Me: I don't ship Carl and Grace in a romantic sense
Also me: *writes them both clearly in love with one another and pining for each other more then a pine tree forest*
Me: I don't think Grace and Simon have sex, theyre both aroacespec and its very difficult for simon to feel romance in the first place. Grace feels none at all.
Also me: *writes them having sappy romantic sex*
Me: I don't ship Eva and Grace in a romance way what so ever, theyre both aroacespec
Also me: *writes them so attached the hip its fudging absurd, to the point Grace has a panic attack if he cant be near her*
Me: Rocky and Grace do not have sex because their relationship is far beyond anything of labels and they're chemistry is far more then just sexual.
Also me:
Ha you thought I was going to say I write Rocky and Grace having sex didnt you? Lol. You little nasty freak. Alright go on, scram. Shoo you.
Anyway *opens ao3 tab of Adrian Rocky and Grace having sex*
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I had an idea where Carl knew from the begining they were sending Grace. Even before the explosion. It wasn't something random, im not saying stratt planned the explosion, but the world leaders wanted Grace to go even before hand. Stratt kept saying no until the explosion and then she had no choice but to agree. But because he already knew he pulled a laika on him. He took him to do things, talked with him, took him on dates, let him sleep in his bed and made sure he was having a decent time. He loved Grace as much as legally allowed. Besides, he wasn't there to protect Grace, he was there to protect other stuff *from* Grace. (Including himself) Its why he dosn't say much. He wants to say so much but he knows itll cause issues if he does. So he just says the one line, standing next to him like always. Letting him know he's not alone, even if it hurts worse. He just hopes when he comes back (because Carl knows he'll be back, at least in this story, he does come back) he forgives him after biting his hand a couple times.
Carl pulling a Laika on him, taking him off base out to eat, taking him shopping for what ever he could possibly want, doing all Grace's favorite things. Even letting him email his students despite being told not to let Grace have contact outside of the base in fear he tells secrets. But Carl sits, feeding him skittles as he types out the ultimate "Im so proud of all of you" letter, wincing as grace signs off "See you all soon! -Mr. Grace"
That rush of knowing Grace dosnt know devouring him. Feeling so guilty yet smiling so not to scare him. Saying things like "I dont know, Space is really cool. If it were me I would go." Once inawhile. Taking him to pet shelter animals, dancing with him under stars, taking him to the closest local bar to get plastered. Constantly spending time with him all until he realizes and its too late.
Stratt gave him 3 hours to decide. Within those three hours, Carl stands there in the door way, grinning. "You wanna go play air hockey in the reck room?"
Grace at first perks up, only to deflate as he notices those empty caverns that didn't match his smile.
"Oh my gosh... this.. This is is the chcolate before the needle.."
Grace coming to terms with the idea that Carl knew something he didn't. And as much as carl wants to say anything, he clearly can't.
He's been pulling a laika on him for weeks. How long has he known? Was this always the plan? Was the murder of Dr. Dobuis and Dr. Shapiro planned? .. was carl actually his friend...?
Grace was fed table scaps, given belly rubs and allowed to sleep in the bed.. and now they were getting ready to strap him into a death machine with no plan of return.
So turns out I got too excited about Mak's design sheet and this just appeared on my screen.
Mak and the boys TM
Also, please click for quality. This app hates me
From left to right, top to bottom:
Blind AF, Farsighted. Cant read :( Wtf?
Cocky, jealous, righteous prick.
"Get it together! The Father is counting on us!"
Nose permanently broken (bc of simon)
Highly religious + prays often
Older then Simon and Michael
Friends: Adrianna, Clair, Michael, Simon
Mortal enemies: reading, Simon
Thinks Simon is a coward for using dishonorable fighting methods
Used to be The Fathers favorite little knight
Takes his work FAR too seriously
Snitch/tattle tail
Honestly, he is the real coward and is scared The Tree won't accept him because of it.
Misses Adrianna + Mars
Forgot to add this, but if you give this man a sword, you are done for. He's a classic swordsman. Maybe thats why Simon's animalistic fighting is so outlandish to him.
