Excellent reference to Mutagen’s “Mummah” comic.
Actually I’ve been thinking about that. I know @anon31733200 has a canon where fluffies can be learn to be without the lisp. Its a headcanon thing, but I do think its interesting. That said.
This is a topic I’ve been thinking a lot about, and I’m ambivalent about. I say that because its the same as asking “should fluffies be fixed?” So much hivecanon and ideas centre around fluffies having innate problems that can’t be solved, but then, and as seen on the reddit, someone asked, what if fluffies could have their innate problems solved
Some people in this community may call it “mary sue oc donut steel” but, with so much content focused and obsessing ont he flaws of fluffies, it doesn’t really allow grow growth and potential for them outside such a headcanon. Its something I mentioned here: when you have a base thats so determined on making fluffies as unlikeable and unintelligent as possible, it limits the kinds of stories that can be told.
And its not like an interesting story with an intelligent fluffy can’t be told. Mutagen’s Postfluff is proof of that.
But on the other hand, some of the classic hugboxers like Waggytail and Marcusmaximus liked fluffies for their flaws. Granted, they didn’t followed the so-called hellgremlin lore, but they did like fluffy naivete and the fluffspeak. Hell, I feel like Waggytail saw a lot of commonality between fluffies and domestic pets.
This is something I want to put into a longer opinion piece, but suffice to say is that I feel that hugboxers like Waggytail and Marcusmaximus had a point to liking fluffies “as they are”, flaws and all. Because we do lvoe cats and dogs, as well as people, despite their flaws. But at the same time, and if its better for the fandom, maybe fluffies should be able to learn to overcome some of their hindrances, if it at least diminishes some of the negative stigma and discrimination against them.