What is a Sleep Schedule

Imagine, after decades of your world becoming colder and colder, you are saved. A single Eridian, the only one of twenty three to survive, arrives in an alien ship, accompanied by a creature you can barely conceive.

Everything about the alien is so loud, hinges formed from tissue thumping and stretching in constant movement, even while unconscious. Completely organic, reliant of oxygen and hydrogen. Instead of a protective carapace, it regrows its damaged tissues. It has senses you do not, and technology so unlike your own, both able to utilise a force you have never heard of. The same force that killed almost your entire mission team. Highly adaptable, able to teach itself how to fly its ship in under a week, able to become fluent in the engineer's dialect in less than four years.

And if Erid's best engineer is correct (and there's no reason it wouldn't be), this creature not only managed to breed a predator of the warmth-taker to survive in various atmospheres, including Threeworld's, but also turned around to provide aid when it discovered that the predator could escape xenonite.

And you think: Surely, this creature which protects itself without a carapace, which sleeps so lightly and knows so much and learns so quickly, which saved two planets at the cost of ever returning to its thrum, surely, a creature so extraordinary must have a name to match

And you think: Perhaps it is strength, Mountain-Base or Lonsdaleite-Carapace. Perhaps it is intellect, Diamond-Claw or Lockpick-Mind. Perhaps it is courage, Song-Through-Silence or Path-Carver

And you think: None of these names hold the true weight of what this creature is to them. How do you describe something like that, which aids without expectation of anything in return, which risks its own life for the sake of a species it cannot touch, which performs miracles simply because it was asked.

i love annie shapiro and her not having any filter "sorry i had to go use the restroom, i was peeing myself" and her nerdy excitment to get to learn from grace

i love olesya ilyukhina, her bravery and childlike innocense, hugging the earth's dicatator like nothing, taking her teddy bear to a suicide mission, and literally sacrificing her life for humanity without a second thought

i loved dr. lokken's pride and her beef with grace about his theory

i love eva stratt and her love for humaity being so big that she had to destroy herself to give humanity a real chance to have a future

That man is every color of the rainbow.

The man gets taken out of his fandom just to be passed around like a blunt in other fandoms.

He is the most aroace and pansexual agender man I have ever seen.

So far the running list that I've seen:

Rocky

Simon

Adrian

Carl

Rocky and Adrian

Stratt

Dubois and Shapiro (do not separate them, they come as a pair)

Ilyukhina

Yáo

Dimitri

Dr. Lokken

Tom Ryder

Driver from Drive (2011)???

Engineer Mark from In Space With Markiplier?

Din Djarin????????

Rocky again, but instead he looks like James Ortiz (i love seeing this one actually lol) (it's also good if human!Adrian looks like Meryl Streep)

More Markiplier????

Mark Watney

The 9th Doctor???

The 10th Doctor???

The 12th Doctor as well???

Like, let the man breathe 😭😭😭 he's practically just stumbling around, dazed, with a crazy amount of comical lipstick marks covering his face at this point lol

Edit: I've been told to add Tony Stark to the list. I don't know how this man got here, and I hate that I can see it

Edit 2: apparently I should also add Superman to this list??? Where are you all getting these ideas from??? (But, please, continue. I like wherever your crazy little brain's at)

Edit 3: okay, yeah, I guess Armando's on this list now. Didn't know that this guy was that freaky. (Also, apparently I need to add the three Captain Americas (Steve, John, Sam) which is kind crazy ngl. Where are all getting all these ideas from??? Please continue making Grace the fandom blunt, this is entertaining)

Edit 4: Odysseus. I don't have anything else to say bc I'm just... In shock

Edit 5: Shiro. From Voltron. How do you guys even come up with this stuff???

Esspecially rocky and simon. Yall be writing rocky walking around Erid all puffed chest and proudly announcing that he has mated Grace 'so fuck you guys hes mine offically now. Too late for you losers' while Adrian is trailing behind also smug but in a less openly brag and more 'Oh, the alien? You mean my mate?'

You got Carl whole ass preening at the idea of being Graces baby daddy and being utterly prideful to have the rights of bending him over. He's so smug like 'ah yes I was able to bag the weird genuis school teacher, 😎'

And then ussually Simon is either written like a sly little mud covered stray who just got away with breeding a freshly groomed show poodle or thinks of himself so little that having the bragging rights to having gotten Grace is monumental to his entire bloodline. Like he would go back to eden just to shove it in their faces that he IS capable of being loved 'So fuck you!!'

And then you have Tom fucking Ryder being on social media constantly posting Ryland (even if theyre not together anymore LMAO) with captians like 'My boo thang❤️‍🔥' or just 'He dosn't know it yet but Im gonna put a ring on that finger💍'

Colt, texting Grace: Did you get engaged and not tell me? *shows him the post*

Grace, who broke up with Tom 5 years ago, had no clue what so ever about the post because he has Tom blocked, and now multiple people are messaging him about the wedding: ?? Is that a threat?

Im coming to the conclusion that Grace is a trophy wife. In the sense he has a display case full of scientific awards and everyone wants to show him off.

________

You will be remembered as a hero. ________

A Cursed Image!

4 legs?????

I like to imagine that a centaur tailor would have patterns ready for all the style of centaur pants:

Unfortunately, my Centaur Anatomical Charts do not cover the Reproductive System. Alas

She isn’t wearing heels!

Those are her hooves

Someone looked at that Doctor’s expression!

So they'd likely wear something similar to a loincloth up front with a caparison tossed over their back half.

IIRC (it's been a while):

Titanides have either male or female human genitals in front and both sets of horse genitals behind.

Front sex creates an egg (marble sized) that gets manually implanted in the rear and fertilized with the rear equipment.

Here's a diagram from the book illustrating the various possible permutations:

So picture some years in the future when the xenonite suits are so safe that Grace's class can now take field trips into his biodome. Rocky's there because this is a big moment for everyone involved and also he just loves listening to Grace in his element. One of the more mischievous kids tries to sneak off from the group and there are plenty of chaperones but Grace is the first to notice.

His posture changes, goes focused but loose in a way Rocky's never seen before as he peels of from the crowd. Rocky just stands there, stunned, as he watches his sweet, gangly, goofy, clumsy blob of a friend turn into a hunter. Grace circles around the pebble, slightly crouched, head turned and honed in, arms loose to the sides, and maybe the little one notices and does that nervously excited giggle-squeal thing kids do when they're being chased and tries to get away, but Grace expertly corrals them. He doesn't even have to run for it, he just pens the kid in, lunges-

Grace is the funniest bitch in the project by accident. He's used to being around kids so he's forgotten that filters are a thing and just says the first, dumbest joke that pops into his head. He has no control over it. Nobody makes him feel bad about it because they're afraid of what Stratt will do if they hurt his feelings.