hiiiiii i am tipsy and i am having rockysimonadrian thoughts because. uh. i am incredibly normal about these characters
anyway so this post right. this post. you know this post
Simon climbs out of one of Erid's oceans and his skin and flesh should be melting off his bones or something because those are like 200 degrees celsius baby but the light has fulfilled his desperate wish and cursed him to live so he's fine actually <3
or well. y'know. as fine as you can be after ripping your own arm off after it got stuck in sentient blood that wanted you to become one with it and also burned into your skin like some kind of acid and also you were being hunted by a monstrous eel which might or might not be controlling/separate from the blood — there was A Lot going on and you were too busy trying to live to really think about how it all was connected — oh and also you think you saw yourself like twice which is kinda fucked up right
okay Simon is traumatised as all hell actually but he's alive and no longer in the blood ocean — or any ocean since he climbed out of it! — so like arguably he's fine
he is still covered in blood because it's really stubborn and his skin is open sores more than anything but the blood is burning off him and his skin is healing and everything is Too Much and fuck is this a planet or what is going on
Simon just wants a fucking break :)
Simon does not get a fucking break :)
what Simon gets are two sentient rocks with five limbs each who were on a lovely walk because their marriage is arranged and they need to get to know each other
Simon is just. frozen. staring. this can just as well happen.
and then his legs give out under him and suddenly those rocks are in his face and there's music and is he dead. is that what this is.
the more the rocks sing at him, the more the chords start to sound like words, and wow, those rocks are talking
shit the rocks are talking! to him! about him? he's struggling to process, that's a lot more words at once than he's used to keeping up with
the words and music are layered together, as if something is directly translating it into martian for him, which is great for realising the rocks aren't an active threat, but Simon can't make those sounds, so how will the rocks understand him—
he still attempts to say something, because he has to right, like what else is he supposed to do? he's on a fucking planet, at the mercy of two aliens, and he has no fucking clue if his sacrifice was worth anything in the end since he didn't even die, so did the black box make it or was it all for nothing or—
okay. deep breaths. try to say something. panic later.
what comes out of his mouth is not words but chords. the same chords that the rocks have been singing, feeling strange in his mouth
it doesn't sound like his voice. the chords are exactly the same as what the rocks have been singing, as if Simon is borrowing — stealing? he doesn't want to be stealing — their voices
Simon is unable to find his own voice, to make the chords without repeating, borrowing, but he's being understood
can this be good? does he finally get to live?
this is getting long oops anyway! Rocky and Adrian are obviously taking Simon in, this is their alien now <3 what better way to bond with your mate than to take care of an alien together?
and then they all get very confusing feelings and have to figure out how to be physically compatible and things <3