Cat companion: tamagotchi-leaning ideas (interest check)

[hardlygospel]

Before anything else — thanks Mat for the hard work on late.sh. You've built the community a properly cosy clubhouse, and it's a real pleasure to contribute to it.

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Sounding out direction before writing code. PR #240 just landed the cheapest "feels more Tamagotchi" lever (life stages from created). Here's the rest of the list, ranked by perceived-change-per-LOC. All preserve the "neither pet ever dies" rule from #205 — no decay-to-death mechanics, no hard-fail states.

#	Idea	Sketch	Rough LOC	Files
1	Life stages from created	Kitten → Wise Old Cat in the modal title	~~~150~~	shipped in #240
2	Mood-driven ASCII variants	Add a few cat poses keyed off existing care state — sleeping (=^.^=)zZ, hungry, playful, content, grumpy. Just a match on CatMood/CatNeeds; cat already has a 3-line ASCII so this is adding 3–4 more flavours of the same shape.	~80	cat/modal_ui.rs
3	"Whiskers misses you" connect banner	If any care timer is overdue at session start, fire a Banner via the same ProfileEvent → Banner pipeline that handles birthday alerts. Single-shot per connect.	~50	cat/svc.rs, cat/state.rs
4	Cat anniversary banner	"Whiskers turned 1 today!" when created.date_naive() matches today's anniversary. Reuses the same banner pipeline.	~30	cat/svc.rs
5	Personality trait at maturity	Track ratio of f/w/p/g/t actions; once cat reaches Adult, derive one trait (Foodie / Tidy / Playful / Mellow) and show as a modal subtitle.	~100	cat/state.rs, cat/modal_ui.rs (+1 new column on the cat_companions table)
6	Idle micro-animations in the sidebar	Every N ticks rotate through 2–3 ASCII frames (yawn / stretch / swat). No new state — just a tick-derived index.	~50	wherever the sidebar cat glyph lives
7	/cat chat command	User types /cat; cat "says" something based on mood (mrow, purrrrr, :(). Reuses the exact slash-command plumbing from /petname #232.	~70	chat/state.rs, cat/state.rs

What I'm asking:

• Any of these worth me drafting?
• Anything you'd outright veto so I don't waste effort?
• Any tweaks to the shape — e.g. trait visibility, banner cadence, etc.?

No need for a long reply — even a "2, 4 only please" or "all closed, focus elsewhere" is plenty. Happy to wait until you've got a moment.