Göd I’m Tired

I mean aside from eating the most vulnerable and trusting situation a Eridian can be in is letting someone watch them sleep. Or sleeping around someone in general— when done right it’s seen as something comforting, rewarding and natural. So to learn someone either forced you to sleep (putting you into a position we’re you had no control over your own body in the most vulnerable state of your physiology.) or learning someone kept you in sleep with out someone to watch you or manipulated you in your sleep with out your consent. That has to be violating on a psychological and even physiological basis for an Eridian to go through.

So I’m really surprised there’s not a lot of fics exploring this cultural and biological response from Rocky to Grace telling him the truth of how he ended up on the Hail Mary.

It would probably be like— Have you ever had the friend that admits they were sexually or physically assaulted and they know it’s fucked up but brush it off with a well it was kinda my fault anyways? Or not that big of a deal? Yeah Rocky just got to experience that first hand and he’s having none of it.

Rocky logically understands humans have different ideas about sleep. But this is his best friend someone he loves and pragmatism/logical reasoning in the face of someone you care for admitting they’ve been assaulted kinda gets thrown out the plate glass in the face of the horror.

He’s been raised in a culture that views forced sleep as akin to the mental spiritual and psychological damage as being raped would in humans. It is physiologically the most vulnerable action a Eridian can do so having it forced upon them or being messed with (out side of a medical emergency.) is considered a vile reprehensible action and psychologically damaging to the point some Eridians have taken their own lives or died because of it.