#thoughts factory

tags by @fibfooling

Yeeeeess, that ROCKstar pun is so funny. My original idea was that Rocky left Erid in what would be the equivalent of the 70'-80' of earth (keeping the aesthetic because I like it) and he just never grew out of the look.

So when Rocky and Grace touch down on Erid Rocky now looks so outdated compared to the other Eridians (and Adrian) but he just doesn't give a shit anymore because he spent 50 years in space.

I just like to think more about how Rocky lives trough his return to Erid. I love Grace but I want to see more exploration on how Rocky would feel coming back to a planet that he left 50 years ago.

Additionally, I like to think that his isolation eroded his social capabilities, and with having spent 4 years with Grace, adopting human mannerisms and all that, Rocky feels like an outsider in his own planet. Not fully a human, not fully an Eridian anymore.

Okay, being completely honest, and im sorry to dissapoint, im not that knowledgeable on the specifics of intersexism. I did do a bit of research but at the end I just wanted to design Rocky to translate Eridian sexlessism into a human without choosing specifically if they had F or M hormones and genitals, because im uncomfortable with assigning gender to genderless people (in my experience).

I did talk about it with a dear friend who is intersex themselves (5-ARD) and they said I was probably going for Ovotesticular DSD with a fictional twist of having both functioning reproductive systems, which they said was, and I quote, "for pervert reasons" and "fucking based" (thanks Rin). (also I made specifically Rocky have PCOS)

Rocky is an Engineer main because he's fucking insane and ragebaits like he's trying to get kicked out of the server. When he's not somehow building solo nests of 5+ turrets (he's hacking), he plays Spy just to fuck with the Snipers.