I Draw Sometimes

fixing the lack of gracerocky fics with uuuuuh,,, coffee shop au

fixing the lack of gracerocky fics with uuuuuh,,, coffee shop au

“i wanna see this done with ABSOLUTELY NO EXPLANATION WHATSOEVER why one of the two romantic protagonists happens to be a lil rock spider alien, Rocky is just There On Earth In A Coffee Shop and That’s Normal. and That’s Hilarious.”

and

“okay but let’s Overthink and AU-Build here. are Earth and Erid neighbors to the point where immigration/emigration is common? (or is this a ‘humans and Eridians live on the same planet and always have’ AU?) how much of book-PHM Eridian culture applies to this version of Rocky? is anything food-related still perceived as taboo by him? oh no did this Rocky get lured into traveling from Erid to Earth on the promise of entry into some prestigious cutting-edge interstellar advanced-engineering program, only to arrive and get ghosted by his Earth contact and realize that he got scammed??? so he had to jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops with the small Eridian embassy on Earth, in order to qualify for an emergency short-term Earth visa and a secondhand xenonite exosuit and a tiny studio apartment inside the limited space of the ammonia dome of the Little Erid neighborhood outside San Francisco? and he was legally required to obtain some kind of local human-facing employment to put on the visa paperwork, and he didn’t have contacts on Earth to hook him up with an engineering-related job appropriate for his skills and interests? so now he has an entry-level job in an Earth human coffee shop in San Francisco (when Erid likely doesn’t even HAVE a comparable food-service industry??? what is Rocky’s perception of his own social position on Earth now, in the context of him having this job serving FOOD to humans that the customers then CONSUME IN PUBLIC??). and and and and and—”

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