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grace and rocky get to erid and both of them are hitting every eridian squarely in the uncanny valley because they've both absorbed so much of each other that they feel both too eridian and not eridian enogh. rocky faces in the direction he's paying attention to and it feels like he's trying to hide something, the way he and only he of the eridians seems to always be showing the same face of his carapace when he speaks to somebody. he speaks in metaphors that only make sense to somebody who understands light-based vision. his intonations are funny, rising on questions when they otherwise wouldn't, falling flat, his sarcasm goes to space dry and restrained and comes back with such force it almost feels like he's lying instead of joking sometimes.

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

In my efforts to spread the idea of Simon becoming a dork when he is finally comfortable and believes Grace and Rocky's word about him been safe with them.

Sorry to slip back into my role as gatekeeping analyst fandom menace, but please, guys, Simon Iron Lung is not just Markiplier but constantly in a bad mood. In fact, he's more like a wet, really fluffy dog. He's sad and teary eyed but his fur is really fucking heavy so his knees hurt and his neck hurts but everyone just makes him keep walking and walking and walking. If someone – say, a nice, unconditionally helpful blonde guy – took off all the pressure at once and put him in an even marginally better situation, I'm sure he'd be beyond grateful. After all, Simon constantly seeks for connection while in the sub, judges Ava for not even honoring the names of the people she sends down there and even seems to feel genuinely bad for blasting the pieces of shit that keep on sending him back down there with radiation. His whole thing is that he never INTENTIONALLY kills anyone, and yet he's caused the deaths of hundreds, potentially thousands after perchance a freak accident and having a completely valid crashout leading him to hit a button he didn't even know was dangerous to both himself and others.

Rewatching Iron Lung and I haven't seen anyone bring up that Simon actually has really good emotional regulation strategies. When left alone to navigate the sub he takes the time to look around for what he can do and how. He takes a second to breathe and stay calm when he realizes he has a finite amount of oxygen. Often he takes time to think about things before responding throughout the movie. You see him rub his knife holster for comfort multiple times when he's stressed (and reach for where he usually has it on his lapel in scenes that he's not wearing it). He is actually very equipped to deal with high stress, just not something of this level.

honestly funny to me that project hail mary stars Ryan Gosling bcos like imagine being an alien and the first human you meet is Ryan Gosling. im imagining Rocky trying to figure out how physical attractiveness works for humans (u know out of scientific curiosity) and while trying to get a fix on it being like 'Grace considered attractive??' and Grace is like nooo not really I'm pretty regular.