#vampire fruit bats

[aikoiya]

MLP - The Vampire Fruit Bat

Ponies seem to have a type of law enforcement from what we see in a few episodes. So, is theft not punishable by time in jail to them?

After all, the animals in the show seem to be at least somewhat sentient, so wouldn't what the vampire fruit bats has been doing be considered theft & sqatting?

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[blumencia]

[autop3y]

🦇•.*+<3

[flittermousing]

I like bats a normal amount

[abluescarfonwaston]

Thinking about Very Scary Miles Edgeworth who is a Vampire and all the kids at school (and later everyone in court) is TERRIFIED of him because ‘he’ll suck your blood!’

And then after the class Trial Phoenix and Larry go to eat lunch with him. Phoenix is trying very hard to be brave as Miles opens up his lunch box. Larry is shaking behind him. Is he going to pull out a blood bag??? A blood juice box? A LIVE ANIMAL TO SUCK DRY????

He pulls out a banana. Just goes to town on it. Cheeks puffed out because he just shoved the whole thing in at once. Chewing very seriously but with eyes closed because he loves it so much.

Turns out he’s a part of the fruit bat line of vampires. He had no idea his classmates were scared of him.  Makes soft little chuffing sounds when he has a Really good piece of fruit.

Phoenix is ten and isn’t totally sure but he thinks he’s in love. He starts asking his mom to pack him fruit to share with Miles.

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is... my computer tells me its bat appreciation day apparently

[worrysomegus]

wow! creatures!

[goldfish-inhaler]

here's the blown up version of a tiny panel from a comic i made last year. no more context shall be given. happy pride month.

[gruvu]

Drew vampire Harvey for @lion-byte! Fun fact he is a fruit bat vampire. Much like wallace and the curse of the were rabbit, your farmer will catch this bugger in your harvest.

[skyscrapergods]

Can batness be passed down to foals?

The fruit bat vampire virus has two phases in bat hosts, but it does not translate perfectly when infecting non-bat hosts such as ponies.

Fruitpire bats are born with Vamrus already in their veins. It gives them strength, a rapid juice-based gut, and an insatiable desire for apples. During cider season, when the apples are at their peak, the virus is in its active mode, upping bat metabolism and driving them crazy for juices. This is also Fruitpire pupping season, since the frantic consumption of apples lends itself to nutritious, sugary milk.

After harvest, the virus dies down to passive mode, and the bats act like normal fruit bats for the rest of the year. They still desire apples and juicy fruits most, but are able to supplement their diet with insects and other plant matter.

Ponies are not meant to be carry the vamprus, and it goes a little crazy with them, especially if they're infected during cider season. Rapid mutation, optimization for a juice-based diet, thirst, and fast metabolism set in quickly. Ponies and other animals will act quite feral, aggressive, and thirsty beyond reason. They need to be caught and cured quickly to reverse effects, or else things get out of hand.

After catching and curing fluttershy, she kept her leathery bat wings and long fangs, even though she no longer had any virus in her system. She still enjoys fruit juices more than the average pony, but her mind is unaffected and she did not go feral.

A pony left alone with an active virus raging in their system can go two ways. Either he gets enough apple juice to sate him and the virus goes passive until next year, or he stays thirsty and hungry until it drives him mad. Aggression, super strength, and fangs meant to bore through fruits will then be turned on his fellow pony. Only pegasi sport bat wings during their transformation. Earth ponies grow large with shaggy, fluffy coats and howling voice. If you dissect a tale of werewolf tormenting a community, you will almost always find the afflicted pony to have been bitten by a vampire fruit bat before its troubles began.

Because diseased ponies are half or fully mad, they rarely have a chance to reproduce. It is possible for a pregnant pony to be bitten and pass the virus onto the fetus, but most of the time she will be caught and cured before the birth. It's a very distressing condition to have, so containing, catching, and treating the afflicted is more important than experimenting on them. Theoretically, a pony could enter the passive phase of the virus and live out a normal live, but most continue to be mentally compromised until they are cured or their bodies kill off the virus on their own.

After a pony has been cured, they have no active virus to pass down to their offspring. They still look strange, unnaturally large, and have permanent effects, but for the most part their lives are normal.

[weavilegrrl]

🦷🦇🍃 POISON ROOT 🍃🦇🦷

[aurumacadicus]

Really dropped the ball on all the opportunities this makes:

Tony wasn’t one of those vampires that made your hair stand on end when you entered a room. He didn’t put you ill at ease or make you shiver with anxiety. He didn’t take long glances at throats and wrists and thighs and lick his lips in a way that made blood thrum louder in your veins. Fruit bats, after all, were seen as the tamer, calmer cousins of their blood-sucking, carnivorous family.

So it came as a shock when, one morning at team breakfast, Tony opened the fridge, paused, and then it felt like all the air had been sucked out of the room. “Where’s my fucking juice,” he asked, voice void of emotion.

No one said anything for a moment, too stunned to speak. Finally, though, it was Natasha who said, “Ah, the apricot? I used the last of it over some ice cream. I thought there was plenty of mango left.”

“I used the mango for a smoothie,” Bruce admitted, voice small. “But there was orange juice in the back?”

“Oh my fucking god,” Steve sighed, putting his head in his hands, because he always drank a big glass of orange juice with breakfast, and he’d carelessly thought ‘Tony still has mango and apricot’ as he emptied the last of the orange juice into his cup.

Tony turned, eyes glowing red, muscle in his jaw ticking as he obviously swallowed back his anger. He was good at cataloging insecurities to throw them back in people’s faces, after all, and this was the first time all of his food was gone, so it really didn’t warrant a huge blowup. But he’d been looking forward to breakfast after a full night in the lab and not one, not two, but all three of his choices were gone.

“Tony,” Thor offered solemnly, pushing the fruit bowl toward him. “Would whole fruit be okay until we can buy you more juice today?”

“It’ll do,” Tony allowed, figuring they were too afraid to tease him for his smaller fangs and his apathy for juice dripping down his face and into his clothes.

Clint came in before he could reach for anything, squinting at the back of a bottle. “Hey, I noticed all of Tony’s juice was gone and I added it to the list for when Steve goes shopping today, anyway I remembered I had a Naked in the freezer I was saving, but it’s got carrot in it and I don’t know if he’s okay with vegetables??”

Tony grabbed Clint by the shoulders, swung him around into a dip, and kissed him directly on the mouth. Then he plucked the juice from his lax fingers, dropped him, and skulked out of the room, muttering under his breath about the health benefits of carrots to vampires.

Clint laid where he’d been dropped for several minutes before he sat up, smacking his lips. “You know it never occurred to me that he might taste good to kiss and yet somehow I’m shocked he tastes like fruit.”

“Why don’t you explain it to Steve in very small words,” Natasha replied, and then ducked when Steve lunged at her, shouting for her to leave him alone about his crush on Tony when he’d literally just been fearing for his life over some fucking orange juice.

[dovesick]

hexoween 6: ominous children

[darkfoxkirin]

I think I forgot to post this, lol! It's wing AU and Miguel has bat wings, and Miles has red tailed black cockatoo wings.

[sabrinamati]

Designed some bats for some spooky tattoo ideas.

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