you drew the salmon horses’ mouths extra fucked up, i love it
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I get the feeling the most successful to breed with kelpies is cannibal fluffies, cause they bring a meal first before the wooing and being tested by not being too dumb, still dangerous, but strong mares and a possible hybrid of breeds doing pretty well would be cool, like camouflaging plants in hair and on body, maybe semi aquatic if the cards are right listen to their kelpie mama or if the pa alive his lessons to lessen the load
I do have to ask, but can a kelpie use its special spit on other types of fluffies? and does the spit work on other plant types besides water and shroomy types?
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So, I actually have thought of something for this!
Due to the fact that Kelpies use sex and the offer of being ‘special friends’ as a hunting tactic, they don’t take any real stock in romance the way most other fluffies easily do. If another fluffy just walks up and asks to be their special friend, they’ll end up thinking it’s either a trap or that the fluffy asking is easy prey.
To counteract this, Kelpies have developed rituals/proposals to make the message clear that they genuinely want to have a romantic relationship with another. These rituals include tidying up the spot they want to propose in, hunting down the biggest or most prey they can get their teeth on as an offering, or thinking up some poetry for their romantic interest. The more effort put into the proposal, the better the outcome usually is. It’s kinda like watching different species of male birds preparing to attract a mate.
As for fusing plant clippings into a non-kelpie fluff’s mane/tail, yes! They can do that, and they really only do so if that fluffy is very special to them! It doesn’t really matter what type of plant is used, so long as the fluffy can take relatively good care of it. The plant used is more than likely one that makes the kelpie think of the individual.
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I like that Kelpie Fluffs have a preference for Alicorns because they’re monsters.
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Oh this looks to be very interesting! There’s a lot of opportunities here to explore. I assume the gathering would be moving about as the crowd follows the spawning salmon fluffs and/or avoids the other local predators? I could see a young bear that would be pushed out of any good spots by the larger bears still being able to quickly take over any decent fishing opportunities from the kelpie horde. Or the shenanigans if a herd of normal fluffies made the monumental mistake of assuming these were ‘nyu fwiends’.
Question- how do kelpie fluffs interact with the uncommon male kelpies while at the gathering? Are all kelpies aware that male kelpies can’t make babbehs and automatically reject any courting attempts or do some male kelpies manage to get a special friend? If they are aware, do they still consider it a possibility to be special friends, just using a normal fluffy as a sperm donor/ celebratory dinner? For that matter, if a kelpie does have a living special friend, is there a way for them to mark them out to the others to make sure he doesn’t get mistaken for a snack at this gathering, or would they have to keep together? Or just not bring the special friend along?
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I love everything about this. I’m picturing a forest witch who finds a burrow and befriends them over a shared love of killing regular fluffies.
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I might make something for this.
Super kyoot, @FluffyChimera. I’ve loved kelpies since you made the first pic of one and this just makes me love them more.
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Loved seeing moss again here
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Kelpies have no issue with male kelpies, but they would be pretty uncommon to see!
They probably wouldn’t know what male kelpies couldn’t make babbehs unless the male kelpie told them. In fact, male kelpies are likely to get laid A LOT at the great gatherings as a form of trade because they’re sterile (i.e. Shroom trades a lick of his magic mushrooms and in return gets easy food, plant offerings, and enfies before cold times without the risk of having babbehs hell yeah)
It’s very possible for kelpies to become special friends with each other regardless of gender, if anything it’d be more common for kelpies to choose each other as special friends while using regular fluffies as sperm donors/celebratory meals because they romanticize one day eating each other and having their manes become beautiful gardens together.
Kelpies being special friends with non-kelpie fluffs will adorn their partner in plant clippings, making them an honorary ‘kelpie-friend’. They also would be very excited to show them off and introduce them at the great gathering, making sure the other kelpies know that they’re not on the menu. It’d also be safer in general for them to hang around each other during the event.
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This gives me so many ideas for a kelpie mare being so excited to show off her recently-kelpie-friend special friend.
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Thanks for the reply! That’s all extremely interesting- I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me the value of being able to guarantee no babbehs would result from any enfies with male kelpies, especially at a fall gathering of fluffies that are capable of understanding ‘the cold time’ and how it would make their lives more difficult. Also Shroom makes me think of how literally every time I go hiking in the mountains I run across people getting stoned in the pretty meadows and streams. Not saying I have any issue with that, its just a hilarious coincidence.
The eating each other and having their manes become a beautiful garden to leave a monument to their partnership is both sweet and creepy. Gives me some ideas for potential art in fact. If I can ever get around to dusting off my supplies…
Using their plant-grafting ability to mark kelpie-friendly fluffies is a very clever idea! I can only imagine the scene when the kelpie has to convince their friend/lover that ‘yes, its very important that I hork this loogie into your hair so I can get these lovely dandelions to grow so my family doesn’t eat you for dinner when I bring you around’. But in fluffy speak of course ( I wasn’t able to figure out how a fluffy would say ‘hork a loogie’ XD ).
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I love this so much dude its so so so sgood and tangible. Like I can SEE this in another reality- almost.
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So can a kelpie make a garden as a method to recycle wasted food?
If they lick a few corpses since they can’t take the whole, stick some plants onto kickstart it has many uses I imagine, from attracting stupid herds to making a mark or item like useful plants or fungi or just pretty bait~
I can see a few special places kelpies might go to add to their garden as a graveyard for the very rare old kelpies who know their time is coming and meat too tough to eat but can tend to the place, or those who know they’re not making it and don’t want to make others sick or prepare for the end, or pieces of dead kelpies and kelpie friend buried there like a weird community garden donation!
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Magic spitties. 
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Maybe it could be ‘kewpie-fwend pwant spitties’?
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I’m curious if kelpies have the same ‘hoomin mummah/daddeh’ programming/instincts as normal fluffies? Would they be happy living with a human?
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I can certainly see that becoming a trend starting from a kelpie wanting to decorate her nests with plants the thrive in the area. finding out that it’s a good way to bait in other fluffies is just a bonus.
I can definitely see a medicine mare like Spore utilizing this to cultivate larger supplies of medicinal plants/herbs that won’t fit on her own mane. Just having a bunch of stashes of tumeric or aloe vera around her hunting spots.
Living in the wild, it is extremely rare for a kelpie to grow to old age. They’d sooner die to a larger predator or allow themself to be eaten by their special friend once they’re no longer capable of hunting for themself. Part of the beauty of kelpie deaths is that when their bodies are gone and decomposed, unless you were actively looking for the bones, you’d never even know they were there.
A kelpie graveyard would be absolutely beautiful though, probably just looks like a really lush garden of all sorts of plants growing out of the skeletons just barely visible under the grass/water.
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The human home programming instincts has been all but bred out of them, I’d say. Like, it’s still there, but it’s an alien feeling that doesn’t make sense and is overwhelmed by their distinct fear of humans.
UK fluffies on the other hand are less afraid of humans, but would only be happy as a feral outdoor creature that swings by to say hi and eat any free meat you offer them. It’s like befriending the neighborhood stray cat.
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My neighbourhood stray cat lets me pet him.
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