Hello, everyone. I actually have one quick, simple question. I wasn't 100% sure where to post it, so I chose here. Anyhow, if I were writing a story, and one, or many, of the characters had powers (Magic, like a witch, but not quite. It would be more of a 'Healer', who can heal all injuries) would this be classified as Non-Human? I wasn't sure, since the person would be human, but having special abilities.
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damppanties
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No, but it might be sci-fi & fantasy.
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Non-human is "NON-human"--which typically means a singular ghost, angel, fairy or nymph entering into our normal human world.
These stories can also fit into sci-fi/fantasy, but usually if the story is here-and-now, a story in all other ways realistic except that your human hero/heroine is in love with, say, a muse, then it's non-human. If the story takes place in a fantasy world, or a sci-fi world (for example, a world where there are all kinds of Greek gods and myths), then the tale of a human falling in love with a muse is usually considered to be sci-fi/fantasy.
But what you describe is not a "non-human" but a human with powers--magical or otherwise. That's sci-fi/fantasy. They're still human but they live in a universe where they were given powers. And it's even more sci-fi/fantasy because there is more than one of them, so the world adjusts to this (that's the definition of sci-fi/fantasy--if you had a world of magical healers, what would it be like?). I know that's a bit confusing, but that seems to be the way the categories work.
And, of course, if any of this is scary or horrific, then it goes into erotica-horror.
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Magic = Fantasy
