Mira's Cove

Rock doing the equivalent of blushing furiously and swooning like "omg... my mate is so so so beautiful."

Also imagine that they never stop growing until death, so maybe by the time they reach 600-and-something and die of old age, they're MASSIVE.

So an old Eridian will just lumber off a ways, sit down, and pass on. and boom. they're a mountain now. That's a mountain.

Rocky leads Grace to two towering mountains and points up at them like "look look look! These were Rocky's parents!"

And applying that to GRACE, a pretty chill human, who is in the presence of another fellow predator but an alien one, it just leads to such intetesting possible dynamics between them!

Do Eridians have a similar preternatural "6th sense"? Do Eridians get adrenaline Fight/Flight/Fawn responses? Because I imagine they do get adrenaline spikes (the moment where Grace is getting crushed by his chair and the centrifuge force leads to think Rocky lasted as long as he did was because he had his own form of adrenaline propelling him past his body's natural limitations) But the preternatural sense is the big question here. ALL animals on Earth have it. It comes with living in a fairly hostile enviornment, including Rocky's look-a-like, spiders, who are primarily ambush based predators.

And humans seem to REALLY be attuned to that sort of predatory tactic. I can imagine Rocky trying to startle Grace, and getting really freaked out by him spinning around to clocking him immediately, but then because Rocky is an 'alien'-- would that trigger Grace's own survival instincts? Would Rocky then get his own preternatural sense triggered as suddenly, every cell in his body is telling him to RUN from Grace, as the startled human feels something is hunting him and is now in an aggressive and defensive stance. (A lot of hostile energy is being channeled at Rocky suddenly. Would Rocky be able to sense that, as Grace seems to be able to?) Intelligent predator meets intelligent predator, and instincts are going haywire for a few seconds.

And Rocky, staring down Grace that is towering over him, with a very flexible and agile form that emmits a blinding cacophony of noise (heart rate picking up, breathing shallowing) and can't help but be grateful that his body tempature is scalding hot to Grace.

If the natural cautiousness to be wary of anything large and heavy, especially moving metals, is wrong, then explain how/why should any rational human not be afraid of THESE

That's freaking TRYPTICON! On Earth!

In a CITY!

And who is this??

The Ark? Omega Supreme? It's not Metroplex. No way the big guy can leave Cybertron.

Also in a city.

That city is 100% decimated. The scale of the war on Earth in Earthspark seemed much, much worse than in any continuity. The amount of years it went on already speaks for itself.

Or almost everyone. The only bright spark is the friend you made along the way, the one you gave just enough fuel to make it home. You have to hope that he's not in the same predicament, but you know that his ship is made of strange material that could resist the amoeba better. You couldn't save your own world, but you could save his, and maybe that was all you could ever do.

You settle in, you make peace, as Grace would say, and just as you lay down you hear an impossible sound. A sound you think at first you might be imagining. A sound that is achingly familiar. A sound only possible because you insisted that you both make it out alive.

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

I took exactly the same image, increased the saturation, and shifted it to a part of the spectrum most people can see better.

For all your no-YOU-have-the-weird-color-vision argument-solving needs.