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Humans are Weird: Parkour

One of the things that I think we overlook a lot as a species is our incredible maneuverability. Humans are built mostly for running, but have a lot of climbing adaptations left over and happen to have very flexible frames with grabby hands. Most aliens would probably be familiar with humans dashing across the street or climbing trees, but parkour takes both these abilities up to eleven. Suddenly humans are climbing fences, vaulting over barriers, running on walls, doing flips and spins and generally defying gravity and/or physics. 

Imagine a scenario where some alien riffraff at a spaceport tries to run off with a human’s wallet. They’re an insectoid species with multiple sets of legs and pedipalps that can grip glass, nobody can catch them once they dart up into a maintenance shaft or scamper on top of parked ships. Except, the footsteps and angry yelling haven’t faded. They look back to see the human tuck and roll from a 20 foot drop, immediately spring back up and keep running. Objects in the way? They vault over that crap. Running sideways across a wall? No problem. It’s the most terrifying thing to see a ground-dwelling species shimmy up a pipe with murder written all over their face and yelling “YOU’RE DEAD MEAT BUG-BOY!“ 

A pissed human giving chase isn’t easily shaken to begin with–we’re predators that lock on to something and run it into the ground. A human that can leap from building to building and uses obstacles to INCREASE momentum? Unstoppable.