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*cypherx [link] made a comment on my submission 'Survivor Type' about faerie's teeth...so I thought I'd strip off the flesh and show you what they look like.

My Faeries (I stress 'my' since they are in no way related to the 'normal' fairy of folklore) whilst carnivorous don't actually 'eat' meat (they have no stomachs or digestive system for a start!), instead they sort of chew and suck the meat absorbing nutrients from it directly through their mouths. Once all the goodness has been extracted what remains is spat out.

To this end they only have 6 upper and 6 lower teeth at the front of their mouths, these are razor sharp and are designed to slice flesh. At the back of the mouth are boney plates that pound the meat without chopping it up, whilst enzymes in the faeries' saliva extracts all the good stuff!

Faerie skeletons are not boney and brittle but rather closer to cartilage and sinew; fairly soft, very flexible and extremely difficult to break. For instance a faeries' skull, with a good squeeze, will compress like a ball and then spring back. Likewise it's limbs can be bent to alarming angles before causing undue discomfort or stress....in the tough world faeries live in it pays to be bouncy!!!

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:iconwildlifehoodoo:
it's all so obvious when you show the xray!

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he'll be comin' round the mountain for your bones

Andy - Dude - Jones
:icondigitalvanilla:
This is really cool. You should do a book, I´d take your version of fairies over the like of Froud etc. anyday.

Just to be nerdy I have to say that having slightly flexible skeleton seems great, but having a mushy skull doesn´t seem all that practical as the brain would be squashed, or maybe they don´t have brains?

Keep posting fairy stuff, I love it.
:iconkaduflyer:
X-ray??....that's no x-ray...I had to boil the head for ages to get all the meat off!!
:iconkaduflyer:
I'm not suggesting that if you squished a faeries head it would enjoy it very much...just that it COULD be squished without shattering.

Faeries have a central nervous system distributed through their skull and spine but no brain that we would recognize.
:iconsamarai:
You kin to J.R.R. Tolkein, by any chance?

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Well, ain't we just big damn heroes..
:iconwildlifehoodoo:
Duh! Why did I think you would be in possession of such a thing as X-ray machines? Cleavers and cauldrons! That is more like it.

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he'll be comin' round the mountain for your bones

Andy - Dude - Jones
:iconbakatron:
so thats where they hide their medulla oblongata!

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boldly taking stupidity where no man, or one... has gone before.
:icononmitsu:
Really cool stuff, but as a Bio student, I'm cringing slightly XD (damn me and my inability to let go!)

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"Man, even Dora the Explorer thinks you're slow."
:iconkiyamasho:
thats kinda a scary description lol

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Here's the thing. I'm snugly. You're not. Who wouldn't want to snuggle up to this business on a Sunday morning? I'm cuddly bitch, deal with it!

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