Fics like Translator Error: Your Pronouns or Mine?

Grace and Rocky discover that the text to speech translator for Rocky's voice has been translating Rocky's pronouns wrong. A conversation about gender, something hard for Rocky to understand, ensues. This is a rewrite of my book fic, "He Is We," based on my additional movie head canon that Grace's voice translator for Rocky is a "smart" translator. (I believe that head canon is the only way to make some of Rocky's lines in the movie make sense.) The original fic was based on a conversation with Andy Weir in the main PHM discord server, where he said he'd once started writing a short story where a translator used "she" for the Eridian high status pronoun, and "he" for the lower status pronoun. Just like the book fic, this fic is a possible origin story for why a translator would make that decision.

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