skinstealer journal- a misc collection of postings

[skinstealer]

percy mortis

these are technically from yesterday, but i was too tired to post them. maybe there will be another entry later today, who knows!

[image description: a picture of the relic and phong plushes in a playful pose, phong jumping on relic as relic is in a puppy-like play bow.]

took this pic of relic + phong for their etsy review- we are still completely obsessed with these guys, and have been dealing with a lot of object sentience feelings towards them...they're just our little buddies! makes us want to work on the corresponding OCs for them...maybe today while playing IF with knux? we're still waffling on how much to talk about this important part of our brain, but we'll see. either way, a cute picture for the blog.

now onto yesterday's petz gameplay session....

[image description: a petz collage, this one against a ringside wall backdrop from animal crossing wild world. the pet featured here is jack angler, a spindly quadruped angler fish monster with a pumpkin candy lure, huge teeth, and a pumpkin tail. he is green with dark indigo-purple accents and orange pumpkins featuring little faces. he looks fairly moody in all poses.]

yesterday i decided to begin going through the members of this special crew for this blog...mainly composed of personal petz, one offs meant to be OCs, adoptables turned hexes, and stuff from our "little guys" collection we've built up from this forum. we figure it's a good start to us approaching petz as personal characters, especially considering each of these petz is 100% one of a kind. first up on the list is Jack Angler, a design by @AceOfNothing made into a pissed off alley cat. jack's playlist seems to identify him as a rough and tumble guy, but we haven't really looked at his personality stat breakdown yet...either way, he seems to be a fighter of some sorts in our brain, even with his skinny, spindly nature. maybe those teeth cause serious damage?

[image description: a petz collage on the same background, this time featuring pep. pep is a solid black colored monster with off-white outlines, freckles, and eyes, and is spiky and nervous looking. in some of the images, it has a little party hat on.]

we asked shivers and como if we could include designs they helped us make in this crew as well, and both said yes: here's pep, a design como came up with for our birthday last year. it's unclear if this is a little morbit creature or just a Weird Little Thang, but it's very nervous and worried thanks to its orange shorthair personality. i really like this guy...

[image description: a petz collage of pep and jack angler interacting. they don't seem to dislike each other, but don't directly play together much in the pictures.]

time to introduce jack and pep...they're pretty okay with each other! they mainly just play wrestled and shared each other's idle company, but jack did seem pretty sad when pep was put away. maybe they're just peers, companions content to be by each others' side in passing. maybe they admire each others' big teeth. who knows.

[image description: another solo collage of jack angler, this time showing him in different clothes. he wears a black sweater and purple pants in all but two of the images,  with one featuring a yellow sweater instead and one featuring no clothes. his body language is almost always upset or angry.]

after playing with pep, it was time to figure out some clothes for jack. as it turns out, he fucking hates wearing clothes, but it's hard to tell whether it was more the dressup pissing him off or the camera. gonna need to check those stats to be sure. i kind of wish we had something along the lines of a leather jacket for him....maybe we should start a wishlist towards the ends of this post. for now, his black sweater will do.

[image description: a solo collage of jack angler, this time focused on food. in some of the pictures he's begging for worm-like treats based on oddballz grubz, and others he's scrutinizing a bowl of cat food.]

awesome news: jack is a trickster, aka a cat that's able to do tricks. having trickster alleys feels like a rare occurrence for us (and is usually only seen in bred ones, but we have some randomized personality stats on all of our modern hexes) but lo and behold, he loves to beg for treats and do funny animations in exchange. we haven't decided on what tricks to teach him yet, but the begging animation was really cute...

he also seemed kind of suspicious of normal food, but did mess with the bowl a bit.

[image description: a petz collage of heartthrob featuring a custom cat food bowl. the bowl is a dark brown with a fleshy colored "HT" drawn on it, with the kibble inside recolored to look like red meat chunks. heartthrob is enamored with the bowl in almost every screencap, playing with it, eating from it, and looking around nervously.]

we also got a custom food bowl from our petz community buddy Dew, so it was time to take out heartthrob and see what she thought of it. turns out she's a fan, though this does raise the question of what we're going to do when we get to custom food for mackerel and his picky ass. we'll have to use the favorites checker and some adjective adjustment for sure...either way, dew did an amazing job and we're excited to get more custom toys going forward! it would be a nice goal in general to spoil this crew rotten and keep track of all the little one-of-a-kind treasures they've gotten from both us and others.

(if you have an idea for a little gift, whether that's a directly hexed thing or a tiny graphic that we can turn into a toy...let us know...we may reward handsomely in forum cash)

[image description: petz collage of constell and heartthrob interacting. one image is just heartthrob on her own, looking dignified, another has the two of them meeting, and another is them wrestling together.]

we also decided it would be nice for these sessions to just let petz meet each other based on who comes to the pet door while playing the game, so constell got to meet heartthrob. they just kind of get along okay, and i think we might start keeping a chart or something to keep track of all this.

[image description: a solo collage of mackerel playing with a beach ball. he looks pretty concerned about it in one of the pictures.]

i spent a little time with mackerel towards the end, just to say hi to my guy. he played with a beach ball a bit, and was very silly about it...he's next on the getting a toy from dew list, with a custom bed inspired by punchy's old housee on the docket!

a lot more images than i was anticipating, but i think we're starting to figure out a gameplay style we like. it's hard to articulate how we feel about petz gameplay, but perhaps for another entry, either tonight or some other day....either way, thank you for reading!

the current wishlist
leather jacket- jack angler
some kind of halloween candy treat- jack angler
custom bed- mackerel (work in progress!)
veggie bag from ACNH as a holdable- mackerel (planning on getting from dew as well)