#sorry this is long and hopefully not weird

Here’s my Journalist OC Bivy when she first arrives to the island. Along with losing weight, her fur, her colors (she’s going to get really pale), and her jacket, she’s going to spend most of the game under the snaxjuice influence. She’s still allergic to bugsnaxs, but the snaxjuice tainted ground water doesn’t trigger her allergies in a noticeable way and as the game progresses it builds up inside her and starts affecting her perception and actions. :readmore:

The snaxjuice is exploiting Bivy’s desperation to get that interview with Lizbert to save her job and prove she’s not incompetent. The reason she accepts every quest and goes along with everything because it’ll all lead to finding Lizbert somehow. Later on when she has a good build up of the snax juice in her body it numbs her hunger pains when she feeds others to condition her to want to feed them. Also it’s dampening or outright turning off her pain receptors so she can keep going. Filbo will probably have to take her to the hospital when her body finally gets rid of all the snaxjuice and she feels the raw pain of months worth of unattended injuries hit her all at once. Filbo will also probably need to help them when they start breaking down as she looks back at everything she did on the island with a clear mind. The whole giving everyone parasites, how she almost got so many people killed because she’s an idiot (in her mind), how much time she wasted catching bugsnaxs and maybe if she got to Liz faster things could have been different, the fact that she helped and would have stood there and watched Floofty cut off their own head, etc.

I want there to be a moment where during his stay Filbo realizes that he doesn’t actually know who his Buddy is as a person. It’s hitting him hard as well that there were clear signs that something was wrong with Buddy besides the weight loss, fur loss, and getting really pale from not eating anything besides sauce for months if he knew who they were. On a brighter note, they have plenty of time to get reacquainted and it can be Filbo’s turn to support his friend through a rough period.

As far as symptoms for the Snaxjuice building up and taking control it’s mostly shown through how watery her eyes are. Unfortunately Bivy already had sensitive eyes that would water up quickly around pollen, dust, etc. So it didn’t seem off when her eyes kept tearing up when she spends a lot of time in the middle of the firest surrounded by creatures she’s allergic to. As the story progresses it gets worse and she’s frequently walking around with a stream of tears, but no one really questions it because at this point she had run out her allergy medication for a while, so the progression makes sense. Some are concerned about how this isn’t good, but they don’t think anything life threatening is happening or it’s something that escalated to the point of intervention. I also want her to grow some little horns that don’t go away like the other’s snaxification. I could say something about how Snaxtooth left it’s mark and how it could tie into the allergy, but I just think it would look cute. Also think it would be a fun way for Bivy and Floofty to stay in touch because Floofty is now their doctor. Until the horns go away or they figure out a way to explain this to a regular doctor they only have Floofty as a go to. Also also they wouldn’t do this, but as a joke I love the idea of Bivy and Filbo trying to gaslight Clumby into believing that Bivy had always had horns and she just never noticed because Bivy always wore a hat.