I have this whole idea in my head about Eridian pronouns working on the basis of 'relative closeness to the person speaking" rather than being based on gender.
Eg there's no he/she/they (for conscious beings - they likely have a separate pronoun for inanimate objects, or living beings that aren't conscious) Instead Eridian's use; stranger, acquaintance, leader, boss, co-worker, friend, partner, direct family relation, relation through marriage, ect. So in casual conversation it's like:
Grace: "Hey Rock, how was your meeting today? :]"
Rocky: "Meeting good! Mary very pleased with biodome lights review from Grace, leader very proud of work. Wave worker Terrance discover issue in programming, when lights off waves also off. Worker need more time to fix, much, much, much effort to fix! Rocky say calm down, Grace not going near waves when light down anyway!" Rocky chitters when Grace flicks his xenonite suit playfully.
"Yeah, cos I'd be asleep." Grace rolls his eyes pointedly.
"Sleep so much... Follow up, how Grace day?"
"Good, Ally came by to do my monthly check up... I've noticed there was a different doctor every time, until I said I liked Ally and now doctor's the only one I get- Wonder who organised that, huh?"
"Rocky not know what Grace mean. Continue day?" Rocky says innocently.
Grace just shakes his head fondly at Rocky's protectiveness.
