Bats Bats Bats WIP (Patreon)

i kno lots of people want my next headcanon dump to be earth ponies but u gettin BATS

demonstrating the differences in TEEF

Eclipse comes from a colony of frugovores (fruit eaters), his teeth are big and scary but blunt, his colony eats roots and juicy vegetables but go collectively apeshit for raw fruit. The suck up the juice and eat the pulp and scatter the seeds, helping new trees grow.

Willow (and her brother Umbra) come from a colony of sanguinivores (blood feeders). Vampire bat ponies are very, very rare, as they have quite a frightening, negative stigma attached to them. There's lots of old pony's tales of vampires sneaking in to homes at night, sinking fangs into the throats of helpless ponies and draining them dry, even turning them into undead mind-slaves. Willow writes this off as ponies being silly and hysterical- Blood bats don't plunge their fangs into the throats of screaming victims, they actually use their sharp, sharp incisors to shear off a bit of flesh, and lick up the blood that follows. Their saliva has an an anticoagulant compound that prevents blood from clotting.

Blood bats nowadays consume a more varied diet, including nectar, fruit, and meat, but must consume a meal of blood about every two days. It typically comes from goats and pigs (and is purchased at the market, they're not uncivilized).