Best HFY Reddit Stories: On the Souls of humanity, or Seriously Do Not Touch! (r/HFY)

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[@IshijimaKairo]

I bow down to none.

[@sheevpalprotein9132]

"Humans hate each other until they have a common enemy," is one of the most common tropes in HFY, but it never gets old.

[@Abyssal_King]

That's because it is entirely correct

[@johoreanperson8396]

Just like how the Chinese put their ideological diffrences to face the Japanese.

[@icninja4840]

Humans 0.0000001 seconds after something threatens there entire spceies "Hippty hoppity fuck offitty."

[@iplaygames8090]

@@johoreanperson8396 before the commies backstabbed the nationalists.

[@captiancholera8459]

@@iplaygames8090 (not supporting commies and am in fact against communism) but weren’t the nationalists attack the commies first during the war with the Japanese? I’m pretty sure that’s why international opinion turned towards the communist Chinese. If I’m wrong do correct me.

[@MultiGodmode]

Humanity looks up in unison with a evil smile on our faces "mama said we can play with you"

[@loganb7059]

I read that in a “I’d take pleasure in guttin you, boy” voice.

[@Exile_Sky]

@@loganb7059 You aren't alone.

[@onerxowns2202]

"HORRIFYNG SCREAMS OF PURE XENO TERROR"

[@wolfoffenris9951]

Gaia: here hun, take a seed of my power for it may give you potential Humans : thanks mom *starts beating the crap out of gods*

[@onerxowns2202]

@SoMuchFacepalm Bbbbut MOOOOOOOOM (winy voice)

[@RodneyG669]

"Humanity killed their own pantheon and your gods decided to pick a fight with them'.

[@alek7998]

*God is dead and we have killed him intesifies*

[@wolfoffenris9951]

Well our own pantheon probably picked a fight too

[@dantreadwell7421]

Agreed. I mean, how much of a dick was Zeus?

[@pavlospantazis8932]

@@dantreadwell7421 Basically every diety in all of the panteons is either dead, in hiding, between life and death or under the control of humanity one way or another. Except Gaia.

[@dantreadwell7421]

@@pavlospantazis8932 sounds about right. Just because we have a near pathological need to not be told what to do, we do have a tendency to not like deities. Except for Mother.

[@alexmuller6752]

"a balding man in a hoverchair" holding a lecture about telepathy. i wonder if he was the rector of a school for gifted children ;)

[@WeevilLover9000]

;)

[@beingsneaky]

It was Charles of course. 😀

[@alexejvecera6317]

@@beingsneaky Zi Britannica?

[@j-core2895]

Xmen

[@TheDragonCat99]

They were also referencing mutants lol

[@TheLastRhapsody]

I think its significant that he got his name back at the very end. Either something Gaia did reversed the damaged and patchwork nature of his soul, or his god gave it back, abandoning him to try and get away from the terrible danger it now realized it faced.

[@LezlyLikesYuri]

That's the exact same impression I got LOL! I don't consider myself a particularly religious person but honestly this one made me think a little, piqued my interest if you will. Well done!!!

[@jonathanblair5920]

Holy crap! I had to reread that 4 or 5 times to find that! Good catch, that completely escaped me! xD

[@medical-cyanide1526]

I like to imagine that Gaia gave him back a little bit of his soul to allow him to feel the full weight of everything

[@MogofWar]

6 of one, half-dozen of the other.

[@Kualinar]

Gaia just ripped his name out of his god's grip and gave it back to that poor interrogator.

[@crystalalarm3]

For some reason when Gaia gave the greenlight all that came to mind was the song "Momma said knock you out."

[@cougarocigaro2261]

That's a good way of it

[@Allantitan]

And the entire universe shall tremble in terror as the whole of humanity turns an evil smile to the stars and says “plaaayy tiiime”

[@dragonpc8258]

ok that made me Literally laugh heartily, thanks for that! :)

[@wilhelminamyers146]

YUP

[@maramackenzie-mann]

Behold Gaia, the last living Deity of Humanity, the last steward of Earth, the only god Humanity will ever listen to.

