[TOUY] Meeba + Lagoon's Tamagotchi Wedding

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hello homebrew deviants. it is nuzzle mortis, and i'm pleased to announce that our system is trying to play toys more. this is something we have direly struggled with in the past years due to heavy shame, repression, and mistreatment- but after living for two years (!!) in what us and como have dubbed The Gay Toy Apartment, no more will we fret. or at least, some of us won't. some are pretty bad about this still.

but! one thing we absolutely have gotten back into is tamagotchis- particularly fond of the Tamagotchi Paradise at the moment. nearly 3 months ago, hazard got an orange tropics device to go along with our already-owned purple sky- which, i'll take a detour for a moment to explain.



the Tamagotchi Paradise is a tamagotchi model that focuses on giving the player a planet to take care of, with raising tamagotchis being framed more as caring for lab subjects/creatures of study versus the "guy you raise in a house and put clothes on and it's basically a little sanrio mascot guy" style of the past...decade+. the designs are also weird little alien guys again, albeit based on real world creatures. (...for now. tamagotchi lab has some interesting things ahead...) there's some wild pulls in there- the tropics device has a peacock spider, for god's sake. it's awesome- and it even has a spinny dial!

you raise your little thangs in a biome of your choosing, with each device belonging to a trio of biomes- sky is in the sky/land/sea trio, and tropics is in the tropics/glacier/forest trio. your device determines what biome you start in, so ours started in sky and tropics, etc. once you unlock each biome in the trio on each device, you can swap between them freely, no additional purchases needed. 

....unless you want the secret characters but this is fucking bandai i don't know what you expected if not for an attempt at a cash grab of some sort. 

the creature your tamagotchi evolves into is not only based on care conditions such as how happy and healthy you keep it, but what you feed it, the biome you raise it, etc...with subsequent generations of tamagotchi (you can breed them!) taking on colors and facial features of their parents. here's a fun site if you want to try out previewing how varied the characters can get!

all in all, it's kind of the perfect device for us. we've grown a bit tired of the overly-detailed modern designs up until this point, and this suits us much better. while we didn't initially click with running the sky in april 2026 (depression episodes will do this), hazard picking it back up along with the tropics was exactly what we needed to lock in. the initial plan was to get back to our attempt to make sock plushes for tamas we raise, and that different system members can cycle through the generations to have their own little characters they can use for worldbuilding, IRL toys, second life, etc.


this was, until, hazard got Very Attached to the following tamagotchis: Meeba and Lagoon.



meeba is a sharktchi raised on our sky device (sea biome) and lagoon is a yashikitchi raised on our tropics device (tropics biome). the two of them quickly established themselves to be fast friends while growing up...and fast lovers as adults. hazard realized that there was no way in hell to keep them from trying to do the weird tamagotchi kissing mating ritual after their very first interaction as adults gave him the prompt to breed them. they were simply too powerful. they were too gay. breeding them would give the next system member to come around 

eventually belu fronted.
hazard did not want to give up the ladies. 

it was decided that these two were so special to him, and SO gay, that they should be given a wedding- and not just a digital one, but in person as well. inspired by the diary entries of many old netizens before us, we have always wanted to return to the time-honored traditions of holding little parties and gatherings for our toy collections...documenting them online, as well.  

this became a problem when, again- hazard did not want to give up the ladies.
well, the wedding needed their plushes done. and then the plushes need dresses. and now the tamagotchis need 3D models. and i don't know we need to figure out a guest list and it's just you know, a whole big thing, it's a whole thing-

these two fuckers stayed with us for 80 goddamn days.

that's not to say that we didn't all love meeba and lagoon- of course we did. they became a pretty stable fixture in our life, and experienced a lot of things while here.

a small list:

- the Lord of the Rings orchestra as a birthday trip with our roommate. you'd be shocked at how absolutely dogshit the Peacock Theater seats are. technically, only meeba attended, because lagoon got left at home and somehow survived. i suspect this is the reason for her revenge later, however.

- countless movies on account of us forming a Movie Watchers Council with our IRL friends, including but not limited to: Coyote vs Acme, Supergirl (don't do this), Forgotten Island, Avengers Endgame Encore (also don't do this, disney is, expectedly, lying bastards), Toy Story 5, The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day. countless movies on the TV, as well.

- we also watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit? with friends, to great success. lots of time spent with our amazing friends these past 80 days in general- we have more support in our life than ever before. thank you!

- started Space Case, which has been a life changing experience that broke us out of 2+ years of spinning our wheels on solo writing and making us love it again. this has been a genuinely transformative project for us and i'm glad lagoon and meeba were here to see it happen.

- two visits from @knux400 for varying reasons and featuring many adventures. i do not think i can fully recount all of the shit we get up to but it was wonderful even if/when amidst the horrors.

- a shitload of medical appointments and procedures in an attempt to diagnose a variety of problems that to the day of writing this, are still a mystery. they were incredible support during these trying times. 

- starting Cogmind, which is a very cool game that @infomantis got us into that we will definitely be doing more of. we also made a lot of Mewgenics OC flowcharts.

