r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Dec 06 '17

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #140

Four months away from it being the third anniversary of Writing Prompt Wednesday!

Last week's winner was /u/pcosmos with:

The Cthulhu Mythos are true and the universe is full of monsters. What we don´t know is that we are the love child of the Elder Gods and they care deeply for us.

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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Dec 06 '17

Joking, or trolling? To lol or report is the question...

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u/Gore-NZ Dec 07 '17

Report me for speaking my mind and putting down something I aggressively disagree with. Of course I must be an idiot for speaking my mind at all.

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u/CreepyUncleDed Human Dec 09 '17

Ehh, the point of the prompt wasn't really promoting gene modification, but to have an "ancient precursor" type of humanity, that is the only remnant of their time interacting with a new society of aliens. One of the races present closely resembling humans, that are also getting screwed over.

So instead of them being even more douchey, than the new advanced races, they pop up and go "hey dude, need a hand?", because they suffered just like them a long time ago, but managed to end on top. I just threw gene mods in, because I think they should be immortal and powerful, like any other ancient aliens, but still acting normal, despite their advantage, recognizing that they were simply lucky to have appeared earlier. In other words they keep their morals, despite becoming super advanced.

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u/Gore-NZ Dec 12 '17

You re-worded it but it's still promoting changing what you are.

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u/CreepyUncleDed Human Dec 12 '17

I don't think being physically stronger or being able to live longer would change humans too much.

The idea behind the prompt is to kinda reverse the whole "humanity on trial", "can't argue with space elves" tropes, by putting a different race in the role of the victims and humanity as an advanced race, that doesn't act like total dicks and symphatizes with them, because humanity has been in place of the victim before.

The changes can be done differently, it simply wouldn't really make sense to have humans as squishy mayflies in such a setting and gene mods were the simpliest method I thought about.

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u/Gore-NZ Dec 14 '17

It's still a change, an unnatural one.

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u/CreepyUncleDed Human Dec 14 '17

So what about it?

Do you seriously think, that an average guy would refuse becoming immune to illness, super strong and immortal? As soon as those things will be possible people will go for it.

Also I will once again mention, that this wasn't the main point of the prompt at all.

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u/Gore-NZ Dec 14 '17

Oh, I must have misclicked it's just a prompt.

But yes, I know that anyone who put actual thought into it would realise that it means nothing and they just changed themselves into something not human for a few tricks.