[@generictimestamperstupendi9021]

And even THEN we fuck Mother Nature up

[@dragonheart5312]

@@generictimestamperstupendi9021 We can't, "fuck her up". She is everything and anything. Even the most barren of places, she can create life. All we can do is change her appearance

[@maramanasa]

@@dragonheart5312 Even then she cares not for us. The world may end for is but not for her for she will change and adapt.

[@dantreadwell7421]

@@maramanasa she may be sad at the loss, but what is life without death? For all things must end, and there should be no sadness at that.

[@GuukanKitsune]

@@dantreadwell7421 Indeed, it's very brevity is what makes life precious. The knowledge that there will only ever be so much we can do in the time alotted us makes every choice meaningful, every action have weight, and every moment mean something special. We die, but every one of us lived for something. I pity the immortals, for them nothing has meaning and everything is pointless. Eventually they will do everything and everything they know and love will fade away to a distant memory. And even that, too, will eventually fade to nothing in the endless ages of their existance and the creeping madness and depression of endless eons lived. They exist for nothing, and will never die, and that is the true and terrible price of eternal life.

[@SetzerII]

And then the interrogator saw in his soul what no Zzyth ever had. He saw that his pantheon, his gods, had shat themselves.

[@elijahaitaok8624]

When the interrogator left the soul of the human, the first thing he heard was malicious heavy metal music, the last thing he heard was the shattering of the restraints that held the human.

[@juggernautbam2253]

@@elijahaitaok8624 The only thing they fear is you.

[@playtoyx]

Gaia gave him back the interrogator back his name.

[@erikagehm2805]

We're like siblings fighting, bullying, and bickering till the outsider says something. Then we go off on the outsider.

[@Hunter-ck3ty]

.... after which we go back to picking on each other

[@jordanbryan2612]

its from another story but it one of my favorites " me against my brother, the 2 of us against our cousin, the 3 of us against the world"

[@icninja4840]

Gaia literally just went:I can't fight you, but my children *Menacing smile*that's a different story of death.

[@jacobfoss7783]

Humanity: Mommy hates you, so she told us to hurt you, and we will. Very, VERY badly.

[@Danteninja]

Reminds me of a line I saw from FF14 “Know that I'll kill your god if I have to. Maybe even if I don't”

[@alexejvecera6317]

Lelouch vi Britannia?

[@ganjaknight88]

Words said to the Qalyana broodmother before proceeding to do just that XD sounds about right

[@alexs5814]

well Ozymandias said it.... we squabble endlessly against each other but if something from the outside decides to threaten us we'll come together to fight against it.

[@Destroyer_V0]

Here is hoping we can direct our attentions to the problems we have made that threaten our survival.

[@olli8389]

Humans: *Destroying gods* Gaia: Look over there ! There's my sweet little baby ! What a good boy/girl come to mama !!!

[@thecatlover5093]

Humanity is basically "Mom told me I could be whatever I want!"

[@MilodicMellodi]

The Mother might rule over life...but she will not prevent her children from calling her enemies back to her. For the children of their Mother will never leave her lonely. And they know that they too will return to Mother. Set sail, dear children, and fly your hearts into the endless sky, so that you may yet return to Mother with her bounty of eternity.

[@juggernautbam2253]

The only thing going through my mind while reading this comment is "Cary on my wayward son."

[@mitchcampbell4197]

This can be summed up as "But mooooom they started it!"

[@fallenmorningstar9224]

A good representation if gods might exist out in other species. We may not have any directly to communicate with us on earth. But every human was created by mother nature at the very least. And while we refused to be bound by anything we still are tied to her. She granted us who we are, and as free as we are one day every human shall return to her.

