My entry for Ponepone’s subspecies competition: Angel fluffies!
Angel fluffies were commissioned by a local church, which was worried about the demonic influences of devil fluffies and bat fluffies leading kids astray. After a bunch of finagling, the result was… these guys!
This is the initial concept art for them. Silly li’l buggers. For a more detailed explanation …
It is not clear what actually makes the halo float. Nobody knows how magnets work anyway, so that’s probably it.
They have the halo ever since they’re born, and as chirpies use it as a security blanket of sorts; they’ll cling to the halo at all times, and if it’s forcibly taken away they grow incredibly distraught. If the halo is permanently taken away before the foal naturally lets go of it, which is when it has been weaned and opened its eyes, the resulting stress often causes the foal to die.
They are not smart. They mean well and try their best, but after all they are fluffies; tell an angel fluff that killing chirpies brings them directly to Heaven and thus is a good deed, and it’ll believe you in an instant.
Still, good deeds are what lets you go to Heaven, so even if it means helping a terrifying monster or fluffy-slaying beast, angel fluffies will gladly do it… Unless it entails being kind to demons.
What is a “demon” to these fluffies? Well …
The way other fluffies react to alicorns, is instead the way angel fluffies react to whatever they think is demonic. Bat fluffies and devil fluffies are terrifying unholy hellspawn, in their opinion, but it doesn’t end there. Fluffaloes, cow fluffies, regular cows, goats, bats, moose; ANYTHING that has two horns, leathery wings, or dark eyeballs is feared and loathed.
Suffice to say, alicorn angel fluffies don’t have a good time in this regard.
Again, alicorn angel fluffies don’t have a good time. The idea of breaking their horns never comes to mind, so they think they’re pre-destined for eternal damnation no matter what they do.
The halo is made of keratin, just like their horns and hooves, so if your angel fluffy’s halo is broken it can be taped together no problem. It remains floating with the fluffy even if broken, but if the halo is stolen or otherwise disappears, the fluffy will desperately search around until it finds either its halo or a viable substitute. Even if said substitute is way too big or too small.
By the way, it will have the same reaction if the wings are taken, but finding white wings is a lot more difficult.
And now, onto special features!
Angel fluffies are perfect if you want a night light for your fluffies but don’t wanna pay an electricity bill. Other fluffies flock to them as a source of safety! But if you wanna sleep with one in your bed, or have a fluffy that prefers the dark… then it will instead be a terrible nuisance, since no room will be properly dark with an angel fluffy in there.
By the way, due to this feature, angel fluffies have no real concept of the terror of darkness. They’ve never experienced it after all!
Being good means never keeping secrets, and asking forgiveness if you’ve done wrong. This can make them very unpopular with other fluffies, as they’re natural-born snitches; they literally cannot help themselves. They’re incapable of lying in any way, so even if threatened with the worstest of punishments, the moment they see a human they are spilling everything.
Also, they consistently treat it like they’re in a confession booth.
Since they don’t know how mating works, even if married, they might give the other fluffy a regular hug and declare it pregnant, or fuss at any other random action being pregnancy-inducing. It could be mind-beaming your intent at the other fluffy hard enough for all they know!
If you do manage to teach them how to do it properly, they’re still likely going to tell you after every session, so there’s also that. The easiest way is probably to teach them how to do it but not tell them what it actually is, which is … morally dubious. And will cause utter panic once they find out what it does, with the most desperate of confessions. Though most backyard breeders are pretty dubious anyway, aren’t they?
And I think that’s all I’ve got on these little guys!