He honestly should be wearing glasses.
He craves the Fathers attention so badly he's willing to act out for it, esspecially after seeing Simon get attention for being lowkey insane. (Though ussually this backfired, which made him resent Simon even more)
He hates his name because he's named after his dead mother, so he goes by Mak
Crys too much
Ngl he hates simon so much it makes him look so stupid. Maybe they should kiss or something idk.
Brother Simon, Micheal ( @ctrl-shift-alt-9 ), and Makena
Obviously, one of them plays dirty more than the others.
Im so excited that were sharing iron lung ocs, I had one the second the movie ended and ended up with two more (Adrianna (Anna), Claire, and Makena) I'm really excited to play with the dolls with everybody. If anybody wants to art trade dolls, let me know. Sheet on Makena coming soon.
Half the time Makena starts it, but he can never end it. It becomes almost like a Peter griffen and the chicken guy situation. It's ON SITE. Type shit. Sure, they'll play nice in front of higher-ups, but given Mak is a tattle tail, he's the reason Simon gets introuble so often. Mak is a good scrap, that's for sure, but he's nothing against those two. He wants to surpas them so bad, but he just can't seem to do it. Dosn't help that he's older than them and STILL gets his ass handed to him. It's so embarrassing, but it only fuels his determination.
This being said, Mak is so envious of Simon that he'll be civil and respectful enough to ask him to spar. It's a win win, Simon gets to kick his ass and Mak gets to learn something... but 90% of the time, they aren't sparing, and Mak is actively fighting for his life.
Later in life, when he grows up, he ends up feeling a sense of GREAT pride when he realizes that Micheal and Simon are out of his way and now he can work his way up the ladder.. but he feels an overwhelming sense of guilt and sorrow that he's never felt before. Part of him is actually pissed he wasnt the one to kill Simon. He knows he isn't supposed to question dying. Dying is good, The Father says so. But.. why is he so sad then?
He realizes quite quickly that it's lonely and boring without competition, and he feels as if he failed his brothern. He cant pin point why, though..
Have ya'll sEEN Mark's hair? Simon would feel like a different person after a mcfreakin shower. Mary, get this bloody, sweaty guy some shampoo and conditioner, STAT!!!
Thinking about how this guy would be used to a 16-in-one Ambiguous Sterilizer Solution that totally doesn't contain forever chemicals, who couldn't use too much because it would burn, but there wasn't enough water to go around to dilute it, so it's a delicate balance to not fuck yourself over. Dry-scrubbing being common.
Cue Grace in the bidome gifting Simon some synthesized shampoo and homeboy having to re-learn self-care proper like a missing limb.
Grace: You... haven't touched your toiletries.
Simon: Oh, I have. I justā y'know, I need them to last.
Grace: The Eridians can always make more soap. This place is pretty self-sustainable. They have access to all human knowledge.
Simon, bewildered, leaning in and whispering like it's a dangerous admission: They can make it?
Grace: Why wouldn'tā Simon, yeah, we make shampoo.
Simon: I thought we were taking it from them. The... Eridians.
Grace, realizing: Oh my god you didn't have soap.
Simon: Soap is worth a week's worth of food minimum. It's expensive.
Grace: Yeah, no pal, these guys have surplus. We're good.
Simon, letting out a breath: Oh fuck I thought we were in so much debtā
Simon, who just kind of assumed Grace fucked one of the Eridians for it and was keeping silent so not to humiliate him: Wait they just GAVE it to you??
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The Guy Who Told Simon to Cross the Wires | Fanon Master Post
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Congratulations! It's a... *checks notes*
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By popular vote among 65, beating out "Cade" by a mere 3%!
I know this fandom is starving for "canon-based" characters to play with in their fanfiction, so please allow me to humbly introduce my fan-rendition of Wires Guy. This is less-so an "AU" and moreso a big extrapolation paper on missing details. The canon events of the movie are completely untouched.
His Timeline
Michael was sent to Eden during its glory days as an agricultural center, arriving there days before the Quiet Rapture to become an understudy. He barely had time to settle before the planet Marsāalong with his familyādisappeared.
