If I ever have enough money to commission a big plushie someday, I'd love to get a BLÅHAJ-esque Zamtrios plushie made. It'd be 1 meter long like a normal BLÅHAJ, but instead of being fuzzy, it would be made of a smoother, cool-feeling fabric like you might find used in bedding (especially pillowcases), in reference to Zamtrios being an ice-element monster. (Addendum: Maybe if I have enough money I could also commission a Zamite based on those 55 cm mini-BLÅHAJAR?... actually, how do you capitalize "blåhajar" and other Swedish pluralizations in proper IKEA product formatting? Maybe "BLÅHAJar"? I think I got it right the first time but it looks... off. All the more reason to ignore IKEA's insistence on capitalizing all their product names, I suppose.)
I'm half-tempted to learn Blender properly so I can model it and put it in my hunter's room in Sunbreak as a mod (or more realistically a 6th-gen MonHun game, considering how long it's likely to take me to learn all the necessary steps), but that seems like a bit of a long shot.
Transcript of notes below the cut:
GRODAHAJ (Zamtrios BLÅHAJ)
[ frog ][shark]
overlapping fabric? embroidery? (pointing to texturing on top of GRODAHAJ's head, which lines up with darkened gills around where BLÅHAJ's are)
100 units1 long (100 cm, or 1 meter)
like the gills on BLÅHAJ (pointing to a darker part of the aforementioned texturing)
folds that expand when inflated (referring to a cross-section of GRODAHAJ's belly, showing the folds, which are deepest in the middle of his belly and shallowest closest to his sides)
white eyes like Zamtrios in-game (pointing to the eye of the inflated GRODAHAJ)
inflated... how?2
- same fabric as a nice, cool pillowcase
↳ in contrast to BLÅHAJ being warm & good for Winter, GRODAHAJ is good for cuddling in Summer; he is an ice-element monster, after all!
- no ice armor mode
↳ needs to be cuddly, not "badass"
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As far as I know units are never labeled in-game in MonHun, so all the fan wikis tend to just call them "units" (if they call them anything at all, as opposed to just listing the raw number like the games), but they're pretty clearly centimeters based on some official sources and comparing sizes in-game. Thus, a 1-meter-long plushie (like BLÅHAJ) would be 100 units long.
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My initial instinct is to just inflate it the old-fashioned way, but maybe there could be a cushion-like insert? If so, how would you conceal the fastener for the pocket such that it wouldn't be uncomfortable to cuddle (maybe hide it in a fold, and just not worry about it when it's inflated since it's too bulky to cuddle at full size)? Though that problem also exists with the valve for an internal balloon, not to mention the logistical issue of how to inflate it (inflated like a beach ball? That'd be a bit shit IMO, especially since some people struggle with those for various reasons).