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[hagrides]

Hello, fellow Moonblessed. If you'll oblige me with some of your time, I have a few questions about humans. That species is nonexistent where I hail from, so please forgive my curiosity, and I apologize in advance if any of these are rude.

1. Humans have no shells or carapace, and their clothing seems more decorative than protective. Am I correct in assuming that they use magic to defend themselves?

2. Do humans go through metamorphosis? I don't believe I have seen a human larva or grub here, though I admit I do not know how I would distinguish human young from an adult other than size.

3. Most humans that I have seen have hair primarily on their heads, rather than their whole body like, for example, a spider. Does that not make regulating their temperature more complicated?

That will be all for now. Once again, I thank you for your assistance.

[...Grimm is doing his best.]

Comments

un; ogundimu

[goldrighthand]

1. No. We find other means, or we perish.

2. Define metamorphosis. We grow and change, but not as drastically as some species.

3. We wear clothing for that.

[hagrides]

You must have largely found other means for your species to survive.

A metamorphosis involves three distinct stages: the larva, the pupa, and the adult form. Some insects have much more gradual changes, but that is not a metamorphosis.

[goldrighthand]

Of course. We have evolved, as some say, as the fittest of species. We use both our minds and our strength to overcome our enemies.

The answer to your second question is 'no', then, Our changes are primarily in size.

[hagrides]

As is only appropriate for an apex predator.

I have heard that mental and emotional changes are also a major part of aging for humans. Is that accurate?

[goldrighthand]

It is, but then it is for most mammals as I understand. We mature in to our prime, we breed, and the cycle continues.

[Nihilism? Pragmatism. It is what it is.]

[hagrides]

Death is necessary to make room for rebirth, as ever.

[It is a beautiful thing, in its way.]

There are those that do not die. I would not recommend to emulate them.

[goldrighthand]

Some live on through stories. That sort of immortality is what strikes me as welcome.

[hagrides]

Stories are twisted over the years until they resemble very little of who one once was. Can you still be said to be remembered if the stories hold very little of you in them?

[goldrighthand]

It would be an honor to inspire such legends. A true legacy.

[hagrides]

Agree to disagree.

[Most will not have his perspective, of seeing the stories shift and warp long after the people he knew are gone. There are many who did not earn their legends, for good or ill.]

[goldrighthand]

If you insist. I suppose it might come with a nonhuman mindset.

May I ask your species?

[hagrides]

You may. I am a moth, though I gather somewhat different than the moths many are used to.

[Better at typing, for one.]

[goldrighthand]

Considering the ones I know of would simply bash themselves in to a glowing screen as opposed to read it, I would agree.

[hagrides]

That sounds terribly unpleasant and hardly useful. Why do they behave thus?

[goldrighthand]

Mindless. 'Insect' is used as an insult for many reasons, that being one of them.

[hagrides]

Ah. I had thought they might be cute, as tiny things often are, but perhaps not.