Staff Litter 2023 Discussion Thread

[Pyca]

This is Raire’s pup!

Ad Raire was right, this pup looks like 2018’s pup. He did go retro this year!

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oh em gee I love this lil mermaid baby

[Resplendent]

I dropped a guess on you but I do have questions

1. Did your pup use all the colors of the palette?
2. Does your pup or adult dog have line edits?
3. Does your pup hang out with any of the other pups?
4. Does your pup prefer the beach, the mountains, the forest, or the desert?

Any other staff a can answer if they want to!

1. Hmm ...
2. No comment
3. They aren't specifically paired with any other pups, but I imagine them being pretty chill hanging out with anyone.
4. Definitely the beach!

Hmm... Alright. I think I have enough evidence to formulate a calculated guess on your dog, Schuyler. I think...


THIS is your dog!

Why? Let's start with the questions you answered:

The first answer is vague, but based on your answer I believe that you did use all the colors in the color palette. I can see all colors on this dog
The second answer, also vague, seems to imply something. Most of the dogs made in the staff litter have some line edits to an extent, and while your dogs have had additional props in the past, not all of them do. Therefore, given your wording, I don't think your dog has line edits. If you consider non-classical mouths to be line edits, then that rules out the flower dog which is also a contender.
The fourth answer is interesting to me because the pattern on the dog's body somewhat resembles waves. If this is your dog then it would make sense that they would like the beach!

Yes, the flower dog could also be yours, but here's why I don't think so:

You've edited the mouths of your dogs before, but I took a look and there's a VERY tiny but major difference between the flower dog and your past dogs: your dogs are all smiling just a tiny bit bigger.


To me, the mouth of the flower dog more closely resembles AquilaFuga's style. You also tend to blend and overlay colors more while Aquila tends to use more sudden transition of color (as seen with the flower dog)

So, there you go! That's my guess 🤭

[Raire]

I have a fun little question for any staff that want to answer.
If your pup was a Pokemon Gym Leader, what type(s) would they use?
You can use specific pokemon if you want.

WHOO I CAN FINALLY REPLY TO THIS QUESTION!! :>

Water type gym leader, with all of them (except Gyarados) also frequently using Fairy type moves.
The full team would be Primarina, Azumarill, Vaporeon, Milotic, Gyarados and Finizen.
If we're talking Gen9, Primarinas Tera type would obviously be Fairy.

Kudos to skyegawla who figured out which one my pup is, but it was the wrong theme. The guess was that my pup is the ocean, but it isn't! It just lives in the ocean, but he's a mermaid. Merman. Merdog...
There is still a little detail to discover if you look for it...

@Thinking.Kiwi
You got the cousin right, btw ;>

[Tenebria]

Wow Raire, sneaky with that hint right there, threw us all off lol!!! Well done!! He's absolutely adorable!

Does he have a name?

[Thinking.Kiwi]

@Thinking.Kiwi
You got the cousin right, btw ;>

hehe, I'm glad i got SOMETHING right! x'D
Now we just need aaron to confirm the starry flower pup is his >:3

EDIT: oh, and raire!! does the pup have a name??

[Raire]

Hello Bubbles!

I trolled really hard this year, because I knew he would grow up early. :'D
He's indeed a heavy weight, have you ever looked up how much dolphins or whales weigh? Or bigger fishes? Yeah, you wouldn't wanna throw those around!

Bubbles doesn't have any magical powers, but he is physically quite magical and uh, kinda an animal, being a merdog. Mermaid. Mer-being? I don't know what to call him, really.
He mostly eats fish and other sea food and occasionally some sea weed or algae (the 'salad' I mentioned).

When you live in the ocean, you don't really care about seasons! But he travels through the ocean, it's very big after all and there are so many beautiful fish schools to follow and play with ;>
His unintentional cousin is the one pup with another fishy tail, Codex's! But this one got some tentacles, so my headcanon is that Codex's pup lives more on deep sea / ocean ground level (hi Codex, try to change my mind, you can't) and they don't meet that often. But Koikees pup sometimes nyooms through the night sky and they meet Bubbles.

did raire NOT do a pixel pup this year??? the OUTRAGE!!!

I know, right?! How rude! ;D
And not even using the up ear/long tail middle stage, how dare! >:)

[NightRaven393]

I've done a little thinking and this is my guess on who MissionFlight's pup is!

Why I think it's theirs
☆ Looks pretty serious
☆ This one is def giving me traveler vibes!!
☆ Could totally see him eating fast food on a motorcycle lol
☆ Pink eyes
☆ Light toes
☆ Coloured cs logo

[Thinking.Kiwi]

Kiwi's magic list of guesses
from most certain to less certain

1. Lacuna

1 'might' (about 1st ever staff pup) == something old (dual colored nose)
2 'last year' (last year's outcome) == something new (freckles)
3 'remember' (about the one from 5 years ago) == something borrowed (hair)
4 'somethings' (hint about this year's) == something blue == eye color

2. Saikiyo's Cerbi

If this is not Saikiyo's art style, I will give up my pepsi rights for 2 weeks.

3. Vampiric

If this is not vampiric's art style, I will draw fanart of this puppy's final stage as an apology to the artist!

4. Winx' Marguerite

That's literally a daisy, c'mon! Also, only obvious flower themed pup that grew by day 4!

5. Aquila Fuga

The *vibes* are all there

6. Aaron

This is clearly Koikee's cousin! The tail gives me "animal' vibes ultimately, but i don't know EXACTLY what animal; i thought about bumblebees or a bunny (stubby tail + ears gave me the vibe, idk what to tell u)

7.Xem

One of these two!! Art style based mainly... but also through the exclusion of other outcomes with line edits mentioned above! >:3

[Aaron✦]

Hello Bubbles!

I trolled really hard this year, because I knew he would grow up early. :'D
He's indeed a heavy weight, have you ever looked up how much dolphins or whales weigh? Or bigger fishes? Yeah, you wouldn't wanna throw those around!

Bubbles doesn't have any magical powers, but he is physically quite magical and uh, kinda an animal, being a merdog. Mermaid. Mer-being? I don't know what to call him, really.
He mostly eats fish and other sea food and occasionally some sea weed or algae (the 'salad' I mentioned).

When you live in the ocean, you don't really care about seasons! But he travels through the ocean, it's very big after all and there are so many beautiful fish schools to follow and play with ;>
His unintentional cousin is the one pup with another fishy tail, Codex's! But this one got some tentacles, so my headcanon is that Codex's pup lives more on deep sea / ocean ground level (hi Codex, try to change my mind, you can't) and they don't meet that often. But Koikees pup sometimes nyooms through the night sky and they meet Bubbles.

did raire NOT do a pixel pup this year??? the OUTRAGE!!!

I know, right?! How rude! ;D
And not even using the up ear/long tail middle stage, how dare! >:)

hello Bubbles!! 🐟 nice to meet you!!

[Fierce Wings]

I'm not apart of the investigation crew so I'm just going to say I am absolutely in love with this guy here.



I vibe with this design so much. Cannot wait to see them full grown!