Physical Description

Cuteyes were cute short mammalian-esque people with large heads, chubby bodies, and short limbs. Their faces had sizable eyes, with a rather small nose, an equally tiny mouth, rosy cheeks, all located on the lower half of their head. Their ears were on the top of their head, each with a long, floppy, oblong auricle which often reaches down to their waist. A cuteye's fur had irregular piebald-esqe markings that can be expected to be unique for every member. Most have a roughly even mix of either white with black spots, white-on-black patterned cuteyes.

Cuteyes typically wore floor-length dresses, regardless of gender. Some also wore pinafore aprons and nurse's caps, even if they weren't on the clock, their workplace used medical scrubs, or they weren't even employed as a nurse.

Personality

Cuteyes were adorable, (mostly) affable and (mostly) kind, as well as intelligent, mature, and strong-willed. They also seemed to adore pain and suffering, and were infamous for watching, and giggling over a dying man, doing nothing but asking about how they feel. How would they describe their pain? Despite their best efforts, cuteyes were never able to completely shake this off of their public image. They didn't adore the people and things that cause pain and suffering, however. Infact, they hated them. They'd gladly destroy weapons, and drag murderers back onto the straight and narrow, gods be damned.

They often worked as nurses, as it seemed to be a nice median, a job of kindness, compassion, and aid, dealing with people who have been injured, that are in pain. In turn, cuteyes had adopted the profession as part of their cultural identity, not having much of society or civilization before first contact.

Cuteyes were psychologically incapable of not being cute as heck all the time, whether they liked it or not.

History

Cuteyes evolved on their homeworld of Wuffletupple, where they, like everything else, spent generations living peacefully. Records suggest they didn't even make a civilization, and never needed such a thing. In 1033, this changed as Wuffletupple was discovered by tourists, and cuteyes were introduced to the universe. In all of its horrible glory.

The universe was nothing like Wuffletupple. There were hard things, sharp things, rough things. Dangerous things. Painful things. And that was just the thing. There were awful people. Aggressive people. Hostile people. Violent people. Death wasn't patient here, you wouldn't die peacefully in your sleep-bead. You would die, blood draining out on the floor. You would die, your body overwhelmed by sickness. You would die, your head smashed into pieces. You would die, in a hole, badness poring in, and hope draining, and leaving hopelessness and despair in its stead.

It was...wonderful. A world of experiences they could never even imagine existing. New things to see. To hear, smell and/or touch. New things to lose that they took for granted. Saving. Cherishing. Mourning. They had no such concepts before.

At least, a sizable amount thought it was great. The other half reacted more typically.

Ultimately, the two halves met in the middle. Those that wished to nope out of the universe, to go back to before first contact, would go home, and set-up the shields that would keep everything away from Wuffletupple. And the other half would stay in this new world they loved so much, with the tourists. And so it was.

Stories say that the first cuteye nurse was Emma Seeceelen in 1067, her tourist friend Ketilrir celebrated Emma's successful employment with a gift of a dress, pinafore apron, and an odd cap; The uniform of a human nurse. While there is no conclusive proof of this, there is proof that the amount of cuteyes employed as nurses increased 2000% in that year. By 1068, over 80% of cuteye were working as nurses.

On January 14 1187, 10:47 AM; A tourist travel group with three cuteyes visited the jupette homeworld of Apteryx. The cuteyes went over as expected, with a cloud forming of various jupettes fawning over the cutes. However, over time something different from other cutes happened, as the jupettes began taking more interest in cuteyes, began being more protective of cuteyes, some identified as more intellectually-inclined flying off to involved discussions. The tourists ended up with 546 jupettes requesting to be taken to the rest of the cuteyes (Ultimately, only 12 were taken, the cargo hold not having any space for more.) Thus marked the start of a beautiful alliance between two species.

