Thirty four years into the existence of Fluffies came the first major new innovation in play since a Hasbio researcher invented Abuse when she pinched a mouthy adolescent’s testes at the root with her fingernails and twisted a Gelldy into existence.
First came the Intersectional SLA Resin Printers, using bottom and side UV screens around a clear resin vat to only cause curing where light from at least three of the five directions meets in transparent resin. Then came Ugwoo brand Fluffy-grade transparent resin, which was not only cheap but came in two premium varieties as well, one which kills fluff follicles leaving a Fluffy permanently bald and another which altered them to produce a softer hair as it leaves the skin leading strands to fuse with nearby hairs into semi-hard and bulky spikes. Regardless of what mix was chosen it merely caused severe agony rather than standard resin caustic chemical burns as the Fluffy soaked in the vat. Any that got into sensitive places excreted completely out of orifices once the Fluffy’s catheter and sphincter plug were removed, and only caused moderate, usually survivable exothermic burns in skin contact where the resin hards in UV light exposure.
Using a special restraint that clipped onto popular printer varieties, after voiding the bowels of course, a Fluffy could have objects 3d printed around them. The early Fluffy modeling culture killed many Fluffies and still often does as incorrect measurements and scaling, or just the wrong breed if using an equation for measurements based on Fluffies common to the area where the designer lived, was used as Fluffies would be encased in resin in ways not desired by the owner and often discarded into waste bins along with the supports, assuming they could even breath. Though some managed to escape their fate they were often hindered by bulky structures on their body, oftentimes unable to breed, eat, move far, or excrete.
Some lucky enough to print correctly are still discarded as supports tear and leave imperfect prints, or the model fails to adhere to all supports due to environmental temperature or misaligned build plates. Improper restraints, stagnant resin, death from shock at the process, drowning as amateurs attempt to do a full-body print without providing air or discard a successful print when forgetting to move the air hose while the print progresses, discarding due to believing the temporary blindness and deafness due to resin in the eyes and ears is permanent, or simply loss of interest upon realizing the work in painting that follows the process of printing prior to the release of 3d painter machines, though those have their own many issues. This is to say nothing of Foals who would outgrow their prison.
Today most machines specialized for the process come with with scanners that modify the .bfy blueprint slice files to fit (based again on correct breed identification as well as standard body shape rather than excessive proportions.
As the system and community grew more advanced the more expensive biotoys such as Barbara Annes and Cayenne Koalas were used, though the cheapness of Fluffies keeps them as the main printing subject among enthusiasts, with only Kimmy Compacts as the distant second due to the ease of scale.
Today biotoys converted to living action figures account for an estimated 13% of copyright licensing, innumerable custom works are distributed and used from sites like fluffythings.com and ponytrader.com. Far more reliable is the extremely lucrative market in creating online videos to force a Fluffy already in its new body to watch immediately after a reset to program them with the basics of their intended character.
Of course some owners simply look for new forms of abuse, encasing Foals into sparkly anklets to make them feel proud which will cripple or sever their feet slowly as they grow, providing corsets lined with spikes to Mares before breeding, giving aggressive Smarties hard actual hooves or Alicorns/Poopies hard spines close to their skin beneath their fluff which would protect the victim and permanently cripple all aggressors. Some pranksters raise brats with a splitter attachment to their rectum, turning the usual projectile spray of feces into a difficult to dodge broad cone of filth.
Perhaps the largest benefit to Fluffies themselves is a new way of selling their kind. A Fluffy fully encased in battle armor or a full body costume need not be beautiful or docile, as aggression and intelligence make a better roleplayer. It matters little if they have the fluff color of early 1940’s French mud and refuse to stop bullying other Fluffies because once encased in jointed squares covered in greebles they just have the “warrior’s spirit”. Though the learning curve is steep and investment is not insubstantial, a breeder with a trusted brand can easily sell any non-crippled Fluffy their mill produces by following marketing trends and turning every eyesore into a bald or anime-haired pop culture reference.
Effects on psychology are varied. Since most Fluffies are given a reset after their enhancement, they adapt quickly to their new forms. Less intelligent and more programming-run breeds usually have dysphoria issues as poor memory and lack of rationality defaults them to a self-image of a generic Hasbio G1 or G3 Fluffy, requiring periodic resets. Breeds that cannot be easily reset or are intelligent enough to reason out their existence are dealt with simply by developing enthusiasm for their new life, turning even dedicated Abusers into Hugboxers for a select few that watch their favorite show with them and develop the same love for the work. Stress from the printing process is generally survivable without longterm damage, though some manage to move enough in their restraints for prints to fail or overlap the blueprint and receive burns as they are partially encased. Weaker breeds and some Foals die from anxiety and pain, and pregnant females rarely deliver quality Foals if they are even able to give birth at all through whatever is printed on them, some going into labor while submerged in resin resulting in a “babbeh tail” of fetuses attached by umbilical cord, though encasing the stillborns or even survivors in transparent resin while keeping the placenta unable to exit the vagina has become a point of fascination; Jeffery Carmichael of Santa Cruz, CA is credited with producing a “Shitrat Queen” of living Foals who survived to adulthood, still attached to their living mother for their entire lives via umbilical cord encased in flexible segmented joints and anchored to the Mare’s perineum, by using the notoriously disease and infection-resistant Nurgle breed of Fluffy and leaving a channel for menstrual tissue to exit.