[@bountyhuntermaster2896]

I think I agree, I believe in God as a theory or rather concept than an actual physical being. In the theory the origins of Gods are from the human mind, stating humans came first and created deities to worship giving them form through thought. The single exception being that of life itself its power is physically manifested but has limits still, and cannot control complex life like wolves or deer. Though the true limit of control is unknown, what is theorised is that life has control up untill birth maybe a little after. Anyway this doesn't really matter, what matters is the closest thing we have to a God is the Force of Nature and the Endless Chaos of the Universe, great story, loved it, I want more.

[@darvineaferebea2451]

@@bountyhuntermaster2896 we who live in states/countries where there are two sets of law Human law And Natural law though we tend to ignore it most the time

[@bountyhuntermaster2896]

@@darvineaferebea2451 there was a quote from the Godzilla movies, man's greatest arrogance is that he thinks he is in control of nature. It speaks to not only the hubris of man and the true power of nature.

[@darvineaferebea2451]

@@bountyhuntermaster2896 I agree with that

[@CrazyJayThaNinja]

Not if I have my corpse launched into space ;)

[@thirg424]

I find it interesting this was posted on the spring equinox.

[@bountyhuntermaster2896]

Deep lore

[@Noel-Bliss]

Played this for a friend but she said “ lol wat if the human was ✨into it✨” I’ve been laughing ever since

[@fuge74]

This comes so close to being a good scitific-theology fiction. Changes and adaptions: the god is nameless, the center of the soul is empty represented by the enthronement of a nameless god, the throne appears to grant you full and open control but instead it is inscribed on the base, " only the one true God may sit upon this thrown." Then you basically have the gaia speech.

[@r.connor9280]

"All honor and power and glory belong to him most worthy" seems a good enough inscription and a bit more complete

[@fuge74]

@@r.connor9280 and the killer of all saints sits upon the throne waiting for he that believes himself better.

[@IndigoWhiskey]

Oh sure just parrot fashion Yahweh again to bore to tears a whole new generation. Hard pass, Gaia at least has a body you can mathematically define unlike the stolen child one upping game of the aspectism concept of a king of kings. Besides given the history, the concept of describing Christian souls as inherently incorruptible is so laughable as to be a genuine health risk to your sides. All it takes is one five year old that asks questions and every Christian shows the sociopathic mob rule true colours. Frankly the mother of renewal is far too kind on you lot. Heck it's even fair to suppose death isn't in the current story as death isn't a god but the anthropomorphised terror of the inevitable and would be credited with the universe's creation event as it is also technically murdering nothingness itself. So yeah even in a story with gods literally nobody needs that dreary copy pasta tripe thanks.

[@thecursed01]

"What sacred ancient chant bolsters this soul to such power. GIVE ME YOURSECRET HUMAN" inside the human's soul : "I will NEVER gonna give you up.. never gonna let you dooown never gonna..."

[@michaelbarnard8529]

That deserves its own story just for the punchline.

[@fleurgymcheurgy9267]

I find it nice that there are similarities between this and the basic tenets of many religions, a favorite being that humans are basically Diety in embryo, and another favorite being that humans are the children of Diety.

[@nullpoint3346]

Gaia, goddess of life, mother of death.

[@PrimordialNyx]

*For Mother Earth!!!* *For Mother Gaia!!!* *For our BELOVED MOTHER!!!*

[@DepressedCrow]

For Holy Terra!

[@SuperChausette]

For the Motherland!

[@xsmon8932]

For the Terra Mother

[@FallenKnightXIII]

For Earth-Chan

[@ryansauchuk7290]

FOR THE EMPEROR

[@robertcartledge826]

FOR THE MOMPEROR!

[@kazadori164]

GIA, "humanity has fought and killed gods......... yours are no different" after she was finished the integrator released the mind of the human, he took some time to calm himself.......looking inward his soul had been repaired and his name removed. he reviewed the interaction with the human diary " GIA" in his mind and realized something that made him break out in a cold sweat. what made him so very afraid was the realization that the "Gia" he saw in the human's mind was NOT the deity, but simply the fragment of her power she had given to ALL HUMANS..........

