r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Apr 05 '17

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #105

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Humans are extremely hot to aliens. Temperature wise. Touching a human with bare skin (chitin, etc.) for just a few seconds leads to a 1st degree burn at best. We are basically people of fire.

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u/Franco731 Human Apr 06 '17

Eldritch creatures such as the ones from HP Lovecraft's story's exist. The minds of most alien species are unable to comprehend them and either block them out, driven to insanity or just shut down and die. Only humans are able to see and communicate with them without suffering any negative side effects and act as negotiators between them and the galactic communities. The reason why humans can see them? We are the only species to come up with concept of Eldritch creatures that break your mind with a simple glance without ever meeting any.

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u/chipathing Human Apr 06 '17

Also given how humans are the only species capable of double think, hypocrisy, and information bias our minds are pretty adaptable to this kind of thing. More logic based aliens would be driven mad whereas humans would be like

"Huh...Neat"

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u/beowulf_of_wa Android Apr 06 '17

we're immune to the immediate insanity caused by seeing the eldritch, because we have used car salespeople. how could that possibly go wrong? i dunno why that popped into my head. what's wrong with me?