What's the deal with humans in the setting?

[Anders48]

Title. I've been interested in writing a fanfic involving a Cubi of human descent showing up at SAIA (he would have died with the rest of humanity, but that would invalidated a Fae vow made to his parents so he just got yanked out of the timeline instead). The only issue is that I'm not quite sure what the other races believe about humanity in the setting.

Beings apparently consider them more scary than most types of creature, even though their stated abilities wouldn't allow them to do anything to beings that beings weren't already capable of doing to each other, so I'm not sure what this would be stemming from.

[Tapewolf]

My guess would be that the magic immunity is what makes them so scary.  Even Beings use spells a lot for self-defence (think Devin in Abel's Story) so having something that's completely immune to all your spells and enchanted stuff, that's going to be scary.  Especially if humans in Furrae also had the same "Conquer everything!  Exploit all resources!" tendency that we have.

I would not be surprised, given how the dragons in DMFA seem to operate, that some of the higher-ups had the human race eliminated because they were afraid that a magic-immune race could one day threaten their position at the top of the tree.  (Note that the Weres can also do this, and they've nearly been exterminated also)

IIRC there are rumours of surviving humans hidden away somewhere - that may or may not be true, but it's worth considering.

[Cassi-kun]

My theory is that most other Cubi, at least, would react with something along the lines of "you're obviously just shape-shifting to look human" and be annoyed if he pressed the issue too hard

[Starcat5]

My theory is that most other Cubi, at least, would react with something along the lines of "you're obviously just shape-shifting to look human" and be annoyed if he pressed the issue too hard

Cubi #2: "No no, clearly he is a Were who was never taught how to shapeshift."
Cubi #3: "Oh like you know how Were shapeshifting even works!"
*The conversation derails further from there, the Human in their midst momentarily forgotten* 

[Anders48]

My theory is that most other Cubi, at least, would react with something along the lines of "you're obviously just shape-shifting to look human" and be annoyed if he pressed the issue too hard

Well for obvious reasons the 'human' (ex human?) in question is going to be too busy being traumatized by the destruction of his entire civilization to really press much. That said, he's also too traumatized to really hide his human heritage, and his paperwork was filled out by a Fae who explicitly said he was raised by humans and that they had yanked him out of his native time and place before sending him to SAIA. So while not everyone might believe he's actually part human, at least some (I. E. Fa'lina, etc.) will have hard evidence that he is. Also he's at a school full of mind readers with a lot of time on their hands.

Cubi #2: "No no, clearly he is a Were who was never taught how to shapeshift."
Cubi #3: "Oh like you know how Were shapeshifting even works!"
*The conversation derails further from there, the Human in their midst momentarily forgotten* 

With your permission I'm thinking I might include the ancedote in the fic. But yeah, I already know that not everyone would believe he's actually part human. Where I'm drawing a blank is what sort of reaction there would be from the ones who do know he's partly human.

As a side note right now I have it so that he isn't actually from Furrae. Though the main upshot of that is just that he got to live through a really bizarre version of the Cold War before everything went to hell, with the implication that this might have been part of a Fae 'long game' that never managed to reach compilation.

PS. Is there a point where I stop having to answer verification questions to post? it's starting to get really annoying.

[Tapewolf]

PS. Is there a point where I stop having to answer verification questions to post? it's starting to get really annoying.

Looking at the configuration, I think it should ease off after 5 posts.