He was thrust directly into a mass psychosis event at a young age, all alone, as the station devolved into a death cult. He became a child soldier alongside Simon. Bought into the Last Tree as a god quite heavily. It was all he had left.
Michael grew up to be an incredible mind, despite the circumstances (having been smart enough to know how to jerry-rig the SM-13's computer to play a secret message with no prior knowledge of how it worked). The Simon-Michael dynamic is:
Michael and Simon were on a small raiding crew together after they became old enough to start participating directly in the resource-related fighting between them and the COI, both egging each other on to do worse and worse crimes. He taught Simon everything he knew about starspeeders, and in return, Simon taught him to fight dirty. Taught him it was safe to emote the way he wanted to. He didn't have to "stonewall" people all the time to keep it together. Simon's all about expression and speaking his mind.
It is in the midst of this, that an unspoken rivalry forms. It's brotherly competition to get the Father's good graces. This guy is family to Simon despite their differences.
Simon begins to doubt the Last Tree, making the mistake of opening up about it to Michael, who full-stop freaks the fuck out on the inside. This ends their friendship, but they are still Brothers. Michael thinks he can "save" Simon from straying the path if he tries hard enough. Michael doesn't want to lose the only family he has.
They get sent to Filament Station together as young men. It is their first "real" battle deployment. Leaps above being shitty space pirates on their beater little shuttle. Simon is at his angriest, and Michael is barely tethered to the present second and depressed (they reflect different aspects of the way a human mind might try to cope with such horrors). They are both looking to prove themselves to the Father. Michael knew about and had a hand in causing the explosion, having been the one most capable of understanding the station's reactor core as smart as he is. Michael deemed it justified. Simon did not.
Their hesitant "Brothers in Arms" thing between one another shatters. Filament is destroyed, and they are both captured. They hate each other.
They both end up in prison together for an undefined amount of time. Could have been months. Could have been years. We really do not know. They spend this time together watching their fellow captured Brothers either die to suicide or be dragged out of their cells, never to return again. It's a massacre on the COI's part. Despite being locked in a cage, Simon tries to spend the time off in his own head, daydreaming of better times, hoping for a better future.
Michael haaates it. Simon has his head in the clouds too much and it's bothersome.
But, then, one day, it's Michael's turn. They march him out.
From Simon's perspective, he disappears completely since then. Not a trace. Not a word about him. Simon makes up a story in his head to self-soothe. That maybe Michael made it out.
Michael's pissed. He's tired. He's had enough, nor is he one to let himself be humiliated by the hands of the COI. So, after they drop him in the SM-13, he refuses to move. Refuses orders. Just sits.
Then, with anger flitting into some twisted kind of determined certainty, he records a message for the next one down, leaving his pendant in a safe place and a note to cross the wires. Michael has a very fatal flaw that sets him apart from Simon the most.
Knowing when to quit.
Little headcanon splurge here, since we're in the trenches already: Eden Brothers can identify exactly who these pendants belong to by their leaves. Each one is unique, like a fingerprint. They are akin to military call-signs. If it weren't for the clear voice over the speaker, I think Simon would've known who this was, regardless. This isn't just an Eden pendant. This is Michael's pendant; it couldn't possibly be anyone else's. They are irreplaceable.
Simon's doing the equivalent of taking the baton from him and running with it. The SM-13 was supposed to be Michael's ship.
Simon is reacting this way not because of the fact that a random guy died here. He's reacting this way because he is remembering who this was. Simon knew this guy, and remembers him as that little boy in his head because what is Simon's biggest vice? Remembering the better times. Nostalgia.
Of course he's going to only entertain memories of a time when they got along. They were kids together.
Characterization
Very patriotic about Mars even though it no longer exists. He's a yearner for Mars. It rubbed off on Simon a little bit.
He had to raise himself. The Father was too busy raising Simon after his mother died.
The anger issues are just as bad as Simon's, except Michael antagonizes to feel something, anything, and Simon likes to punch for the same reasons. They're not healthy for each other. Toxic family stuff.
