I'm an inconvenience made for the masses to enjoy

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luidilovins
luidilovins

We need more Eridians that are anti-Grace.

Eridian scientists who are concerned about foreign microbes contaminating the planet in ways no one is prepared for (which Grace of course is very knowledgeable and passionate in his counterarguments over because that's his field of study), Eridian scientists swearing a vendetta against him because his knowledge of relativity, space, radiation, technology, light photons and his general existence threaten their entire lifes work.

Eridian citizens who generally don't trust him due to his appearance and predatory nature (Eridians are predators but they literally evolved eusocial behaviors to protect each other from larger apex predators) and hide their children from him when he walks by. Eridian citizens who think his movements and sounds are uncomfortable and disruptive and constantly chastize him for banging around in a near pitch black room or encourage him to stop speaking.

Eridian politicians who build entire campaigns about fearmongering against the possibility that their neighbors beyond the stars may at some point decide to have hostile intentions and Grace is just an outlier or that his motives aren't certain. Eridian politicians who see him only as a pawn to win over the favor of their constituents so they can push harmful agendas and are constantly trying to get Grace to endorse them. (fuck it i might make an oc of this).

Eridian business owners who actually benifited from the public's concern over the dimming sunlight that are now hurting because nobody's buying their hinky protective products or insurance anymore and they blame Grace for their company's bankruptcy. Eridian beauty industries being threatened because Grace physically (and vocally) challenges modern beauty standards as a willowy flesh bag being considered attractive for his species and the youth has taken up a lot of counter culture practices because of it.

Eridian parents who are uncomfortable with the idea of an alien species putting ideas in their pebble's heads and make Grace's life a living hell every PTA meeting with angry picket signs and hateful slogans. Eridan citizens who live in the nearby town who constantly slap zoning and HOA notories on the outside of his dome because they think it's an ugly earsore.

Obviously it doesn't have to be a one to one comparison to how humans function, all I'm saying is that Eridians are a complex social sapient species and they wouldn't all worship his feet just because he did them a favor.

Give me more Eridian bureaucrats, sleazebags, assholes and karens.

jennyislander

Yes, and:

Condescending Eridians who (figuratively) nod and smile when Savior Rocky talks about how awesome "Savior" Grace is because how sad, so much solitude made Savior Rocky so terribly lonely that when he found a ship with resources he could use to save Erid all by himself he up and adopted the leaky space blob he found on board as a mascot. Obviously "Savior" Grace is a kind of talking support animal and all the attention lavished on keeping him comfortable and enriching his enclosure is really for Savior Rocky's sake.

luidilovins

I don't think Eridians would have a hard time grasping the concept that Grace is a sentient feeling being on par with their own species, but I also think there are individuals would would jump through hoops to deny him personhood.

The first time Grace is brought to a thrum for an important aerospace committee meeting they discuss further preliminaries for keeping the astropage in check, cultivation of teromeba populations, furthering space exploration for other potential microbial threats etc and he is expected to only answer questions briefly when spoken to. At first he thinks that they're encouraging brevity from him because translation can be tedious work that they don't necessarily have time or equipment for, but it becomes glaringly obvious that some of the individuals do not respect his weigh-in on the subject because he's not an aerospace scientist, cannot speak their language meaningfully and cannot join a thrum. One of them says "yes, yes, you helped save the planet with your little molecular biology degree or whatever (they don't know that he's the best in his field) but we demand silence from you. Your noises offend the room's resonance."

Then it occurs to Grace that they are not talking to him like he's a child, rather they don't view him with the same level of base respect as them because he has a singular brain and cannot join a hive mind. He realizes that when Rocky calls him stupid he's being playful, but when other Eridians do they mean it.

For lack of a better word, to some Eridians he's a nonperson. Sentient,yes. Deserving of voice and rights, no.

He goes ballistic and gets dragged out of comittee for viciously tearing into their published journal for not even "factoring in theorum as primative as curved spacetime when tracking teromeba breeding patterns" and encourages them to "keep throwing mud agianst the wall and maybe in 70 years they'll find where the other half of the teromeba bloom went" while toppling the podium shouting and directly insulting the chairperson and calling them "a pompous astrophysics larping gasbag" to their face btw.