Ooh, that’s clever.
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It is a ton easier to sell a story/narrative than it is to sell a nondescript “X” like all the other "X"s.
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Would you rather buy a “lightly used violin, needs new strings” for $xx…
OR would you rather have a “a well-used violin, owned by John Doe who used it to master his craft to now hold 2nd chair on The “Semi-Important” Orchestra. You can see on the neck where he held his hands, a groove formed for you to seamlessly move your hand into like he is guiding you himself. For just $xx and a set of replacement strings you can owner this instrument to hone your craft.”
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The ‘stories’ line is like how I wrote why Fluffies are the way they are and is a big factor in ones not subjected to natural selection or of the personality types to disobey their programming drives and impulses. So I’m all for treating them like you’re trying to educate freshly drawn cartoon characters into their roles.
Summary
Frameworks of programming exist for “play modes” and “story building”. They take priority in Fluffy minds above the “default mode” dumbass angels meant to be NPC followers or “farmboy Luke” character origins, but the archtypes are mostly rudimentary and really unfinished to varying degrees, full of line references to missing data and broken links to behavior and language sets. Most only activate under certain conditions, sometimes providing an intelligence boost or making them dumber, more or less empathetic, arrogant or humble, patient or spastic, and so on. All just common character tropes. Having multiple breeds from different programmer teams means some can just not present certain tropes while others frequently do.
For example Smarties as Hellgremlins is when the aggressive tropes activate, but what was coded as a default response was “older child play, adventure genre main villain” so they act like little GI Joe enemies when treated as a “Bestest” which signals “this is a main character”. Since the list of evil plans is blank due to programmers waiting to hear what physical peripherals and addons would be sold they default to a mix of other character tropes and play mode behaviors. Grossout game mode shit spray, breeder mode sexual aggression, tournament mode fighting, display mode color sorting, and so on, all through the lens of a Fluffy version of a mid level supervillain that’s supposed to just be obsessed with power and territory. Without preprogrammed dialogue sets they improvise things, like “Dummeh Fwuffy nao in hewd, dis Smawty wand!” instead of “Join [name]’s ebil team, an we wiww cwush [the Fluffy the child has chosen as the hero] an wuwe da Fwuffy kingdom fowebah!”
A Fluffy exposed to human television programs will learn their role better or make the conscious choice to become something else, leaving something like Simpsons on to get a Smarty to shut up might result in it acting more like a lazy idiot if it likes Homer, or like an opinionated empath if it feels Lisa is the best character.
Since environment, humans, and other Fluffies shape what the programming says to do there is a lot of repetition. Smarty is arrogant and demanding but also treacherous, feigns innocence, refuses to admit fault. Starscream Fluffy. Because of that set of behaviors he’s usually killed or leads his group to failure as a Starscream would. But show him his actions only lead to ruin, and he would be happier without being that way? Gradual redemption Starscream, remains arrogant but switches to the Heroic Lancer archetype instead.
Breeders favor obedience and predictability, Hasbio and competitors figure out how to simplify the programming (but not edit it) so the modern domestic gets dumber and dumber and uncommon archetypes disappear. The further you get from civilization and economic centers the more diversity the individual displays. The more domestics deal with unique Ferals from outside human territories the more individualism they also show, the more “free will” as they regard their programming as an internal advisor rather than as their own thoughts.
While the complex explanation is my own canon, other stories have ran with similar ideas. The ease of gaslighting Fluffies and their almost unlimited suspension of disbelief is almost like setting them up for play scenarios.
Knight of Cerebus becoming Affably Evil, Team Mom becoming Alpha Bitch, Asshole Victim into The Bluebeard, The Starcsream into Raphael Leaves The Team, and so on. Fluffies designed as toys, toys being basically storytelling devices, the best way to deal with Fluffy personality is to decipher and play with storytelling tropes.
So yadda yadda, our protagonist here should think of them in these cartoon terms once he starts figuring out their personalities better.
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Hell, look at the shelters trying to get animals adopted.
Tik Tok “This puppy smiles when she hears the word ‘biscuit”.
Youtube “The sad life and uncertain future of Delilah”
Twitter “Dog that looks like Lady Gaga In Chromatica has been waiting for an owner for over a year”
Local news “Elderly dog has been returned to shelter six times this year”.
Facebook “Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson wants someone to give this special little guy a home”
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Making videos with the fluffies is my idea for extra income too. The stallion probably has interesting tales to tell.
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Shit, you could do a whole series using Feral interviews. It would appeal to every -box in-universe too, Abusers getting off on tales of misery and Hugboxers loving the ones that end in rescues. Stranger viewers listening for mentions of mutations or paranormal events or something.
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Have them some warm simple bath just wipe them with a towel to clean them a bit.
Giv them some slight veggie food to help at least clean off what they have been eating from the garbage.
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Clean them up
Educate them a bit
Make the foals presentable for the time they’re weaned
Maybe get a 3rd Adult Fluffy as a form of assistant
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Breed the colt and filly, then the mare with the colt, then the stallion with the filly, then their offspring, over and over.
Dip the incestuous and horribly deformed foals in resin and sell them as novelty keychains.
Edit:
You now what I like about you, @Booperino?
Despite being a notorious hugboxer, you’re still liking my posts describing extremely cruel and sadistic ideas.
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i like all comments, to be fair, since i find even the silly abuse ones amusing 
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No no, that comes later with more fluffies.
For more variations and interesting colors.
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