That’s how a cycle starts, a flash on the “sky” of pure darkness, a star made of the death of a not so innocent fluffy, it is said that every good fluffy goes to skettiland, but where do the bad fluffies go?
The first step is to make the soul go through three phases, the first being denial, the soul does not accept death plus the stubbornness that is characteristic on a fluffy, this phase is done on the “middle” or our world, on the place of death, most of it is done after the body has died but the soul has yet to abandon it, this phase is for any fluffy, or living being actually no matter how good or bad they were.
The second phase is anger, consciousness and soul go through it, the fluffy and the soul reject their destiny, a soul and a fluffy that still feels anger because of something inevitable can’t be in skettiland, the soul and the consciousness are angry so they won’t descend or ascend.
The third phase, bargaining, in this phase the fluffy understands that it has died, good fluffies go from denial to bargaining, they have no anger unlike bad fluffies, who have to deal with their anger before starting to bargain, to understand their situation.
The fourth and last phase is acceptance, the fluffy has accepted that it needs to move on, it is ready to go forward, and depending on if they were good or bad they go to their destination.
This is where a bad fluffy’s soul and consciousness break through the limit between worlds, and the shine of a new existence on hell illuminates the skies like a falling star, they’re given flesh and bones, a body to exist on this world.
A fluffy wakes up in a random place of this maze-like world, made of everything a fluffy could’ve been, ferals are common among fluffies, so usually the world is mostly alleyways and abandoned looking structures that together resemble a ghost town.
Fluffies are forced to live many times through this place, death isn’t an escape option, death is a checking that the fluffy must pass in order to be given another chance in our world, so they can finally ascend to skettiland as renovated fluffies.
Of course harsh conditions and scarce food or shelter aren’t enough for a fluffy to be a new of itself, and not all fluffies can return, as some are completely irremediable.
Why would a place with only fluffies have text scrabbled on its walls? Walls have ears they say, they listen but not to sound, they listen to a fluffy’s fear, they feel it and print it as words or images, a fluffy can’t read but it can feel the wall’s “warnings” left behind by other fluffies that went through that place feeling strong fear or regret for certain actions.
Oh would you look at that vent, what do we have there, a tracker of course, it lives mostly within the vent system, and just like a mole that is always underground it is almost blind, but compensates it with great speed and strong jaws to tear flesh, as well as greatly developed senses of hearing and smell, wich granted it its name, it can smell fluffy blood from great distances, or hear the screeching of pain from the injured, or even the panting of tired and hiding fluffies.
Shelter for herdless fluffies is scarce, and unsafe as you can see by the former occupant’s blood on the dirt, if the fluffy went unnoticed by trackers or anything else then they might expand the shelter for commodity, but I wonder who made that house drawing on the wall? As far as we’re aware you usual fluffy isn’t that tall, right? Well maybe the… Uhh no I don’t think those are here.
But I mentioned herds, of course they still do exist, smarties? Of course they’re here too but they learn quickly, or they’re kicked out of the shelter by their own herd if they don’t do so, herds still work almost the same way as in our world, except for the constant search for new members, why? Because they mostly sustain on cannibalism, places with abundant food are hard to reach and full of danger.
The world is made of layers that always change their layout constantly, making even the terrain dangerous, a fluffy could be about to reach its herd’s shelter the terrain behind it might swap with an alleyway with a chase in progress, this is really unfortunate and that’s how many creatures find their way into herd shelters.
Or some times because the spotters, humanoid creatures that crawl on the walls as if it was a spider, they’re silent enough to sneak behind a fluffy all the way to its shelter, if it’s an individual shelter then it’ll take the fluffy as a snack, if the fluffy is with a herd, the spotter will screech to attract other spotters to the feast, this angers the near trackers because of their developed hearing, this always ends on a carnage between trackers and spotters that traps fluffies in the middle, disappearing entire herds.
What happens to fluffies that died here? Depending, if they pass the check they return to the earth, if they don’t pass it, they will be reborn on the same layer on another spot, and they’ll cycle between dying and rebirthing until they either pass the check or their very existence vanishes away, making the fluffy die definitely and becoming raw material for another existence.