Kelponie's Evil Lair

Just trying to overcome perfectionism and simply sketch for myself

As both a science and English nerd, I love the idea that since Eridians are cosexual (am I using that term right? Let me know), they don’t have pronouns indicative of sex or gender but rather state of relation. Like how Rocky says, “friend Grace”, he is stating the relation of the subject to him. And taking it further, pronouns of possession, like Rocky talking to another Eridian would refer to Adrian as, “my Adrian”, and the other Eridian would refer to Adrian as “your Adrian” throughout the conversation. Because the state of relation is that Adrian and Rocky are mates. And that shifts based on who’s in the conversation when the state of relation to who is present changes. Say Rocky isn’t there. Same Eridian, who works with Adrian, talking to another Eridian who works with Adrian. Now it’s, “coworker Adrian” or “<job> Adrian”. Same Eridian talking to another Eridian who doesn’t know Adrian at all, and now it’s dependent on the context of the conversation. It could be, “Rocky’s Adrian” or “coworker Adrian”. If two states share the individual equally, you get “our Rocky” for Adrian speaking to Grace.

*skipping stones across an artificial lake the Eridians made Grace*

I think a lot about what-if Grace came to rescue Rocky when he figured out the taumeba was eating away at his ship, and he didn't make it in time? What-if by the time he arrives to grab him, no one comes to the window bay to say hello? What-if he spends hours just banging on the window that separates them, and spends the long hours after sobbing, because that was his friend. That was his first friend in over a decade and he's dead, and now he can't even deliver the taumeba needed to save his planet And the worse part? Even if he does manage to retrieve Rocky's body, he has no way of delivering it to Adrian. Because he doesn't know where Erid is, he doesn't have the coordinates, he's only a pseudo-pilot, he doesn't know his way around stars quite like Rocky does. And that hurts, because at some point in time they had enough fuel to get both of them home