Enter the TARDIS

Boxer copia wip dk if ill finish it so here👀🥊

Rocky and Grace being in some kind of meeting with the science thrum on Erid's surface (Grace in his xenonite suit), shortly after they arrive, when Rocky notices that Grace is being even more clingy than usual. Like he's constantly got at least one arm on Rocky's carapace, and has not moved away from Rocky since the meeting started. He's much stiller than he usually is— even accounting for his weakness from the malnutrition— and his light sensing organs keep rolling around in their sockets, meaning that he's anxiously scanning the room.

Rocky begins to worry. Is Grace getting sicker? Is the higher gravity having a worse impact than they thought? Or is he just nervous to be around strange Eridians? (Though he hasn't had this reaction to anyone else? Is there something up with the science Thrum??)

Rocky is like spiralling into anxiety until they have to move to a different part of the room for some reason and Grace, slowed down by the suit, briefly loses his hold on Rocky.

Immediately, he crashes into a table. And then backs into a wall. And then nearly knocks over some important Eridian science equipment. And then stands in the middle of the room, looking confused and slightly freaked out, both hands stretched out in front of him, opening and closing like he's grasping at the air.

Wait.

“Grace.”

“Yeah Rock?”

“At which point during meeting did light emitting devices in room stop working question?”

“Uh… like two minutes after we got in. Sorry, didn't want to be a bother.”

@forestglade YOU'RE A GENIUS YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT

Lesson #21 sleep walking!

(In the book it’s mentioned that Rocky has five hearts btw!)

FYI there will be fewer post for a while, terribly sorry 💔💔

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Grace sneezes? Rocky jumps like a spooked cat and rants about human weirdness

Grace mindlessly kisses his hamster ball after they have a deep and meaningful conversation and rocky is like "GRACE WANT TO EAT ROCKY, QUESTION? ROCKY IS INEDIBLE, STATEMENT. WHAT THE FUCK, DEMAND!" and Grace is laughing too hard to properly explain and rocky just hunkers down angrily and swears at him in eridian

Grace puts things that are absolutely inedible in his mouth; pens, etc, or uses his mouth like a third hand because his arm is burned to shit and rocky is like omg you cannot eat that is much disgust and Grace has to explain and rocky is horrified

Grace burps and rocky leans as far away as possible from him, utterly offended, and Grace learns that burping translates into eridian as "public eater" or something just as offensive in eridian culture and has to apologise profusely and explain what burping in and rocky is disgusted

Grace on the Rocks

Fearing Rocky might be dead // The Relief of Rocky being alive Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

inspired by this tweet:

Ambush hunters

Part 3 of the comic