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The fifth part of my tribute to Carpdime’s Avocado. This is a significant chapter in many regards because it is not only the first entry of the series to be written post-Fluffybooru, but it is also my first new piece of fluffy fiction to be written and posted on either the reddit or the the new site. prior to this, I had been focusing on reuploading my old content to the new site, the fluffycommunity subreddit and the fluffyhugbox subreddit.
There is an old version of this entry which can be read on pastebin. That said, there are some substantial changes, as I was working on this chapter not too long after the booru died.
Some notes:
- there are two separate versions of this chapter, as the one on the fluffycommunity subreddit uses illustrations from Waggytail. At the time of this post, the FC site does not have the permission to use artwork from the old booru without the artists permission, so the version here only uses Carpdime’s artwork. I have thus used a different name for the chapter to distinguish between the two versions.
- the auburn haired woman is the same one as the woman who Avocado meets at the beach, and who his owner started dating. While the pic of the woman feeding the foals with treats was unrelated, I decided to work with the idea that its the same character
- the character of Candy is based off a character of the same name drawn by Waggytail. She can be seen here, teaching fluffies what a ball is. Thus, Candy’s design in this chapter, while drawn by Carpdime, is based off her design by Waggytail.
- I tried my best to follow the design of East Side Daycare as depicted here. However, my idea of the padded pen for foals is that it had a few more amenities, including a sort of maze.
- this chapter has a lot of ideas I have regarding fluffy education, which also follows on my headcanon regarding fluffspeak. One of those is the use of a two-teacher model for teaching foals, based around the idea that fluffspeak is a unique language for fluffies.
- I initially was going to used another older illustration by Carpdime to show a foal interacting with her owner via webcam, but the depiction I had for this chapter was more akin to Facetime or a Zoom call
- In my mind, Candy’s voice sounds like Nurse Redheart in this clip.
The next part of this tribute series will be about Buttercup. Said chapter will almost entirely focus on buttercup, but Avocado will appear in that story. Chapter 6 may take a while, because it will have a lot of research needed, and will revolve around what I consider to be the most important development in Avo’s early life.
EDIT: I decided to do a short Christmas chapter first before doing Chapter 6, as Chapter 6 is canonically supposed to take place in the “new year”.