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#WritingWonders July 23: Have you ever wanted to smack the MC? Why?
Everyone: "We don't do that here."
You: "What, never?"
Everyone: "No, never."
You: "What, *never*?"
Everyone: "Hardly - well, no, okay? For our species, this is the sort of thing that - outside controlled and formalized circumstances - tends to escalate with terrifying speed to 'now everyone's dead and I've lost my hat'. So you DO NOT get into physical altercations unless you're happy with that outcome."
@cerebrate Bonus points for the Girl Genius reference.
🎵 "Theeeey hardly ever smack the MCeeeeeeeeeeeeee."
(Some species developed submission instincts to get along with each other, pro-survival-wise. For various reasons, eldrae developed MURDER TO DEATH THE INTERLOPER THAT DARED TRESPASS UPON YOUR SELFNESS instincts instead.
Which made civilization rather harder to attain, but possibly more civilized - in the "we have learned to walk carefully, not presume, and reach out with gentle hands" sense - once attained. Or so it is argued.)
#eldraeverse