fuckass alien millipedes in the corner.

relating to the last one, one of grace’s pebble students is lost in a crowd and runs to him to be scooped up til their parents are located bc grace is well established to be good at keeping pebbles safe from predators.

and then i feel like grace would have A Time™ trying to explain the difference between watching sleep versus the human method of some watch for predator and then if predator come, wake everyone and use group to drive off or kill predator.

also also the fun tidbit that technically in modern society the only predators grace actually has to worry about trying to kill him in his sleep are other humans.

also this,

some relative of rocky’s: “it can’t be very restful sleep if your organs are all still going the whole time!”

whatever predator caused the need for eridians to watch each other sleep is still very prevalent even in densely populated areas. and it turns out they’re some kind of slow moving, low to the ground stealth predator that takes a lot of intense focus to detect even when in pretty close range. fortunately grace can see them coming from a mile away with some good lights on.

imagine grace gets a proper xenonite atmosphere suit and he puts it on for teaching the pebbles so if any fall asleep (involuntary for eridians) then he can just scoop them up and keep them on his desk for easier watching. when the parents find out they’re thrilled because dang that’s a good watching strategy, easy for the whole class to see!

alternatively a majority of his pebbles fall asleep mid class and he dons his xenonite suit to come in and pile them altogether to watch and just hangs out with the remaining few who’re still awake. makes them feel included and helpful and answers less educational questions and jokes around because they’re too small to actually be effective for watching for predators and he needs to keep them calm. a pile of pebbles are appealing prey and he ends up with a pile of 6 fuckass alien millipedes in the corner.

relating to the last one, one of grace’s pebble students is lost in a crowd and runs to him to be scooped up til their parents are located bc grace is well established to be good at keeping pebbles safe from predators.