tigertoot
psa reminder
i am a tiger (fig 1: 🐯)
i go rar sometimes (see fig 2 below)
i usually don't mean it
and i really work hard not to bite
but i'm just saying
for my piece of mind as much as yours
you might wanna watch your step around my tail if i'm sleeping
(this is not a subtoot i'm having a good day am well fed and catnipped just thinking about tiger stuff 🐟🐠🐞🍩why is there no gazelle corpse emoji)
re: tigertoot, headcanon, SU non-spoilers
Martians like to play up the stereotype that they're stupid, but they're actually a very intelligent and civilized bunch of tiger person things. They're all just basically Amethysts. Tons of potential, zero focus, excel at things they can actually be persuaded to care about (e.g. napping, eating, fighting).
My long-standing headcanon is that someone basically spat in their petri dish when the Terrans were synthesizing the prototype Solar races. It was a well-meaning pacifist subversion so Martian tigers couldn't be effectively weaponized, and it basically worked because we're just too flighty and crazy for corps discipline. But ADD is rampant on Mars and we all come off a little... spacey. *stares*
In summary, if anyone in the 23rd century creates a Ritalin equivalent for 600 lb. spacecats, y'all on the other planets are FUCKED. 🐯😽❤️