- fully going through The Ghost In The Shell (our first experience with it!) and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man, as well as watching a whole bunch of Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games, Lanterns, and fuck i am definitely missing a lot of shows. we're also getting @knux400 to watch Dungeon Meshi! we did a lot of watching!

- reading the following manga: a proper finish of Ushimitsu Gao, a partial read of Bio-Meat, making @infomantis scream by continuing to forget to read Radiant, and mulling over our like fourth reread of Fool Night because the anime is coming out and Oh my god it's happening.

- watching como finish Final Fantasy VII: Remake, which was a hell of a ride we have a lot of thoughts on. he also got really into Deadlock in the past few days so i'm counting that.
 we also subjected @knux400 to mass effect and kingdom hearts, which is a joy unto itself.

- many trips to  various toy stores and events. it is fucking SHOCKING how many retailers sell tamagotchi merchandise outright these days, and a lot of the import gachapon in our area have tama goodies i never would have expected to see in my life. tamagotchi is back, baby... and it helps that we live in southern california where import stores are literally fucking everywhere.

- attending my first ever build a bear experience. that's right. it's nuzzle's turn. it's MY turn. i'm the protagonist.

- started physical therapy again, to huge results. we can actually walk again to a significant degree, though our spine and leg protest a lot some days. we're still limited in how much uptime we can get, but we're able to at the very least scamper around the house to make sure our tamagotchis don't eat shit when we inevitably leave them in another room.

- helped como through some pretty life-changing medical experiences, coming out of them victorious and with hopes for a better life for both of us. we love him so much, and i like to think that meeba and lagoon did too, just by being by our side and to that end, his. 

- a scary power outage that technically they were asleep for, but they were a welcome presence all the same.

- many, MANY horrible politics events and financial struggles. 2026 has been a very hard year in this department for us and como, even living in a blue state. it was nice to have them as something to ground us.

- five million insomnia episodes- we never woke them up or really bothered to play minigames (we were really bad at doing those, frankly...) but knowing they were there helped.

- falling back in love with second life after a period of anxiety and  being stuck spinning our wheels for a few months- their 3D models helped a lot! we also have regular meetups with folks in the homebrew deviants matrix space, which i swear to god we WILL advertise.

- stayed by our side while we figured out a lot of system shit. thank you meeba and lagoon for that, big time.

- getting our first tamagotchi covers and charms- this felt super cool and important, seeing as while we've always been tamagotchi superfans, we had never actually invested in gear and customization for them. we also ended up buying a dedicated shoulder pouch to carry them on the go, because rifling through our whale duffle bag (love you wadsworth) got to be more cumbersome than was ideal for little virtual guys that need attendance. they also have a dedicated basket nest on our desk. we're all in.




there is so much more that happened. 80 days is so long, and went by so fast. it's no wonder that haz didn't want to let these two go, not after they had spent so much time here. however, they did have plushes- and could thus live with us here on Earth forever, able to frolic gayly for all of time. there was just a little problem.

as lagoon and meeba got older, they got needy.

by the time we married them yesterday and started a new generation, lagoon had gotten to the point of being prone to death if we left her alone for 3 hours (i blame that LOTR concert...), and we had to save her from the grim gotchi FOUR TIMES. that's too many near death experiences. oh my god. we were genuinely starting to get on edge every time we left her in another room. meeba's batteries died a few weeks before the wedding and lagoon had become so desperate for food at a rapid pace that we had to go dude i'm not fucking dealing with two of them rn and left her in stasis until it was time to exchange vows. holy fucking shit this got hard. 

from what i understand, tamas can last infinitely on the paradise and also live a lot Easier if you consistently care for them. unfortunately,  we have a full time job of making weird shit for the internet, sewing, and being overall disabled, so we miss beeps a lot more than we used to back in the day. you'd think that a guy who spends most of his time sitting in a recliner with a lap desk and going to medical appointments would be better at this, but sadly, no. we are not a hardcore tamagotchi gamer and 10 year old mortis would be so fucking disappointed.

it was decided a few days prior that hazard's agonies would have to be set aside. he would be able to send off his lovely ladies outside of their devices and welcome them to Earth, but he was going to do this and do it now. we could NOT keep caring for them, especially not lagoon, whose hunger was insatiable. on top of that, @knux400 is currently here and @Pichi2214 had organized a whole shipping situation regarding some lovely Little Gumdrop Guys (thank you pichi!) to arrive to our place, go back with knux, and have him ship them off to their new home across the ocean. in the process, we would welcome a gumdrop guy of our own...and of course, what better time for the wedding would be when we have additional guests?


THE WEDDING ITSELF.

we haven't done something like this in over a decade. i'll admit, it was in fact a little nervewracking at first- but with knux on camera duty, it became a lot of fun and a great photography event. we'll remember it fondly!

