Wrong so flipping wrong, smarties are multicolored candy coated chocolate buttons tha tyoud eat by the mouthful
Wrong.
Damn yes, every fluffy being a hell gremlin basically defies the proposite of them
Might make me unpopular, but I love hellgremlins the same way I loved Mary Sue Slayer fiction as a teen and Sonee Rosey Torture Fiction a few years ago. It’s satisfying to have something hateable to kick in one’s imagination when there are hateable humans you can’t kick without making things worse in real life.
You’re already unpopular 
Ha ha. Seriously, I am still aware hellgremlins should not make up ALL the population of fluffies or even of smarties. I just also think it isn’t totally out of the question that they’d display awful behaviours I know humans display.
An in-between point is good too - smarties who will challenge humans and be incredibly annoying, but don’t outright fuck their own babies to death. Allows for a lot more leeway in human-character responses.
I remember going back through my shit after the first time this subject came up and wondering if I should rethink how some of the fluffies should behave.
Nice guide, guys. Hopefully we’ll see some more interesting smarties pop up now and then
too many words
It’s a good thing you don’t make anything
this is a good distinction but i also think that all the “hellgremlins” saying “this smawty wand” yadah yadah aren’t out of charachter, because if theyre that stupid and self aggrandizing they would call themselves smart.
It’d be interesting to see a story of a “true” smarty and a hellgremlin-bastardization having a turf war
I mean animals can be territorial and I suppose for a fluffy they might think they have the chops to claim territory. Get the feeling that the smarter ones will try for a less populated place though.
From a technical point of view, syndrome just means a group of associated symptoms that appear together. How it’s been distorted, is much like how the everyday use of ‘theory’ means ‘a best guess’ compared to the actual scientific definition of ‘the most accurate model of the system we have, based on all available evidence’ causing certain people to think that the ‘Theory of Gravity’ is a mere suggestion.
When most people use ‘smarty syndrome’, they just mean the hellgremlin traits of narcissistic personality disorder (a whole raft of personality traits) and antisocial personality disorder (typically known as sociopathy and has its own list of close and sometimes overlapping symptoms).
The reason why it’s called a syndrome, is that there’s typically no well understood cause, progression or treatment for the condition, normally because most people haven’t or are willing to study fluffy psychology in any in-depth detail . It could be genetic, environmental, nurture, etc.
Yeah, that is a point - I am inclined to distrust the intelligence of any being which feels the need to call itself “smart”.
yeah but now we “smarty syndrome”, “bitch mare syndrome”, and “enfie babbeh syndrome” which are all
dumb and lazy ways to write
You’re writing about tiny baby-talking horses already, I think we’re past “dumb”.
not an excuse
Suspension of disbelief, you can call out a story for relying on lazy tropes and handwaves while still being okay with said story having a weird science magic chimera. In-universe dumbness vs meta dumbness.
For example, Teletubbies may be about weird baby creatures in a weird baby world, but a story that says the sun has Laughing Baby Syndrome to explain why it laughs (as opposed to just being amused by the Teletubbies) would rightly be called out as a weird and lazy excuse so you don’t have to write the Teletubbies doing anything amusing.
I’d argue that the Teletubbies don’t do anything amusing, the baby is always already laughing before they come outside.