[@last2nkow]

Man that would be a great book series. The interrogator scared and cowed by the experience realizing how effed they are and inspired by a god worth worshipping helps the human escape, they have to steal a shuttle,make their way through the hostile space to get the human to their people. Follow a front line commander on one side and a religious leader on the other. The various factions fractious on the human side threatening to break their alliance apart. The trials of following the alien pantheon and the spread of an internal schism as Gaia accepts the interrogator as a worshipper and gifts them a human soul and people find out. The cut and thrust of battle, debate and dogma on a system wide scale... Imagine...

[@playtoyx]

The interrogator got his name back Gaia called him back. His pantheon abandoned him.

[@SupCom78]

it is often so that you forget mother gaia but the mother never forget you. she even seeds her own power into every single human. if that power is unleashed in a common enemy well i don't know if i should feel joy or sorrow ? possibly joy and victory hymns for humanity and sadness for the false gods and the exploited people.

[@nk_3332]

Klingons: We killed our gods, they were more trouble than they were worth. Humans: We broke ours down for component parts to build what we needed.

[@syrathdouglas1244]

Nature can be a cruel mistress, especially to those that disrespect her or her children. She is like fire, she can be a warm, comforting light, that keeps cold and darkness at bay, or she can be a raging inferno, a whirlwind of destruction that tears forests to the ground, warps the very land, and rends anything in its path to shreds.

[@seanrobert9661]

Just don't

[@syrathdouglas1244]

Don’t what

[@theanathema3062]

@@syrathdouglas1244 just don’t

[@catfwish]

"Tell me of your gods! How do they grant you such power!" "Hah we killed them years ago, they got on our nerves."

[@michaelbarnard8529]

To paraphrase Lobo: “We killed them all as a science project. Gave ourselves an ‘A’”.

[@DonPatrono]

Little interesting tidbit: do you know why Humanity killed all the other earthly godlings but spared and even LISTENED to Gaia and then actively WORSHIPPED Her? The other gods in the rising Pantheon would have tried to actually rule mankind, and that's something that humans rarely agree with. But Gaia....Gaia was Mankind's Mother. And unless you are the worst kind of monster, unworthy of the name of "human".....You alway listen to what your Mom says

[@michaelbarnard8529]

The gods demanded human obedience, Gaia begged humans to show mercy to each other.

[@kalskirata42]

Gaia needs a hug

[@alphadragon4347]

If There Is One Thing That All Us Humans Share In Common, It Is That We All Share The Same Mother And We All Come From Her Womb. If This We Forget Than We Shall Destroy Eachother Like The Squabbling Old Gods. May Our Family Be Whole Again.

[@runehashman8256]

If humanity did have any gods, like in this story, I would think it would be Life (aka Gaia/Mother Earth) and Death.

[@onerxowns2202]

GAIA also can be considered a GOD of LIFE, so we worship only two A LIFE and DEATH

[@wolfoffenris9951]

Mom and dad, what a power couple

[@dantreadwell7421]

Death is but an aspect of life. No reason she can't have it all. She is a modern God, after all. . .

[@ivanelias3916]

death is really powerful death is gonna eat xenos souls this day😈

[@kaduVIII]

@@dantreadwell7421 maybe in a adventure time concept?

[@mattbrown5511]

When something makes the waves of the ocean align, the land shivers in fear.

[@jakoblopez5691]

When all of humanity saw Gaia on her knees crying begging us "Please my children stop, don't destroy each other please" we all looked away in shame and wept as we knew we didn't something we shouldn't have we made OUR mother cry

[@c.d.mcclendon1264]

MOTHER said: Your time has come. And As such...................we answered: LET IT BE DONE.

[@Zakvadr1995]

Wish we got more from this story, it’s really interesting!

