UPDATE: They Made More Changes To Their Setup Battlestation Battlewagon

...cats be like this. Entirely our fault for trying to block their view of the outdoors.

src for bite force figure in tags: Freeman, Patricia W. and Lemen, Cliff A., "Measuring Bite Force in Small Mammals with a Piezo-Resistive Sensor" (2008). Mammalogy Papers: University of Nebraska State Museum.

Normally would say 'Lasiurini are never not cute', but this particular image...

Hoary bat

no source, was sent to me. posting it because it's fucking funny

that's a potato with wings and nobody can convince me otherwise

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once again thinking about gregor and ares' brief divorce arc, it's honestly unbelievably funny. they're so violence kill and then they aren't speaking for like. a day. but then after that they're completely ride or die for each other

like this is so funny. they're so stupid. then the next time they interact gregor had just hit all the blood balls and ares is whisking him away from everybody and they're besties again

aaaaaah I love this concept, just... everything about this. Especially since big'ol'bat'bro ought to have had even just *one* night topside.

On the other wing, however, the process of even getting Ares to the Overland... it's complicated. More so than with most canonically-known fliers, given Ares' above-average size. Ares even outright states he won't fit up the staircase leading to the concealed stone (and even if he could, getting a giant bat up all those stairs... well, it's doable, but there's gonna be a lot of cursin' involved), and if he can't fit there, then the laundry grate is similarly an unlikely surface access point. And that's without factoring in the possibility of others intending to use the laundry room during this process... and then the duo would have to scramble back down lest they're still in the building when Animal Control inevitably arrives on scene.

And then there's the decision of how to go about 'bring your pet cottonball companion bond to school'. > Bring Ares into the building? > Ask him to stay up on the roof and somehow convince the teacher to allow the class out to the yard so Ares can do some kind of dynamic entrance? (Assuming there's even an outdoor space on the complex...) > Open the window to let Ares stick his big fluffy head in?

But, aside from all the above... I still very much love everything about this hypothetical scenario.

imagine it’s bring your pet to school day and gregor shows up with ares.

Juvenile White-striped freetailed bat, via

Deffo look at the source on this one, the circumstances of the rescue are wild. They have over 200 of these little guys!!!

I wonder (have been for a while, just hopping on opportunity) how large the Underland equivalent of Chrotopterus aritus(sp?) or Vampyrum spectrum would be? Assuming they'd likewise scale up and not merely match the size of other fliers, that is.

Also that last image, just, the concept of being able to hug an Aeorestes like that, just aaaaaaa <3 sky fieri

"Bats don't have noticeable muscle-" Me, drawing Ares "That's fascinating, I don't give a fuck."

Let Him Speak!