MOTHERv3 Shows Viewers’ Plushie Photos, Then Settles a Zombie-Versus-Skeleton Debate

INDEPENDENT — MOTHERv3, an independent streamer on Twitch, spent part of a Sunday stream of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time showing off photos that viewers had taken with plushies of her, and said the collection had moved her.

She opened by greeting chat, wishing a viewer a happy birthday and promising more adventure in Hyrule. She then put the plushie pictures on screen, among them a viewer’s video of a plushie’s trip through Japan. Later in the stream she thanked the viewers who had sent photos: some showed the plushie on a computer screen, some buried it in playing cards, and some posed it with dogs. One voice on the stream said that looking through them made her tear up a little, and that it was good to know viewers held a small piece of the channel.

“At what point does it stop being a zombie though?” — One voice on the stream, opening the zombie debate

She said the slideshow would be updated every day and would run on the channel’s starting-soon screen from now on, and that viewers whose plushies were still in transit could post their photos in the community’s merchandise chat channel on Discord once the plushies arrived.

Another stretch turned to a question that chat took up at length: at what point does a zombie stop being a zombie? One voice on the stream asked whether a zombie with its flesh ripped off, or its skin gone except for the face, still counted. Chat split on whether skeletons qualify. One voice settled on a rule: if it has a brain, it is a zombie, and a skeleton with a brain showing would count. She also said she was having a lot of fun playing Ocarina of Time at a very slow pace.

Later she showed the stream’s new Legend of Zelda thumbnail, drawn by the artist who also made many of the channel’s emotes, and asked chat for a link to the artist’s commission page. She signed off by saying she would find time the next day to stream and thanking chat, and pointed viewers to a movie night on the community Discord.