Scrunkly Origins

We have traced Scrunkly's origins to the aurora mini flopsie 6'5 inch Ozzie opossum plushie. He was bought from a half-price books on June 2nd, 2022 by Jo. Later, during fight debates, Scrunkly was jokingly referred to as 'god level' and 'beyond boundless'. This caused a chain reaction which led to the idea of the Scrunkly comic; A comedy slice-of-life adventure similar to Saiki K about Scrunkly The Opossum, who had infinite powers due to god accidentally reincarnating into him, but the opossum having control of the body & powers. In this comic, an opossum who runs the top hat mafia known as 'Top Hat Timothy' was revealed, and was said to be Scrunkly's Arch Nemesis. This will come back into play in the Scrunkly fake movie series and in Scrunkism.

The comic only ever had 1 volume made of it before in July of 2022 one of the other moderators in the Skittle Clan discord server deleted the chain, and most information was lost. With this loss of info, I cannot fully piece together what happened. 

Later, on July 29th, 2022 it was revealed that Jo planned to add Scrunkly to his Stardew Valley NPC mod. This never happened as he lost passion and now the Augustus mod is forever lost in the obscure haze of nexus mods.

Although the COMIC comes from July, the name Scrunkism and the idea of a scrunkly religion actually originates from August 11-12th 2022, with the release of Cult of the Lamb. I am a pre-orderer and played it either on launch day or midnight august 12th. Anyways, to give you some perspective I name all my religion saves after my favorite plushy of the time, thats why i have 7 brucism and puppyism saves on godhood. I continued that trend with this game, naming it Scrunkism

On August 18th the fanfare for Scrunkly just kept going with poems and art about him. On August 23, in the middle of science class (first period), Jo used thisworddoesnotexist.com and put in Scrunkly and it outputted: As of, Or relative to The Scrunk. This phrase would shape Scrunkly's nicknames and set off a domino chain that led to several odd usernames, nicknames for Scrunkly, and the name of the creator deity in Scrunkism: Scrunk, via the definition "Scrunkly: As of, or relating to The Scrunk."

Around September 5th the first real proof of Jo's Weird Mod I can date, as the original steam post was deleted and reuploaded. It showed the upcoming and included features, one of the upcoming being Scrunkly. 

The discord posts went pretty radio silent around this time, but that does not mean Scrunkly was not growing. Around October I became best friends with one Pukie18, even though we were school friends since august (as we did the thisworddoesnotexist.com thing together). Pukie too loved Scrunkly, and that just fanned the Scrunkly flames, which were at the time starting to die out. I decided to make a NovelAI story the day before thanksgiving break, and that generated one of the most important characters in Scrunkly lore. Buckybuckleberrybush. He was a super smart opossum with opossum strength and was best friends with Scrunkly. 

Nothing happened until November 31st, 2022. My dad showed me ChatGPT, marketing it as understanding stuff and being able to explain things, which I made it do. It was not until December 2nd, 2022 that I realized its full power. Around December 5th I made the Scrunkly TV Series, a list of summaries. The plot followed Scrunkly and Buckybuckleberrybush in an episodic shenanigan-ery type series. Season 2 had Top hat Timothy buy a big lumber company and chop down their forest, forcing them into the city, but it wasn't a major change. Season 3 was the same, but season 4 had a major status quo change.

Top hat timothy's Empire had grown and by the final 3 episodes the earth was so polluted that top hat timothy had left in a spaceship and Scrunkly and Bucky were left to pick up the pieces. Using Gregory, an unimportant side character I made in august, who is an omnipresent frog who is there in the background wherever Scrunkly is but nobody sees him, they touch him and are thrust back to before the forest is cut down. They bankrupt the lumber company, and top hat timothy cant cut down the forest; leading the events of everything past season 1 to never happen.

This led to the idea of top hat timothy being greedy to stick in my mind. Later, with Pukie we made a fake MCU-type movie series about Scrunkly in a different universe, but that was mostly self-contained and brought no new aspects to the table, except for showing my hatred for cole slaw.

On Jo's Birthday, December 10th of 2022 one of Jo's (my) Friends got him an opossum plushie, calling him big scrunkly. Since this happened around 3 weeks after the invention of Buckybuckleberrybush, that is what his name became.

Nothing, until January 21st, 2023. The first incarnation of the Scrunk Testaments was made. There was no Scrunkism, me and Pukie thought it would be funny. It goes as follows: 

1. No hurting Scrunkly or knights of Scrunkly.

2. No blasphemy to Scrunkly. 

3. Top hat Timothy must be only spoken of negatively.

4. Love thy scrunk liking neighbor, berate your scrunk hating neighbor.

5. Not worshiping Scrunkly is okay, but disliking Scrunkly is not. 

6. Don’t be mean to people because of who theie art (unless theie misprize scrunkly, or it hurts others)

7. Thee shalt naught e'er speaketh of the monkeie remoteth

It was pretty bad. January 24th, 2023 however was better. The Scrunkism document was made by Jo on a day that Pukie wasn't in school. The entire doc was made in one day except for 'Sleeping Day', which Pukie added on January 25th. This was all fine and dandy, but Scrunkism wasn't in full effect yet. yet. The next day during a free period,  I and Pukie recruited several to Scrunkism. 

This leads into January 30th: The creation of The Scrunkle. The entire thing was one free period's worth and just detailed the creation myth. 

And then, on February 6th, 2023 I spent an hour tracing all this back and writing this because I was sick and bored. But the history of scrunkly didn't end there

Ant-Man Quantumania. Me and Pukie went to go, and I brought Scrunkly (as well as tiredly an on 5 cups of coca-cola insulted the swedes, not knowing my mom's best friend was part Swedish). A test was made that day. "What scrunkly are you" . 

The Scrunkle was lackluster, even with ChatGPT nobody could make it more interesting, so when book 2 was created on date, specifically only chapter 1, I decided I would make it longer chapters, and have it be way different than just exposition. Frank was already canonized as a scrunkly follower who turned to the dark side, but the new chapter changed it to a Top Hat Timothy follower that had seen the light after running away from his Scrunkly village. The scrunkle kept going for a bit and Book 2 ended.

Now that book 2 was over, book 3 was ready. On april 13th, 2023 a humorous solution was proposed. Via character.ai, an INFINITE scrunkle. This was extremely hard to do and never got out of testing stage.

And that is the end of Scrunkly's history for now. This page will be expanded whenever something happens.