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Two capybaras and a cactus

Capy, Bara or Pincho?

Every friend group has one who stays, one who fixes, and one emotional support cactus with anger issues when you leave him alone. Read their profiles, take the quiz, and send it to your friends. You already know who’s who.

Capy and Bara, two white capybaras with red cheeks, in a grown-up living room at sunset: Bara sits on Capy’s back and Pincho the cactus rides beside her. Behind them, a teal sofa, a coffee table with two boba teas and a laptop, a floor lamp, and a framed yellow print on the wall that says “Thank you for staying.”

Three ways to love your people

So different. That’s exactly why it works.

Capy soaking in a round wooden hot tub with little yuzu fruits floating around her, eyes closed, while Pincho the cactus keeps her company on the rim.

Capy

The one who stays

Capy is never in a hurry. She listens all the way to the end, remembers what you told her three months ago, and somehow you feel better just sitting next to her. Her long back is made for carrying the ones she loves. The hard part, for Capy, is letting someone carry her.

Being strong is also saying: today I need you.

Capy

The facts

Energy
Low tide. Slow, steady, always there.
Superpower
Listening until you’ve said all of it.
Love language
Quality time, in comfortable silence.
Comfort thing
Pincho, her cactus. He goes everywhere with her.
Perfect Saturday
A warm bath, a long nap, nowhere to be.
In the group chat
Reads everything. Answers “Mm.” It means “I’m here.”
Working on
Saying “I need you” out loud.

On a scale of one to five

  • Stillness
  • Ideas per minute
  • Says “I’m fine”
  • Shows up for you
  • Fine when left alone
Read Capy’s story
Bara standing proudly next to an open red toolbox, a roll of yellow tape and a desk lamp just fixed with tape, switched on.

Bara

The one who fixes

Bara wakes up with three ideas and has tried two of them by lunch. If something sounds wrong, Bara is already there with the tape and the box of screws. Nobody can ride on Bara’s back, there’s no room, so Bara helps the only way Bara knows: by fixing. The hard part is the day there’s nothing to fix.

Not everything that hurts is broken.

Bara

The facts

Energy
Three ideas before breakfast.
Superpower
Turning a bad day into a plan.
Love language
Acts of service. With tape.
Comfort thing
A roll of tape and a box of screws.
Perfect Saturday
Something broken, a new idea, and a run before lunch.
In the group chat
Fourteen messages in a row. One of them is the answer.
Working on
Sitting still when there’s nothing to fix.

On a scale of one to five

  • Stillness
  • Ideas per minute
  • Says “I’m fine”
  • Shows up for you
  • Fine when left alone
Read Bara’s story
Pincho the cactus on the hall table at night, frowning hard at the front door Capy just walked out of.

Pincho

The emotional support cactus

Pincho is Capy’s emotional support cactus, and he takes the job very seriously. With Capy in the room he is the calmest one in the house: no drama, water on Sundays, apples for everyone. Leave him alone for five minutes and it’s a different story. He doesn’t do “alone.” He’s working on it. Loudly.

I ask for little. I stay.

Pincho

The facts

Energy
Zen when you’re here. Thunderstorm when you’re not.
Superpower
Knowing exactly how long you’ve been gone.
Love language
Physical touch. Carefully.
Comfort thing
Capy. Riding on her head, to be exact.
Perfect Saturday
Sun on the windowsill, Capy in the room, nobody going anywhere.
In the group chat
Sees who left you on read. Remembers.
Working on
Five minutes alone without making a scene.

On a scale of one to five

  • Stillness
  • Ideas per minute
  • Says “I’m fine”
  • Shows up for you
  • Fine when left alone
Meet Pincho

Pincho, left alone

Five minutes, as Pincho lives them

Capy said “Back in five minutes.” This is how those five minutes went.

  1. Pincho on a sunny windowsill at noon, with a perfectly flat poker face.0:00
    “Back in five minutes,” she said. He’s fine. Cactuses are famously fine.
  2. Pincho on the same windowsill in the late afternoon, eyebrows up, mouth open in surprise.0:01
    Was that the door? That was the door. No. It was the fridge.
  3. Pincho on the windowsill at dusk, eyebrows tilted, with a small sad frown.0:03
    She’s not coming back. He’ll grow old on this windowsill. Alone. With two apples.
  4. Pincho on the windowsill on a stormy night, rain and lightning outside, frowning furiously.0:04
    FINE. Who needs her? He doesn’t need ANYBODY.
  5. Back at noon: Capy’s head pops up in front of the windowsill, and Pincho is smiling again.0:05
    Oh, you’re back? Didn’t even notice.
  6. Pincho asleep on the windowsill on a calm night with a crescent moon.0:06
    Emotionally exhausted. Nap.

He’s an emotional support cactus. The support goes both ways.

Meet Pincho

The session

Which one are you?

Seven questions. Get comfortable. No wrong answers, only yours.

Question 1 of 7Your friend calls you crying. You…
Question 2 of 7Something in your home breaks.
Question 3 of 7Your ideal Friday night:
Question 4 of 7When you’re the one who’s hurting…
Question 5 of 7In the group chat, you’re…
Question 6 of 7A friend has to move away for a while.
Question 7 of 7Your friends would call you…

Their story

A friendship like a cactus

  1. Bara waiting at a bus stop at dawn with a small red suitcase.
    Sometimes Bara has to go away for a while. Bara never says for how long.
  2. Capy at a round window at night, looking at the moon, with Pincho the cactus on the windowsill.
    Capy waits. No message every day, no drama. She just knows.
  3. Bara standing on Capy’s back again, both with happy closed eyes, little red hearts above them and the red suitcase beside them.
    Bara always comes back. And Capy is always there.

A friendship like a cactus doesn’t need watering every day.

Bara

That’s why Pincho is a cactus. Bara’s gift to Capy: bald, with spikes on one arm only, and that arm grows little red apples. Bara thought he was ugly. Capy loved him on sight, and takes him everywhere. Now he is her emotional support cactus, and he is great at it, as long as she doesn’t leave.

Capy and Bara don’t talk every day. They don’t need to. This shop is for that kind of friend: the one you don’t see every day and love just the same.

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