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Eridian OC named THINGS. She is in charge of miscellaneous items in Grace's biodome and gets MAD AS HELL when he doesn't ask her for stuff.

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A puppet eridian from Project Hail Mary. She is about the size of a small cat. She is bright pink with orange spots and covered around her carapace and arms with bead bracelets, bells and random things like strips of duct tape and plastic.

As she is moved, the bells on the puppet are jingling constantly

Mike’s special interest as a little kid was grammar/language (especially English), and he was always ahead of the other kids

Meanwhile, Will had made-up words for things

The first time Mike heard one, he tried to correct Will, but Will just shook his head and repeated himself, and then it clicked for Mike, and he accepted it - he later made a list of all of Will’s words, and exclusively used them in conversation with him

Will felt really safe around Mike because of this, and he was also always so impressed by how well Mike spoke and wrote, so even though he had his own language for simple things, he was constantly working big words Mike knew into his conversations