User blog:SaenihpNnylf/Flaky's Mind Compared to Cuddles'



I have been doing a lot of thinking about this recently. Obviously, they are considered the Ying and Yang best friends of the show and for a good reason: Flaky's a nervous reck afraid of everything from vicious sharks to innocent chicks; Cuddles is a reckless daredevil who doesn't seem to be afraid of anything (except medical needles and the dark). This is set up intentionally so that their personalities can clash in Cuddles dragging Flaky dangerous places against her will.

Now, as you may already know, I strongly believe that every Tree Friend remembers every detail of every death and injury they've ever experienced. Originally, I always thought that Cuddles and Flaky's mental processes went like this:
 * Flaky looks at the world around her and realizes that everything can kill her.
 * Cuddles looks at the world around him and realizes that nothing can really kill him, not forever.

While both our true, Flaky's is regarded as wiser and more sane because, while death in Happy Tree Town is very temporary, it's almost always incredibly painful and should be avoided for that reason.

However, in recent thought, I came to an entirely different theory that I actually find much more likely. This theory goes as follows:
 * Flaky sees that everything can kill her and realizes that she must avoid everything.
 * Cuddles also see that anything can kill him but realizes he can't avoid everything so why avoid anything?

From this point of view, Cuddles seems much more sane because by doing the stuff he does, he's actually not raising his chances of dying a violent and painful death and Flaky isn't lowering hers. He's just a safe in a circus, performing as a human cannonball as he is on a park bench, drinking soda; riding his skateboard as riding an elevator.

When it comes down to it, Flaky's just fooled herself into thinking she's doing anything but killing herself mentally. This is why she suddenly moved way down my intelligence list on my profile because I can't call her smart for that.

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