MODERN HERETICS

pleurer en couleur (to cry in color)

Shit used to be wild, and this is just what I could find that had decent sources, I've heard a lot more horror stories.

Rocky: need understand. So humans have four limbs, not five.

Grace: you see.

Rocky: but two useful for walking only, so you have just two to work and hold things.

Grace: yeah.

Rocky: and now you tell me only one can write and do precise movements and literally anything, question?! [pointing at Simon who struggles to eat ramen with chopsticks] What humans do in wild when lose it, just lie down and die, statement?

Grace: no!

Simon: yes.

P.S.: possible addition for the "Hail Mary crew survives" au.

Iluykhina: oh! Actually, it's hard but not impossible to retrain yourself to use one hand instead of another! It was even a common practice in some places. The number of people with a dominant left hand is much lower than those with a dominant right hand. So few decades ago, in my country, teachers forced left-handed children to use their right hand for writing, punishing them otherwise, until they got into the habit.

Rocky, oblivious: humankind strange.

Grace, the truly caring teacher: excuse me w h a t

the mixing of eridian and human languages (and not just english! even english speakers use phrases from other languages! youre telling me grace isnt c'est la vie-ing this entire goddamn trip?) and idioms and body language and various non-word sounds is going to be a sonic nightmare for humans and eridians alike.

in the short window of the story they've already morphed several, now multiply that across the entire trip!

i keep thinking about rocky picking up gesticulation from grace, but on erid it's the equivalent of a human talking with a hand in front of their mouth.

and i shudder to imagine all the scientific short hands they come up with to speed up research! hey rocky thanks for solving the astrophage problem too bad no one knows what the fuck you're trying to explain to us!

manners! social customs! they're fucked!

House Telvanni: Might makes right. If someone murders you it's because you weren't trying hard enough to not be murdered. You need the power of flight to talk to anyone important because otherwise you're obviously not worthy otherwise.

House Redoran: Blood and honor are the only things that matter. We're the vanguard against the forces of evil and we live in the corpse of a giant crab. Fuck the Legion our armor is made from the bones of our ancestors.