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Grace: How do you cry?

Rocky: Eridians do not cry. Eridians do not have eyes. Grace knows this, statement.

Grace, frustrated: But- I know. But when you're sad- cuz when I'm sad, I cry- ?

Rocky: Baby Grace want to learn what Eridians do when sad, question?

Grace: *nodding* yes. ...please.

Rocky: Grace sit down. I will teach about Eridian feelings.

Grace: *claps excitedly*

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Rocky: What Baby Grace doing, question?

Grace, struggling to put on his space suit: I'm gonna go on a spacewalk!

Rocky: No. Grace stay on ship.

Grace, pausing and immediately tearing up: What? Why?

Rocky: Grace is baby today. Space not safe for babies. Baby Grace stay on ship.

Grace, beginning to sniffle: But-

Rocky: Non-negotiable. Safety is most important. Grace can do spacewalk when baby time is done.

Grace: ...okay😞

Rocky: Good listener Grace. Look out window instead?

Grace, perking up: Maybe I'll see a nebula!!

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Grace: What's "spaceship" in Eridian?

Rocky: ♪♬♫♫

Grace: What's "alien"?

Rocky: ♬♪♪♪♩♬

Grace: Oooo. What's "friend"?

Rocky: ♬♩♬♫♪

Grace: Rocky, you're my *bad whistling*

Can we talk about the fact Rocky literally made Grace a crib to sleep in so Rocky could watch him as closely as possible. I don’t care what anyone says this is a CRIB, it’s like one of those floor crib with the lower guard rails and adult sized beds for toddlers so their parents can nap with them. Applying the head cannon that Rocky views Grace as a baby makes this whole scene more funny because of course Rocky would panic when his new toddler human crew mate says he’s going to go sleep on a ship alone in a atmosphere Rocky can’t get to if there’s danger. This toddler who acts stupid when he’s tired and barely even keep himself from bumping into a scale model every two seconds is now trying to sleep BY HIMSELF! Who knows if there is danger on the Hail Mary!? What if he wakes up from a nightmare!? When pebbles have nightmares they need the reassurance of their parents/guardians and Rocky couldn’t get to him on the ship before his Xeonite ball was constructed. So what’s the solution? Well obviously it’s to guilt trip the toddler into sleeping in the tunnel and while Grace gathers his sleeping cushions Rocky will construct a bed-like structure for the toddler to feel comfortable and safe while Rocky watches him sleep and if this structure just happens to resemble a Eridian style pebble nest…well Grace won’t know either way.

That is until they get to Erid and Grace off handedly mentions the cultural differences of human and Eridian sleep cycles and how Rocky essentially made him sleep in the tunnel connecting their ships in this little Xeonite bed Rocky made for him to fit into and the other Eridians look at Rocky like;

Eridians scientist: You made him sleep in nest, question?

Rocky: Yes.

Eridians scientist: He is savior of Erid and you made him sleep in nest like pebble?

Rocky: Yes, because he is pebble.

Eridians scientist: He is pebble, question?

Rocky: He is BIG pebble, statement. Only in his thirties and stupid when he does not have sleep, trips on things, gets cranky, makes work take longer. So Rocky make nest for pebble….was necessary to save stars.

Eridians scientist: Yes, yes, agree.

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Regressor!Victor Frankenstein

interested in the small things, like plants and bugs 

enjoys tops and spinning toys, as well as the zoetrope and other optical illusions 

reads basically any books but likes reading poetry out loud 

goes and lays in the field 

catches fireflies and grasshoppers in his hands 

occasionally disrupts his own experiments because he stole a beaker while regressing so he could put a slug into it 

gets ink all over his hands when he tries to write letters 

presses flowers and then forgets where he put them 

finds shapes in the clouds