A fluffy was dropped off at the sanctuary today. Honestly you are surprised he’s even alive, not because he had physical injuries but rather due to the lack thereof . How such a vile creature escaped the wrath of humanity and ended up here is nothing short of a twisted miracle.
Archibald or Archie for short was a magenta and turquoise tiger striped unicorn stallion with amber eyes . His former owner dropped him off here instead of killing him , which given the circumstances makes you question the mental state of the owner. Archibald smothered a 2 week old baby, not a fluffy foal a human baby. This is not to say he didn’t kill other fluffies, according to the owner Archibald had killed indiscriminately since he was a foal . The owner simply viewed it as free fluffy control. And decided to capitalize on this by having people pay a small fee to let Archibald kill fluffies on their property or simply tossing them in a makeshift arena with Archibald to watch the carnage unfold. Archibald didn’t eat the fluffies he killed nor were the deaths usually quick. The story about Archibald being used and rented out as fluff control was a complete fabrication, his medical examination revealed that Archibald was bred for fighting. So essentially the owner left their infant with the fluffy equivalent of a fighting dog. The baby didn’t deserve to die. That being said you feel as though leaving Archibald with a 2 week old infant proves that the owner was not responsible enough to take care of a baby. Archibald would never be able to integrate into a normal family. Part of you honestly pities Archibald.
Archibald was just doing what his owner taught him to do. You weren’t bringing him home but you were going to make damn sure he didn’t end up in the harvesting tanks . One of the volunteers at the sanctuary suggested that he take Archibald as he had no pets, no children and no qualms about his past . His name was Brant Fiocchi , a garbage man by trade he made good money and enjoyed helping out at the sanctuary when he could. Brant was neither too outspoken nor too reserved, he was for all intents and purposes the Goldie locks coworker, nice enough to say hello and ask about your family but reserved enough to never burden you with his personal problems. He didn’t have any social media accounts outside of a MySpace account that was made 10 years ago and then promptly abandoned about 3 days later.
Brant was adamant that he could take care of Archibald. This was one of the few times he was extremely vocal and insistent about something. “All right Brant you’ve twisted my arm .Archibald is yours.” For the first time ever you saw an unreserved excitement behind Brant’s expression . You decided to set Brant up with a few freebies he was after all a first time owner. A litter box, water/food bowls, a bag of kibble and a bag of litter. Enough to tide him over until he could go to fluffmart after his shift was done. Oddly enough Archie was less violent around Brant even if it was only by a small margin. Brant kept you and the other volunteers updated, throughout the process. Due to the incident with Archie and the baby , Brant had to pay a rather hefty fine for him refusing to have Archie put down . He also had to sign a waiver stating that he would be held responsible should anything happen on his watch.
Brant was fully committed to rehabbing Archie despite the projected low chance of success, Brant’s goal wasn’t to make him perfect. He just wanted to make Archie a little less murder happy. It wasn’t a quick process nor was it as effective as Brant had hoped but slow minor progress is better than no progress at all. Archie slowly went from hell-gremlin to toughy to smarty and finally to grumpy yet mostly compliant . He stopped calling Brant a dummy and called him daddy , he still called everyone else a dummy but considering how he started. The other volunteers just deemed it relatively harmless . It even became a kind of in joke around the sanctuary that Archie had the D word pass. Archie stopped giving sorry hoofsies and sorry poopies relatively early on after Brant simply let him wear himself over and over again until Archie realized how truly powerless he was. The sorry poopies were solved by sticking his nose in it and making him wear a diaper for 24 hours after each incident. Now He was kind of like a grouchy old man trapped in a fluffy. Calling names and slinging insults as opposed to his more violent past. He wasn’t neutered but Archie showed more interested in being a prick than using his own. Archie had that special kind of disrespect that happens when a kid calls you out for blatant lies in public or being brutally honest when asked a question.
Brant and the staff had a blast watching and listening to Archie throw shade at other smarties to the point of making them cry. Archie’s official job became “ego deflation Therapist” but the staff just called him the Grumble Bee. Not everyone was happy with Brant keeping Archie for obvious reasons . That being said it was really funny seeing so many people on social comb through the internet for anything incriminating only to find a bare bones MySpace account that didn’t even mention him having a fluffy. The best part being that Brant was completely unaware of the social media outrage. Archie isn’t perfect and even if you exclude his past , many would say his progress isn’t good enough to justify the investment of time and resources. How fitting then that Brant Fiocchi a is Garbage man.