Unrepentant Fandom Trash

i love rocky having no natural desire or drive for touch, and i love the thought of him developing one during the trip to erid. humans need touch and rocky will move heaven and earth to give grace whatever he needs.

i can see rocky coming to resent the xenonite barrier because the lack of direct contact hurts grace. getting frustrated with himself because he knows it's not rational and that grace is being stupid stupid whenever he bumps the panels and sighs that he wishes they weren't there. want grace rocky to die painful, question?! but even after he waves grace off he sits and ponders how to make the panels thinner, more flexible, pushing the limits of eridian technology.

i can see him starting to yearn for closeness so he can cure grace's "touch starvation." the form-fitting suit was built so nothing like what happened on adrian will ever happen again and so when the hail mary starts to complain about her old age he can patch her up. but of course the moment the suit's passed rocky's stress tests grace is throwing his arms around him and rocky has a long long long long long to-do list but he'd rather rip his carapace in half than end the hug a second before grace is full.

he doesn't care about touch. it does nothing for him and means nothing to him. touch is also the single most important problem he has to solve. eridians can make food, eridians can replicate earth, but eridians can never press their carapace against human flesh.

listening to grace waste away, listening to him curl up against the xenonite, listening to him trying to hide his tears as he warbles about how he wishes things were different makes him want to break through the airlock again.

touch has no significance to eridians, but rocky still scoots closer.

We've decided that Adrian is a big, pretty blue/green rock who Rocky is obsessed with, and Grace is intimidated by, but in the same way that we sometimes find hot people intimidating. The complex color, the way light reflects off of the geode structure, and the patterns you can see underneath. Absolutely beautiful, but would Eridians have the same society beauty conventions? They don't perceive color or light, and those inner patterns, depending on the geode, are often viewed as imperfections by collectors. Would Eridians also see those inner imperfections and view them as not attractive?

Much like we are supposed to look at Ryan freaking Gosling as Grace and interpret him as somewhat of a loser within the world of the movie, within the Eridian society, Adrian is considered a catch for many reasons, their size for one, but being attractive is not one of them. The uneven mineral deposits and the way their surfaces are angled affect the way sound bounces of them. It's not necessarily unpleasant, just not overly desirable. Adrian is just as typical as any other Eridian, but they are compared to impossible beauty standards that so few actually meet.

Of course, Rocky thinks Adrian is hot as hell, but he is in the minority, claims everyone else is stupid, so when Rocky brings home this leaky space blob, who seems transfixed by Adrian, Adrian thinks Grace is just being polite towards them for Rocky's sake, but the more time they spend around him, the more genuine they realize he is.

What if Rocky is an intelligent song in a hunger-pang frame. It's the feeling of freedom, of hearing the melody. You hear it, right? The conversation lasted IVV seconds, maybe Vℓ+ seconds, Everything they said in total agreement It's a dream and it's a bit a dance A bit of a posture, it's a bit of a stance Rocky's a bit of a flirt but Adrian give Rocky a chance Adrian asked about Rocky's family did you see the answer? Rocky's hands started fidgeting, Rocky looked askance Rocky's penniless, Rocky's flying by the seat of Rocky's pants

Adrian is a Schuyler sister and that elevates Rocky's status, Adrian would have to be naive to set that aside--

Maybe that is why Adrian will never be satisfied.

And then Adrian sees Grace and Adrian is helpless (helpless)--

And Adrian's song Is just helpless (helpless)

inspired by @casgirl’s tags on this post:

Adrian is happy happy happy about the new addition to the family.

(the original quote is from b99, of course; i'm sure this has been done before, but who cares. full picture below the cut)

Normally I don't make shipping preferences all about the bias, but the overlooking of canon characters in favor of Markiplier is too egregious for me not to point out the Koth Vortena (SWTOR)/Burton Guster (Psych)-shaped elephant in the room.

ryland grace + orange 🧡, yellow 💛, white 🤍 & blue 🩵💙 outfits

Listen to Johnny Cash's rendition (particularly the line "there's nothing short of dying") and look me in the eye and tell me that wouldn't have been better for the vodka crashout.