I’ve got this idea for an urban fantasy setting where black magic has been industrialized, and everything is powered by the blood and pain of fluffies. They use fluffies because their innocent childlike nature makes their blood and pain more potent (This is a non-hellgremlin setting. Plus the fluffies used for power are specially bred to be extra good natured). There are power plants where thousands of talkie babbehs are bled out or pupled every day. Their blood is pumped out into buildings through pipes and that’s what this society uses instead of electricity. Foals in a can serve as batteries.
The mummah and daddeh fluffies are kept in deliberately dismal conditions and forced to watch their foals being slaughtered. Their pain and sorrow is magically harvested. This substance has a variety of industrial uses.
Sometimes things spontaneously come to life as a side-effect of the blood magic. They have fluffy faces and personalities and fluffy faces because it was fluffy blood that was used. This is seen as undesireable for many products, and oftentimes items that come to life are discarded. It is also possible to kill them without damaging the item by sanding/chiseling/abrading the face off while applying purified pain and sorrow
Eh. I’m no writer or artist here, in fact I’m surprised to even find myself having
enough of a morbid interest to continue coming back here off and on, but I still tend to leave comments with my own thoughts.
“what if”-ing the different directions a story could have gone or offering ideas to possibly inspire others.
i’ve thought about “black magic sacrifice hypertech” before but never considered doing it with fluffies. Closest I came was the idea of literal hellgremlins.
I actually did already write a story in this universe already (Fluffy Fluffy Vending Machine). This post was partly to explain what was going on there
I do intend to write the power plant but I’m stuck on how I want to structure the story. Whether to start on a hugbox looking scenario of a fluffy being a good mummah for which she is “rewarded” by being made into one of the main breeders and being forced to watch all her foals get pulped. Or whether to jump into a tour guide giving an exposition-heavy tour of the main floor of the blood factory. I want the tour to go to the temperment testing area too, but it’s an anticlimax to go there from the main floor, but the whole point of the main floor is that it’s a lot more doable to write
When I saw this, originally, I thought it was going to be pretty lame. But now that I’ve finally read the story, it turned out really well. Good work! I especially enjoyed the Twin Peaks references. Nice to run into another fan of the show on here.
