we're beings of stardust and art

i can Not be normal about grace and rocky, not when grace in the book is literally like “i would trust this guy (who is an engineer (not a biologist)) to do surgery on me” and in the movie, rocky has a colour spot on his arm that supposedly represents his mate, adrien, but grace also has a mark on his arm, that rocky GAVE HIM, and its his handprint. like. what do you expect me to do with that seriously. okay fine what about the literal red string of fate (petrova line) connecting them and leading them to meet each other? what about rocky saying that earth and erid have to be at a similar technologically advanced state, or else they wouldnt have met? what about “both of us are intensely interested in how the other’s body works”? like cmoooonnnnn man… feel free to add more im sure ive missed some things

What I envision for Grace is this. He would have been a normal guy if he'd stayed on earth. As a baseline, he is not a monsterfucker or an alienfucker. He's not even really into other humans because he can only get the hots for someone if they've established a soul-baring level of emotional intimacy first, which is impossible because he's allergic to vulnerability. On the flip side this means that on the off chance that he establishes a soul-baring level of emotional intimacy with someone, he's going to have the hots for them no matter what the genital situation is. If Rocky had been a cloud of sentient algae he would have wanted to do it in the cloud. However Grace doesn't know this. He thinks he must have had some kind of latent alien fetish and that's why he was so bad at relationships