mouth of the wolf, eyes of the lamb

Brain fog is not an adequate descriptor, actually. Fog can be kinda nice and beautiful and ethereal and refreshing. The thing we’re describing is more like a brain BOG; everything moves slow like you’re wading through water, it’s clunky and heavy and you keep getting stuck in the mud. It’s uncomfortable and inconvenient and everything takes so much effort. You lost a shoe, probably.

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i got that dog in me but it's poorly socialized and i don't take it on as many walks as i should

A fun complex to give Grace would be the realization that Rocky grew so attached to him not because of any inherent qualities he had (aside from being able to help with the astrophage issue) but because he spent five decades in self-imposed, terrifying solitary confinement and just latched onto the first thing that talked and was kind to him.

what if rocky has those same complexes but it's even worse for him bc he knows how reliant grace is on him to keep existing. without help he would instantly die on erid. and yeah, grace does choose to stay despite that, but how much is that worth when rocky also knows there isn't really anything on earth for him to return to? does grace only like him bc it's his only way to stay alive? does he really like him or is this more of a cult situation where the circumstances have so severely fucked with his head that he wouldn't even know if he wanted to leave? (and grace initially wanted to very much not be in any situation like that. of course he must be wanting to go back home. of course it's the journey that scares the shit out of him making him want to stay, rather than actually wanting to stay) and what if this is also the first time this kind of inter-species dependency has ever happened to rocky bc eridians don't keep pets. he doesn't know that this is just a slightly weirder version of a completely normal type of relationship for humans that they are literally evolved to have and kind of need. grace doesn't like him, he just needs him.