Nov 26, 2025
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it’s less about my dislike for hot and cold, and more about the desire to control my temperature like a reptile
Non-alien human alien #10 Convergent Evolution
Keeping her expression under control, Anna made certain to thank the Zoid leader for allowing them to visit the Zoid homeworld. She even managed to shake the claw extended to her with minimum reaction. Only once they were safely aboard the shuttle to take them back to Helios did she allow herself to laugh. Much to confusion of the rest of the contingency from the Intergalactic Federation. She didn’t even bother to explain.
Because the Zoid looked exactly like the character Zoidberg from the ancient cartoon Futurama. Even the name of the species were near identical to the character. How could she not find it funny? Anna had nearly cracked when the leader had sounded almost like the character in question. Thinking back to her interactions with the Zoid leader, she couldn’t help but laugh loudly.
“Human?” a being looking like a giant shrimp asked primly. “Are you well? Are you having some kind of medical issue? I’m told some of you can be around my kind.”
“I’m fine, I’m fine", Anna said, getting her laughter under control. “I was just laughing?”
“Laughing? That hacking sound?”
“Yeah, it means I find something funny. At least in this case.”
“I... see... well, if you are sure...”
Anna calmed herself, for now, and let the quiet in the shuttle be. Not that she sat idle, instead she sneakily used her screen to create a compilation of her interactions with the Zoid, so she could show the Helios crew later.
Laughter filled the cafeteria as the human crew members roared and hooted. Eyes tracked on Anna’s screen. Rodrigues lifted his hands and mimicked claws, scuttling.
“Popopo", he pushed out, making his voice higher pitched.
Kaneeshaa stared at the human merriment, feeling completely out of her depth. Even though Anna was usually a human she could understand, at the moment, the woman was in the middle of this chaos. Humans were throwing around phrases that apparently held some significance to them, as people seemed to know these references. Even Captain and Vice-Captain Vance were participating.
“Girl, how in the world did you managed to keep you face straight?” a female crew member cackled to Anna, who surprisingly grinned.
“With immense effort”, she said. “I broke in the shuttle, and the others thought I had some kind of medical issue. Especially that one who looks like a giant shrimp.”
“Ugh, don’t remind me of the Mrepers", Engineer Yang said. “For some reason, seeing them always makes me feel hungry.”
“Woah, Yang", Slakov said while grinning. “Are you trying to be a cannibal?”
“What, I never said I was going to ear a Mreper! But come one, they look like shrimp, I love shrimp, so I get super hungry when I see a giant shrimp!” Yang shoot back.
“I don’t like seafood", Anna noted. For some reason, several humans froze, looked at her, and did something on those rectangles the humans carried around. Muttering about dangerous food.
“But that raises an interesting question, doesn’t it?” Vice-Captain Vance said. “How is it that so many sentient beings in the known galaxies looks like bigger or smaller versions of Earth animals? We have birds, reptiles, crustaceans, and even some insects.”
“Oh, I think I know the answer to this one", Anna said, holding up a hand. “I heard about in documentary. It is called Convergent Evolution. Something something about traits repeating.”
“Convergent Evolution is when the same or similar trait develops independently in two unrelated species”, Biologist Virtanen followed up. “We see it in animals on Earth. That would actually explain why we see so much similarity.”
“We haven’t seen any primates yet, though", Captain Vance mused. “Or any mammals from Earth. Heck, pregnancy like mammals do it seem quite uncommon in and off.”
Kaneeshaa had seen a pregnant human, once. The idea of carrying an egg in your body for that long seemed mind of crazy. She couldn’t understand what humans could gain by having offspring that way. Eggs were more economical. Especially when you could just use heat lamps and the like instead of sitting on the egg.
Eventually, the humans had to return to their duties and drifted away. Some of them still doing strange things.
“Popopo", Rodrigues still pretended to snap his hands like claws and scuttle while making weird noises. Moreau slammed her fist into the man’s head so hard Kaneeshaa was prepared for Rodrigues to have to be transported to the morgue. Instead, he let out a loud noise of pain and clutched his head. Letting out a series of words whose meaning escaped Kaneeshaa, Rodrigues narrowed his eyes at Moreau.
“That hurt!” he barked.
“Don’t be a baby, I’ve seen you intentionally hit your head against the wall much harder", Moreau sniffed. “Besides, you were being annoying.”
The two headed out alongside most other humans. Kaneeshaa waited until it was fairly empty on the cafeteria before she joined Anna’s table. Her friend was smiling, but looked a bit tired. Anna played the footage again, giggling to herself.
“That was... unexpected...” Kaneeshaa said carefully.
“What was?”
“You, in that group. The whole thing.”
The human sighed. “Kaneeshaa, I might not be similar to the extroverted training nuts populating this star cruiser, but I’m not some kind of human outcast", Anna said. “This is just a case of me having something in common with my colleagues, and that something was funny.”
“I fear I don’t understand the funny part. The Zoid is just being a Zoid, no?”
Her human friend looked at her unblinking for a long moment. Then her lips curved. Taking out her larger rectangle, Anna fiddled with it and then handed it to Kaneeshaa. There was a drawing of a Zoid in human clothing.
“That character was created nearly two thousand years ago, by a human”, Anna said triumphantly. But the Shrieeshka couldn’t help but feel a combination of dread and fascination. Who knew some humans had the ability to see the future? They had to be special, prophets even. What if there were prophets living among the humans right now?
Better not to think about it....
Does anyone ever ask themselves if sasha is nuerodivergent like David?
Eg.
He struggles with impulse control. Can be emotionally irregular.
His behaviour around horses.
Doesn't appreciate change.
Sensory . I don't think the shadows are just a power thing.
Rigid sense of how to keep Grisha alive.
I also would agree that sasha has complex ptsd like myself but I cannot help but wonder if sasha is in some shape or form nuerodivergent and if he is that just makes him even more precious to me xx
Fellow Audhders, I have a question. Where you diagnosed with your ADHD and Autism at the same time? Or apart?
For me, I have had my ADHD diagnosis since I was 4 years old. However, I wasn't diagnosed with my Autism until I was 19. So I'm still learning things about myself because of this.
Luke Smith’s autism 🤝 Clyde Langer’s adhd
Hi I'm a year 11 doing their last GCSE exams this week, I have ADHD + autism and have really struggled with studying throughout my GCSE time. But I have found some strategies to help me!!
I want to share these Incase it will help anyone as I really struggled with revision last year.
Reminder everyone's brains work differently so don't beat yourself up if these don't work for you!
Key :
Things that work for me
Things that don't work for me
Important things