Challenge #02743-G186: Gifts For the Pack
What happens when humans are so pack-bonded that even other species start acting like them? The same willingness and madness you’d see from a human instilled into a havenworlder,
Would they really be a havenworlder anymore? – Anon Guest
Humans will pack-bond with anything. This is known. They will back bond with other intelligent life forms so hard that the pack-bonding works both ways. This has been fatal to some. This has been life-saving to many. For most, though, it just is until such a time as the Galactic in question realises that they have become, wholly and completely, a fellow member of some Human’s pack.
Some people never greet this information well.
Companion Thriq was good at their job. They were a very good Companion to Ships’ Humans and the rare Human population that was trusted to run relatively loose on stations. They had an encyclopaedic recall for faces, names, familial attachments, allergies, and all the little peculiarities that went with knowing Humans for more than a handful of consecutive minutes.
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Challenge #02067-E243: The Trouble With Gravy — Steemit
“She’s not dead,” insisted the Nae'hyn Priest/technician. “She’s just resting.”
Captain Jarth repeated her question, “How. Long. Will it. Take?”
“I tried to warn you that it was a bad idea to transfer a short-haul gravy drive into a long-hauler,” said Knekkit, who was ordinarily the translator. Today, she was being the repeater of known facts. “They get used to patterns of behaviour and get obstinate about doing what they’re used to. Like trained elephants.”
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Challenge #02014-E190: We All Fail Sometimes — Steemit
It happened a lot, whenever a non-human was talking to a Human about a survived mistake. “We’re only human,” the Human would say. And then their brain would catch up with what their mouths had said and they’d amend, “Er. I mean. We all make mistakes.”
Some would fumble their way through explaining that, after a while, Humans had a habit of seeing alien pack-members as fellow Humans with some peculiar characteristics. Even the decidedly non-humanoid species got this treatment. So long as a being was in a Human’s bond-pack, they were an honorary Human. Many found this particular aspect of Human pack-bonding to be heavily insulting.
“You’re only human,” said Human Grish, gently patting Thork on the back of their thorax.