KCstarlight535

Like yeah yeah they weren't playing into characters or anything but. Just imagine here with me for a moment:

Watcher Grian, who has spent so long very thinly veiling the fact that he's a watcher because he is CERTAIN everyone he knows would turn on him, but he just can't hide it. Eventually, in the company of one of the people he trusts most, he chooses to expose himself, fully expecting tears and argument and accusations. Instead, what he receives is pure awe from an ecstatic Scar.

rites of passage

closeups:

1. academia

2. teaching

Tfw you forget there's term for it, on account of the amnesia

So Grace 1000% starts picking up and mimicking Eridian noises.

One day, Rocky will be working on something, only to freeze as he hears Grace behind him suddenly exclaim in fluent Eridian "SHIT!"

Like his language consists of noises that are simultaneously very simple compared to the overlapping eridian notes, and weird clicking/hard sounds that no one could even begin to try to imitate. To begin with, that's a weird combination.

And there's a popular headcanon going around that Grace can pronounce certain simple words in eridian without his piano thingy, and he would sound like a pebble learning to speak. Let's make it creepy and assume eridians also have a fear of the uncanny valley.

Grace getting better with time at imitating simple words, therefore accidentally making himself sound more and more like a pebble, sounding right enough, but not quite. That shit would be creepy as fuck.

Imagine an alien that can imitate the way the children of your species sound like. At first you'd freak out! Yeah he saved your planet but. It's like a fucking mimic. Then you'd see him trip over nothing and fall face first and you'd calm down.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

hahaha