Fluffies are appealing to me because they can’t do shit. Kick em, punch em, toss em around, but most they could do is make you bleed a bit by biting, and that’s only if they’re absolutely determined.
But, at least to my understanding, fluffalos are literally made to by ridden by small children. A fluffalo fighting just moderately hard is more trouble for a human than the toughiest toughie could ever dream of. A fluffalo could actually hurt and outpace a human, and that just makes it not-fun imo.
Fluffaloes were made to help in the rice fields, actually. You’re thinking of ride-on fluffies.
We all have subspecies and stuff we don’t care much for, so that’s normal. I don’t get the point of SBS foals for example - it’s a chirpy, but older!! Wow, revolutionary!!
Fluffaloes are just as abuseable as any other fluffy, and headcanons still apply - I don’t think they’re any bigger than a large dog. Big enough that a kid would think it could ride them, but small and fragile enough that a kid trying to do so would break the fluffalo’s spine. They might be able to hurt a small child a bit by knocking it over during playtime (bumps and bruises not actual broken bones), but that’s just an excuse for the parent to beat the crap out of it.
But like with most subspecies, there is a serious lack of abuse content for fluffaloes. Since abusers haven’t taken a good look at how fluffaloes could be used for unique forms of abuse (attempted riding, working them too hard, horn harvesting, them accidentally hurting or killing normal fluffs, hell maybe just keeping one as a normal pet would upset them because they’re worker fluffies), they’ve gone neglected. They’re no Mary Sue fluffs able to tangle with adult humans and win, they’re just extra big fluffies with round horns and a work ethic.
I also don’t like them. They’re too sturdy and burly and bovine-inspired to tickle my fancy. But they’ve been around so damn long I can’t bring myself to say anything against them really.
Also I’m pretty sure the plural would be fluffalo. Like buffalo, they’re invariants.
I don’t get the point of SBS foals for example - it’s a chirpy, but older!! Wow, revolutionary!!
They’re supposed to be fluffies with a severe congenital developmental or learning disorder, like Down’s Syndrome in humans. Read whatever you like into that.
No matter what they’re supposed to be, in practice they are chirpies but older. They act like chirpies, they’re treated like chirpies by the parents, they’re abused like chirpies. The only thing they’ve got going for them is that they drink milk forever and the mom can’t make milk forever.
I suppose? But that role is filled by every single poopie babbeh in existence anyway, so it’s hardly a unique trait. If you want someone that’s resented by siblings but loved by parent? Bestest babbeh or a parent that is trying (and failing) to teach the others all babbehs are good babbehs. Want to bully someone that’s too dumb to know what’s happening? Derped babbeh or new litter babbeh or brain damaged from diet of poopies/no milk babbeh. There’s no shortage of babbeh-on-babbeh bullying.
Depends on your experience with people with developmental/learning disorders.
From what I’ve read and heard, people with Down’s Syndrome are some of the happiest and friendly people around - there’s a comedian, Shane Gillis, who has an uncle with Down’s and he has nothing but good things to say about his uncle Danny.
On the other hand, standard children prejudice and fear of the unknown leading to bullying and abuse would be equally common.
I can agree, the only way I could ever think of making at least somewhat impactful would be the fluffy knowing something is wrong with it but it can only act like a foal almost like a vegetive state full mental awareness but the wires are crossed in a way the can’t express it and be understood
I think fluffalos are cute by design. Don’t like the sturdiness most give to them though. So I just don’t make any fluffalos in my HC sturdier or even bigger (other than fluff) than a regular fluffy.
Industrial abuse: farm flavor, make them plow and haul things heavier than they can handle comfortably and cause them to suffer slowly or not eat or get hit for not working. Just an idea
Im thinking more a replacement for beef recipes so basically industrial slaughter and maybe a farmer hacking the tails for cowtail meals and the horns for child size horn mounts
They’re cute fight me. And their bullshit stereotypical Native American schtick in one story was funny.
I don’t know about them being tough or kids riding them or something, I just like the highland cow looking little guys rambling about the “spiwit ob da bwight baww” and shit like that.