You can wear the removable shoes if you’re not a shapeshifter like Ike, too. Some hoofed species surprisingly don’t want metal nailed into their toe? Weird, I know.
You can wear the removable shoes if you’re not a shapeshifter like Ike, too. Some hoofed species surprisingly don’t want metal nailed into their toe? Weird, I know.
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I believe I said it before. But I love Ike’s design. His buggane/manticore heritage is so cool. It’s right up there in my top favorites alongside your bugganes, jub jub birds, and bandersnatches.
It’s not metal nailed into the toe, it’s metal nailed into the toenail. Reaching the actual flesh is absolutely out of question!
But the toe is in there. Horseshoes were a necessary solution, but now we have technology to make something that can protect the hoof but also not be semi-permanent.
The metal shoes don’t flex like a natural nail etc would, and can cause pain. There more flexible options these days.
Just cloppin’ along!
I use these for my hoofed creatures in Semi-Charmed too! They’re actually a booming business and there are designer brands of hoof-boots, which are a real thing you can buy for a real horse. They’re slowly becoming more popular because then you only have to pay for the farrier to trim the hooves down and not the cost of making a shoe, as well as the ethical dilemma. They do take some training on horses though to get them used to having these things on their feet.
Wouldn’t horseshoes go into that same weird space when you turned human that regular shoes go into when someone transforms the other way?
Medallion don’t allow physical shapeshifting, they cast a highly complicated illusion. Ike is a natural shapeshifter so he’s physically changing from human to his mid-form, which is obviously a bit more of a problem.
“Highly complicated” isn’t half of it. It seems like nobody really understands how it works.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/issue-four-page-4/
Horseshoes also damage flooring.
… uuuuhh unless he takes up marathon running in laps around the interior of the LA, that’s borderline equivalent to “never”, isn’t it? :-/