I've been extensively thinking about human rocky the last few days ahah it's just so fun to imagine an alien that suddenly [insert cause here] inhabits a human body.
Your typical "switching your primary sense is awful and takes a lot of adjustment"
Being annoyed at having a spine and being bipedal
Phantom limb syndrome for his fifth limb made worse by the fact he can't even map it properly on this new body.
Absolutely incensed he has to eat three times a day. A day!!! So grumpy he has to leave everything and go in a private room to eat. Three times a day!! (He knows he could eat with grace, he even would feel moderately ok with that, but then the need to feel eridian in some way trumps all that)
Coming to the forlorn conclusion they can hardly watch each other sleep anymore bc it's so long that they'd barely have time to interact if they take shifts. Begrudgingly agrees to co-sleep after they run a few trial sleeps where grace (with consent) makes noise or changes Mary's ambient temperature and rocky does wake up from that. It boggles his goddamn mind. (Yes they cuddle at some point. Yes he is still like a furnace to Grace).
The uncanny valley he sometimes dips into because he looks human but his mannerisms just don't match. He doesn't hide his face when he's embarrassed or crying because in his mind a face is not the carrier of his identity. A face is not something he feels connected to. Mostly tries to face Grace when they speak but when he's stressed or preoccupied he just forgets and then gets annoyed at grace being annoyed by that.
Still has total recall which freaks grace out. It does give him a headache now and then, though. (On that topic: headaches. Absolutely miserable. 0/10)
Still does pidgin English with Grace as the lexifier. He doesn't sound like his computer voice and that's odd to everyone.
Grace has to insist Rocky run newly acquired knowledge on the human body by him first before applying it. He doesn't want to risk some misinformed top search result about what to do when you get a nosebleed, or worse. Rocky, loath to be micromanaged like that, happily lists his findings on how to get off, much to Grace's utter mortification. Grace has to explain that pornhub is not the best primary source.
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