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Part 1 " Idiot for you"

So premise is Simon stole Grace's computer that has the entirety of the internet downloaded on it (Say it with me, Thank youuu Stratt) and searched up how to court grace crazy earth style <3

Totally not an excuse to draw simon in a suit.

ALSO!!!

grace picking up the habit of humming simple eridian words. grace tapping his foot twice when he's asking a question. grace instinctively hiding away when eating. grace being unable to sleep unless someone's watching him. grace saying hello and goodbye the way eridians do.

rocky tilting his carapace to convey emotions. rocky turning to "face" grace even when he has omnidirectional hearing. rocky attempting to emulate human gestures with his biology. rocky learning of hugs and kisses and wanting to give and receive them all the time.

So the scientists immediately assume Grace has completely lost it and tell Rocky and Adrian and it goes like this:

Scientist: so.. Grace has requested we make him a kind of human drink..

Adrian: okay? Is there an issue?

Scientist: see- the thing is- it has a chemical that is quite harmful to humans but he insists we leave it in?? It’s called ethanol and-

grace: okay so is this gonna be a sex thing or are you gonna make me run around the biodome for the whole afternoon pretending we're in a zombie apocalypse

When Rocky discovers how humans can just.. tune people out he is hocked and more importantly very annoyed because he’ll try to get Grace’s attention and half the time he’s just nodding along or just doesn’t answer while he’s doing something

So one day Grace is doing just that, barely nodding along while doing something on the laptop and Rocky has a thought; “loud noises wake up humans while they’re sleeping, could they also be used to snap them into focus?” Rocky tests his hypothesis with a loud whistle, and to Rocky’s utter delight Grace immediately snaps his head up and looks at Rocky with a confused expression.

So he starts using it when he wants Grace’s attention, repeating that same exact whistle with perfect volume and pitch, at first Grace is a bit annoyed but he usually forgets about it when Rocky starts talking, but slowly over time there’s barely a reaction, Infact, Grace starts reacting quicker and without thought.

Rocky, ever curious, sees if he can get Grace to associate other sounds with certain things. He’s sure it won’t work, but he’s bored out of his mind and well. For science!!

So whenever Grace eats, Rocky will make a barely audible clicking sound before hand and Grace doesn’t notice, after a week or two of this Rocky decides to test it out

So when Grace inevitably forgets to eat one day, instead of Rocky annoying Grace into doing it, he just does the clicking sound, he doesnt expect it to actually do anything but low and behold a moment later Grace looks up and says “huh. Hey Rocky I might take a break and go eat, wanna come?”

THIS IS THE CUTEST ASK I'VE EVER GOTTEN

Omg yes I love every single word in this, Grace having a beautiful deep and soft voice and sounding like a literal siren to eridians yesyesyes ALSO "chime" as an eridian slang compliment is so fantastic i'm adopting this word immediately

also Im thinking about Grace's students loving her voice, and then talking with their parents like "Mrs Grace's voice is so beautifulsoftpretty!" and the parents sometimes attend their classes to check out on their kids and rumors start spreading about Graceteacher's voice that sounds like rumbling thunder and bells and Grace notices more and more parents staying for her classes thinking "wow they're really involved in their kid's education :·3"

Rocky and Adrian bitch a little about Grace 'making the single parents distraught' but secretly enjoy taunting people that Grace is THEIR mate

Eridian parent: "I heard a rumor that Saviour Rocky and Adrian have Saviour Grace sing for them in this human ritual called 'karaoke'"

Other Eridian parent: "dang, lucky bastards"

Eridian scientist: why did they send a baby to space?!

Rocky: Grace is not a baby. He’s a fully grown human and you all need to respect that-

At the same time another Eridian: the human is thirty!! Are you COMPLETELY sure he’s not a child? He’s barely coordinated!

Rocky: Grace is very sick!! Of course he’s not coordinated you fucking idiot-

ALSO at the same time: did you not think to teach him how to understand us properly?? Let alone communicate with us.

Rocky: he doesn’t have the vocal cords for most of our sounds!! And we were WORKING on him being able to understand proper speech but he’s delirious?! The fact he’s conscious is a miracle-

Grace who is visible stressed and half covering his ears but also trying to listen: what’s going on?? I can’t hear you guys it’s too loud- Rocky what’s going on?!

Rocky: apology apology other Eridians ask dumb dumb dumb questions, Rocky tell Grace later. Grace sleep now Rocky handle.

Rocky's Confession

Robert: hm? How so?

Coupé: he also sniffs his food before eating it.

Robert: hm? How so?

Coupé: he also sniffs his food before eating it.

herman always starts... feeling... things when chad is yelling at him. when he's angry, firing up, the flames on his back growing bigger with every word. it's so hot for herm, literally. he can't help but blush, standing there, his brain just going "more" and "more" every second.

chad sees it. sees the way herm squirms when he raises his voice. the way he bites his lip, sometimes even a small smile appearing on his face. he knows herman clearly enjoys it.

Cooking up my SwapAU

Refs! Feel free to use them for your aus (with credit) The gist of this au is Shroud leads SDN. Z-team are a bunch of mediocre heroes who fucked up in one way or another. Roberts gets captured and is offered a deal to become a part of the phoenix program. He's hired as Z-team's dispatcher (totally not as a way to torture him) and given limited freedom.

He doesn’t call them out on it cause that might mean that they will actually research phrases more and second guess themselves a lot. And that would mean the cards would stop. Which would be a shame.

But like this he gets a fun little puzzle every week or so where he tries to guess what the committee is trying to say this time. He can rate the cards on funniness and clarity!