Original Post Date: 2024-01-11
Default AC Name: Cam
Hexed From: Siamese
Reasoning: Petz hated me and I felt spiteful… again. More below.
Variations: Nine! (Veiled, Parson’s, panther, carpet, and Rhampoleon, with the former four having gender-specific variants)
Ivy's Fave: Female carpet chameleon
Other Notes:
I have two characters, Michel and Léon. Léon, whom you might remember from the original Meet the Lizard post, is a veiled chameleon. Michel is a garden dormouse. They’re canonically not together or anything, but I have a few noncanon ideas where they’re in a QPR, and I wanted to recreate that in digital pet form.
I bred together Vickie’s fancy mice and ferrets until I came up with something similar to a dormouse, and grabbed one of my green V3 lizards, and I put them together in hopes of them maybe bringing the relationship to life.
But they hated each other. What I normally do in that case is PetzA-sex-change one (Léon in this case), breed them together, and—
It took me an embarrassingly long time and several attempts to fix my files before I remembered that Lizard is a dog-based breed, and both fancy mice and ferrets are cat-based! So if I wanted my Michel and Léon to like each other I’d need a cat-based file for Léon.
Since real-life pet chameleons are temperamental and finicky already, I decided to use the Siamese breed as basis for the file. On the bright side, these digital reptiles are a lot easier to care for than the real thing!
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