#humansarespaceoddities

So, I had an idea for a HASO story prompt while at work yesterday ...

Humanity and the other galactic races are getting along when a new race is discovered.  Fast-forward a few months, and more than a few Human and alien colonies are glassed.  Things aren’t looking too good.  Then a Human ship appears in the sky above the current battlezone and deposits an object that slams through the atmosphere and into the ground.  The beings that comes out don’t look too different from normal Humans, but that is where most of the similarities end.  (I’m not saying they send in Spartans ... but, yeah ... they definitely send in Spartans.) I'm just hoping someone good at writing could bring this to life?

Thanks to my autism I've been confused by communication and social roles since forever, which is why I love the space oddities things so much. Here's some things I think would definitely confuse aliens. Disclaimer: not all autistic people experience the same confusion about social stuff.

- When a human is physically hurt, surrounded humans that are considered to be in some sort of social connection with the hurt person at that moment - including all those that can't help them - are expected to pause their activities and express regret or empathy in the form of exclamations or clearly futile attempts to help the hurt human. Unless the hurt human is a child, the surrounding humans often express more pain than the hurt human themself. In fact even, it's a known issue that in situations with a lot of humans, the humans will block help coming for the hurt human due to this effect of spending unnecessary attention to the hurt human. Any human that is considered connected but does not in some way express this empathy, will be thought of as unkind or called "cold" as if referring to their body temperature, while their body temperature doesn't seem different from the others. Oddly enough, only specific connected humans are expected to show this behaviour and those who do not fit that specific group won't be called "cold" when continuing their activities. Reasons for humans to be expected to show this behaviour include:

- That they had been doing the same activity as the hurt person until injury.

- That they have a personal connection with the hurt human.

- That they were in some way considered to be in the same group as the injured person.

- That they were one of relatively few humans present when the injury happened.

Oddly enough, other lifeforms that are (almost) equally intelligent to humans are expected to show the same behaviour, regardless of their lack of similar instincts, and both young and adult humans tend to automatically show this behaviour towards not just humans but other life forms as well, without ever being told to do so. When other equally intelligent life forms do not express the same behaviour, a human - especially the injured one, but those considered personally close to them as well - might get angry at the life form not expressing the emptions.

However, these expectations aren't applied to life forms considered significantly less intelligent than humans like the animals they have domesticated to be their life companions. In some cases these life forms do oddly enough mimic this behaviour when their human is injured. Many humans will pretend to be injured to trigger this response in their non-human life companion and it is considered to be humerous. Some humans even play this same "trick" on other humans, but that is oddly enough not unanimous received as humorous by all humans and might sometimes spark anger.

The reason for this behaviour doesn't seem clear. Although it makes sense that in small groups, it would be good to focus all attention on an injured companion, the tendency of those unable to help to interrupt their activities is highly inefficient as even the smallest expression of pain from any human or non-human life form will immediately be met with an interruption of the other human's activities, even if just for a second.

We make art for many reasons for some experience, others joy, payment and a ways to pass the time.

But for a person to get a tattoo they have to be sure they want it and can handle the pain, for it like your thoughts stays with you for a life time.

Humans put these marks on themselves for, well a number of reasons, a message for others, a memory for themselves, a trail to become of a group, to honor other and to mark themselves, or just for the hell of it.

Aliens would wonder what all those different pictures and words meant as they are carved into are skins, and many answers would they get because some are the same and some are different.

But the weirdest thing the aliens would probably be surprised about would be that we use FREAKIN LASERS to get rid of the marks, which to some aliens would be badass.

The alien would probably scream in terror at first or just faint by finding out humanity has a race of steel giants on their side.

But the hilarious thing would be any race that are either A. Battle junkies or B. A Scientific race that crave all knowledge.

For the battle junkie races I could just image them seeing it for the first time and instantly fall in love with the giant metal body of war and strength.

I wouldn’t be surprised if many proposed to it because they want to reproduce with strong thing for strong offspring. Only to find out that the death creature is actually a vehicle that humanity pilots in either a mech sports or war time

which would probably make them want to try some battle test or strategies on them like latching onto to the mech and fighting while onto of it titan fall style

they also would probably and pick a fight with a mech because for them it’s strong, it can fight, so their gonna fight it. Which would result in any medical wing getting full pretty quick

Now the the races that love tech would probably be all over those thing trying to see if what genius came up with a giant armored warrior and how they could integrate into their tech.

It was scare any physic aliens because they would try to read the machines thoughts and not the pilots or if they could even get through the haul of the mech it would be terrifying for them to meet a creature that has no thoughts, no will, no mind, but fights with such force and ferocity that it could be considered a monster.

It’s werid as how barley anyone talk about the fact that we have a literal sports that involves beating the crap out of your opponent, not figuratively, LITERALLY, beating your opponent to the ground until they submit for. fun. If aliens did come to earth there would be three types of reactions

Peaceful or prey like aliens

Why in all things would you create a sport to harm one another FOR FUN! WHY!?! IT MAKES NO SENSE!?! HOW IS YOUR SPEICES ALIVE!?!

Battle junkie or honorable aliens

... you humans continue to surprise me,the rules are disappointing but it teaches your warriors to hold back. say do you mind if I send one of my more... prideful warriors to fight in this spectacular event, because I imagine that It would be a grand sight!

And the hive mind or logical aliens (Bugs,robots, etc)