There’s a couple bits of hivecanon that don’t really fit together and I guess what I’m trying to figure out is if fluffy pony breeding by non-Hasbio entities was or was not at some point part of Hasbio’s intent.
The poopie babbeh thing makes perfect sense if Fluffy breeding was never meant to be public facing then obviously it would make sense to build in the disposal of products with defective colors. On top of the fact that breeding by Hasbio only would make more sense from a business standpoint
On the other hand, if it was never meant to be customer facing, there would be no need for it to have preprogrammed cutesy aspects like the mummah song. Additionally, if breeding were not customer facing there would be a need to make the products accepting of being neutered, or possibly rig them to only be fertile if raised under special conditions (like honeybees, or shoggoths). Additionally the separation anxiety when a mare’s foals are sold would be Hasbio’s problem if they planned to do all the breeding themselves, and probably would have been edited out.
So which is it?
I’m thinking maybe corporate couldn’t make up their minds whether to make it customer facing or not and the hivecanon state of being is the resukt of two seperate likes that were created under different assumptions interbreeding
Fluffies are prototype not a finish product. getting a creature to be able to speak and understand english without having to be taught it was a bigger focus then correcting all their quirks.
Breeding fluffies were never meant to hit the wild, or the market. Unfortunately for Hasbio, they were “aggressively liberated” and once they were out, Hasbio had to go ahead and release what they had to compete with the leaked, unfinished, severely fucked up FREE product now roaming the countryside, fucking freely, and shitting out new generations of also unfinished, severely fucked up product.
Some headcanons have the poopie babbeh thing as cultural; learned behaviour from Hasbio caretakers and the subsequent non-company breeders, to value pretty colours as they sell well. This learned behaviour is then transmitted to the feral population from escaped or abandoned domestics and just spreads.
Another interpretation is that the fluffy mentality is much like a toddler’s, so they like bright pretty colours.
Other behaviours like the Mummah Song are also often learnt as well; domestics get taught it via the Babbehs! show on Fluff TV, and again, it gets carried through to ferals via domestics.
About the only definite genetically encoded behaviours are:
Speech
Stock phrases (e.g. ‘Fwuffies am fo huggies and wuv’, or ‘Hewwo nize mistah/pwetty wady! Hab nyu homsies and toysies fo fwuffy’) which can be attributed to essentially a demo mode on a product to get a customer to buy it or notification that the product is now defective and a new one should be bought (i.e. ‘Wan die’)
Things like ‘espowing babbeh’, which mimics kitten behaviour to endear it to its human owners, but with constant peeping and noise making to alert the human owners that their possession is wandering around the place (kittens explore as training for hunting and are normally very quiet when they try to stalk).