[@Headloser]

I agree, i hope the human managed to get out of there.

[@ryanmarcum9044]

All of Humanity: “You made Mama cry.”

[@kaimerry1587]

Cheers to the wiccans for getting it right in this story.

[@jamiebray8532]

This needs to be expanded upon! It could make a great long play story or a mini series.

[@badgeredbees5609]

This was beautiful

[@davidpoole7098]

"Tell me the name of your god." "Bold of you to assume I have one."

[@McDTank75]

Reminds me of the Klingons from Star Trek, killing their own Gods

[@MogofWar]

Spirit Science weirdness meets 40K grimdark....

[@RodneyG669]

Nature, red of tooth and claw, she's just letting things follow their natural course. I wonder if the aliens have ever heard the term "pursuit predation"?

[@PerfectedEvil]

10 years later after Humanity has screamed through the Galaxy hunting 'gods': There are no gods, there is only Gaia.

[@imperiousrex128]

You know, it's very likely the Gods picked a fight with us and the only ones we didn't kill are the ones who didn't try to screw us over, or the ones other Gods killed for not siding with them.

[@Lycanthromancer1]

It's telling that there's only one left, then. Gods, as a general rule, *_suck._* Though I imagine Amaterasu is still kicking around somewhere. Maybe as an aspect of Gaia? She's quite lovely.

[@imperiousrex128]

@@Lycanthromancer1 True. I wonder what happened to the really nice Gods like Hestia... She's enough of a pacifist that it's likely her siblings killed her or one of us just decided "Screw the Greeks" and killed her regardless. She wouldn't even fight back.

[@Lycanthromancer1]

@@imperiousrex128 Hestia was the goddess of the hearth, and *_nobody_* dared gossip about her. After all, she's the one god you welcomed into your home simply because that was her remit, her very nature; she enforced rules of hospitality, and nobody *_dared_* mess with the embodiment of hospitality.

[@michaelbarnard8529]

So, while Thor (and Loki, to a lesser extent) have seen a revival of sorts, Athena has consistently had a presence in western thought. She appears on at least one state seal and there is a replica of her temple in the South somewhere.

[@sovietpowersupereme6231]

Humanity is like a giant family that quarrels all the time and very deeply but at the end they are all family

[@driverr988]

Mama Gia, Lady (Auntie) Luck, Father Time, and Brother Death. Only these have remained throughout human history. Other pantheons have come and gone.

[@goldendash1527]

i like thev idea that humanity is her protector aginst outside forces

[@uninvitedguest471]

Tremble universe. For Earth and her children behold you, and find you wanting.

[@jacobstewart1950]

Praise the scarlett king

[@SpiritWolf1966]

I enjoy all of NetNarrator videos

[@junigearx7452]

This is so great

[@purpledevilr7463]

We have Gaia but we also have The Algorithm!

[@blacktiger9393]

"Mother said that it was ok!"

[@alastairbrand5821]

And the interrogator was found on the floor of the cell, "alive", after a fashion, but his mind gone forever. The human prisoner still slumped in his chair but awakened upon hearing the footsteps of he guards. They were about to strike when they saw something terrible in his eyes and in their fear, instead removed the gag. "That was fun!", Whispered Jenkins. "Can we play again?"

[@sydneydaum9204]

great vid!

[@foxofthesnowynight625]

Looks at Gia *Happy human noises*

[@SerunaXI]

i'm curious, does Jacobson perhaps gain some of the Interrogator's traits from this?

[@BigBass63]

father Sol when he saw his children play with the atomic nucleus: Fuck this shit I'm out🎵🎶🎵

[@scotteggert9820]

Humanity has torn down all of their pantheons! And now only the Mother remains and as a Good Mother does. She gave Humanity, her Children, Potential, and told them to go and fly and Live. And Now other pantheons come to kill her Children. And she weeps, Our Mother, for she knows that what we, her Children, will do. For she has seen us do it before. We will rip and tear down these other pantheons and slay again gods. And for this, she is saddened and yet joyful as while we dump the corpses of the gods we have slain into the Graveyard of the Gods. She and Life grow more powerful and the Universe more peaceful.

