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This is how Project Hail Mary went, right?

the funniest thing is the video logs Grace sent back to Earth. he nakey.

which means there's an entire planet that doesn't know Eridians wear clothes at all because their only exposure to this species is a nudist.

Humans and Eridians meet again one day, and all the Eridians are wearing clothes, and sweaters, and accessories like normal people and the humans have a brief huddle about this before one of them walks up to Rocky (probably much older now) and says, "so, uh. those video logs. you, um, you wear clothes?"

Imagine there was an evil wizard. The evil wizard is like 'i wish to create a child to be my evil progeny and do my dark bidding' so they used magic to spawn a baby.

In order to do this the wizard has to call upon some ancient Magic Powers underlying the universe and said powers are like 'hmm ok we will allow you to make an evil baby. But in the name of fairness, we are going to make a good baby too.' & then in a different location on the other side of the world a second baby spawns.

The two babies have no knowledge of each other and don't meet until they are adolescents, both fully oblivious as to their origins.