Less grotesque uses include prosthetics, as the ability to print around a Foal but using thin break points to remove the prosthetic when it is outgrown ensures a Fluffy born without limbs or with deformities such as missing skin, exposed organs, or features which may cause other Fluffies to be hostile means Hugboxers can ensure a high quality of life for their pets. Springy attachments for stumps meant for legless Fluffies can also be printed around healthy Pegasus limbs to mitigate falling damage from acts of daring stupidity such as jumping from tables to the floor. Alicorn breeders have found success in printing wings and a horn on Mares or any cohabiting Stallions to convince them they are Alicorns as well, making purges of the valuable Foals rare, though the staunch traditionalist approach of many professional breeders and the low resources of hobbyist breeders has kept the practice from going too mainstream and kept Alicorn prices high, with a small movement believing that an Alicorn who survived a mother who would destroy them being of higher quality. Even paralyzed Fluffies can be granted movement, as attachments and modifications exist to grant mobility to Fluffies whether they can still flex the muscles in their hips, their sphincter, or even just their tongue though the more paralyzed the Fluffy the more they will rely on motorized attachments and sensors rather than simply connecting one limb to the movement of another; Fluffies who are paralyzed often require additional training and reminders to sleep in a harness that will charge their electronic parts lest they lose power somewhere unsafe or where they will not be immediately heard or found.
“Print Gladiators” are a subset of Hugbox hobbies where Fluffies engage in gladiatorial combat and games in manners similar to Abuse arenas, but with printed body armor to ensure Fluffies fight to exhaustion and are awarded victory by point assignment from judges. In some cases they compete against or alongside other varieties of biotoys.
The newest, and arguably strangest, 3d printing Fluffy fad is producing bipedal Fluffies using rigs designed around their limbs most commonly called called “Mechies”, though “Monkeyfluffs” and derivatives are also used. Some have taken to rigging Ferals and releasing them again for amusement, others have found some breeds able to actually successfully accomplish low-strength low-intelligence work such as sorting objects by color. Though once considered a blight, Fluffies nowadays are the source of the increased production and profit in berry-based agriculture as they do the work of children and produce quality fertilizer on-site for only the cost of the same amount of berries eaten by children in the fields anyway. Mechies also make efficient guards against other Fluffies, being generally immune to whatever unmodded Fluffies can do so long as their legs are sturdy enough to avoid being knocked over and able to efficiently end the life of any Fluffy beneath them, though guard Fluffies intelligent enough to stay motivated at the task are also often soft-hearted enough to make exceptions which requires trust on their part to share knowledge of those they allow entry with their owners without fear of dooming them (through typical gaslighting the owner can still slay the unwanted immigrants, though rigging them as Mechies for labor or simply dropping them off at shelters is similarly viable). Though most Fluffies are initially afraid of Mechies, some herds have been documented being lead by a Mechy Smarty or with a Mechy Toughie. Others seem unable to differentiate them from a human, and documentation of new Feral Fluffy myths regarding Mechies has been noted as well though at present it is inconsistent whether Fluffies believe they are children of humans and their Satan-analog Bozdo, blessed spirits of their Christ figure Pepmin, ancestor spirits, or something else entirely.
A Foal-molesting and consuming Feral using its rig to pluck them from their mothers became a local celebrity in Boise until an Abuser who was disgusted by his fellow Abusers praising a Fluffy online stalked and executed him with a flare gun which ignited a fire and caused the destruction of several apartments and businesses with damage totaling over $3,000,000 along with four deaths and forty six injured. The identity of the culprit was not released as he was underage at the time. Mechies have also been noted in the Fuckffy community, where their dexterity and height provides them the ability to take active roles in sexual acts. Domestic Mechies are the preferred playmate for children due to their increased ability to play alongside the child, and keep interest as the owner grows older. Many are even trained to clean their own litterboxes, or even use the toilet. Since most Mechie rigs do not cover the body the occupant generally suffers less crippling emotional responses, though the difficulty of operation means a reset can require retraining which takes several months of care or over a year on average to figure it out themselves. Though Mechies are often capable of causing mayhem since they can reach more objects, cause more noise, escape containment, and create worse messes as well as do more damage to non-Mechies and pleasure themselves openly, they are increasingly seen as the preferred Fluffy by the Hugbox public.
Sadly this technology cannot legally be applied to humans. The complexities of laws regarding cybernetic enhancements, the complexities required to verify the safety of modifications and prolonged resin exposure, cultural stigma towards enhanced humans, humans not having the innate advanced immune responses and regeneration of biotoys, and the complexities of modern international travel keep any applications a lawsuit waiting to happen. While it is possible to obtain such mods, they pose unique challenges to the lives of users going forwards as they become the targets of mano-purists and security fearful of 3d printed concealed weapons alike, and insurance companies can deny any claim whether related or not to those known to use 3d printed enhancements.