Cuteyekind would have a long and prosperous existence over the three millenia. This would come to an end around 4000, as the oocraft reveal their discovery of resurrecting the dead. Cuteyes, were among those they tricked. "A cure for death." Cuteyes would aid in promoting and discussing the new technique. The oocraft deceived cuteyes into thinking that death was an evil that needed to be fought with all their might. When the occraft made their move against the universe, cuteyes were completely ensnared. The dubious, and undead, Chief Director Shirleylee rallied the cuteyes with the occraft, the living's crimes against the undead could not go unpunished.

Cuteyes became a terror, as they skipped onto the battlefield, resurrecting the slain to fight the living. Some realized the ruse, and joined the fight, braving the battlefield to treat, to stabilize the wounded and dying. Eventually, they would opt to be infected with a safe and stable strain of the clockwork virus, ensuring they would NEVER be turned.

By the end of the war, all the cuteyes were either undead, dead, or clockworks. Most were just plain dead.

Home Planet

The official homeworld of cuteyes was Apteryx; the homeworld of their closest ally (often put poetically: "Best Friends Forever"), the jupette. It boasts a wide variety of biomes, and plenty of ruins and battlefields from the jupette vanished-ancestral-enemy turned pop symbol.

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Wuffletupple! Wuffletupple! Praise be to Wuffletupple! Planet of the cutes!

Wuffletupple, their world of origin, was often cited by cuteyes as their homeworld, even though it's not their home-world.

Wuffletupple was a planet sweeter than a whole sugar bowl, apparently having formed with absolutely no danger at all upon it. All fruits and vegetables on the planet contain their own juicy slurry inside with all that any animal on the planet needs to survive, and nothing that would negatively impact their health. The contents can be easily drunk through the stem, which is hollow so the slurry is circulated between the fruit and the rest of the plant, until the fruit has fully ripened, at which point circulation is cut off and a point on the stem weakens, allowing fauna to remove it despite the planet's utter lack of sharp edges, or hard surfaces.

All corners crumble into safe curves, and everything absorbs 90% impacts, aided by the low gravity. All life seems to have evolved to be as non-aggressive as physically possible, all creatures of all walks of life instinctually cooperating with each other. The atmosphere filters out the most harmful of the sun's rays, and there appears to be no spots that are not between 59F and 77F. Water is abundant in easily breathable oxygen due to oxygen concentrations in the soil, along with various other chemicals and elements that keep the concentrations from reaching toxic levels, and keeps the soil safe to eat, if tasteless.

Further research in Wuffletupple's environment is difficult, as native cuteyes quickly elected to shield their world from the rest of the universe, limiting us to initial samples and memories from the cuteyes that decided to stay on this side of the shield. However, it seems safe to assume that; if it's dangerous, it either doesn't exist on Wuffletupple, or it does in a safe form.

Subspecies

Wuffletupplians: The cuteyes that stayed behind. Technically the superspecies, but as they quickly went back to Wuffletupple, never to be seen again, they don't need their own article. Records suggest they do not tolerate pain and suffering, hence staying away from the rest of the universe. This would explain why jupette have never attempted to retrieve them after the extinction of cuteyes, even less restrained individuals that were willing to break time laws to save cuteyes.

Special

Adorable: Cuteyes were so adorable that they are said to be born with extra charisma. They're just that charming!

LOVE: Cuteyes gained morale if anything horrible happens to them, or the people around them. However, this was also somewhat bad for their mental health.

Related to this, it took significant mental effort for a cuteye to not unsettle people, this gave a good indicator of a cuteyes mental health: As it deteriorates, they become more likely to outwardly react happily as people getting hurt, focus more on asking how the pain feels, and just generally have issues being as charismatic as they usually were.

Trivia

• It's widely believed the cuteyes didn't swear, at most using words like; "con-sarn-it", "dag-nab-it", maybe "Gosh Dang It" if they are really frustrated.

This was an exaggeration. It's more that cuteyes took the spicier words, and put them on a higher shelf. A person who says "fuck" every other word won't really have anything to say if something truely horrible happens...

• Cuteyes considered it more polite to treat a person being wrong as just fooling around, if reasonable to do so.

• There had been several reports of cuteyes moving in spite of debilitating fatal injuries. Nobody is sure how this is, and it's largely considered a myth.

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