#(well they're not explicitly mentioned by name but 'tiger' 'snake' we all know who i'm talking about there)

[hikayunas]

the selection of animals in promised blood is really good for a lot of reasons, but something i've always liked was the fact that the animals even fit together when you look at their real-life diets.

as apex predators, tigers have a wide selection of prey on their menus -- but most notably, will snack on monitor lizards (closest thing to dragons), snakes, horses when they can get their claws on them, and potentially even bats (given the overlap of range between flying foxes and bengal tigers, i'm not sure why a tiger wouldn't eat a bat if it managed to snag one.)

a very common predator for a lot of bat species worldwide? snakes.

given all the talk of killing each other for "food" in futatsugi...it all sort of just clicks together well, i think.

#more disjointed ramblings from yours truly #i have a lot of feelings about. promised blood something something oni something something cannibalism #(if my already-posted yuna man-eating tiger bit didn't make that clear enough) #i'm not sure how interesting anybody else'll find this (i think it's really cool) but it's my blog so i'm talking about it anyway #magia record #kureha yuna #kasane ao #(well they're not explicitly mentioned by name but 'tiger' 'snake' we all know who i'm talking about there) #rambles