Never specified who’s gettin positive stimulus
Fucking incredible story, nice work.
Not gonna lie, the drawing of M-B-08 immediately made me think of that crying SpongeBob meme.
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Reading into the experiment more;
- That’s some quick healing on the chirpy - the sutures are starting to look healed on the same day that it was operated on.
- On a similar note, for a week and half old chirpy to fall into the ‘wan die’ cycle into the same day raises some interesting implications, mainly around the trigger being mostly physical as it’s not capable of intellectual torment and emotional torment is very crude (comfort and nurture being its primary drivers).
- Dr McLaine is either a MD or a veterinarian judging by the quality of her suture work, which is uncommon for animal research R&D.
Are we going to see more of the good doctor or Artemis Industries?
If I may offer a technical comment: lab coats don’t have buttons on the sleeves (to avoid snagging or catching on things) and they usually close up much higher (to protect from spatter and spillage), unless Dr McLaine hasn’t got hers buttoned up.
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Classic beginner abuser mistake. Too much trauma too fast. You gotta space it out a bit.
Epic twist, and the art is great as always.
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Can you tell me if the foal was fighting back when it was getting its bowels forcefully voided, being dipped in the fluff removal and getting doused by the faucet? Or was it just spasming uncontrollably from fear and pain?
While the ability to abuse a chirpy foal into a wan die loop is important information regarding the cognitive ability of a fluffy, I feel like spending a couple hours on abuse forums and live streams would have alerted the doctor to this possibility. She is treating it like it is the first time she’s ever heard of the loop being universal, which does make sense given the artificial nature of fluffies and the common head canon of certain phrases being ‘hard coded’ into the fluffy brain. But then again most abusers are hardly following any scientific method.
And of course now that the doctor has this result, not only does the broken nugget need to be kept alive to see if it ever changes, there also need to be many more similar experiments so the result can be replicated.
The nugget-ified chirpy being in an incubator with tubes in its orifices to keep it alive reminded me of a classic Ginger Fig work where a similar green foal was taken fresh out of its mother ( though it kept its fluff and limbs, though they were rubber banded so the foal could not move ). But the destination of that fluffy was testing for a new kind of mustard gas.
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Another Chimera classic!
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“So what were the results of the test?”
“Fluffies can have an effect on otherwise normal people. The researchers ignored the parameters they were assigned and simply proceeded to mutilate and torture the infant fluffy pony a third of the time. Of these, some, like Dr McLaine, did so while presenting it as part of their experiments though they failed to follow the procedure.”
“And the others?”
“Less than half of the scientists completed the experiments as instructed. Another, slightly smaller group refused to use negative stimulus at all and often became enraged when they saw the work of Dr. McLaine’s group.”
“And these things are in the wild, breed faster than rabbits, and don’t die easy.”
“I don’t think we can predict the sociological, political, or economic effects of this.”
“I can. It’s going to suck balls… I’m dumping all my Hasbio stock.”
“That seems wise.”
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From reading between the lines, it seems to be a study on mental and physical reactions. Probably writing a book to sell on fluffies to fluffy owners. Along with that, probably pushing the limits on such studies to see how far those things can be push before breaking. Probably gonna try to get the limit warnings before/after to get the right tales.
And to give my own feedback - for anything like limb removal, or general cutting into the body, you’d need to put the subject under fully. Doing local numbness will only go so far as there would be deeper nerves then it can reach.
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“And these things are in the wild, breed faster than rabbits, and don’t die easy.”
Could I ask what do you mean by they ‘don’t die easy’? Fluffies can take a lot of trauma, but they have virtually no defence mechanisms, be it by fighting back or evading predators.
Compare to rabbits - they’re hard to catch, decently camouflaged and are very wary. Despite that, in the ecosystems that they’re native to, some rabbits species have something like a 90% mortality rate in their first year.
A fluffy that has a top speed of a slow waddle and couldn’t fight off an arthritic chihuahua? No hope of becoming a significant invasive pest species.
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Of course, it’s all in the name of science. (wink, wink). I actually think it’s a great idea for developing all kinds of stories, like the squadron 731 experiments.
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I don’t think there’s an uterior motive to test the durability of fluffies; the experiment seems honest in its initial goal of assessing whether the mother can understand the type of distress that her babbeh is in, from its vocal cries.
The fact that the testing also discovered a potential limit to the mental durability of a chirpey is a happy coincidence.
@BalderdashJhow You should look up Harry Harlow’s monkey experiments, not just the classic ‘dependency of infants on their mothers’ one that’s been adapted for fluffies, but the ones involving irradiating monkeys and how brain lesions affect behaviour.
Scientific experimentation doesn’t have to drop down to the level of ‘war crime in disguise’ that Unit 731 practiced, to be shockingly brutal and pragmatic to modern sensibilities, especially in places where animal welfare and the ethical treatment of study animals isn’t such a high concern (which includes some G7 countries, like Japan).
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Oh, no, I don’t think there’s another goal in mind, I just think there’s an overall project going on. Given the fact the mare can make a new litter about every three weeks, they could be doing a lot of testing ideas. So it’d be reasonable to go through different ideas, like a ‘mother’ project and folks can use bits and peices of such to help in theirs.
And this is mainly my view on it, it’d make sense it’d have some area for the general book for owners. Would help the common person understand the chips, just using the mare as a translater.
Then again, I do find it intresting on what they can do with the foals. Like, if the foal had their limbs removed before the mother seen it, how’d it handle it in terms of care, treatment towards it against it normal ones. Or if a ‘wingy’ and ‘point’ bahhahs had theirs key treats removed while ‘feeling’ they was still there. Stuff like that I can see as an overall thing.
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virtually no defence mechanisms
I think being sprayed with liquid ass is quite an underestimated ability - especially once the shitrats figure out they can do it collectively.
Also cartoon logic.
EDIT: Why do I keep responding to the wrong posts?
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The cruelty that science can bring when a scientist must go above and beyond the ideas of morality…
OK, what I just said in a Morgan Freeman voice
Goddamn, that scientist was able to get a chirpy in the loop. I’m afraid that if she were to published her findings, she would just give abusers a new form of ammo of abuse.
She essentially found out that even though a chirpy and its infant age can go into the wan die loop is essentially Pandora’s box waiting to happen for little chirppies
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Being able to spray liquid ass is a defence mechanism also used by skunks, but it’s not 100% effective - there’s documented cases of predators being desperate enough to go after skunks.
Again, skunks are not a dominant pest species. Depending on species, location and the seasonal conditions, there’s anywhere between a 15 - 87% first year mortality rate, which based on a 2-15 kittens per litter and a 1 litter a year breeding rate, is going to keep the population level healthy but stable.
If you want to run things by cartoon physics, then yeah anything goes.
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it’s me
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That poor foal 
I’m sure it and it’s mummah would be enthusiastic to participate if they realized the research they’re contributing to will benefit humanity and fluffanity in innumerable ways, unfortunately fluffies think science is another word for skettis