Always played "runner up" to God's Favorite War Dog (Simon). Despite this, Michael is just as dangerous.
In a spar, Michael can easily hold his own against Simon. He is taller and faster, yet has the flaw of refusing to fight dirty like Simon does. It just feels wrong to him.
Resting bitch face. Has a hard time emoting, dead eyes, glazed over, the whole nine yards. Full-stop opposite of Simon being so expressive, even when he is masking.
He finds solace among technology despite being surrounded by agrarians and being one himself. Michael is not a mechanic, he simply appreciates the art of a good machine and enjoys the study (he's totally not self-projecting). He craves the strength certainty of steel, or something like that. Something something, keeping control is better than letting his grief get the better of him and relating with machines.
He's an academic, multi-disciplinary problem solver more than anything. In his free time, he writes. Has a poetic air about the way he speaks. Very straightforward yet with great prose. Simon's always appreciated it.
He's fluent in Edenic Creole (my fanon Far-Future English dialect). Michael uses formal phrasing and often.
He has trained himself out of hesitating much like Simon. Simon was not good for his impulse control.
Michael is methodical and a planner. Simon is also a planner, but a spur-of-the-moment one. Something about Markiplier being a sporadic creative. You can imagine the bullshittery that ensues.
"SIMON NO" "SIMON YES" -> "dude..." "yeah... I knew that was stupid. Still fun, though." "... true, true."
They both have enough ego to fill two stadium-sized swimming pools. They fight because they both believe they are right about their own values. Michael is just as stubborn about the Tree returning to life as Simon is about the stars coming back. It's two sides of the same hopeful coin.
Bonus crackpost: Michael's a would-be stoner. Simon's a would-be alcoholic, if he could get his hands on enough (they were pillaging for supplies!!! Simon's been the Butcher long before Filament Station. THEY WERE ROBBING PEOPLE. What else would Simon be doing? They definitely stole shit from Eden's "supply" runs). Together, they are Substance Abuse Squared: You're in for a Scare!
*Takes a bow*
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I'm so excited to present this guy to the Council. Please enjoy Michael's character, and tag me if you make any content for him!!!
Me trying to write my astrofathers fic but they are both being difficult. *stares at Ryland* THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SLOWBURN *points at carl* YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO CATCH FEELINGS THIS FAST! *turns to eva* And YOU! Why did you even approve this!?
Eva: *shrugs*
Me: Okay, Lets try to stay ON script this ti- STOP FLIRTING! CUT! UUGHH ...take 385...
Guys.. Is Grace and Simon technically ethical vegans on Erid? Grace's me-burger is ethical because he isn't being harmed and is consenting.
So... so if I bring Grace back to Earth and try to feed him steak he'll puke and become violently ill? And simon is definitely lactose intolerant right? Theres no damn milk on Eden...(I think)
And if I let Simon go wyldin in a wendys, he'll get food agression.. right? ... and then feel like shit?
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The funniest version of bloodymary, to me, is where Adrian finds Simon entirely separately and has to go through their own ordeal of bonding with a sad traumatized squishy wet human while wondering how their partner's going to react. And then when Rocky gets back theyre both nervously llike. Hey babe. So there's something I have to show u,,,,, also you're gonna have to get cool about a lot of things real fast. Meanwhile simon and Grace are sniffing at each other like two cats being introduced through a bathroom door
Intoxicated/drunk/high Coltland twins headcanons? Plus jody maybe? If any?
Hehe okay sweet.
Hereās Colt first cause I like him more
We know Colt got into stunts young. I like to say he was in college when the whole jumping off a roof and getting scouted thing happened. And being on Miami Vice, I imagine he got pulled into the party scene pretty young too.
Maybe he wasnāt even 21 yet, but we all know powerful people can get away with a lot. He probably had older friends on the team that would get him into clubs easy.
The Colt we know doesnāt seem like that person anymore, but he still has the vibes you know he used to party HARD.
Again, Iāve said this before, he was able to identify he was being drugged with one sip of Dooneās drink.
