walking quilt

basically what i want from any sports romance is kittebasu crossfire

What I envision for Grace is this. He would have been a normal guy if he'd stayed on earth. As a baseline, he is not a monsterfucker or an alienfucker. He's not even really into other humans because he can only get the hots for someone if they've established a soul-baring level of emotional intimacy first, which is impossible because he's allergic to vulnerability. On the flip side this means that on the off chance that he establishes a soul-baring level of emotional intimacy with someone, he's going to have the hots for them no matter what the genital situation is. If Rocky had been a cloud of sentient algae he would have wanted to do it in the cloud. However Grace doesn't know this. He thinks he must have had some kind of latent alien fetish and that's why he was so bad at relationships

so rocky probably wont have the capacity to be anything but stressed/worried/etc while they get grace settled on erid BUT. once grace is mostly comfortable, he keeps getting cordial visits from some of the scientists that were/are helping with his care, because hes actually made friends with some of them! (the ones that managed to get over the blend of revere/discomfort they were feeling in his presence anyway.) and rocky is very much of two minds because on the one hand he knows humans require socialization & he wants erid to welcome grace so this is good. but on the other four hands. hes a little put out because why are they getting all up in graces space like that and connecting over science and stuff. like ??? no thats OUR thing??? thats mine?? my human?? ???? i found it ????? okay thanks you did your job i guess but can you go away now actually. no he doesnt have time for you his schedule is very busy. yeah its because we hang out every day

was on that line of thought bc im feeling once again genuinely tortured over the idea of zandik mellowing out somewhat in his old age. like, relatively speaking, yknow. inasmuch as an individual like him ever *could*. there was a post i read awhile ago about how he was able to ask for and expect help at the end, but none of his segments had developed to that point, so of course they didn't help him. like imagine watching a guy slowly become less insufferable over the decades and then he fucking dies and you're left with all the versions of him who did not go through that development, who will never go through that development, because the inability to do so is very literally encoded into them as part of the reason they exist. Cool cool cool cool cool. Fucking awesome