How intelligent are fluffys

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An open discussion Head canons, opinions and other ideas .

  1. Is a fluffy ever aware of its actions and the consequences that may come with it
  2. What is the bare minimum that I can do to punish a fluffy for it to understand that it did a bad thing without it reverting to a chirpy
  3. Does a fluffy really have any sense of survival instincts, it recognizes munstahs but what other things do fluffys recognize that might endanger their survival
  4. If a fluffy ever reaches the cusp of a wan die loop, can it try to kill itself
  5. Can a smarty, toughie or bestest fluffy ever loose it’s self proclaimed title and accept it or does it go chirpy or wan die aswell
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They’ve achieved both room temperature superconductors and perpetual motion generators, making the former almost obsolete

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Sorry but my brain has a single foal running on a hamster wheel and just fell through the grates and broke all its limbs can you explain to me exactly your response and whether that’s a reference to something

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It’s not a reference. The real answer is headcanon.

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I think it’s probably roughly equivalent to a parrot, so similar to a 2-3 year old based on studies of parrot intelligence. Which is actually quite smart especially for a genetically engineered talking mammal.

Unfortunately for them they sound fucking stupid.

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People like to act like fluffies are dumber than any animal but the way people write them they’d still be like the second most intelligent things on Earth

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It fully depends on head cannon but most people will answer with a 2-4 yr old intelligence range. I usually think of fluffies as being niave/ignorant over fully stupid. Fluffies only know as much as their owners are willing to teach them. They’re not able to do much math and they’ll never be particularly good at reading anything but picture books, but, if worked work with like an actual child, dedicating at least a good 2-3 years to it, they can learn simple things. Most people don’t really want to put that kind of work into a pet though so it goes neglected.

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My canon, fluffies brain are the closest to humans one, this mean that if the owner put effort on teaching them or if they experience the brutality of life on their own, their mental age can sky rocket from the base 2-4 years old to 98 years old.

Obviously most humans either dont give a fuck, too lazy to teach a living toy how life work or fluffies themself dont live long enough to reach those stats, so at least 98% of fluffy population remain stuck at 2 years old mental age.

Then consider, my ferals are and gets intelligent more faster than a domestic one.
But the moment they gets adopted and depending on how they get treated, their intelligence drops back to baby level bc nice life → lazyness → get what they want → no more brain needed → return to shitrat retardness.

Sensitive and smarties can mentally grow too but most of the cases they grow backward.

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Fluffy intelligence should depend on whatever is the most entertaining.

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Headcanon-based, some put them as REALLY stupid while others make them a bit clever. I like placing them at “smart enough to get into dangerous situations, not smart enough to get out of it” levels, with the exact intelligence varying between fluffies.

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Can you give any examples or scenarios where that could happen?

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I do have a question. Would fluffies have the same intellectual capacity as a dog or a pig if and when given the opportunity to do so?

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Generally speaking, they’re meant to be pretty dumb as they’re going to be kids toys. Having said kids toys working out the college-level math because the auther wanted them to makes it really hard to believe they’re a fluffy and not the works of someone wanting forces to come to surface.

But to answer:

1: Generally no, only really understanding it shouldn’t piss and shit outside of a given area unless trained to. Otherwise, it basically this gif:

2: All but putting it into a Saw Trap, basically. You can beat it, but don’t over do it to it being a punching bag. Can’t cut it too much to the point you’re treat it as a blade sharpner. You can toss it water, but doing too much can cause it to get brain damage or something of that like.

In other words, set you own limit on how far you want to take it before it goes to that state. Otherwise, you’d be basically just have it broke down mentally.

3: Pretty much none beyond kids generally safety; don’t touch blades, don’t play with fire, etc. They’re meant to be indoor things and not live outside like a dog or cat would. They only label things as ‘munstahs’ for things they don’t understand.

4: That’s generally what it does in that loop, some just give up the ghost and do nothing from that point on, but that pretty much the same thing.

5: Any fluffy can go through the mental breakdown, regardless of title. Theose are pretty much self-given titles and means nothing outside of fluffy world. Being a smarty means shit when a bear shows up and is hungry.

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In my headcanon, fluffies are generally stupid, but not suicidally so. They have low level problem solving skills, and understand basic cause and effect, but only to a certain point. Math wise, most can only count to four (number of legs) but can go to twenty if especially smart. Ferals will understand the need to stockpile and ration food, but that is a learned behavior. They can learn, but only to an extent.

Reasonable sorry sticking (foam/padding covered wooden stick, or full wooden for severe offenses), and sorry boxing, plus as much psychological abuse as you want. A full force hit from an average adult will shatter bone. If you deal enough damage, they will no longer think of you as a human, but consider you a monster wearing a human face, due to being incapable of seeing humans as evil. If you leave for a while and come back you can trick them into thinking you are not the same “monster” who hurt them.

Fluffies recognize danger pretty well, as long as they’ve seen something cause pain they will avoid it. If they see road killed fluffies, they will not cross a road. They recognize temperatures as dangerous (I.e. extreme hot and cold) as well as lack of resources (they won’t willingly live in a place lacking food and water). Ferals are the accumulation of knowledge from watching dozens of other fluffies die, eventually learning how to survive. In a herd, if a fluffy dies from something the herd will take action to prevent that from happening to another fluffy (leaving if there are dangerous animals in an area, teaching not to eat poisonous berries, etc)

Wan die just involves them completely giving up. They will not move, drink, eat, or attempt to avoid anything. They will only repeat ‘wan die’. They won’t move to attempt suicide.

Toughies can be stripped of their position by the smarty, the smarty can only be stripped of their position by total herd collapse due to incompetence (their actions get more than half the herd killed) aging out, or being excessively cruel. Neither go chirpy or wan die, they will either accept it and sulk or throw a tantrum and become violent, either of which will be dealt with by the new smarty or the rebelling herd.

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They can speak a language and hold conversations with humans by default. That already makes them extremely intelligent and that alone would be enough. They’re often depicted as being able to solve or at least attempt to solve problems and use tools. For specific examples, no I can’t off the top of my head.

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Despite what anyone says, the answer will always be the same when push comes to shove:

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Form animal point of view they’re really smart actually. They have basic logical/analytical abilities, they have limited comprehension of abstract concepts, they can speak human languages (although many headcanons claim that language was ‘programmed’ into them) so they’re smarter than most animals.
Form human perspective the best way to describe their IQ would be ‘slightly retarded child’. Yes they can speak but for humans they’re dumb.