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Love the moment in System Collapse when Ratthi makes a joke about round hatches being scarier than square ones, SecUnit decides to fact check this by searching its entire media library for scary things coming out of doors and doing statistical analysis on the shape of the doors and discovers he's right, and ART goes "You wasted processing space on that?" And then ART gets sucked into participating in the inane conversation within seconds.

Grace distracting Rocky by putting on a youtube compilation of japanese beetle fights and he gets like. weirdly into it. to an alarming degree. and grace has to figure out if its like entertainment or borderline porn for him and rocky will not give a straight answer

#YES. THROW SMALLER RIVAL OFF BRANCH. PROVE SUPERIORITY OF STRENGTH. OF CARAPACE HARDINESS#WIN MATE RIGHTS YES YES YES#grace: oh is this like a sex thing. is this porn to you#Rocky: rocky just likes when they clash. very entertaining to rocky.#he introduces him to ram and elk dominance fights and he also likes those. he's doing science rocky is having a great time (unspecified)

if i couldn't have any of the obvious first choice superpowers i would want my power to be the power of i can go anywhere and its not a problem. the way this power would work is that as long as im peaceful and respectful i can go anywhere and nobody will see it as weird or see me as a target for hostility. i can walk into a cool house to politely peep the decor or walk into a tall office building to politely peep the decor or walk around a city at night alone to politely peep the decor or walk into a strange facility to politely peep the decor or walk onto a plane and ride the plane to its destination and then walk around there to politely peep the decor and its fine as long as im chill. no need to make me faster or anything i can just walk at a normal pace. its good for the soul.

honestly given my parents whole [gestures vaguely] i am actually incredibly well adjusted

The first time theb M9 meet Essek always leaves me screaming because he comes off as this ethereal, all-knowing beauty who is unscathed by their shenanigans when you know he's internally scheming about how he can use these idiots for ESPIONAGE AND TREACHERY, and then like 3 months later it's "I love them and they HAVE RUINED me with friendship" and I honestly think that's just so beautiful.

can't stop thinking about how hysterical project hail mary would be from rocky's pov when you consider that, by eridian standards, basic human functioning is simultaneously an incredibly hostile and violently perverted body horror fetish nightmare. imagine you make first contact with an alien and it's an apex predator with an obscene number of orifices, made up mostly of toxic substances that it oozes constantly from said orifices, thrives in an unforgivingly cold and suffocating atmosphere, is highly motivated by searching for its next meal + consumes its food publicly in violation of your society's main taboo, and is capable of rapidly transitioning from vulnerable in sleep to alert and in full possession of its faculties at the slightest change in stimuli. grace is in a heartwarming scifi buddy comedy and meanwhile rocky is bonded with and planning on bringing home his species' equivalent of the xenomorph.