We're all dumbasses here!

So Grace 1000% starts picking up and mimicking Eridian noises.

One day, Rocky will be working on something, only to freeze as he hears Grace behind him suddenly exclaim in fluent Eridian "SHIT!"

the biodome team watching grace get up in the middle of the night and easily navigate his hut without turning any lights on:

you can never get a clear listen to him. his primary sense node is covered in "hair" and the part that isn't is hidden by two crystals that refract sound waves in a pleasing but disorienting way. he covers his body in billowy cloth at all times. not snug and sensible and unobstructive like eridian coverings, but loose and layered, draped and flowing.

the most clear part of him are his internal organs. because yes, the alien's carapace isn't sound-proof. his single heart beats insistingly in his core, his lungs exchanging gas constantly, his long digestive tract always bubbling and contracting. his thorax is packed impossibly tight and it's all moving and singing.

and it shouldn't be possible, with how fragile he is, for that internal pressure to maintain. how does the thin membrane of his external organ (another horror that sends eridians reeling) keep it all contained? his "skin" is so easily pierced, cut, bruised, burnt, how does he not split open under his own mass?

when savior rocky first arrived home and described the environmental needs of his alien, the scientists thought he'd made a mistake in his frantic panic to get everything out. it isn't possible this being lives at such low atmospheric pressure, at half the gravity, and in a gas that's nearly double the weight of ammonia. in a gas so dangerous, so caustic. and if it does then how is it obligately terrestrial like rocky claims? shouldn't it fly or float instead? (and then to see it in the water, learning that it can float or sink at will.)

and this alien has come bearing gifts that will not only save your species but launch it into impossible heights of technological and intellectual advancement. he has discovered the solution to astrophage and bred it to thrive on threeworld and translated his instructions into eridian. he has given your people the complete sum of his people's knowledge, advanced in ways the eridians can't believe and behind in ways that seem ludicrous. and he has given his life for your people to have these things.

he knows how your solar system was formed. he knows how the universe started.

his name means beautiful and generous and relieving.

the eridians experiencing cosmic bliss.

@cntrlaltdelete-what #He is also always constantly to some degree alert#He can wake at any moment#He can choose when to sleep. When to be at his most vulnerable. And even then. He even has ways to stop his sleep.

@koszmarnybudyn #and we would be freaky! we have too few limbs and gotta face a direction and have a sense they do not and like wow what a wierd specie

@tinyplanetss #im also obsessed w the concept of his pain tolerance being freakishly high#because humans evolved to take hits and heal#for eridians nothing damages the carapace unless its dire. and then they burn their insides and either survive or die

@plumbley-bee #he also arrives at their planet and basically does the eridian equivalent of curing cancer with his knowledge on radiation#imagine there is this invisible force that kills your people in horrifying ways that we have no way of figuring out or solving#and then a starving ethereal alien with the lifespan of a dog shows up#and not only has knowledge on this invisible force but also the technology to detect it#AND his species has built up a small tolerance to the invisible death causer#wild shit

@neilanuruodo #This is making me think of how even those “gurgling” and “bubbling” sounds that humans find unpleasant or distasteful#Must seem a sort of song to eridians#They don't have human cultural mores or evolved instincts so (unless Grace cues them into it like I imagine he would have done with Rocky a#some point over the long years they spent together) I imagine to them it would be a strange and likely beautiful kind of song#His whole body sings to them#His heart setting the tempo of the song and everything else building on that

@summersong2262 #he's flawed and mundane and imperfect and yet this messenger from the stars loves#and IS loved. the universe reached out to us and gave us hope#and a second chance

@flamingbluepanda #someone over hears rocky calling his best friend a dumb bitch and is HORRIFIED

@othr-wrlds #and!#the guy who brought this wonderous saviour back to your planet is like. this is my stupid friend please can i keep him in a tank please#phm#i feel like if the other eridians are somewhat scared of grace#they are even more afraid of rocky for being so chill and familiar with grace#like oh god theyre pretending to wrestle is this allowed is this going to cause an interstellar incident

@berryunhinged98 #Rocky: This is my new best friend Grace :) It is gross and kind of stupid and has every disease#Erid: That is an eldrich creature that Should Not Exist and it saved our planet…

look at my clutchmate dawgg, they are gonna get us fired from the biodome project

Like, Damian is five years old and he’s packing his things and running away because CLEARLY Talia doesn’t love him enough to give feed him (he wants a cookie but they’re going to eat supper in five minutes). “You’re just like your Father.” Talia says to him once he has his cookie after supper.