Toasty Boiz

Toasty Boiz, also known as Cozywarm Boiz, are a common, invasive species of boi. While they aren't native to the Vast Land of Farangia, they are usually classified as a Farangian species regardless. They are believed to be distantly related to Flaming Boiz and Spicy Boiz.
==Appearance==
Toasty Boiz are well known for their very adorable looks. They possess pastel orange main fur, but their undercoats can be either pale orange, pastel gold, pale gold, or rarely even cream in color. Notably, their fur is extremely fluffy, with their ears appearing loosely flame shaped. They also have flame-like ruffs of fur around their neck (can be represented with a Sheep Cloak in Animal Jam.) They always wear white and yellow, orange, or red head flowers, as well as tan or yellow leis. However, they may also be seen with fire themed accessories. Like many species of boi, they possess black eyes, as well as small fangs. Notably, do to their innate control over fire, Toasty Boiz are distinctly warm to the touch. Normally, they're about as warm as a heated blanket or a warm water bottle, but they can heat themselves up to boiling temperatures at will.
==Habitat==
Despite being classified as a Farangian species, Toasty Boiz are not Farangian in origin. Instead, they come from the mysterious dimension of Pyrinos. While Pyrinos and it's ecology are poorly understood, it is known that Toasty Boiz are a normal, healthy part of the environment there. 
This is not so much the case in Farangia, where they are an infamous invasive species. Primarily, Toasty Boiz dwell in the heckhole that is the Solarflare Badlands, where they are well suited to the nearly inhospitable, lava-filled environment. However, they have managed to crop up in Noottopia, Gearturn Forest, and even Hexagonal Spires, despite the snowy environment seeming wholly unsuited for them. The only place they can't be found is Sanctuary Shores, as that place is heavily Toasty Boi proofed. Rarely, Toasty Boiz will even pop up outside of Farangia, as wild Toasty Boiz have been found in Jamaa as well, having usually escaped through portals to Farangia or been teleported in with magic. 
While the Toasty Boiz in Solarflare Badlands are usually left to their lonesome, as that place is too dangerous to properly moderate at this point anyway, Toasty Boiz appearances outside of there are heavily regulated. Anyone who is responsible for a Toasty Boi getting out of Solarflare Badlands or Pyrinos will be either heavily fined or sent to jail depending on how intentional it was, and any discovered Toasty Boiz will be gotten rid of. Sometimes, Toasty Boiz are dealt with by manually moving them to Solarflare Badlands, teleporting them to Pyrinos, or even adopting them into the care of someone who can be trusted to not let them escape or run wild, but it's also common for the Toasty Boiz to "have their flames forcibly extinguished", to put it nicely. 
==Traits==
Toasty Boiz are far from the most powerful species of boi; there's no way they could beat, say, a Tempest Boi or an Earthshaker Boi in combat. However, they possess a variety of abilities that make them incredibly hardy. It is very hard to flush Toasty Boiz out of an area they've invaded, and when left unchecked, Toasty Boiz can have devastating consequences on not only the local ecosystem, but the environment itself. 
* Possess natural fire magic in their fur; while at "default" their fur has it's signature cozy warm feeling, Toasty Boiz can heat up their fur like a microwave to temperatures hot enough to instantly boil water to steam and burn anything that touches them to a crisp
* Are completely fireproof to the point they can swim in lava unharmed
* Are heavily resistant to most poisons, with the worst they suffer being vomiting after eating one too many poisonous snacks
* Can breathe polluted and smoke filled air without harm (although they aren't immune to polluted water)
* Can survive in extreme hot and to a significantly lesser extent cold temperatures
* Are surprisingly good swimmers for a fire-based trend, although they can't swim in cold or lukewarm water without feeling ill
==Diet==
Toasty Boiz have been likened to goats with their seeming ability to consume almost everything. Toasty Boiz are highly omnivorous and will eat nearly anything that's charred black and is small enough to fit in their gullets, such as rodents, small birds, fruits, woody plants, leaves, and even literal twigs. As they are resistant to most poisons, they can eat poisonous plants and animals no other creature would dare touch. In addition, Toasty Boiz also seem capable of eating various minerals; while they mostly only actively eat rocks and metals that would be easy to find in a volcano, such as scoria and basalt, they can seemingly eat nearly everything that isn't outright radioactive when push comes to shove. In fact, the only things they seem incapable of eating are things that are cold, which make them sick, but thanks to their fire powers, it's very easy for them to obtain well cooked food.
Unlike most boiz, Toasty Boiz seem to get sick when they drink cold or lukewarm water, especially if it contains ice. However, they can drink warm and even boiling water just fine. In addition, they bizarrely seem capable of drinking lava and molten metal without harm. In fact, it's theorized that in their home dimension of Pyrinos, most, if not all of their liquid intake is lava. This is theorized to be why they can eat minerals, as lava is mostly just heavily molten rock and metal.
