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stresstokens ([personal profile] stresstokens) wrote in [community profile] etraya2024-05-31 04:01 pm

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Hey. Hope everyone's recovering from that stupid maze okay.

I'll just get right down to my point of inquiry. For a place that claims that we're meant to save the universe, I've noticed a pretty dramatic human-bias around here that strikes me as kind of odd, considering how diverse the universe actually is.

So I'd like to get a show of hands. Who here is from a world where humans are the only sentient species around, and who here is from a world with more than just humans kicking around? What other sorts of species are around? I'd like to know how much of it is selection-bias based on who's running this place and how much of it is them drawing from places that just don't have any non-human populations. I wouldn't mind hearing about what sorts of non-humans you have around either, but that's probably less important, statistically speaking.

Lastly... what do you see when you look at this picture?


[ Inserted is a photograph of a suave looking goblin man in a tuxedo with a pencil-thin moustache. He's holding a champagne flute towards the camera with his arm around -- something. If you've been infected by the curse, you'll see the goblin man's arm is around a black tabaxi woman, but if not, his arm looks as though it's simply hanging in mid-air. ]

[ OOC NOTE: due to the extremely low likelihood we'll ever get kalina in-game, the picture is just for flavour! if you'd like your character to be infected by the shadowcat and thus able to see her image in the photo, it would be due to any circumstance in which any of riz's bodily fluids were absorbed into their own body in some way, i.e. blood or saliva. feel free to handwave a circumstance in which that could happen, even if it's riz's blood lingering on one of the labyrinth's traps that then got into an open cut of theirs, a glass in the labyrinth he drank from that they then used, etc., etc.! Please see this comment for more information! ]
wannasmash: "Right yes absolutely nothing suspicious here." (smile nervous riiight)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2024-06-05 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
yeah it's not flattering...
it's really weird that we have these words in common. almost like our stories came to life.
hey, do you have any weird stories about humans? i don't care if they're bad.

well my quirk has its drawbacks but i won't say them here. call it a trade secret?
wannasmash: Deku and Uraraka fishbumping for the power of friendship (smile fistbump)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2024-06-06 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Izuku sweats a little. What does this guy know about the drawbacks of super strength? Does super strength exist in his world? Even by the standards of Izuku's world, his so-called super strength is unusual. For one, his Quirk hurts him if not precisely controlled. Most other people have years and years to grow into theirs and don't have the same setback. ]

oh like... another world! go into a cave or get hit by a truck and accidentally end up there, that kind of thing. uh, none of that is based in science though. as far as i know none of that happens.

honestly your world sounds really interesting. and i do agree that humans are pretty weird.
do you miss your friend?
wannasmash: "I've had a lot on my mind lately." (hmm pensive)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2024-06-12 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
i'd say the same thing, even if i have been very alone. i'd rather get out of here than have my friends trapped.

[ Little does he know he's about to meet one very shorty. Combined with the emotional weight of not knowing if he'd see anyone he knew again, it was overwhelming. ]

did i answer your question well enough?