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Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

I mostly just have the AU for the vibes… because ohhhhh the vibes… immaculate

Atmospherically I think Silent Hill f is beautiful and awe-inspiring and I just wanna make a tribute to that with this AU using characters I care about

Not much else to say except I think he just doesn’t give a fuck. Dare I say he’s romance avoidant/repulsed… I have an aromantic reading of a lot of BlushBlush characters tbf (Eli, Reece, Haru) but like yeah idk

Eli’s aroace to me (sex-favorable, romance-avoidant) and is just doing whatever feels good, even if there’s no particular pull he ever feels except out of vibes and general interest

Haru’s aromantic/aro-spectrum (but he doesn’t know it, because he’s grown up believing in amatonormative conventions and likes the Idea of romance enough that he’s never considered his way of viewing romance as compulsory isn’t typical)

Reece is aroace (sex and romance ambivalent/indifferent) and he’s just happy to be here. He’d never turn down a new experience and a chance to learn something from it

So Poe…. I wanna say he’s full stop aroallo (romance-repulsed, sex-ambivalent) where he loves the aesthetic of gothic romantic themes but putting romance into practice doesn’t interest him. He’s all for undying devotion, but I don’t think he’s ever had the chance to feel that way

Gar ColeRen…

Meanwhile Ren has been sleeping for 3 hours

Cole maybe has a slightly wavier texture but honestly his normal hair reminds me of mine when I don’t brush my hair after a shower and have a rough sleep

Not specifically that I chose to do that but it’s because like… Each of the guys have their own pace in the relationship in their lil routes and I noticed that and it’s like oddly thought provoking for me idk…

The way Eli plays fast and casual with Mallow until the end where you get the picture that he probably either has issues with intimacy to some degree or, at the very least, whatever relationship you have isn’t well defined. Like ultimately Eli put up HIS boundary for whatever bond he’s forged with Mallow and that’s so cool to see for his character. Like most of the boys lead more or less conventional romantic relationships but some are way more open ended—beyond maybe even what a player would consider a valid intimate relationship in their real life—and i think thats awesome…

That or sometimes the relationship goes SUPER fast like with Xianyun. I don’t know when it started but that man comes on STRONG with the “but who takes care of you” and the like, and I know I’m weak to that but it felt like he showed a certain amount of love/attachment way earlier than most of the guys.

Because really what IS the kind of relationship Mallow has with all the guys? At a certain point it’s almost routine, obligation, to gain another partner or kiss another boy. Maybe it’s because I’m aromantic so I enjoy this reading but I like thinking Mallow is just like good friends with most of them—the sex and kissing still happen but Mallow is a goob on a mission who enjoys the attention of cute boys and all the guys have their own lives to live outside of Mallow’s shenanigans

Like some of them are gonna think it’s fate and a miracle to find love in unfortunate circumstances, some are like “wow that was inconvenient but thanks for helping me get back on my feet”, and then others will be consumed by the effect Mallow had on their life and they can’t go back to the person they were before

^^ drawn by my friend to whom I've been infodumping about this AU hehsjshfh thank you smmm

The competition isn’t that tough though, to be fair, but like I was lore dumping about the canon kitsune bundle lore a while back and it occurred to me that Aki is the only one who has anything interesting to say about the others that aren’t just insults and imply like… more

It gives the impression that he’s thought about this before you meet him, to be able to verbalize all of this while the other two just sorta throw (mostly) shade at the others. Like there’s him talking about his home, his (understandable) apprehension and fear of Fuyu with that wary tone in his voice, him just outright saying he had to work through shit to get through those 200 years

Like no wonder Aki is the first guy you succeed with, because like it’d make sense if the guy who’s the closest to learning from his mistakes would be able to break his divine curse the fastest. (Though that’s leaning more into headcanon territory sorry—)

Am I just like slow on the uptake or idk ajdnd

This just feels very interesting to me, especially contrasting with how abysmal Haru and Fuyu are in comparison aknkssk

I love those two to death for how messy they are though. Obviously they’re not idiots (though I’ll still call them that—) but they clearly show they have either been not reflecting on themselves since the curse, or if they try they’re still caught up in their pride and refuse to really acknowledge it. They’re still in need of MORE reflecting even after you get them to lover, you can’t fix guys like that over night. 200 years and NO “maybe this curse was put on me for a reason and I should take more accountability…” like wow. We’re only at the TIP of the iceberg with helping those two.

Not that Aki doesn’t also have more work to do, but FAR less. The curse hit Aki at a very impressionable part of his life , most likely, which probably made the consequences of the curse affect him a lot worse than the other older two who could rationalize it in their own ways (Haru ignoring it and just trying to remain cool and seductive so he still feels in control of his body and doesn’t crash out and Fuyu thinking he was unfairly cursed and is owed retribution)

Basicallyyyy Aki’s complexity needs to be given more credit I think