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Rocky chose a hand to match Grace's scar!

And they were "rivals."

It’s the closest thing to show biz on Erid. The orchestra and actors are the stars and divas of culture. Of course someone writes an opra about Rocky meeting the alien Grace and saving the stars together.

The casting call to play Rocky would be so cut throat. And Rocky can’t really give any opinion on who to pick since he’s been out of the pop culture loop for 50 years. (A fact the writers use in writing the script. Purposely giving Rocky dated Eridian slang.)

As for Graces actor, the theater’s master puppeteer becomes invested in making as accurate a puppet as possible to play their alien. In the end they would create a puppet where, instead of stuffing, it is filled with sacks and tubes full of fluid. Including an air pump to churn it and a constant beating of what would be a human heart. The puppeteer tries to capture just how horrifyingly alien Grace is in the best way for Eridians, through sound design.

And that’s just the puppet for the actors to interact with. For the audience, I could see the orchestra Amplifying the sounds of the human body during scenes like when Grace hugs Rocky. Or used for laughs when Rocky points out how flawed the human body is as he describes it to the audience.

Actual Rocky being a puppeteer nerd as a pebble. So when the theater gets approval to send the Opera stars to meet Rocky and Grace during the press tour, Rocky straight up pushes past the glamorous opera divas to meet the puppeteer instead.

Rocky is excited to share with them the fact that so much his and Grace earliest communication was through puppet shows.

Someone to be brave for.

excerpt is from chapter 29 of the novel.

He started writing in blue, remembered Carl, wrote Carl's name in red and IMMEDIATELY returned to "Single" to add a question mark lmao.

Bianca Castafiore sings Mozart.

For the [Haddock VS Salieri match] over at @electionsmistertumbler !!

There are 2 distinct systems (<-wikipedia link) that, as you can see in the table below, sometimes use the same word to refer to different sizes.

And yes it can be very confusing.

To answer the question, yes, french uses the same scale as spanish, the long scale, in which a "billion" means a million million, or 10¹².