Here is the Headcanon of what people have started calling the Jellyverse
This was originally posted on the Booru. It’s been very slightly edited to remove any continuity errors.
The date for the stories Jelly and Snowflake, Snowflake’s Babies, Alice’s Fluffies, Red Conan and the Snake Daddy is 2032. Several of my one off stories are also set in this year, but some are set earlier - for example, Abandoned takes place in 2025, only a year after Peta freed the first fluffies.
Creation of Fluffies
Hasbio created fluffies in the 2020s. Early experiments were genetic freaks, and not at all viable, but by 2024, the basic fluffy had been “perfected”. Peta freed the first batches of feral fluffies in late 2024.
Fluffies contain DNA from ponies (hooves and appearance), pigs & guinea pigs (general appearance, body fat and squeaking), rabbits (mainly breeding rate) , parrots (speaking) and sheep (for their fluff). Pegasi also have some bird DNA (wings), and Unicorns have Narwahl DNA (horns). Alicorns are a rare combination of the two, and more commonly born to Unicorn & Pegasus parents breeding together.
Fluffies also have human DNA, and specifically the DNA that distinguishes humans from Chimpanzees. The human DNA is mainly X chromosome and related to brain development, especially language. Hasbio have tried to conceal this, and it is a major reason why hugboxers in the Jellyverse are arguing that fluffies deserve human rights. By 2032, genetic sequencing takes a matter of minutes, and hundreds of animals have had full DNA sequencing, enhancing human understanding of genetic influence on phenotype.
Fluffy Lifecycle
Fluffies have a pregnancy that lasts two weeks. Foals are born with their fluff, but with eyes closed and not talking for the first couple of days. After this, their eyes open, and they become “walkie-talkie babbehs”. After two weeks, they are weaned and can then eat solid foods. This is important, because fluffy mothers can become pregnant again immediately after giving birth.
Fluffies reach adulthood after about 5 weeks. This means a mother fluffy can have big baby foals as well as little babies at the same time. This often leads to competition between babies. In domestic fluffies, this is just a competition to be the “bestest babbeh” but in ferals, this competition can determine which fluffy gets milk or food.
After 5 weeks, fluffies can reproduce safely. At 4 weeks, young fillies can get pregnant, but sometimes there are complications, leading to premature birth, stillbirth or the death of the mother, as they are slightly too small.
Fluffies can live up to 8 years old.
Fluffy Psychology
Most fluffies are sweet and innocent, and want nothing more than huggies and love. They genuinely care about other fluffies, and their human keepers, and will always try to help other fluffies that are suffering. They will share food, and care for one another, including orphan foals. Fluffies in the Jellyverse are the “old school” innocent fluffies, and not “hell-gremlins”.
Fluffies are not in any way “programmed”. They have animal instincts that they have inherited from the Frankenstein-like fusion of their DNA. These instincts could be argued to be “programmed”, but hard-wired instincts would be a better description.
Fluffies can learn other languages, other than English. Their capacity for language stems from their human DNA. They have analogues to Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, and their arcuate fasiculus is similarly formed to that of human beings. Fluffy language has evolved culturally, much like human language. It is passed from mother to foal, and from humans to fluffies, and vice-versa, both in person and via TV and the internet. Phrases like “bad-upsies” have been learned.
Fluffy mothers will reject runts or malformed foals, a seemingly hard-wired instinct. They will almost never reject other foals. The whole concept of the “poopie babbeh” is because humans devalue drab coloured foals, such as browns, greens and greys. Fluffies learn that humans do not like these colours and so call them “poopie babbehs”, often remembering this much later on.
Smarties do exist. In the wild, dominant animals would have more food and mates. In this sense, smarties are an attempt by fluffies to evolve and survive. In Ferals that do not have any contact with humans, dominant smarties have more babies, passing on their genes. In domestic fluffies, and ferals that encounter humans, smarties generally end up dying, often taking the lives of their special friends and babies with them, as they demand things from humans and attract abuse.
This results in dominant but stupid smarties slowly dying out. As a result, the rarer, actually smart smarties, which have learned that humans do not respond well to demands for land and sketties, and have learned to hide from abusers, are slowly becoming more common. Fluffies will gradually evolve to become more intelligent, as, stupid though they are, their extremely rapid reproduction rate and their ability to understand and speak languages is practically their only advantage over other animals.
Although Fluffies are for the most part very stupid (compared to humans at least) in some ways they are actually vastly more intelligent than humans, in that they can learn language at an incredibly rapid rate. The genetic engineering that achieved this in fluffies could also potentially be used on human beings.
Human Psychology
Most humans in the Jellyverse are not abusers. Most humans find fluffies cute but annoying, and would ignore them if there were not so many ferals.
Human hugboxers feeding ferals is a major reason for them surviving. Fluffies would be outclassed by rats in a purely Darwinian, survival-of-the-fittest environment. But fluffies can beg for food, and actually get it. Although many humans refuse to give fluffies food, far more will feed them than kill them. This is what enables them to survive.
Abusers do exist. I write stories about them because people find it entertaining. Hugbox humans like Luigi (from Abandoned) or Claire (from Jelly and Snowflake) are far more common than Abusers like Phil (the Snake Daddy) or Stephen (from Alice’s Fluffies).
This doesn’t stop some humans, like Quimby (from Abandoned and The Wall) from stirring up fears about feral fluffies to win votes however.
In the Jellyverse, there is also starting to be much more genetic engineering of human beings. If anything, fluffies provided a convenient way to experiment with genetic engineering, without the ethical constraints inherent in human experimentation. This story will be told in The Lab.
The Fall of Cleveland
The events of the Fall of Cleveland saga are part of the Jellyverse. This took place in 2028.
Non-canon in the Jellyverse
Sorry-poopies are not acidic or blinding. Fluffies poop in fear to disgust predators, which can sometimes protect them.
Fluff-splosions used to happen, to earlier “breeds” of fluffies. These fluffy mummahs became so big that they used to need to be rolled, and could actually explode. Their foals rarely survived unless adopted by other fluffies though, so this trait has rapidly been removed by evolution. Mother fluffies are now capable of waddling around, even when heavily pregnant, and never explode now.
“Programming” is just Hasbio propaganda. Fluffies have instincts, but also learn, just like other animals and humans. They are not programmed at all.
Smarties exist, but Hell-gremlins are rare.
Abusers exist, but most are humans are hugboxers.
