HEV MK.IV'S NUMBER ONE FAN

Grace who does jazz hands and taps when he's asking a question and says some words three times like Rocky. Grace who makes chirps and trilling noises when he's happy.

Grace who starts thinking and dreaming in Eridian, who sometimes has dreams that are just sound, no visual. (Grace who, if he ever goes back to Earth for whatever reason after years on Erid, forgets some words in English and speaks in the sentence structure of Eridian because he has to translate from Eridian to English when he speaks outloud).

Grace who does scarification (even if Rocky protests at first) - I've read some fics where he does the Voyager pulsar map, or dots and lines showing his route from Sol, to Tau Ceti, turning around towards Sol, and then the line going all the way back to Erid. Even though he already has the scars from Rocky saving him, maybe Rocky's family crest. A scar showing his rank as Captain of the Hail Mary - maybe something to represent her, too.

Grace who wears Eridian gems, as earrings, in a chain for his glasses, in strings draped over him that clink together when he walks - the most important ones, like the earrings he wears all the time, the color of the blueish-green gems (or spots?) in/on Rocky's carapace.

Grace who wears a bracelet on each arm that have ribbed marks like on Rocky's arm so he can properly say goodbye (not something he had to do, but something that felt right to do, something that made him feel more like himself), sound included.

he speaks quieter, using sound cues a lot that dont particularly make sense to any normal human. most eridians who spend a lot of time with him have developed these sound cues as well, which is definitely strange. since grace cant make all the sounds they can make i like to think he has a sorta like.. sound board? not one he uses a lot but if hes talking to a not well known eridian hell use it to indicate tone and other things like that when necessary, he likes to use it while teaching cuz he doesnt want to have kids growing up and talking weird from the get go (they usually do anyways)

i call this "grace and rocky versus archive of our own"

bonus featuring adrian:

I really enjoy drawing this art :D

college dropout who blew up his chemistry lab (he built a portal to the constant because a radio told him to)

orphan who learned to firebend to fight off literal shadow monsters

a strongman. from like a circus

depressed girl and her dead twin sister who tanks all her damage

nonbinary robot that hates all life (they used to be a human that had dysphoria so bad they built a robot body and downloaded their consciousness into it)

normal librarian if you ignore the secret shadow society stuff

cursed woodsman who is married to his axe (she talks but only to him)

method actor #1 (wes could take off his face paint and talk at Any Time yet he chooses not to)

stage magician that failed so hard he dragged like half the cast including one of the main antagonists into the constant (is also the uncle of the depressed girl & dead twin)

method actor #2

child that got eaten by a massive spider and then became the spider. they use plural pronouns because there’s two of them in there

sister of one of the main antagonists who used to work for the other main antagonist

chef with separation anxiety

a demon from an alternate dimension (it’s ok tho he’s silly)

moon plant

child heiress of one of the hostile creates of the constant (it’s ok tho she’s babey)

extremely lost boy scout (and his dog)