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and grace who is so alien, but reflects eridian mannerisms that they've never considered strange before but coming from a creature so soft and strange, it just doesn't feel right. grace who stomps his foot twice when he asks a question, and it rings out flat and dull instead of the strong, sharp sound of an eridian hand on the ground. grace whose voice is so alien, so one-note, so full of articulations that are sharp and round and everywhere in between, but who echoes the melodies of eridian poetry and music, sometimes on accident but sometimes perfectly in time with what rocky translates him as saying, and later, perfectly in time with his keyboard.

Zoologist, particularly focused on social behavior in various species. Studies social animals both in the wild and in captivity

Constantly refers to Grace's dome as his "enclosure", much to the rest of the team's chagrin. Grace thinks this is hilarious

General "call a spade a spade" attitude to using zookeeping terms when referring to everything to do with keeping Grace happy, healthy, and alive. Some of the others on the team misread this as depersonalizing and cold towards Grace, but it's just Adrian's communication style

Gets along with Grace like a house on fire. They terrorize Rocky together

Relationship to Grace is like if your best friend was also an exotic animal whose enrichment and enclosure design was your responsibility

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.

FINALY I POST MALEVOLENT I've had malevolent brain rot since OCTOBER!!! I've been iterating on these designs for MONTHS so I hope they're satisfactory!

nudity warning under cut

Friend got me thinking of defanging. Made me think of Kayne, made me think of a lott of things ^^ The Manager followed shortly after

Let's say Kayne somehow escapes from the Nightmare Realm.

Let's say he didn't get far.

Let's say he's sat in the Waylay across from The Manager, who's staring unreadably over steepled hands, trying to figure out just what to do with him.

The Manager clearly needs to keep an eye on him, the situation evidently requires more hands on measures. Kayne cannot be left to his own accords, so he needs to remain in the Waylay. And if Kayne is going to remain in the Waylay, he needs some...fixing.

Kayne is weak from his time in the nightmare realm, he could hardly sit up in his seat, much less break away from The Manager's iron clad grip as he begins dragging him to power wash the gore off him (the floors are carpeted) -- but his teeth still work, and they're very sharp.

And that's how Kayne ends up back in his chair, weakly pushing at The Manager's body over him, anger turning to fear turning to desperation, scrabbling at the one hand pushing into the weak flesh of his jaw, and the other sawing back and forth across his teeth.

The Manager did consider defanging Kayne, but since all his teeth are sharp, and he'll likely have him socializing with the other patrons at some point, he thinks filing lends to a nicer look.

YES!!!!!!

here’s what sydney’s sayin cuz its hard to read

Sydney: Now, campers, you may be wondering about the whimpering british man in the room with me. Don’t worry, Juniper is just fine. Our new friend, Arthur, is definitely not! blah blah british joke blah la la…

This got me thinking way toooo hard. if the manager dropped Arthur and john off in camp here and there, how would everyone feel? (im sure someone has a much better developed au than i. but i dont gaf) HerE ARE MY THOUGHTS !!!!!

Sydneys very curious. very nice. appreciates thst another brisith person is here (the only one hes ever met is juniper. and he can’t tell if they’re all just like that.) jedidiah is VERY suspicious. points out how strange arthur acts. muttering to himself, not quite looking at people and all.

id like to think up and adam can hear john, and makes jokes about it in front of people that can’t hear him. makes everyone either very dubious of arthur or of adam. pick your poison!

Soren can definitely tell arthur’s died before, and grills him about it. arthur is just like!!! oh no!!! don’t ask me that!! Juniper is just happy he has another brit to talk to. and rowan is… friendly. (at some point, if arthur reveals hes blind, rowan’s just like. wait bro me too. and they kinda bond over that. also over their shared extreme anxiety.)

arthur and john are TERRIFIED of sydney btw. so scared. they act entirely normal around other people. but with sydney arthur always keeps his distance. acts skittish. yknow. this is cuz sydney’s dead!

here’s how they first learn!

Runnning the show!

Since episode 8 is on the horizon, I have been rotating this au in my brain and I’m sure we can all take solace in that however bad it gets, the original cast can be glad they have their Caine because it could be… So Much Worse

Individual characters

Doodles

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Cecil sort of just hesitates at the top landing. Meanders up and down the first few steps perhaps. Maybe trips down a few steps every once in a while but quickly scuttled his way back up in a panic, clutching the rails like a lifeline.

Jon is slowly but steadily climbing down the stairs. Jon is pretending the stairs are not leading where they are actually leading. Jon is not going to go back up. Jon is staring longingly at the top the entire time until that just causes him to nearly fall and break his neck.