fanart hell

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw

and james ortiz, who voices rocky purely because he just understands him so much. he was originally just supposed to be a puppeteer but he said in shooting that he never wanted ryan to feel like he was alone. and i just!! that is the core of who rocky is! someone who doesn’t want to be alone and who doesn’t want others to be alone. he understands him so well and truly i do not think rocky could have been played by anyone else. if you haven’t check out more of james ortiz’s work I HIGHLY recommend you do. he is incredibly talented and i cannot praise him enough!!