#but the master work was actually ‘you’ve achieved mastery’ not magnum opus thinking on it so. maybe.

[regallibellbright]

Bro: If money were no object, how many Mareep would you have?

Me: Life-sized plushies, right? (He nods) Hm, while the flock IS a tempting option, if money’s no object then I can get whatever life-sized plushes I want. I can have Furret. I can have Spheal.

Bro: Do they actually make -

Me: Yeah there’s a whole line of them, one of them is Furret, he is a LOOOONG boy. Maybe not taller than I am, I know Clodsire is because I looked it up last night. Saw a really cute piece of fanart and thought about making a plush and was like ‘okay sure 5’11” is taller than you are -‘

Bro: That’s taller than me.

Dad: That’s taller than anyone in this house. (Note: Bro is tallest at about 5’10”, so: yeah.)

Me: Yeah, but it could serve as a body pillow or I could make a smaller pillow-sized one and it wouldn’t cost $500 and I was like ‘get in line, there.’ (Everyone nods sympathetically. Mom is also a crocheter and everyone else has at least one creative type.) I’ve already resigned myself to the fact that I’m going to eventually do ten or eleven TWEWY dolls, it’s just a question of which versions. Minamimoto’s going to be almost as bad as Rindo, he’s ALL black on black details. (Bro nods sympathetically and also ‘yeah no obviously this is a reasonable desire’. Hell I wouldn’t be shocked if he’d want his own Neku, his battle portrait’s still his Steam avatar.)

Dad: That’ll be your master works?

Me: Eh, no, that’ll be a project I work on and do others in between, that’ll be about two or three… or five years probably. Eleven dolls. Or more. (I have not… ruled out doing other Reapers. It would be a massive addition to an already massive project. But I have not ruled it out.) *Beat* Actually Rindo’s coat MIGHT be, I’d sooner learn to WEAVE for that one, that thing’s evil. But anyway, Bro, that means the Wayfinders are back on the table.

Bro: *In a tone of voice saying ‘Obviously and I’m glad you’ve accepted this in your heart because it should always have been in your plans’* Correct.

Me: *Resignedly* I’ve actually got a few ideas about Aqua’s spikes. But yeah, if I’m going to do something as bad as Rindo’s coat I can’t justify NOT doing Ven. He’s not AS bad as that.

Later I realized, going back to the original question, that if money is no object then neither is space. So then, Mareep flock AND other life-sized plushies.

Dad: Is that an airplane hangar? No, that’s the Pokemon extension.

Me: Exactly. There’s the ball pit full of plush toys, dive right in.

Bro: A Scrooge McDuck thing but with Pokemon.

Me: You get it.