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Today was a rather unusual one for the island, everything looked normal, everything sounded normal, but the plans for today hadn't been done before. You(yes, you!) wanted to hold a parade! The island had been developing for quite a while now, and the paths were certainly big enough to allow for one, so why not?

Along with that...well...you had "ideas" for it, ideas you weren't going to tell anybody else about THAT part until it was too late~

After announcing the plans to all of your islanders, you were then discussing plans with your main Resident Services staff, Isabelle, who had agreed to help, entirely oblivious to your true intentions~
"That sounds like a wonderful, unique idea!~"
The Shih Tzu chimed in happily.
"But...where would you get the supplies for it?"
You reassured her that you already had "everything you needed already on the island".
"Oh! So floats and the like are already covered, you must have been planning this for a long time to afford all of that."

Thankfully, you didn't need to spend bells on parade floats, all you needed was some helium tanks and some bloat-inducing snacks~

Later in the day, you approached a particular Islander, one whom you brought to the island specifically to be the "ground zeroes" for what you had planned. A rather lazy, inflatable bunny by the name of Hopkins. You weren't exactly sure HOW much one Islander could take before exploding into rubbery scraps, but if he could take the brunt of it without popping, then anybody could~

You greeted him as casually as you could.
"Heya! I've been wondering, why do you think everybody says I'm an airhead? I try to pay attention, but sometimes I hear this funny sound and then...fsssh!, suddenly its hard to think at all. Pretty weird, huh?"

"...Hm? Theres something you want to show me?"
You unveil to him a full plate of gourmet cookies, each one made to be as large as possible and...look oddly squeaky.
"Oh! Aheha, thanks~ If you don't mind, I'm gonna treat myself to some of these."

Hopkins begins to eat them, despite not being fully "organic" persay, he WAS capable of eating...and thus consequently filling up~ Whilst he was distracted, you also chose to hook up a helium tank right into the nozzle on the back of his head~

"Mmmfh...so good...~"
"I feel so full aleady, these are REALLY good cookies! But...I still want more."
He would rapidly be blowing up from both the bloat-laced cookies and the tank pumping helium straight into him, his torso immediately becoming a rubbery, shiny sphere the size of an XL beachball.

As Hopkins grew, more and more odd things happened to his body, his arms and legs began to blow up, getting rounder and rounder, eventually merging together into singular, huge spheres...yet this didn't seem to bother him at all. He was either genuinely enjoying it, ooor he was too airheaded to care, around this time he had begun to float as well, gradually rising off of the ground~
"Mmmhh...oooh, I don't mind that, looks cleaner on me I think~"
His head sunk deeper and deeper into his body, as more and more individual parts of him begun to expand, his tail, his ears...and then...~

*Crrrrkkk...POP! Grrrr....POP!*
With two comedic pops, his eyes had begun to bulge! Becoming swollen globes of rubber, yet Hopkins didn't seem to care at all, even as his vision grew distorted and fuzzy, and the cookies just kept coming...~
His head merged with his torso as the pressure grew higher, ears swelling out, his body taking on a goofy, overinflated look as he grew taut, despite all of the helium in him, the pressure had made his voice very very DEEP and muffled~
"Ohhh...~ Ohh...I'm...getting so full...~"
"But I...want moore...~"

His eyes pushed further and further, becoming elongated and almost tube-like. His seams were stretched and pushed past their intended sizes, becoming visibly strained looking as they struggled to keep him from exploding into a bunch of rubbery, stretched out scraps.
Yet despite it all, he had managed to hold together, reaching the size of an apartment complex within only around 20 minutes, you figured that was a good size, at least to start out~

The only thing keeping him from floating off into the sky was the helium tank, firmly embedded in the ground. You used this opportunity to tie him down with ropes like a real parade float, so that he could be moved about without much hassle. He was HUGE, casting a shadow over a large portion of the surrounding land.

"Woah! How did you afford such a big float??"
You invited the other islanders to showcase him. Very few had recognized that it was Hopkins, owed to the fact that he was simply so bloated. Some reacted in bewilderment, finding the parade float to be "creepy" with how overinflated it was, others found it endearing...some even found it sort of hot.
For Hopkins, he was under TONS of pressure...yet he loved every moment of it. Being able to simply float around, whilst under such intense, yet enjoyable strain...something about it was relaxing to the unrecognizably bloated bunny~ He wanted to stay like this forever...and he sure would, if you had anything to say about it~

You weren't done yet either, not even close, and by the time you were? The island would become a much tighter, comfier, lazier place, where the air is filled with unending creaking, and where all are blimps~
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Soooo, I wanted to do a more detailed uber pic, complete with extra details and shading, and who else would fit that more than everybody's favorite inflatable bunny?~
Might make this a sort of sequence/series, depending on how I feel~

Hopkins and Animal Crossing belong to Nintendo, I just like drawing weird balloon art :p