Influenced Colt is a more reckless Colt. Normally, youād think Colt is always reckless as shit.
Heās not. That dundee scene was unlike any other action sequence in the movie. Colt is a lot more calculated with his tricks normally.
Drunk or high Colt gets an idea and goes for it without thought. Those days, heād wake up with more bruises and hospital bills than 15 years in the professional stunt business ever did. Before the accident I should say.
Nowadays, I donāt think heās that into it at all. I think the most heāll get is a bit weepy and weird when drunk. Call it him getting old and softer.
Weed is known to be good for chronic pain tho, and he lives in a legal state with a LOT of plants in his apartment. Just saying, he probably grows his own weed. Reeks in that house.
Ryland time.
Unlike a lot of other people in this community, I immediately saw Graceās talk about accepting random pills from strangers as something sarcastic.
Heās nervous and sick, heās going on the defensive. Maybe to get a small laugh too.
That being said, the guy somehow managed to graduate regular college, go into grad school, get a doctorate, get a good job in academia, and get kicked out of said academia all before 30
(presumably considering heās mid 30s in the movie).
I def think he was influenced by something!!! Something that was probably self medicated to make him work harder and faster. Opioids are the best guess. Considering.
And getting off those opioids suddenly, going through withdrawals, could definitely cause you to lash out and get fired and blacklisted.
I think before launch, he was only more of a social drinker at that point. Heās ashamed of past addictions and he knows heās much better now. Alcohol has never been a problem for him and he refuses to take any medication at all now, but still. Better safe than sorry. Heāll stick with nursing one beer for hours.
Now hereās a bunch of together headcanons. Mash them all together. Fun times.
Colt would try to take Ryland out with him to clubs when they were younger, but Ryland already hated Coltās stunt job and really just spent the whole time trying to stop them from doing stupid shit.
He felt awful after the first time Ryland had to drive him to the hospital from being fucked up and stupid. He promised he would be more careful about his partying and stopped inviting Ryland to come along.
They still had fun together tho!! Birthdays were always super fun because it wasnāt a big social event. The two of them and a couple friends would just hang out at someoneās place, drinking and chatting and having fun.
Colt and Ryland drunk together is just sharing the stupidest jokes back and forth, giggling like crazy.
Ryland is really good at making shots. Heāll mix together shit all the time for every and Colt has a stupid but of yelling āSCIENCE!!!ā As if Ryland mixing drinks is messing around with test tubes.
Jody is pretty similar to Ryland in the way sheās always been a bit of a workaholic and not much of a partier, but she likes to socialize a lot.
She loves those little fruity drinks and can down several of them without thinking if sheās chatting with someone.
Coming to America and working in film is the only time sheās ever tried drugs. And by drugs, I mean just weed. Again, not much of a party person.
It was just social for her at first, but sheās grown to like it after a stressful day. Relaxes her.
Has to have some trip sit her the first few times tho or else sh would gorge herself on so much food and end up puking it up.
Colt thinks how sheād get just POSSESSED by the munchies is the funniest thing ever.
Heās a very good trip sitter tho. So sweet and attentive. Heās done it a million times with friends and partners alike.
He did have to help out Ryland once after he got fired and the withdrawals were proving to be too much to handle. He didnāt know about his problem at all before that.
I donāt wanna end on an angst note, Jody and Colt shotgunning and itās hot and sexy.
Aww, I do love the idea of Colt being so attentive to the "light weights". I can see him just in the kitchen making a whole bag of pizza rolls for them and Jody being upset later because he cut her off. "I know babe but youve eaten half the entire bag." He dosn't want her to throw up but all it will take is her tearing up or pouting and now she suddenly has ice cream infront of her.
If puking didn't make her feel like shit he'd gladly clean it up off the floor after letting her eat what ever she wants, but he doesn't want her feeling bad.
As for Ry, in the book, it says he usually has steak and Guinness every weekend or so with one of his friends, but after talking about the patrova line with her, he gets two whiskeys. Ive never had Guinness, so I dont really have an opinion but part of me thinks he would get paranoid on weed. About like.. everything. He'll go from having a good time to immediately locking the door 4 or 5 times type of paranoia. Not anything specifcally, just general.
