Q

oneironott asked:

How do you feel about pooltoy characters~?

A

I have very mixed feelings with them, and I think it all stems from how folks generally play them. In almost every case that I’ve seen involving pooltoy types, the lack of internal organs seems to be seen as paramount to infinite expandability. In reality such a being would have less give than their pulse-burdened counterparts. When’s the last time you saw an Intex Orca blow up to the size of a bus?

The interesting thing is that they actually do possess properties that are absolutely amazing, yet nobody ever damn touches on them! When fully inflated, and I mean truly full, they are incapable of bending. Further, due to the nature of the material, they can be susceptible to heat stretching. With that in mind, how is there no art or stories of a pooltoy being pumped up to immobility, then teased by mildly heat stretching specific delicious parts? Could you imagine how that would feel!?

So I suppose, to answer the question more directly, I have no problem with pooltoy characters, just with how I’ve seen them played.