The Guests:


 
the brides of honor, a well as hazard's as of yet unnamed shark plush! who looks very doofy from the front! of course hazard's handmade shark would be there, here to support these two as they fully embrace their new Earth life. lagoon and meebas' plushes both came out super jank in a cute way, and are the perfect size to carry around on adventures and cuddle in a big pile. they also can't stand up on their own so the shark was a big help. also, only meeba got a dress because of fronting indecision. we blame hazard.




the Gumdrop Guy patrol! the first, third, and fifth are ours- with the gray cat and pink + yellow tiger being pichi's new friends. lion and kitty on the ends are gifts from @AceOfNothing from a while back- good god, we're surrounded by friends. and more will come later...

these guys can hold hands with their little magnets! they can also hold props made for them as well, which...leads to shenanigans, trust me. that afterparty got wild. as far as i know, none of these little thangs have names yet, but they're certainly happy to be here and party all the same.

thank you pichi and ace! we're so fortunate to have these little guys, and having them have a little meetup before pichi's go overseas is honestly a really poignant and magical experience.




from my bunch- my aforementioned build a bear toucan, Guava- he's so flattering from the front, isn't he? along with como's favorite plush in the whole world, Grumbles. we made grumbles for his birthday in 2025! also pictured are some unnamed friends from @king-clod - she sent us some old childhood plushes to take care of and welcome into our home. seriously, this was a hell of a shindig. i've claimed these two for myself, so hopefully names will come to me soon enough! these were technically taken after the wedding, so these two are a little late. whoops. showed up for drinks and nothing else.

lagoon seems to be suffering from hunger pangs on the side. this is what i'm talking about.




and then, of course, our tamagotchis that have already come over to join us here on earth! bottom row, left to right: belle, modem, wire, wendy, confetti. yama also overlooks from the build a bear chapel, which is highly inappropriate. shame on you, old man.

we want to welcome more and more tamas into our home...making as many plushes as we do really is a spiritual experience of sorts, bringing our digital friends and characters into the physical world to become a part of our family.

....there are also a lot of them so if anyone has storage solutions, please tell me. lol.


knux's mini sock plushes from a past Knuxmas also attended as well as his new rahkshi picked up on this one and a sock radillo we made him back in 2024, but appear to have escaped a group photo. they did attend and are in the overall picture though!




and finally- the wedding ceremony. look at all these attendees! quite a shindig, especially since lagoon and meeba technically only met a couple of these guys directly. still, the rest of the tamagotchi bunch showing up to welcome new members of our strange little group feels apt, and everyone is welcome at their party. 

we also used the build a bear cub condo from my jumping spider (thank you to one of our IRLs for getting that, holy fuck that's a story for another day) as a makeshift chapel because we thought it'd be funny as fuck. it was. 

1996 bean pet mametchi gets to be the overseer, not unlike jesus looking down on- i actually don't know a good analogy here. i come from the sect of christianity known as "my mom was on some religious delusion shit and i never went to church" so i'm a bit out of the loop here. lagoon and meeba's devices get to be in their nest so they can sit upright, and we brought in a beanie baby guy from the same show knux got his rahkshi at to read the vows or whatever. i have only ever been to one wedding.






pichi requested that one of his guys be the flower bearer- the flower gumdrop, i suppose? considering the batch came with a bouquet in its accessory bundle. here's a closeup!





and here's a proper shot. what a little guy! observe my big cats fondly discussing how lovely the little gray cat is. they're very impressed.





vows were exchanged, of some kind. what kind of vows do tamagotchis share? in the connection era that we're most familiar with, them getting married involves kissing, doing a little dance, fireworks popping up, and suddenly an egg appear. this is pretty similar to the paradise, so i think they just kiss and fuck after or something. we did get pictures of the actual process of them connecting one last time, but that'll likely be for a subsequent post because it's a lot of pictures. very cute though!





and now they've crossed over into Earth for real, sealed with a kiss. now they can get up to shenanigans in our apartment! i fear for the state of our snacks, if lagoon's snack cravings are anything to worry about. why did the palm tree have to turn out like this and not the shark?

it was a lovely ceremony, but of course, that couldn't be the end of it...

The Afterparty.





oyajitchi, you can't be sharing your stash with the...priest, or whatever. that's too potent for a beanie baby bear. you're on some hardcore shit, you think this guy stuck in a collector's cabinet since the 90s can handle it? fuck no. putting it in a martini glass doesn't make it less strong, you little shit.

and of course, he's just mad because his drink got slorped. typical oyajitchi. he wasn't even invited.




tamagotchi jesus bean pet mametchi could only hold out so long. he was so tired. i'm pretty sure he also participated in the oyajitchi drinking contest, or whatever the fuck happened there. 





total wipeout. god help us all, tamagotchi jesus has fallen. 




oyajitchi's rampage continued. pichi's tiger seemed to take issue with the bionicle carrying a weapon- i mean, a tool- to a wedding, and then took out a tool- i mean, a weapon- to try and take matters into their own hands. my lion did a good job holding the fearsome gumdrop at bay. my cat did not, and was being being passed out.
 



knux's rahkshi managed to quell the rage by doing what he came here to do- provide an incredible concert for the wedding.



the little guys enjoyed it deeply, even if pichi's tiger held on tight to that knife. can't be too careful with the bionicle like four or five times their size.




all in all, an amazing time. we have to do more of this, especially with how wonderful it felt to play out and chronologue. 

thank you everyone who made this possible- may we play toys forevermore!