[@AnEverfreeRat]

goddes representing earth would NOT be sympthetic and against war. our world is a bitch and a sociopath. rejoice!

[@bennnymiddleton40]

You know how hard you have to fuck up to see some one else’s god?

[@robinchwan]

why do i hear the music " mama~ , just killed a man " playing in my head when reading this story ? kinda see epic scenes or horrible wars in my head as well.

[@LostPeopleOfEarth158]

I like this. This was nice.

[@TheStartrek99]

If the "potential" Gaia gave each human being is a small spark of her own divinity...... these people basically just pissed off an entire race of demigods who have a history of slaying gods who try to impose their will on them.

[@Destroy10151]

Algorithm gods will be pleased!

[@AB-ln2py]

Well she gave him His name back at least :)

[@IndigoWhiskey]

Sometime later, stirring and chewing in the bowls of the mind of every xeno. Run if you want to live.

[@schizophreniagaming1187]

tfw there no Big Mommy nature

[@a177rhythm2]

I choose to believe Gaia healed his soul, recalling his name before release. The first Zyyth prophet of Gaia.

[@number3766]

*Laughs in Kratos*

[@asdfadfafsdfa]

Gaia let’s the pure handle the impure.

[@Sinvare]

To be fair to the Alien Pantheon, they were right to fear humanity as a threat to their existence.

[@slimeinabox]

_DETERMINATION_

[@Exile_Sky]

Dudu du du, du du dududu.

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

For Humanity

[@ryansauchuk7290]

ZEUS!!! I HAVE COME FOR THE WEED OF OLYMPUS

[@Mandelbrotmat]

"a balding man in a hoverchair"......(cues 90's x-men theme)

[@neroham93]

Earth mommy is pissed

[@fredmaxwell9619]

I feel sorry for Gaia. She loves peace but her children love war and conflict.

[@arcaneSae]

I love the idea of a god saying you pissed off the insane monkeys?

[@oddctioum]

when you say "theoretical training" you mean theory that has been teached to him, the reassuring "we trained him and he knows everything there is to know about battle-readiness" while the only thing the soldier knows is that green cryons taste best, or both?

[@drakeonight]

I want to claim first but I'm probably not.

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

I would actually find a full pantheon intreaging, or if the god of humanity was lucifer or jointly held between him and yhawey

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

@Ярослав Л im not a good writer, you know anyone who would know what to do with the premises

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

@Ярослав Л if i had any confidence i would make warhammer 40k isekai necron smut instead but you have a point, this may will pave the way for the more important subject formentioned

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

@Ярослав Л what are you refering to

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

@Ярослав Л ah

[@wildcardjoey4776]

It's called Sons and Fathers, and the entire read is chills all the way down

[@norneaernourn8240]

Humans be like: Mama take this badge from me I can't use it anymore It's getting dark too dark to see Feels like I'm knockin' on Heaven's door

[@polasamierwahsh421]

nice

[@madi4642]

imagine the gods surviving but are in the games we plays (and kill them) over and over again because why not it kratos ! they survive yet are slayed at every turn and at every playthrou

[@Ryvaken]

The gift of God is Grace. The rite of the gift is Faith. The sacrifice is Obedience. And victory is GUARANTEED.

[@guarana-suquinho]

This guy is lucky that it wasn't Nxy that spoken to him.

[@kuzothedragon8659]

Jujutsu kaisen moment

[@kylekyle8790]

Got vibes that gaia was the big G man

[@becausereasons8507]

Humanity, the God killers.

[@1992jkwj]

life births death, we are her children

[@asdfadfafsdfa]

These aren’t just stories.

[@rolandosada8077]

Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.