#deep in the feels

[vhenanshiral]

BT feat. JES - Every Other Way It JUST hit me today how well this works for Solavellan.

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Just thinking of aliens who enter a certain level of radiation or certain temperature threashold and will immediately seize up like a frightened goat and keel over, and die very shortly if not pulled to safety.

Thinking of absolutely harrowed humans who can't believe how flimsy and breakable their favourite crewmembers can be. Human who specialise wholy on other species's boundaries and limits, to act as a sort of ship's walking multi species OSHA department because humans can bang about, but the wrong Ph in the water and all the ship's Kurenians are *dead*, you hear me?

Thinking about humans sharing stories between them, trying to cope with another's species extremely short and ephemeral's life. They're ubiquitous, almost every ship uses them as pilots after all, and their short lives mean they're so lively and social and how do you even cope, a bad Long-Jump can kill them in the piloting seat, ffs!

Thinking about humans making an entire life and career out of odd jobs on all alien ships because a basic maintenance degree nets you incredibly good positions with relatively low risk but super high pay and benefits. Because why would you put an alien in a hazmat to do a job if you can have a jack of all trades human on board?

Thinking about humans who are immortal elves to some species, and mayflies to others, and how mind numbing it can be to regularly interact with both.

Humans are unstoppable...Until they aren’t.

I’m not the most eloquent writer, but I’ve had this idea kicking around for a while and figured I’d put it out into the universe.

A lot of the basis for the “humans are space orcs” stuff is the idea that we’re pretty durable compared to many species, yeah? When it comes to physical trauma, we can bounce back from most things that don’t kill us outright, especially given the benefit of hypothetical space-age technology, and adrenaline is one heck of a drug when it comes to functioning under stress. 

But that doesn’t make us unkillable, and even though we can survive debilitating injuries and not die from shock, it doesn’t mean it’s fun. Dying of shock sucks, but at least it’s probably quick.

So - Imagine a ship, adrift in space, slowly being drawn into a star or something. In order to save the ship, someone has to repair the hyper-quantum-relay-majig on the hull or in the engine or whatever. Bit of a problem though- there’s a ton of deadly, deadly radiation (Wrath of Khan style) or poisonous fumes or, I dunno, electrical current, between the crew and the repair. Like, enough to kill most species instantly, so the crew is just like, ‘welp, guess we’ll die then’. But then.

BUT THEN

They ask the human. Because everyone’s heard the stories - you’re basically unkillable, right? Could you survive long enough in there to fix it? And their human goes real quiet for a second, but still says ‘Yeah, I could fix it’. And the rest of the crew is like, ‘Whaaaaaa, it won’t kill you?’ and the human repeats “I can fix it” (which isn’t an answer, but no one catches that, not yet at least), so they send ‘em in. And the human fixes it, they come back, the ship flies to safety, and the crew is thrilled to survive. If the human is a little quiet, well, they’re entitled after pulling off a miracle. Everyone else is just excited to get to the nearest station’s bar to tell their very own human story, cuz, ‘those crazy humans, amiright?’.

The good mood keeps up until the human is late for their next shift. At first it’s just faint unease, but- but they earned a bit of a lie-in, right? No reason to begrudge them some extra rest, even if it is a little weird for them to oversleep. They’ll be fine. Humans are always fine. 

(Right?)

(…Wrong.)

- What is… help. Help!-

- ake up! You have t-

- been days. You need sleep, you-

- nother transfusion. We could-

- out of sedatives!-

A week later, the crew finally reaches the station. They stumble into the bar, haggard and haunted. And over the next months and years a new rumor about humans starts to make its way through space. A rumor unlike any before.

‘Be careful with your humans’ it whispers. ‘Their strength is not always a blessing. Be sure they don’t do something they can’t come back from, because when a human dies… they die slowly.’

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[bader1986]

[valentina-poem]

[w-intent]

[criiitter]

part 1 of this post :3

if anyone has any silly sonadow comic / art ideas send me an ask pls i need to keep creating cutie patootie sonadow content 🙏 sfw ONLY you goobers

[beatheprincess]

I wanna talk w someone about life for hours and hours

[peaceishim]

[minimalist-quotes]

Don't make the mistake of being so understanding and forgiving that you overlook the fact that you're being disrespected.

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[wordswithloveee]

[soul-from-another-era]

[bader1986]

[valentina-poem]

[devilish-moan]