@Blissey1  
It only takes one chemical burn IRL to forever ruin the concept for you. Trust me, I’ve been there. And no, using another chemical on it a’la Fight Club will not work, it will make it worse. True it’ll neutralize it, but it’s also an exothermic reaction. That is, it generates fire-levels of heat. Against your sensitive and burned skin. Water’ll iritate it, yes, but it’ll also flush the chemical off your skin.

@Badumsquish  
but but gelatinous cube pony!

@klystron2010  
I’ve always followed where their diet consists of easily broken down sweet foods like primarily fruit. It could be their bodies just don’t have what it takes to break down a living creature.
 
Whatever the case, the “they can dissolve you” thing is a massive turn-off for me. Even if it makes no sense I’ll always have it where they’re 100% safe to touch. I just added the line about “if they’re carnivorous” because I thought it sounded funny.

If only carnivorous goos are harmfully acidic to human skin, then do herbivorous ones have acid that only attacks plant matter? Or do they have some other digestive mechanism?

I love that journal article stuff! Please do more, you are very good on it!

@Badumsquish  
That reminds me, I remember reading a fanfic over at fimfiction that kinda had a tar/sludge monster that was filled with bones in the story. Granted, it was an HiE fic and the monster fell for a human so it decided to try and craft itself a female human form with its spare bones and a disguise spell to be with said human. Or something like that. I don’t think that story was updated in a while though.

@Twifan  
Creepy. I like it!
 
@Blissey1  
Male human on male pony is quite rare too. I really should do something about that, but I have other things I want to do first.

@Rahkshi500  

 
female human on male pony anything is quite rare.

@Badumsquish  
I find that having a bit of a motive really helps helps define appearance to a character.
 
Such as for instance the elegant clothing she wears could either be another part of her keep together “what she once was” before she was turned into the monster.
 
Or it could be she’s always been a goo-pony and has gotten this obsession from the one who has been controlling her. A sort of hate but fascinated obsession with the person she plots to overthrow. If the controller is female, it’s an obsession to replace her as the owner of the domain.
 
If the controller is male, it could have started as research into looking for a weakness she could exploit over him but then she started to enjoy how she appeared in the mirror. Or it could be that this evil goo-pony has developed a twisted crush on her capture and doesn’t want to end his life for her freedom but simply switch the two roles around, with her being the one in control and him groveling at her gooey hooves. Which might end up leading to something like: “I hope senpai notices me. And when he does, I will overthrow him.”
 
The collecting of bones might be partly due to this last obsession. Part of her attempt, as far as she sees it, to keep herself less looking like a blob of nothing and more ‘attractive’.

Would really like to see a pic of a female human rubbing a male pony’s stomach. Those are quiet rare it seems.

@Twifan  
I haven’t really come up with motivations per se. All I know right now is it’s going to be a she, and I’m going to make the pony portion of her as sexy as possible to contrast the disgusting dripping skeletal half of her.
 
I’m thinking clothes too. Like, nice elegant clothing that is torn and spattered and stained at the bottoms.

@Badumsquish  
Could be a side project of trying to “return to normal”, or to get turned into something other than the goo creature they currently are and being forced to serve “the master”. A creepy part of its plan to get out of the control and overthrow the boss, one body part at a time.
 
The “boss” can figure it’s a creepy (and possibly stupid) hobby of the monster.

@Badumsquish  
Or even creepier, have her want to steal body parts from her still-living opponents.
 
“I like your horn, Twilight… Nice wings, Rainbow Dash… Fluttershy, eh… you can go.”

@Keith Mowz  
I meant like replace parts of their own body. Swap out a limb for like a arm to have a hand or something, but what you said is pretty cool too.

@Keith Mowz  
so they’d be able to coat and animate inanimate objects?
 
just like that pink goo from the ghostbusters movie?

@Badumsquish  
Interesting I suppose; if you wanted them to seem a little less on the macabre or evil side they could do likewise with things like topiary or sculptures too, maybe some custom built frames. Ultimate technique being a giant robot or something; my brain is simultaneously trying to say “zord”, “liger zero” and “Big O”. Or maybe “Megas XLR”. ^Nice.^

@Keith Mowz  
Not only that, but any part of them that detaches becomes acidic or hazardous in some way, letting them weaponize their own body.
 
And on that note, what if they could help themself to bones from other creatures to change their form while they’re at it?

@Twifan  
Something something the skeleton keeps their gooey body animated, any part of them that completely detaches from it becomes inert until contact between the two is re-established, boss has some kind of hydrokinetic ability that can theoretically strip the goo off their bones completely to subdue them if they get unruly something something.
 
I like bouncing ideas around. But I don’t have the patience to draw/animate/write them out most of the time.

@Twifan  
Best would be a second in command who’s much more dangerous than his/her boss and totally plotting on him/her.

@Badumsquish  

 
Sounds like a pretty good idea for a 2nd in command to a villain. A person turned into a goo creature who holds on to the bones of their previous form in sad remembrance of what they once were.
 

 
@Blissey1  
I like this idea.

@Badumsquish  

 
that does seem logical.
 
it also raises some rather amusing ideas about cheating and getting caught. Octavia comes home one night, but little does she realize that there’s still bit of a different colored goo from her other lover mixed in with her…

@Psychopomf  
That is a cool idea for a villain character I wanted to make for the sake of making a villain character: a blob of tar-like goop clinging messily to a skeleton. I just may have to steal that idea…
 
@Twifan  
Oh, don’t worry. Odds are Zecora can cure the meltaviafication. Though what will Anon do when Vinyl Scratch shows up and decides to drop the beat? [/preview]
 
Besides, maybe fusing together is what passes as goo pony hanky-panky: they join into one blob, goop around a bit, and split into three. I may have to use that idea too…

Much as I expected, giving a goo pony a belly rub is very similar to petting a cat. Well, aside from the ability of the goo pony to completely melt, that is.

My neighsaying still stands! That goo pony wouldn’t be given the loving attention it needed if the human was Octavia-gooified like in the previous picture. Goo-humans/Goo-ponies can’t give good belly-rubs like their superior belly rubbing humans!
 
Also, it be really hard to separate the two goo creatures if one gave a belly-rub to another.

@Psychopomf  
What’s wrong with a little solid structure?