Challenge #02647-G090: Re-inventing the Love
Love is gracious, love is kind, love is forgiving, love can turn you insane as easily it is made in a lab. – Anon Guest
Love. Love is strange. – Terran Folk Song, Pre-Shattering.
Too many people have attempted to define love. The problem, of course, is that there are many, many kinds. Familial, fraternal, passionate, platonic, friendly, true, unrequited… the list goes on and on. Love does many things to the mind, especially to Humans, who start out as borderline insane.
Humans kill for love. Humans will kill the one they purport to love. Humans will certainly die for love, with their culturally-ingrained virtue of self-sacrifice for the greater good. There isn’t a good Human parent who would not lay down their life for their child.
What many Humans fail to understand, however, is the difference between love and obsession. Love, in essence, wants the best things to happen to that which is loved. Obsession wishes only to possess that which is allegedly loved.
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Challenge #01400-C305: Incomprehensible Biology
Human females become the most feared aspect of humanity when aliens realize that they regularly bleed once a month as part of their reproductive cycle. – @yizukikhons
When venturing into the wild spaces, those territories outside of the Galactic Alliance, it is vitally necessary to have at least one human on the crew. Their pack-bonding and protective capabilities were highly prized in wild space.
Such was the case with the TikTavi, where the ship’s human had a name unpronounceable by the crew. She let them call her Tutu, and for most part, her peculiar biology was something she managed for herself.
Humans, they learned, got bored when nothing new was happening. In the spaces between destinations, the human socialised, played games, and generally wandered everywhere like the random element she was.