faealchemist

VR's always fun... but this unit did get hit in the theriab uncomfortables this week. Its avatars are a bipedal protogen, and an iffily ported umbreon model rip that's really set up for desktop. (And was also ported by a fascist.)

The proto is pretty good, overall. It even inspired this unit's mood ring colour changing. It's just... bipedal. And a bit fluffy. The umbreon on the other hand lacks physicality. The head only tracks on one axis. The body swings wildly behind the head. But also, VRChat's height modelling is iffy here. It's like, everything gets scaled down too small, because size and eyeline are tied when quadrupedal creatures are relatively large for our eyeline, compared to bipeds. Some avatars fix this by clipping you through the floor if you're standing, which feels weird, but is kind if sacrific you have to make. Sitting feels somewhat more comfortable anyway, except for the actual physical act of sitting.

But yeah, this unit's had enough of arms for tonight.

I've been coy with this, but I wanna express is publicly. I've made allusions go being malleable, and over the past day been calling myself polymorphic. It's time to explain what that means.

Basically, I can evolve into any eeveelution, and devolve back to an eevee. Each one has different quirks—for example, rather than being made of rubber, when I'm a flareon I'm a plushie. I call these forms my Vivilutions, because it's funny, and also because it hints that there's more to it than your bog standard eeveelutions. I evolve when exposed to elemental energy, or things related to the Vivilution's quirk. For example, fire and heat may trigger me to become a flareon, but so might a cozy blanket fort, or persistent hugging. I can wear an everstone to suppress the evolution, as normal.

I'm not gonna detail them all now, I think it's better to let it happen organically. I just wanted to out this out there to everyone who wasn't the one friend who galaxy brain guessed it from the colours and shape of my eight-pointed star emoji.