donde yace la fruta asfixiante que vino de la mano del pecador..

Its one of the things that set us apart as a race, when we throw things, we can be damn accurate. I imagine this comes up in conversation a while in when Grace mentions the concept of darts. (I bet there was a dartboard in the communal area in the Vat)

Rocky does not immediately get it, why would humans invent sport from throwing things question? What is point question? So Grace grabs a marker and sketches a small target on the wall, then goes and stands at the other end of the room to throw various items. In three tries he hits it dead on, he's pretty pleased with himself. Not too bad, considering Ilyukhina used to beat his ass every time they played.

Like his language consists of noises that are simultaneously very simple compared to the overlapping eridian notes, and weird clicking/hard sounds that no one could even begin to try to imitate. To begin with, that's a weird combination.

And there's a popular headcanon going around that Grace can pronounce certain simple words in eridian without his piano thingy, and he would sound like a pebble learning to speak. Let's make it creepy and assume eridians also have a fear of the uncanny valley.

Grace getting better with time at imitating simple words, therefore accidentally making himself sound more and more like a pebble, sounding right enough, but not quite. That shit would be creepy as fuck.

Imagine an alien that can imitate the way the children of your species sound like. At first you'd freak out! Yeah he saved your planet but. It's like a fucking mimic. Then you'd see him trip over nothing and fall face first and you'd calm down.

weemp weemp in every language*

SHE WAS PROJECTING

SHE WAS TRYING TO JUSTIFY BOTH THEIR SACRIFICES

IT'S ABOUT HIM BUT ALSO ABOUT HERSELF

They sleep at night, even in the absence of a light cycle, because that's when the temperature drops. Unlike humans, they don't use blankets. They don't try to preserve heat. They want to cool down faster, because because that's what their body needs shut down and rest! They RELAX in the cold!

Not only that, but their version of breathing is a constant influx of cool air. If they're without that coolant for even a few minutes, they're in serious trouble, and after half an hour, they're dead. Unlike us, they're at constant risk of overheating.

But not while they have a source of cold nearby. Like, for example, a human who lives at a fraction of their temperature.

On the Hail Mary, Grace spends a lot of time pressed against Rocky. Their temperature differences are extreme enough that xenonite can't entirely halt the heat transfer, so it's pleasantly warm. He feels like a cat curling up by the fire. It's relaxing. Of course, he also feels a little bad that he's draping his freezing raincloud of a body all over Rocky, but he figures Rocky puts up with the unpleasant cold okay.

Except: Rocky is chasing the cold just as much as Grace is chasing the heat.

Grace: No, no. Rocky, I'm a full grown person. And where did you even learn that word? I shouldn't have left you alone with the computer!

or in other words:

For example: Clouds ☁️ Eridians probably wouldn't be able to perceive clouds with their echolocation, so imagine explaining them to an Eridian. They're tiny, lighter-than-air water droplets suspended in the sky. All together, a large cloud can weight thousands if not hundreds of thousands of pounds, BUT because the water droplets aren't touching, they can just chill in the sky.

But when the droplets become too numerous and the cloud gets too heavy, they fall to the ground as rain.