eat dirt and sand

Rocky is ecstatic.

"Grace watched Rocky sleep, question? Even though we were apart??"

Where I take screenshots of the characters in some of their most miserable, isolated moments of the first few seconds during the cold open

@oh-tobeafrog thank you for inspiring me with this galaxy brain take on my two favorite marvel heroes :)

I've seen so many people talk about how certain types of discrimination exist specifically and deliberately to uphold capitalism or something, and most of the time they're just... things that happened. Bad habits we got into as a society, long before anyone alive today was born.

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.

Grace going “oh!! But!” and teaching them about starfish, to their absolute delight

Rocky: ok

Grace: and blue is cold

Rocky: ok

Rocky: why?

Rocky: so fire is red?

Grace: well no it's usually more orange

Rocky: and ice is blue

Grace: well kinda? it usually looks clear or white

obviously with some differences because rocky and Grace didn’t go on a murdering streak but like (be patient with me I may have misremembers somethings)

‘your frame is lighter’- somthing has to have happend to his frame when he started burning whilst saving Grace

‘left a trail of red on every island’ - defiantly somthing to do with the petrova line

‘hurt more lives than I can count on my hands’- I like to imagine that Rocky is still really upset about his crew mates deaths and is thinking about their family’s

’how long has it been’ ‘20 years’ -I’m foregettinh how long it took them to travel back but cmon

I don’t know Thats the thought that came to me in my sleep tell me if it’s too depressing

(Also all Eridians are asexual hehe, as a bonus)

“Understand,” Rocky said. “Grace like Eridian. Think some others beautiful, but not then want sex.”

Huh. I had to think about that for a moment. “Yeah,” I said. “I guess so. I mean, I still...can enjoy sex in a way that doesn’t exist for you, but...yeah. I guess what you said is true.”

I have never said the word “sex” in one conversation this many times in my life. The woes of meeting an alien, apparently.