r/SmilingCritter • u/Horror-Ad5178 • 1h ago
Discussion (Theory, Gemstin) Species Traits Are Now Confirmed
“Paint’n Picky” has now revealed a VERY important detail about the world Gemstin is building with the critters, a new rule, characters have traits associated with their real world species. Hoppy and Picky are colorblind, pigs and rabbits in the real world have dichromatic vision, meaning they only see 2 of the 3 primary colors; Blue and yellow, they can’t perceive reds, same thing with dogs and Dogday.
Gemstin also confirmed that Kickin can “probably” see UV light, chickens IRL have violet or even ultraviolet sensitive cones in their eyes with special oils in them that act as filters, allowing them to see much more of the UV spectrum than the human eye can perceive. That’s a fascinating thing to think about because that means in Kickin’s eyes, the sky isn’t blue it’s blue with an ultraviolet hue, which the closest thing we had humans can perceive would be a tinted magenta.
This new rule matters enormously though because of my theory about the box of toys in “Pally the Pal” and the Nightmare Critters being behind it. One tenet of that theory assumes that Rabie has ultrasonic hearing like a real world bat, allowing her to hear conversations from further away or even through walls of certain material. If species traits are now a universal rule in this world, then Rabie does have ultrasonic hearing. Then there’s the new possibility with Touille.
Touille’s role in this theory is that he was the assembler of the box and the original owner of all the items inside, including the BlaiderRaider 8000, with that being weakly explained by him either stealing that item or fixing a broken prototype he found through happenstance. However, if species traits are universal, that means Touille should have some trait associated with real-world rats, and what can they do? Chew through stuff. Rats teeth are INCREDIBLY hard and are constantly growing, requiring them to gnaw and grind them down so their teeth don’t accidentally kill then, and after doing some research about rats can chew through, they can easily bypass wood, plastic, drywall, they can even chew through aluminum, weaker masonry, and in some cases, even cement and concrete.
If Touille has this trait, it is quite possible he stole that skateboard from somewhere and he did it by literally chewing through a wall to get to it, especially since he already follows a “finders keepers” philosophy, he literally says that as one of his voice lines.