==History==
As previously mentioned, Toasty Boiz originate from the distant dimension of Pyrinos. While alternate worlds are in general poorly understood by Jamaasians, Pyrinos in particular is incredibly mysterious, mostly because it is completely inhospitable to most outsiders. Pyrinos is known to be a land of lava and fire that is home to various fiery species of trends adapted to survive in the burning hot environment. Some even theorize there are no landmasses in Pyrinos, just endless lava. 
However, the Toasty Boi species' long and troubled history with the Vast Land of Farangia begins a long time ago, back when the Solarflare Badlands weren't the flame-filled volcanic heckscape they are now, but rather a lovely, rocky beach known as Solarflare Sands, home to the at-the-time capital city of Farangia, Fotiá City, and the long sleeping volcano Solarflare. While it's unknown how, exactly, they initially entered Farangia, the leading theories are either that they were unintentionally (or possibly even intentionally) dropped off by portals created by dimension hopping species, such as UFBs, or summoned by some kind of practitioner of teleportation or portal magic. 
Either way, regardless of how exactly they entered Farangia, what is important is that, upon being discovered and researched, they quickly became a massive pet fad, do to their adorable, fluffy appearances, their docile and affectionate personalities making them easy to tame and domesticate, and their ability to eat and drink almost everything making them incredibly easy to care for. The only real issue was their control over heat having the potential to be a fire hazard, but as their fur never reached fire inducing temperatures unless they needed to cook something or were somehow threatened, as long as their owner made sure to heavily cook their food and heat their drinks for them, trained them not to raise their fur temperature too high when they were very small and unable of starting fires, and made sure they never got into too much trouble, there was never a risk. Popular Farangian fiction, such as Pepper, a show about a Toasty Boi named Pepper who rescued people, further spread the "Toasty Boi Mania", and soon Toasty Boiz were some of the most popular pets in all of Fotiá City, if not all of Farangia. 
However, the incredible popularity of the species made impulse buys of Toasty Boiz rather common, and while the species was easy to care for, many still found themselves struggling with caring for them. Some just didn't bother to train them correctly not to start fires, others didn't have the supplies needed to cook food for them, and some discovered far too late they just weren't fit to own a pet. Either way, a decent amount of Toasty Boiz ended up being released into the wild, and unfortunately, it didn't take long for their wild population to explode. 
Many of the traits that had made them such appealing pets, such as being able to eat nearly everything, made them an incredibly hardy invasive species that wreaked havoc on the local ecosystem. They left fields of greenery barren simply by eating more then could grow back, out competed the local wildlife to the point that many species of prey and predator trends went extinct, and caused dangerous wildfires with their fire abilities. While the ecosystem had been on the brink of collapse for a while, do to heavy amounts of urbanization destroying local habitats and many places becoming horribly polluted or filled with garbage, to the point that the OFFWP (Organization for Farangian Wildlife Preservation) ended up building a whole land, Sanctuary Shores, to try and prevent further damages, the introduction of the Toasty Boiz seemed to be what finally drove Solarflare Sands over the edge. 
And they drove it over the edge in a catastrophic way nobody had predicted. 
Alongside the much more obvious and predictable consequences of the growing amount of Toasty Boiz, what most Farangians failed to realize was that the Toasty Boiz were releasing not just literal fire, but also a heavy amount of fire magic, which was slowly being absorbed by Solarflare Sands itself. This resulted in the weather becoming significantly hotter, resulting in mass desertification, things become much easier to catch fire then they previously were, with even some objects built to be fireproof becoming flammable, and, most importantly, the volcano Solarflare, which would have naturally stayed inert for millions of years, starting to become active again. 
By the time anyone noticed this, it was far too late to stop it; even with the incredible amount of time needed to revert Solarflare Sands back to how it was originally, there wasn't nearly enough time to extract all of the fire magic it had absorbed. All that was left to do was too evacuate the city before Solarflare inevitably erupted. Three days after the evacuation was announced, the volcano erupted. Most civilians were thankfully able to evacuate, although some tragically weren't able to leave in time do to circumstances and others stubbornly chose to stay in the city. While many of the native flora and fauna were able to be relocated to Sanctuary Shores, various others went extinct in the eruption. 
Ever since that day, Solarflare Sands, now known as Solarflare Badlands, has been a complete husk of it's former glory, being reduced to horribly polluted, lava flooded ruins of destroyed buildings and piles of garbage that only the toughest species of the boiz can inhabit. Still, even now, you can frequently find Toasty Boiz scavenging the remains of the heckscape of their own creation, with not even the literal obliteration of the original ecosystem being enough to stomp them out. 
Moral of the story; don't keep boiz originating from a fiery heck dimension as pets? 
== Trivia ==
* A group of Toasty Boiz is called a Brushfire, for obvious reasons.
* Toasty Boiz have been a thing for a while, having been first mentioned on the rewritten version of the Vast Land of Farangia page in 2021, but it wasn't until now that I've managed to gather the inspiration to give them a page.
* A behavior section may or may not be added later, depending on whether or not I have inspiration.
* Toasty Boiz were very loosely inspired by the Pokémon Flareon, although outside of some elements of their design and their ability to heat their fur up, they have nothing in common with the Pokémon. 
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