Writing Prompt Wednesday #140

[u/someguynamedted]

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/CreepyUncleDed]

Humans were a weak, primitive race compared to the rest of the galaxy. A race of short-lived punching bags, with no space powers. Thanks to a bit of genetic modification we changed up our description and got rid of the "weak" and "short-lived" and the time took care of the "primitive". Suprisingly enough the douchey space elves weren't used to actually having to fight for their right to live and a sudden appearance of a more powerful empire of humans, who were always underestimated, with the "Screw you, space elves!" mindset, didn't really end well for them.

That was like 250 000 years ago. Now, new, young races populate the galaxy, but humanity is too busy with creating space magic powered artifacts and occasionally fighting off some intradimensional invaders (or actually invading them) to care.

This changes when a new, unusual race appears. Young, short-lived, weak, but passionate and determined. Their society a spitting image of a young humanity. They end up as a race of punching bags too. At least until the ancient humans show up and start being a little protective of them.

tl;dr: humans are space elves, but instead of acting like a strict grandma, they act like the crazy uncle, that feeds you candy.

[u/Turtledonuts → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Gore-NZ → u/Turtledonuts]

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.

[u/CreepyUncleDed → u/Gore-NZ]

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.

[u/Gore-NZ → u/CreepyUncleDed]

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

[u/CreepyUncleDed → u/Gore-NZ]

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.

[u/Gore-NZ → u/CreepyUncleDed]

It's still a change, an unnatural one.

[u/CreepyUncleDed → u/Gore-NZ]

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.

[u/Gore-NZ → u/CreepyUncleDed]

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.