Rocky learns that Grace is only in his late thirties/early forties and has a mini heart attack where he instinctively goes “oh fuck that’s a baby. That’s a baby?” because thirty to forty year olds on Erid have the maturity of the average human pre-teen, probably. Of course Rocky understands that Grace is a fully mature individual for his species, it’s just tough to swallow sometimes, especially when Grace spends so much time tripping over himself and being stupid and not sleeping etc etc. just. That urge to protect your best friend in the whole world is heightened by how fragile he is, and how young he seems to you sometimes despite your better senses

feel like i’m going to die right now, but i’m going to be answering my asks this afternoon. meanwhile, i’m going to close my askbox just for today while i’m going through because i’m so behind 🫡