As funny as it is that rocky sees grace and complains about grace and humans in general as a terribly inefficient blob of water and fluids and teases constantly...
I REALLY think this should be a relatively rocky-exclusive perspective. He's watched this incredibly stressed human drip all kinds of tears and goos while they were floating around in space, and grace let down basically all of his guard around rocky personally, have discussed and understood eachother over life threatening missions. To Rocky, grace is Grace!
But grace does have some naturally combative push to him (see, the commentary that got him stonewalled in the scientific community in the first place, and being able to keep up with and handle Eva stratt) and further more, when an eridian is Not Rocky, i.e. not incredibly socially withdrawn and traumatized and maybe on their own spectrum of divergence before his ill fated mission and was very susceptible to latching onto a strange and unusual creature in just as much crisis as him...
That is to say. The eridians are going to meet grace with wildly different priorities and expectations. And what they're going to get is a human dangerously close to deaths door, and cornered and dying humans aren't always the most friendly or cooperative and kind, even the Nicest Humans You Can Get.
So they get a dying human. And as tumblr loves to say, humans are terrifying to aliens, and fuck do they persist. Rocky's so-described "pathetic space blob" grace is terrifying to most eridians, especially the scientists studying him.
He drinks solvent and breaths combustion. Instead of simply dying when his body runs out of nutrients and calorie stores, it has begun to Digest Itself. His body is pumping chemicals they do not understand and every chemistry panel they run shows new levels of new chemicals and hormones. The human body replaces most of its cells constantly because even breathing, especially at a higher atmospheric pressure, is destroying their own lungs.
This thing "hears" things they cannot comprehend and he is unable to describe beyond "color" and "brightness" which are things you can not contextualize, and calls the strangest things beautiful. It has no entirely discernable traits you can understand ecologically as a predator- no armor, no weapons- and yet it eats meat and that is one of the many nutrients it needs to survive. You as a resident of erid do not have many creatures with "eyes" and so have no idea that the strongest mark of a predator is neither claw nor fang, but forward facing eyes, all the better to catch your prey, to meet a foe head on and fearless. You just know it "sees" and that it eats meat, and many other complicated things.
And in place of not receiving all those nutrients, it's body will litterally digest itself and keep going without them. Oh, this new chemical in it's latest blood panel allows it to ignore it's own pain to the point it won't realize it's injured. It can wake up from a dead sleep if you are too loud or too "brightness" around it. It speaks in an archaic graveling noise and is capable of imitating the strangest things, including a haunting near-vocalization of the eridani language of its own, which it calls "singing" and it does this at the strangest of times, when happy and when nervous. It is neither fast nor slow, but over time and observation, you realize this strange towering bipedal creature expends an entirely minimal amount of energy to walk, a process of controlled falling turned mobilization. You hypothesize that for lack of predatory weaponry like claws or sharp teeth, this thing simply evolved to follow you. To "see" you with it's forward facing eyes even in total stillness, total silence, and follow for as long as it takes: it won't spend much energy, and it won't starve waiting for you to exhaust. It'll start digesting *itself* while waiting for it's prey to lay down and have to sleep. It will "watch" you sleep with "eyes." You cannot wake up the way it can, and it will eventually catch up to you.
Also sometimes it cries excess amounts of saline rich solvent when you compliment it's latest research paper. Rocky calls him an idiot and the overseeing eridian scientists watch on with a sense of morbid eldrich horror. Right, right, just a "leaky space blob", sure.
They're kind of terrified of the future delegations with this planet. They litterally get to space by explosion. Not only are they scary- they're INSANE. And they're told the one they have is "a push over".
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I don't support Eva bashing that's emotional support environmental terrorist right there. What I'm interested in is the bad pr she is giving earth because the eridian ambassador is too invested in his flesh teddy bears life.
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So, I'm rereading Project Hail Mary (shocker if you look at my blog at all, I know /s) and I'm dying because I completely forgot about the line of Grace talking about beating his kids parents with a sock of coins
To quote the book:
"Besides, if I had a nickel for every time I wanted to smack a kid's parents for not teaching them even the most basic things... well... I'd have enough nickels to put in a sock and smack those parents with it."
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absolutely lose my shit when thinking about Grace just doing Human ThingsTM and rocky losing his ever loving fucking mind
Grace sneezes? Rocky jumps like a spooked cat and rants about human weirdness
Grace mindlessly kisses his hamster ball after they have a deep and meaningful conversation and rocky is like "GRACE WANT TO EAT ROCKY, QUESTION? ROCKY IS INEDIBLE, STATEMENT. WHAT THE FUCK, DEMAND!" and Grace is laughing too hard to properly explain and rocky just hunkers down angrily and swears at him in eridian
Grace puts things that are absolutely inedible in his mouth; pens, etc, or uses his mouth like a third hand because his arm is burned to shit and rocky is like omg you cannot eat that is much disgust and Grace has to explain and rocky is horrified
Grace burps and rocky leans as far away as possible from him, utterly offended, and Grace learns that burping translates into eridian as "public eater" or something just as offensive in eridian culture and has to apologise profusely and explain what burping in and rocky is disgusted
Idk just makes me happy to think of these two goofballs figuring out one anothers culture through hilarious oopsies
I want Grace sleeptalking, which is HILARIOUS when you consider Rocky trying to answer him and having a whole convo with him and later on Grace is all ‘sorry bud, I was still asleep during that’ and Rocky’s timbers are shivered, but???? Sleepwalking and sleeptalking at the same time????? Rocky would absolutely lose his shit like what do you mean the moving and verbalizing human is not conscious????
But then one day, later on early in their time on Erid, Rocky and Adrain are watching over him while he sleeps, only for Grace to go ‘hello?’ And it startles him awake, and then for the rest of the day they are trying to convince him that no, Grace, you said hello and woke yourself up! Rocky and Adrian did not wake you!!
Rocky’s getting sick of new sleep bullshit coming up, next thing you know he’ll claim that humans can wake and have hallucinations that paralyze you and are meant to torment you! Ugh, it’s always something with this guy.
if I’m on the subject of Rocky, then I also disagree with the idea that Grace refuses to teach Rocky swears. He would teach him swears. He would not disrespect Rocky like that, to withhold knowledge from him. Rocky, however, upon finding out that Grace is only 40 years old, would never teach Grace any swears.
It says in the book that Rocky refused to translate a word for Grace, and I stick by that. Rocky knows logically that Grace is an adult, but…no, you’re too young….I can’t corrupt you like that…
But to the room full of world leaders bombarding him with Astorphage breeding questions when he arrived at the Vat. Like he JUST got there and he's dizzy and sick and they were all shouting and muscle memory just kicked in, you gotta believe him, he wasn't even thinking.
They'd all be so shocked it would work though.
He'd have .001 second to panic, like did he really just do that, and then its either control or loose control of the room just like any middle school class.
He'd still have his hand up like "Okay. Who wants to go first."
And Eva would watch like three people actually, legitimately, raise their hands and wait to be called.
She'd be like I shoulda kidnapped this guy sooner lmao what
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