Obsidi :D

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of course grace is delighted! but it'd be very funny if rocky had just. a massively specific regional accent. and now grace has it too. all the eridians from that area are like OMG THE ALIEN IS ONE OF US - we're adopting it. that's an honorary member of the clan. listen to it. it might as well have grown up here.

...actually i'm gonna do it. fuck it. rocky is space scottish. to me. he's mine now, i'm taking him out to look at the kelpies and the falkirk wheel and climb up ben ledi. he can go fishing in a loch. and now grace's eridian accent is their equivalent of scots. he says stuff to adrian's family (posh motherfuckers) and theyre like 'i think it's trying to communicate with us..?' meanwhile adrian, well used to rocky's accent by now, is like 'it's giving you a compliment. be nice to my spouse's alien, please.'

And he stops using the translation software after a while.

They just don’t understand each other’s grammar, so when they’re trying to communicate, Grace will literally say things like “no understand” or “astrophage on my star. Bad.” Admittedly, he does it less so than Rocky, but it’s established that Rocky’s better at learning and math and memory, so he learns English faster than Grace learns Eridian, and they both adapt to each other’s levels

So random eridian scientists are talking to Grace and are like, absolutely no disrespect intended, but very interesting Rocky overcame the cultural weirdness and sensory disgust of "hugs" and does them despite no benefit to himself because he cares for your needs! Its sweet!

Grace: actually Rocky freaks out if he cant press himself against my lungs and heart through the thinnest xenonite possible until he can hear every muscle cell in my body moving at least once a day.

-Stratt's tablet, and the fact that she almost never even looks up from it

-Ryland Grace having a weekly steak-dinner-date with his former roommate's ex-girlfriend. This is one of his earliest recovered memories and is never mentioned again.

-Rocky's ventilator holes and clothes!

-What is essentially an "assembling the team" montage as Stratt acquires engineers, angry climatologists, and literally incarcerated mad scientists

-Bonus points to Ryland Grace vaguely wondering why he has to tag along to all of these character intros (it's because you're the POV character, babe)

-Grace almost killing Rocky when he tries to clear out his vents

-All of the talk about sleepy=stupid

-Eva Stratt going to exactly one (1) trial so she could show the judge her "I can do whatever I want" permit, and then sweeping out of there like a boss

Grace: *Retroactively freaking out about Doing A Misogyny™*