Just like how Grace tells Rocky he kinda looks like a spider, I wonder if there’s an organism on Erid that disturbingly looks humanoid. I saw a fanart somewhere of Rocky seeing spiders as uncanny valley, so Grace definitely feels the same when he sees a humanoid creature on Erid.
A lot of the organisms on Erid reside in the atmosphere, so just imagine Grace and Rocky are sitting on the beach one day and there’s a loud thunk on the biodime. Grace looks up and does the iconic high pitched gosling scream. It sort of resembles a human, but its limbs are all weird, its flesh is hard, and there are SO many things wrong about it. But it’s humanoid enough to give him nightmares for days.
“Rocky….what the FUDGE is THAT?!”
“Oh, is Erid flying organism! Name is ♫ ♪ ♫. Sort of looks like Grace, question?”
“Rock, I never want to see one of those again.”
“Oh. Understand.”
I hope the Eridians figure out that Grace's horror isn't necessarily universal to ALL humans. Like, after this happens, they will *absolutely* take measures to ensure any of those creatures that stray near the biodome are somehow repelled.
But someday, when humans come and visit Erid, there is gonna be at least one human weirdo on the team who would see that creature and go "ooooooo, I wanna study it! Lemme get closer!" immediately, instead of "holy shit get it away from me". And the Eridians hosting the human visitors will have SUCH an awesome niche icebreaker for that one specific human, like--
"Hello, human! You wanna take a field trip away from the biodome and go see something FUCKED UP?"
"Oh boy, DO I!" :D :D :D
