I’ll be honest, I can’t think of a single reason this would be cute or bittersweet that isn’t at least condescending if not outright ageist.

Ugh. Suddenly it's cute that I'm doing something I've been doing for 30 years?

I think this was meant to be sweet but I hope you consider why the responses aren’t what you probably expected, OP.

You have just provided me with the solution to an ages old confusion. Thank you.

There are 'super-deformed' dolls on Subeta that are just like, a little big-headed and definitely a chibified version of the pet where the actual chibi version of the pets is, well 'chibi', and I never understood why the dolls had a different name, or what about them was deformed.

Why, because he's thin and he's neat?

I remember watching playthroughs of this game (because I didn't/don't have the console). Now I'm tempted to check out the fic, despite the OOC warning here...