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Author: SharleeD

May 21st 2013 at 9:18:28 PM

^^ If a predator just eats part of a person and leaves the leftovers lying around, that won't qualify on the grounds that it's not ''storing'' the food.  The way I'd pictured it, the criteria for this trope would be:

* It's played for visceral, gross-you-out horror.  A spic-and-span futuristic Soylent Green factory where bodies disappear into a machine at one end and squares of finished product come out the other wouldn't qualify.
* The body parts are being stored for purposes of consumption, or are the accumulated residue of previous butchering for food.  A room full of transplant organs, a la the "Phage" suggestion, wouldn't qualify; neither would a carcass that's just left lying around at a kill site.
* The body parts must either be from people (humans, or something that serves the same role as humans in the story), ''or'' from the part-collector's own species, or both.  Pinkie Pie's hoard of butchered pony remains from the "Cupcakes" fanfic would count; a leopard dragging a dead antelope up a tree to stash it for later wouldn't.