I LIKE IT!!!!
I don't think it truly resembles a Caramel as a baby -- and certainly not as an adult. Different animal that will do different things when combined with other morphs I would suspect. Caramel kinking is scary for most folks. Kinking has kept many away from working with them.
My Caramel Mojave project is line breeding SK, as well as crossing into Nerd line -- het to het. If I told you I did not have kinking in the back of my mind with every lock -- I would be a LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!!!!
I am looking to fix that "stresser" down the road by breeding my Upscale Caramel into the Cinny, Yellow Belly, Pastel, and Spider genes this season in order to make codom hets.
Doug Beard (Upscale co-founder) reported 43 line bred visual Caramels were produced by him from Het to Het pairings...ZERO KINKS.
Good enough for me.
Plan is to cross the Upscale into the SK and NERD stock as well as line bred.