I Don't Think

Of course, what was supposed to be a short term service industry job before he lived for his art has bloomed into just being his life, and life as a poor artist is never as romantic as one imagines. While the cost of living of Bikini Bottom is low enough that even a frycook can be a homeowner, it's not quite so low that he can afford the luxuries he was used to growing up.

His view of the Working Class as the downtrodden masses were rather tattered by years of living between SpongeBob and Patrick, who were not so much temporarily oppressed intellectuals as they were, well, SpongeBob and Patrick.

Still, through thick and thin he's never gone back on his decision to leave the money behind. The great irony is that he is ignorant of his greatest achievement—his superiority to Squilliam isn't turning a bunch of randos into a functioning Marching Band or turning a burger joint into a fine dining establishment, it's having the strength of character to look at all the advantages Squilliam had and choose to leave it behind.

this ask made me realize that i've been a phm fan for months and just somehow haven't made a single headcanons list. so ty for this

headcanons abt apex predator stuff and general biology differences

Grace misses the exercise of biking every morning so he takes up jogging instead which freaks out any eridians who can hear into his biodome since they have ambush predator stamina (peter how are you doing that /ref)

it's as scary for other eridians as it was for rocky to learn about how humans evolved to hunt because while "chasing them till they have to sleep" isn't wholly accurate (being worded that way only to seem spookier) chasing prey till they have to stop and rest is close enough to sleeping to freak them out

only kind of related but they're probably worried/amazed/jealous to learn that humans can just wake up from their sleep and choose how long they want to sleep via alarms.

eridians don’t have any vestigial structures. their biology is really efficient so the idea of having useless leftovers from evolution is a foreign concept to them

Grace called Rocky a spider but if anything he’s closer to a scorpion based on how Eridians hunt and defend themselves (rewatch the scene where Rocky gets scared in the tunnel. Totally scorpion like)

regular headcanons

Grace wasn’t an asshole in his younger years he just had an attitude problem and a shorter temper when it came to things he was passionate about. He still kinda has that but is better at managing it

Would have a ton of corny science pub bumper stickers if he had a car

Rock doing the equivalent of blushing furiously and swooning like "omg... my mate is so so so beautiful."

Also imagine that they never stop growing until death, so maybe by the time they reach 600-and-something and die of old age, they're MASSIVE.

So an old Eridian will just lumber off a ways, sit down, and pass on. and boom. they're a mountain now. That's a mountain.

Rocky leads Grace to two towering mountains and points up at them like "look look look! These were Rocky's parents!"

The Future, Somewhere Far Away From Here

Some dejointed drawings and doodles of my own post-canon headcanons! Where humans send a ship to their neighbors in order to meet them, and make sure their sun didnt die in case Rocky wasn't successful, but end up finding a very much alive Ryland Grace, looking younger than he should and living his best life on Erid

I'm just fascinated by the idea of ​​humans and eridians collaborating and what that would look like. We are so advanced in some areas they lack, while they are so advanced in some areas where WE lack due to our respective biologies, the progress from both sides would be insane.

MARKIPLIER KNOWS AND GAVE US CRUMBS HELP

A mini PHM comic about Grace growing old. I wanted to explore two ideas: Rocky dealing with Grace’s dementia and Grace wanting to donate his body to science. I spend so much time on figuring out the dialogue (some part still feel clunky to me) but I hope it express my thoughts on where I think Grace’s life would go :)