Uncanny Valley Horrors

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This is a fun one. I saw a writing prompt on Reddit, which was this:

"All intelligent aliens fall into obe of two categories for humans: Adorable or Uncanny Valley Horror

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"All intelligent aliens fall into obe of two categories for humans: Adorable or Uncanny Valley Horror. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that humans are firmly in the Uncannt Valley Horror category for all other intelligent species."

Shoutout to u/Dregoth0 for making this prompt, cause this is a favorite AU of mine now!

Anyways-

So yeah. This is a Steve Saga AU! Sabre ends up stranded on the Steves' planet but discovers it's oddly similar to Earth. The environment is so similar he almost forgets he's on an alien planet.

But he quickly remembers he is when Rainbow, spelled Raynboew here, shows up.
The uncanny valley horror is mutual. Sabre can't tell what Raynboew is, but he knows he ain't human. Poor Raynboew randomly found Sabre while on a walk and feels he has to watch Sabre until he knows his intentions. He's so sleep-deprived and lonely :<

Reddit refused to let me post the 2nd part so I'm putting it all here-

Anyways here's the story!

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The creature beyond the trees looked like me. It had a similar build.

Yet the skin..the face...its details were all wrong.
The way its body contorted itself in ways nothing like me should. Its limbs could twist backwards and sideways.

I took off into the forest when I saw its mouth twist into what I now understand is known as a smile. Its teeth were many, skin pale as birch wood..
It had strange stick-like protrusions at the tips of its hands. They each moved not unlike a tentacle.

All I could think about the creature was that it was like me.
But it so very clearly wasn't. The way its slender, oddly shaped limbs moved across the terrain sent shivers down my back. Never again would I dare come face-to-face with it.

I have been hidden in the trees for days now. The stranger hasn't left the open terrain of the plains.
I see how it hunts. What powers it lacks in, it more than makes up for in survivalist skills.
It ran its makeshift tools into the nearest peaceful fauna, an unelegant and gory mess in mere minutes. Yet without any powers, it was left with ten times the meat.

It made tools and weapons and shelter in a short period of time, and without any of my kind's abilities. One shouldn't be able to form a whole array of tools from nothing. Even the strongest of my kind had a very small range of objects or materials we could summon.

I have stayed here to observe this creature,  I dare not imagine what it could do if I leave it alone.
But I dare not meet face-to-face. It may run from the fire and tides, but I have seen it has power over these very elements.
It scratched a piece of metal with a sharp black object, sparks lighting pieces of wood organized in a cone shape.

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