Maybe on this site sure, but think of all the regular folk outside of this little niche that would see a waddling fuzzy ball that could kinda speak and just thought “hey that’s pretty neat”
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Fluffies IRL would probably be completely fine. I mean, if you so much as slap a hamster you’re frowned upon, imagine doing that same thing but it can beg for it’s life in a childlike manner.
Plus, I don’t think anyone wants to clean up the amount of FLUIDS and EXCREMENT that emerge during physical violence.
Guess that’s why this site exists.
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That’s fair, but when I see a rabbit my first thought isn’t “maim and kill the overpopulated vermin,” it’s more of a
hee hoo fuzzy bunny
Maybe just the gremlin brain tho
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puts stomping boots on
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It’s a fair cop…
To be fair I’d probably be thrilled to be assaulted by a sea of happy, blubbering teddy bears. For a while, at least.
Cocks shotgun menacingly and aims at you
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Obviously it’s a matter of headcanon, but I actually view Fluffies as surprisingly parasite/pathogen resistant. Not immune, just resistant. Their weird chimeric workings and mixed-up scents and hormones make it so that a lot of icky creatures and germs simply don’t properly recognize them as a suitable host/food source.
Especially because I also imagine that Hasbio might’ve intentionally bolstered this ability to a degree, and sometimes given them appealing scents too, like fruit, flowers, pastries, etc, because changing scent seems like it’d actually be relatively cheap and easy to accomplish, if you can already make a whole viable chimeric species with speech and toddler intellect.
So in my headcanon, that’s part of why they can successfully multiply in the wild. (although the scents do lead to a side-effect where they can sometimes be harrassed by confused ants, bees, and herbivores)
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As somebody who prefers to write more hugbox-ish and neutralboxis settings, I don’t work with the Fall of Cleveland. Upon researching some artists of the booru, some notable artists hadn’t actually read the story, and I feel that mentioning it or acknowledging only gives credence to the idea that fluffies are to be disliked, even if they weren’t culpable in that story. And with the diversity of fluffy canons on the booru, I think there are other ways one can depict a setting for fluffies that doesn’t have to rely on FoC
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I agree, actually–the FoC is such an extreme story that it really limits world building options. I’ve always considered it an apocryphal story at most, like a fairy tale or urban legend.
But for headcanons where fluffies are largely considered vermin to be exterminated, the FoC does provide an explanation.
For my part, I think feral herds are occasionally pruned, just like feral dogs. That fits with my headcanon that most abuse is actually just typical interactions between hmans and animals, made horrifying by the fact that fluffies can talk.
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I’m with you on that point. Just look at how most people react to fluffy abuse when they see it for the first time. They assume the people liking it are sexually charged by it and possible real-life abusers.
The majority in the real world would have the same reaction and would more likely by sympathetic to Fluffies.
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Rip and tear, until it is done.