Camofish the Chipmint

Introducing the Cuttleflage 🦑🫥
@matcha was talking to me about how there are a lot of travels whose main design gets covered up by the creature. He had the idea for a creature that is translucent or slowly disappears, more so than the Biwo, for example. Then he was onto the idea of camouflage. We began thinking of animals whose skin changes to fit its surroundings: Octopus, chameleon, and cuttlefish. We decided on a cuttlefish because there are already some octopus and chameleon creatures available, but no cuttlefish!

This is an April Fool's Day suggestion because one stage is a bit silly and the final stage is just ridiculous! Matcha doesn't think Egg Cave will go for the final stage, and I am doubtful too, BUT STILL HOPEFUL. Listen... Please hear me out...
Egg Cave has so many beautiful, interesting, funny, eye-catching travels. Sometimes, the creature covers up the best part of the travel. And recently, some travels look like items and get completely covered up by the creature. We know Egg Cave is all about the wonderful creatures, but the travels are also a huge hit!

Neopets has an Invisible Paint Brush that completely omits your creature's image. I know Ian was inspired by Neopets when he created Egg Cave. So, with all of the amazing art of our travels and trinket travels, let's have a creature that completely camouflages itself into its travel! I feel the community would be very divided on this adult stage. Post your thoughts below!

How nifty would it be if we could have our favorite travel as our profile icon?!
Which travel would you love to have as your profile icon?


Artwork of the Cuttleflage 🦑🫥
https://ibb.co/4W8DLBT
I used watercolors, micron pens, and colored pencils.
There are also examples of each stage on a travel and forum post examples.


About Cuttleflage Eggs 🦑🫥
Cuttleflage eggs are translucent and look exactly like bubbles. You can easily see the baby Cuttleflage floating around inside, which feels intrusive, but also exciting.


About the Cuttleflage Creature 🦑🫥
The Cuttleflage is a strange and striking cephalopod. They have the ability to camouflage into any surrounding, mimicking the colors and textures right before your eyes, even though they are colorblind! Cuttleflages use this technique not only to strike their prey, but also to play pranks on their "cuttly" friends. Their instant reappearance will startle even a seasoned cepha!


Cuttleflage Name Origin and Pronunciation 🦑🫥
Cuttleflage: Cuttlefish + Camouflage (cuddle-flaj)
Please do not change the name of this suggestion. ^^
If it must be changed, please use Cephaloflage, Cephaflage, or Camolopod.


Cuttleflage Details 🦑🫥
Weight: 5 kg
Height: 0.25 m
Gender Profile: Standard
Habitat: Ocean
Obtained From: Cash Shop or Cave


Cuttleflage Evolution 🦑🫥
Baby: 1500 Views
Teen: 2500 Views
Adult: 6000 Views


Notes 🦑🫥
• We'd only like this selected if the Smitten artist draws it, we'd love a detailed and dimensional look!
• Stage 1 Egg: This is based off of a real cuttlefish egg. The egg should be transparent. The baby inside can be upside down like my drawing, which I think is cute, but it could look better right side up! The baby inside is also semi-translucent; a kind of shiny, jelly-look to it.
• Stage 2 Baby: This design can be any sort of rainbow, stripey, zebra-looking pattern.
• Stage 3 Teen: This design should be a literal camouflage pattern with shades of green and some brown. I thought this would be silly for April Fool's Day, that this animal who is known for camouflage turns itself into a classic camo pattern. The tentacles can be curled in more so as to make the creature larger in the 90x90 box. It can also be very slightly rotated more front facing, so as to make it larger in the box.
• Stage 4 Adult: This stage is literally a completely blank and transparent image! This is so the creature appears to have totally camouflaged itself to whatever its surroundings are, whether they are traveling or not. This also plays into it being an April Fool's Day creature.
• Please keep the signature W-shaped eyes that cuttlefish have. 😍