There aren’t enough people talking about squishmallow lore
this guy is Archie the Axolotol. According to his official bio, he is shy, loves soccer and “talks with his hands” meaning that he speaks sign language. It also says that he started a club for other squishmallows to play soccer and learn “Squishmallow Sign”. Not only does this imply the existence of deaf and mute squishmallows, but it also means that squishmallows canonically have their own sign language separate from ASL, BSL, etc. Which is weird, because most squishmallows don’t have hands. Archie is one of the few ones that do, and his don’t even have fingers. So how is “talking with your hands” appropriate for a squishmallow-specific sign language? This makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
This is Cam the Cat, the mascot of the Squishmallows brand and one of the first squishmallows to be released. He is a male calico cat, but in real life, calico cats are almost always female. This is because the gene for colored spots is carried on the X chromosome, and you need two of those for two different colors of spots. In order for Cam to be both male and calico, one of five things has to be true:
He’s transgender.
He’s intersex and has Klinefelter Syndrome.
He absorbed his twin in the womb, becoming a genetic chimera with two separate genomes -> two different X chromosomes -> two different colors of spots.
Some of his skin cells spontaneously mutated during his development to grow different color fur. This is rare, even for male calicoes.
He’s not a natural calico. He dyed his fur, or got a skin transplant.
What I’m saying here is that there’s a pretty decent chance that the mascot of the squishmallow brand is actually LGBTQ+. It’s actually kind of neat that they have characters implied to be queer, as well as characters implied to be disabled.
This is only scratching the surface when it comes to weird squishmallow lore. The company made so many fucking squishmallows that I could do a whole series of matpat-style video essays on them and still not cover something. In fact, I might add on to this post later when it isn’t past my bedtime. Stay tuned.
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