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[skinstealer]

percy mortis

well...it's valentine's day! we're mainly just hanging out with como today...ordered some nice food and are working on a gay oneshot with opera and faint. it's a saucy one!

but...i wanted to play some petz, to celebrate a holiday with a virtual animal for the first time in ages. i decided: what better way to break in our new "turbo-personal crew" (as opposed to our morbit crew and our pokemon crew and our gameplay crew that we never actually use for gameplay and etc etc...) than have my little guy mackerel meet the others...and maybe find love! or something.

let's see how it went...

[image description: a petz screencap collage with a "lovely wall" background from animal crossing wild world. mackerel is interacting with daydream, an abstract creature made of noodle-y limbs, indigo clouds around her head, and a blue and red color scheme. the two of them are playing, and seem pretty happy to interact.]

first round went well! daydream doesn't have any system member claiming her yet, and we haven't really bonded with her at all...but it was cool seeing her make a friend in mackerel. they did a lot of playful gestures and seemed really happy together, and while sparks did not fly, i'm glad mackerel has SOMEBODY to hang out with.

...for reasons we will soon see.


[image description: another petz collage, this time featuring mackerel and fixation, a toy clown-themed pet with a primary color scheme, a twisty pipe cleaner body and tail, a clay mask face with a big smile, and a party hat on. one screencap looks neutral, but the next has mackerel pouncing on fixation and knocking him flat.]

so...fixation and mackerel do not HATE each other. but mackerel for some goddamn reason really likes pouncing on fixation and annoying the shit out of him. why? i do not know. this just keeps happening and it's always mack starting it. what is this fish's problem.

unsuccessful date. i don't even think they're friends.

[image description: another petz collage, featuring mackerel and heartthrob, a grody looking rooster hex with bicolor wattle and scorpion tail. her color palette is pink and brown, and she's wearing blue glasses, a blue star top, and white pants. it's very clear that the two don't like each other, with one screencap being what we call "the hate orb" where they swirl around each other in a huge fight, one with heartthrob posing proudly in front of a glaring mack, and another with the two staring each other down.]

heartthrob and mack fucking hate each other. sorry to richard, we do not have little guys in love, or even just tolerating each other. hotline miami inspo and animal crossing inspo do not mix, i guess. well, at least it's interesting.

[image description: a petz collage of mackerel and ire, a hex with a gray skull head with a unicorn horn and a rainbow clock face. the two petz are practically unintelligible due to both of the screencaps featured being hate orbs.]

yeah, so, mack and ire hate each other too. i don't think he's very good at this.

[image description: a petz collage of mack and constell, krowling's personal hex that resembles a green and black quadrupedal bat, patterned with stars both on his back legs, ears, and eyes. the two of them seem relatively neutral on each other, but do wrestle a bit.]

at least they don't hate each other. constell seems fairly neutral on mack, and vice versa. not really friends, but definitely not enemies.

date unsuccessful, but it works.


[image description: a petz collage of mack and teddy, rin's personal hex with a black, white and blue palette, a feline jester look, and tiger print patches. he also has heart eyes, a nighttime themed party hat, and blue and white starry pajamas! the two of them seem fairly neutral on each other, though there is a moment of teddy pouncing on mack.]

teddy and mack also don't super like each other, but they don't super hate each other either. i'm a little sad about this seeing as rin and i are primary partners in-system, but oh well! can't win em all! maybe they'd like hanging out some other time.


[image description: a petz collage of mack and namesake, a small cat hex with one big cutesy eye, pink and yellow starry patterns, and a sweet expression. she is also featured in a hate orb, and is shown mutually glaring down with mack.]

i'm not super surprised by the fact that namesake hates mack, but i was kind of hoping that even though she has the turbo mean alley cat personality, she might be like. actually nice, or something. nope. hates mack with a passion. unsuccessful date.


[image description: a petz edit with just mack in it this time, in the bottom right corner of an otherwise empty lovely wall background. he's all alone, and is curled up to sleep.]

well. he did his best. at least he made it out with a singular friend....we'll have to see how he and daydream fare going forward, but happy valentine's day, i guess!

(i don't know if we'll do these high effort posts often, but it was fun...)