I'd like a story. Anonymous brings a koyukkuri home, and gives it some food, but he has to leave for some reason. The koyukkuri begins exploring, it climbs up on something. For example a pile of books... or a pile of plates, where it finds some leftovers, but it's not satisfied and announces them non-easy food. Then anonymous returns, and the koyukkuri jumps up and down demanding food and attention. The pile that it climbed up on collapses, koyukkuri falls on the floor and is seriously wounded. And then a book or plate crushes it completely.
Well, seeing as I already went through the "burn their legs" routine, maybe taking it's ribbon and placing it just-within-reach-if-only-she-could-still-jump could give an opportunity to experiment with more facial expressions. Also, I'm still working on some way to represent bean paste semi-accurately. And regarding that story, it sounds *mostly* doable, but certain parts of it (like depicting jumping motion and such) would be ridiculously hard to do, especially since I (you quessed it) work alone on these. Of course, if someone with some photoshop skills would like to help me, let me know. That would make several things actually doable.
Also, regarding different kinds of physical harm: the parts of the reimu I really try to protect are the Ribbon and those hair-...things. Would'nt want to crush them, and I will go check my local hobby store today for some more play-doh: I want to make the next "generation" of yukkuris slightly larger. No worries though, this particular little koyukkuri will be coming back shortly in a series of pictures I can describe with the word "hook".