Chronomacy

But what if the Eridians hear it very, very differently?

Eridians kind of ARE rocks, in more than one way, aren't they? Their outer appearance resembles rocks; and (this might be fanon, I don't recall right now) their *brains* are crystalline structures. They hatch from eggs that probably look like rocks. The environment they live in presumably contains rocks.

What if Eridians view rocks in a kind of reverent, aspirational way? Like "For rocks you are, and to rocks you shall return" but with less of a dismissive/humble tone and more of a "we are fundamental building blocks of reality in every form we take" thing.

And then Rocky is explaining to Eridian linguists who are studying Grace's English what his "human name" means, in English, and the linguists are giving him scandalized side-eye and going "So you met an alien and you told him that THAT was your name? [Wow, what kind of arrogant prick would do that?]" And Rocky is like, "no no nonono, I absolutely did not tell him that was my name. I gave him my real name! Grace picked that name for me, he didn't even ask me for suggestions, I had nothing to do with it! It was like right after we first met properly -- it didn't seem like he even had to think very hard about it."

The linguists question Grace about his reasoning, of course, and Grace is a little embarrassed because he thinks this is a "haha our human is bad at naming things, he found a Tau Ceti amoeba and named it Taumoeba, silly human!"

(Also, he does not want this to end up leading to a movie night where the first movie he has to show a bunch of ALIEN LINGUISTS is Rocky. Just seems like kind of a genre-mismatch, right? And Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire is *right there*. Or he could pick some movie that showcases a bunch of different real human languages really well, or... Something that's not a sports drama film.)

So he brushes it off a little, saying something like "Well, sure, it wasn't hard for me to decide to call him Rocky. I mean, it's kind of the obvious choice, yeah?"

And the thing is. It's established knowledge now that all humans can perceive things that Eridians can't perceive. It's not even like superstitious "ooh spooky aliens" woo-woo. Respected, credentialed Eridian biologists have confirmed that humans have *actual, physical organs* that let them detect phenomena that Eridians cannot detect.

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To everyone that's confused, the planet Venus rotates very very slowly, with a single revolution taking about 243 Earth days, and Mercury rotates slowly, but not as slow as Venus.

So Bob is bipolar, vault Bob is his "baseline", a bit shy and anxious, but who wouldn't be in that situation? He still has a whole range of emotions, he tries to make jokes, he gets angry he is a full person who doesn't quite know what the fuck is going on but he still wants to help, he doesn't want to be carried around and he says it. I would say him taking the bullets and standing up and then launching into the sky (and fainting because he is afraid) is when we see that he can access his powers without either mood extreme.

Sentry is not a personality, it's his Superhero name, but it does come after Valentina's manipulation, she calls him perfect and ties his power to that idea in his head "Of course you can use your powers, you're perfect you're better than everyone" cue Manic episode which are characterized by: grandiosity or a god complex, rambling or being more talkative, sometimes you'll see a lot focus on specific goals like work sometimes it's spending too much time and money at a Casino due to a lack of understanding of the consequences of their actions and the belief that you can't lose, and also they might get distracted by things that aren't. There's also other factors like forgetting to eat or sleep, basic needs that you need for full cognitive function which might be tied to the memory loss, more on that later. Bob shows all of this, but he is still Bob. He still gets shy and distracted by the hair, he is more assertive because of the grandiosity, he is focused on the goals given to him and while he questions them he still doesn't think enough about the consequences.

Then after feeling like a God, after feeling all this power is murdered, they kill him. And now into the depressive episode metaphor, also not a personality, the Void. Depressed Bob isn't evil, he is exhausted he is cruel himself because he IS the embodiment of negative self-talk. It's like we know bathtub scene Yelena or child Yelena are not a whole other self, they are an embodiment of memories and emotions, so is Void but to an extreme due to Bob's powers. Depression is characterized not by sadness necessarly but by an emptiness a void of emotions (hence the name), a lack of interest in others, in pleasures, in activities, agitation, insomnia, exhaustion, feeling helpless and useless lack of focus or purpose and suicidal ideation among others. Bob "was a god" and he still got killed, he had a purpose and he lost it, Void is a representation of those emotions "oh you thought you had it all you thought you could do everything and yet, as always, useless", everyone and the whole city being absorbed by the darkness of his thoughts is a good representation of how all consuming these ideas can be, he is being drowned by them and taking everyone and everything with him. But it is still Bob, which is why Bucky says it isn't right, Bob is not fighting a being, he's taking it out on himself, he wants to destroy himself, and beating yourself up is not gonna help make you feel better.

And then the post credits scene, it's about "sides" because a manic episode is frequently followed by a depressive episode (due to things like, again, the lack of basic needs like food, or sleep, many mention how the manic episode makes them feel like they have literal powers and then coming down from that isn't easy, there's the consequences of whatever happened, and yk just chemistry brains are after all organs) a lot of factors come into play. So the concept here is that being his Superhero persona (Sentry) he would have to acess almost unlimited power, so grand it could easily go sideways and then the depressive episode would not be pretty. Therefore he's trying to remain in balance by not using them.

As for the memory loss, it's in part for the movie but everything about Bob is basically an extreme version of real things, so depression has been proven to have an impact on cognitive funcions among this memory and depending on the severity of the depression the more these are impacted. There have also been studies about the impact of bipolar dissorder on people's memory and they've seen some cases in which it has been substantial, expecially when it comes to episodic explicit memory, but also other types. This plus whatever damage he has done to himself by using drugs could explain the blackouts he has after these situations.

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I’ve got one extra jonny keychain and I’m not sure what to do with it so I figured a giveaway would maybe be fun??

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