So I was trying to sort out just how many different headcanons of “humans in space“ I’ve stumbled across so far. And I’m loving it, because they’re all amazing and so very much “base humans are bizarre“ instead of the old sci-fi cliché of “base human is base alien”.
But yeah, there are a whole lot of them.
- Humans are determinators.
Unstoppable and tireless monsters who can ignore broken bones, and
whose biology is quite simply put terrifying on multiple levels.- Humans are ancient giants, whose
spaceship are often colonized by smaller species who can live for generations in certain parts of the spaceship before traveling away from there.- Humans are galactic cats, hanging
around on other species’ spaceships and including them in their
“packs”.- Humans are complete nutters with
crazy science and utterly insane experiments, and the scientific
leaps they make are a thing of wonder.- Humans are impossibly lucky for as
long as nobody tells them about it. They’re put in charge of
everything with quotes such as “leadership”, when in actuality
the aliens just want things to turn out fine despite the odds.- Humans are casually selfless,
throwing their own lives away to save the lives of others for no
other reason than that “it was the right thing to do”. It’s so normal for them that heroics like it are kind of tossed aside when something “more interesting“ comes along a week later.- Humans will laugh at their own
injuries because they honestly consider them amusing.- Humans will form emotional bonds
with literally everything.- Humans will attempt to pet even
the most infamously lethal creatures in the galaxy, because “it
looked cute”.- Humans will question literally
everything, for basically no reason other than “just because”. But is also fully inclined to believe people at the drop of a hat, despite the absurdity of their claims.And then there are the more “aliens are not like us“-theories.
- Humans are the only creature with
light-based senses, meaning that they perceive the world in an
entirely mysterious way, filled with things like “color” and
“the speed of light” and “transparency”.- Humans are the only creature to
ever develop a decent throwing-arm, and is as such the only one to
instinctively comprehend the concept of “ranged combat”.- Humans are the only creature with
pattern-recognition, and will see familiar things in random
patterns, as well as being the only species to understand
“camouflage”.- Humans are the only creature to
reproduce sexually. Everyone else is creeped out by how this causes
their children to mutate seemingly at random.- Humans are the only creature with
a story-based imagination, meaning that they basically hold the
export-monopoly on all produced fiction in the galaxy.
- Things like sandstorms, tornadoes, monsoons, and earthquakes are not common in the rest of the galaxy and earth is considered a Death Planet to most aliens
- Humans, having developed in regions where water was scarce, LOVE shiny things. Way more than other sentient beings do
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