The Eridians aren't like, a utopic society of extremely nice people who unilaterally hate Stratt for forcing Grace onto the Hail Mary. They definitely understand Stratt's trolley problem math, they don't think it's right but to them Earth's mass extinction deadline was near instant compared to their own. An Eridian child born the moment astrophage reached Earth's solar system would barely be ready for grade school by the time most life on Earth went extinct, with the exception of whatever hangs out in hydrothermal vents these days. They get that Stratt's actions saved her species just as much as they get that forcing Grace onto the ship was murder.
What they don't get is why Stratt had to put the last hope for humanity in the Eridian Torment Nexus to do that.
#it is only me in the camp of I think more eridians should get kind of weird and intense about Stratt (feeling desire) #but this does work for that also #Project Hail Mary #get a parasocial crush on the acid breathing fear beast running the space program via @artemis-crimson
YES like they don't just start making Stratt a slasher villain in their radio dramas and plays, there's a significant portion of the population who are like "well okay Stratt is really scary but she's actually just misunderstood" and give her more of a Carrie treatment, and both groups have more than their fair share of parasocial relationships with Stratt.
There's at least one Eridian author who gives Stratt the Frankenstein treatment, in terms of both "Earth created this monster and yet they mistreat it" sense (because Grace probably told the Eridiana Stratt was most likely in jail in an attempt to stop the pop cultural phenomenon)(it didn't work) and a "this is what happens when you play god" sense