Something that really resonates with me as a demisexual is when the fic is like, "This is grace. Grace has been married to his alien partner for 20 years. Grace has not had sex in 40 years because he hates it." And then it's Grace finding out something sensual about either himself or his partner and suddenly just.. is obsessed with it. Like a little freak. Like (fic examples ive seen) Putting his fingers in simon's mouth, getting aroused when Rocky stalks him like a predator to the point of giggly boners, rocky tickling the shit out of him, pulling simon fully on top of him until he's smooshed and can barley breathe, getting anxiety boners from adrian towering over top of him like a pathetic dog that pees on itself when anxious. Discovering that he can just choose not to be touched, keep his clothes on, stop when he gets bored without negitive feelings attached to that- just *not* orgasam. Finding out that he really likes petted or pinned down, discovering a thing for back scratches or licking, or just straight letting his partner dry hump him. Degration and restraint seem to be a repeating pattern.
But like.. the best part is they STILL dont have sex. Its not important or the point of it all- I mean sure, okay, some of the fics involve sex on some level, but the majority of what i'm seeing does not end or even lead to sex.
Its just Grace exploring and experimenting and being like "okay that feels good- OHP Not that! Okay thats fine- WAIT WAIT STOP.. im good again." Without that feeling of "great theyre going to be mad at me"
And I really like that. A lot I think. 80% of the time these bitches dont even take their clothes off at all and I like that a lot too.
Like sure, its kink, but ive found multiple that aren't even sexual. Some are "Grace gets boners from scritches and praise" but some are "Grace feels vulnerable and trusts rocky enough to do non-sexual bdsm. No boners, just weird secret third thing activly."
Another thing i'm seeing a lot is Grace, just all of a sudden, getting hot for Eridan's sheer competency. Feeling like someone finally understands him and he's blushing for a reason he doesn't understand. But also not knowing what to do about the problem.
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Guys what is going on? Can someone maybe try and help me rationalize? SOO many of my mutuals have been down this pipeline and it just keeps happening.
Marvel/poolverine specifcally-> Project hail mary/Iron lung-> Dungeon Crawler Carl series
WHAT? It seems so random but if I squint..
Someone else write an essay on why please, im busy drawing lesbains
Putting simon carl and logan in the same room would cause the earth to spontaneously explode because of the amount of DaddyTM and truama in one room. Not to mention theyd all just stare at each other in silence trying to sus out vibes. (They all leave thinking it went great)
Rocky is pissed he's been put in with donut and mary puppins. Donut is hissing and puppins is yapping.
Grace is extremely uncomfortable/annoyed, Katia is confused, and Wade hasn't shut up for 15 minutes straight.
What people dont get is I have multiples of my dolls. Different versions for different stories.
You got Greying Grace (the main) who lives on Erid permanently in the biodome with Simon. Living out his dog years with mate jewelry from rocky and adrian, scarred with the star system on his back, activly wears skirts and stuffs her bra, just living his best life teaching and studying what ever it is he wants. *slaps the top of his head* This aroace genderfluid bad boy hasn't had sex in years but isn't relationship adverse. He has three mates and has never *ever* thought he would just find his people by going to space. Now he makes jokes about being alienromantic but nobody laughs. Dumb ass idiot (love him so much). He's so clumsy and ligit just is at risk for breaking a bone 24/7. My baby (70 year old man)
You have Earth Grace *points to semi grumpy, tired and grunty Grace* He's exhausted. He hasn't had any good sleep in days. He's rude and kind of an ass. Pouts a lot to Carl, complains to Stratt. That man will fuck crazy style (he likes it a little rough. With the adhd and negitive 50 attraction to sex itself, he needs the extra stimulation to really feel anything) but is relationship adverse aroace. That Grace is probably the least unhappy from the stress that comes along with living in a society ran by people. He gets assblasted by carl sometimes but people still accuse him of speeping with the boss lady. (Are they stupid?) This Grace is a little questionable of his gender but the world is dying right now so he dosn't have time for that. He does, however, have time to make out before a press conference to ease his nerves. Post clairty is good for science āļø- No but seriously jokes aside, they dont mess around as much as Im saying, they probably had "sex" like 6 times total throughout the last month and a half before Grace was shipped off (and only half of those times were penitrative) Carl treats him very well and I AM planning on having a fic about the heartbreak Carl experiances- eventually. They go on dates and hang out a lot, but neither fully admit they're dates. It's a "the world is ending leave us alone to do our own thing, its the only thing that keeps us sane" thing. Both are very happy by the way. They really could have worked things out if Grace wasnt yeeted.
