#wereplush

[neonnoble]

You gotta be careful about who you fawn over plushes in front of. You might miss the wereplush behind you! (featuring @feyfoxen's Lena~)

[hattiestgal]

how many citizens of little pocket has riley managed to enplushify in the Plush Timeline? have the streets been filled with the sounds of squeaks and slowly-expanding plushyfurs?

It's... only after realizing how far gone I was to this curse that I really took the time to count. Somewhere in the in the upper hundreds maybe? Little Pocket's not a big town. That's what, like half of the place? A half of that group is my own doing too...

What started out as just a silly little prank turned into something I don't even know if I can control anymore. (...As if I had any control of it in the first place) Even now, I can't deliver the full weight of the situation, my thoughts are so heavily watered down by the softer feelings. I've even found myself subconsciously admiring my soft, orbular body as I record this. Mindlessly squishing at the plush.

That's all this was at first, though. A little game of hunt. I've always been pretty good at getting around (I can thank my forest dwelling days for that) and I'm a natural born hunter! Plus I mean like, obviously there had to be a cure, right? Lena's real good at figuring this stuff out, so I guess I just sorta bet on that. Later on though, the feeling became addicting. What I was once doing as a harmless prank eventually became an instinctual need. To hug and be hugged. I hungered for the physical contact like it was the first thing i had eaten in weeks (Which is ironic, seeing as I didn't even need to eat anymore)

All of this to say what started as just a tiny issue eventually evolved into something that has pretty much entirely shut the town down. What's worse is that every day, the stakes behind that begin to weigh less and less on my mind.

It's funny to think about. A curse this powerful spread through hugging. A few weeks ago I didn't even know curses were real. How quickly things change...

[hattiestgal]

Riley, sweetheart, darling, friend, insert-other-terms-of-endearment here- now that the whole... wereplush issue is sorted, and I've released my findings on ways it can be enjoyed more... ethically, have you given much thought as to what you're going to do vis a vis your own relationship with it?

I know you went a bit overboard and all, but my own... experiences... have taught me that one can't dictate for others what makes them happy, so I'm happy to support you in whatever way you choose to live.

....Unless it's turning most of your town into barely-ambulatory plush toys again.

Leave it to me to not realize the weight of things until way after the fact, huh? I guess it got bad without me even noticing it, but I'm sure a lot of that had to do with the curse I was dealing with too, slowly turning my brain to cotton, everything just felt a lot calmer like that.

I don't think it'd be a good idea to be a 24/7 wereplush in either variant. I know I'm a prankster and all, but I've seen the utter chaos that can happen when you let me run free with that much power. You said there was a way to make it happen manually though, right? Like with putting the plush tag on a shirt or something? I really wanna be able to be soft like that again, but obviously a lot more in moderation this time.

...Though, I do also wonder about one of the later things you mentioned in your whole document thing. I might have to ask you about running an experiment.

[hattiestgal]

Altered tag thingy?? Is that how the wereplush curse got cured somehow?

Oh, no the cure was something else, I just... well to be honest I miss being a plushie sometimes. Y'know, like could you imagine if you're having a bad day but you could just like turn into a living pillow? Just straight up 'I'm done with this shit, pillow me' and then bam, you become a big ol' plushie? Basically, there's a way to make it so that you being a plush is manual and not as... corruptive as it used to be. I want it real bad.

[hattiestgal]

Soooo…. any updates on the….”hypothetical” Were-Plush outbreak going on in Little Pocket?

Oh, we got that more or less sorted out. The whole thing was a mess, especially closer to the end (I was worried Lena would never show up) but I'd say it all worked out. Like yeah, the entire town got shut down, and it took a few weeks to get everything properly back up and rolling, but nobody really had the chance to be mad at me since their minds were all plushy just before, sooo all's well that ends well!

...I do really need to ask Lena if they can give me that altered tag thingy, though... they seemed not too into the idea last time

[feybeasts]

Sorry if I'm sending too many asks but aaah, this is the last one I have for now. Could the plush curse be turned to a practical purpose? You said mundane sewing supplies could be used to modify a plush victims body, so what would become of additions made while plushed? Would they become part of the person? I guess what I'm asking is if you could use it to graft new limbs onto people. Either to replace a lost one or just because.

Yeah, absolutely! I think theoretically it could be used for limb replacement, changing someone's physical characteristics- with the caveat that it'd only work on a wereplush, who is, y'know, kinda stuck that way. If you're using the tag-on-accessory method of going back, your wereplush form is a snapshot of where you were when it was cut- additions made to it aren't gonna change you outside of it.

Lena being an odd duck who both is and isn't a full-time wereplush is probably the only sort of case where I could imagine that working in a way that was more practical than traditional healing methods.

[feybeasts]

A thought. If a wereplush can't drink a potion or other kind of theoretical ingestible magic... Would topically applied forms of potions work? What about things like enchanted clothing or jewelry?

Nah, potions applied topically won't soak into anything, wereplushes are waterproof and hypoallergenic. Enchanted clothing or jewelry would probably work as normal except in any case where it's intended to "cure" the condition outside of the usual means. Supress, maybe, but with a readily available cure, you'd have to be pretty desperate....

[feybeasts]

(Heya, it’s @enogmaticscholar-luz on my other account. Just found out recently, but it seems like I’m unfortunately shadowbanned on my main blog, so that’s why you’ve been getting ask notifications but no asks in your inbox. Sorry for the inconvenience!)

Got a wereplush related ask for you: How would the curse affect someone whose already become a plush themselves through other means?

Mystery solved! A dang shame, but I'm glad you found a workaround!

And that's a good question! My best guess- though this is very much something where I'd say the author in that scenario has the discretion to do as they please- is that they wouldn't necessarily change that much externally at first, but the squeaker, the pillowfication, etc would affect them- if they weren't cotton-headed before, they would be, they may grow pillowier, etc.

In that case the only difference between a sentient plush and a wereplush is rotundity and a serious compulsion to be squeaked, ehehe!