WARNING this post gets WAY out of hand under here including kink talk (Not what you think)
Tw: Mentions of Alien sex (also not what you think)
And then- you have this FREAK(lovingly), Whos a rocks, controversially young wife- who is proud to be some aliens trophy "play" thing. Yeah he's aroace too but its weird cause he's very obviously married to a rock and the rocks, rock husband and it's clear that he's the "baby girl" of the situation.
Stratt: ...Why did rocky call you babygirl?
Grace: Let's not talk for a while š¬
"Rockys wife" Oh, Adrian?
What? No! The controversially young savior/trophy human he brought home that was half dead and constantly is showering with attention and gifts because he's in a zoo enclosure and needs "enrichment" Duh.
(Read a fic once where rocky gets so jealous he kicks another eridian out of the dome house because he "Dosn't want bitches around his human". Peak toxic codependency ngl. lowkey feel bad becuse he did the equivalent of hissing at the poor other eridian. Even just friendship jealous rocky is peak though.)
This man LIKES that he's fully reliant on the Eridians. He likes being experimented on, he likes how competent his mates are, he likes how different they are from him, he likes being talked about like he's a pet for an advanced alien species on the other hand, he likes also being praised and held on equal footing as said species. He likes curling up with his warm rocks and feeling small or weak agasint them. He likes knowing they could take him out any moment but choose not too because they love him and are so SO gentle/ careful with him. He likes that they nag him, he likes being doted on. He trusts these little (and not so little) guys so much if they genuienly wanted to do surgary on him just to peel him open and see whats inside- He would let them.
"I would let him do open heart surgery on me."
This Grace activly will lay on the ground and let eridians pet him and tell him he's doing a good job just living (because tbh he is super fragile compared to them)
He has so many weird kinks (sexual or not- your call) that involve lack of control its insane. He likes knowing he can't do anything. He likes when restrained (truama related kink) he likes rough housing (despite being called too fragile to actually be rough with, If rocky sits on him entirely he is dead) He likes the predatoty behavior of Rocky stalking (but NOT chasing) him for fun (think playing tag) He likes how bossy he is and how he DOSN'T have to be the smartest in the room here. On earth it always seemed that way, but here he can let his mind relax (not like it ever does). He can let go and just let himself be taken care of like a damn exotic fish in an aquarium. The praise he gets alone makes him want to just roll over.
If hes being completely honest with himself he's a little pissed off that sex dosnt do it for him and has come close to just sucking it up and doing a study anyway. He could be the first human ever to fuck an alien and he just cant because it makes his body and brain feel uncomfortable. The scientific research portion alone makes him mad. He has so many questions and he cant get awnsers to any of them because the idea makes him want to hurl.
Grace, having the resources and trust to fully study the reproduction and possible hypbridism of the first sentiant alien species for man to ever encounter: *pouting because he can't bring himself to fuck them* >:(
Meanwhile the science community of Erid is also pouty because they wanna study grace just as bad (because Rocky wont let them do a autopsy on the only living alien on their planet and highkey rocky is unhealthily possesive of HIS alien (bullshit btw he should be the planets alien: >:(
I think part of being a scientist IS that weird taboo curiosity about *everything* including what the reproductive organs of the alien your peer brought home looks like.
Grace and eridian scientists pointing at each other: Let me see your penis. Ew actually Nevermind.... let me see it anyway- Wait don't... Eehh... okay maybe just a peek-
