Stabby

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“*I have unquantifiable corpses on my conscience.*”
―Stabby, from The Last Lullaby
**Stabby** (real name, **Phillip J. Bonecrunch**) is a minor antagonist in season 1 and later a major supporting character in season 2 of the Netflix series, *Centaurworld*.

## Physical Description

### Minotaur form

In Season 1, as a minotaur, he is somewhat tall with a lanky and gangly build. His skin/scale color is olive brown, with most of his face and front part of his neck a lighter tan. He has yellow eyes, a yellowish tongue, and several sharply pointed teeth. He wears the minotaur army's standard issue armor, except missing a helmet and boots.

### Reformed/Child form

In Season 2, as his reformed and baby-like self, he is drastically smaller and much more roundish and stubby in appearance compared to his more angular former look. In this form, he wears red footie pajamas that covers his entire body except for his face and hands. His skin/scale color is a more saturated olive green, with his lower face and throat colored a more saturated cream. His eyes are more bulbously round and white in color instead of yellow. The forked end of his tongue is more curved, giving him the appearance of having a bone inside his mouth. This may be an intentional nod to his surname, "Bonecrunch".

In both Seasons he almost always has Rider's knife stuck in his back. After his transformation, even the knife takes on a more stubby and "cute" appearance.

## Personality

As a minotaur, he was a vicious and violent foe until Rider stabbed and incapacitated him during The Rift: Part 2. Throughout most of his time spent with the herd and under adoption by Durpleton, he is annoyed and put off by their tomfoolery. However he would slowly show signs of embracing Centaurworld idealogy, such as expressing guilt when he instinctively hailed the Nowhere King in My Tummy, Your Hurts.

As a "child" transformed by Centaurworld's magic, he became a kind and often childish character, while also displaying insightfulness and affection towards his adoptive father and companions. Despite becoming a literally and figuratively softer version of himself, Stabby has demonstrated that he still wields full combat ability on the battlefield.

## Abilities

* **Battle Skills:** Due to his time as a minotaur in the Nowhere King's army, Stabby has much combat experience and is a formidable fighter in both his original and child forms

## History

### Season 1

#### The Rift: Part 1

The moment Horse enters the void between the worlds, she is met with Stabby, a reptilian minotaur who immediately charges at with weapon drawn. Rider arrives to incapacitate him at the last moment. After she and Horse reunite, Rider mentions that he was the last guard left standing after she escaped from being kept in a minotaur prison.

#### The Rift: Part 2

Still incapacitated by Rider's attack in Part 1, Stabby gets sucked into Glendale's portal tummy along with a large volume of Nowhere King sludge. After the Nowhere King's temporary defeat, he is forcibly ejected from the portal tummy and immediately adopted by Durpleton as his son (making Durpleton's fortune cookie prediction in Part 1 come true). Near the end, he is revealed to still be alive despite everyone else believing the minotaur was dead.

### Season 2

#### Horsatia Wighair Beansz?

Stabby travels with the others, now being toted in a baby carrier by Durpleton who has renamed him "Stabby", short for Stabbleton, due to his having been stabbed. Throughout the episode, Durpleton treats Stabby as his infant son, despite the minotaur's protests; objecting to Horse openly talking about violence in his presence as he believes it will upset him, projecting onto him, and interpreting his passing out from an infected knife wound as him falling asleep.

However a more genuine, caring side to their relationship surfaces when Durpleton sings to him as the leave the horsetaur fortress

#### All Herd All the Terd

Stabby is taken to the birdtaurs' condo along with the others. When Durpleton says that he's too young to be onstage, Stabby objects and points out that he's 43 years old, it's later shown that Durpleton was wearing the baby carrier with Stabby in it under his costume while on stage. He is also the only one to recognize that Crandy is an influencer among the birdtaurs.

#### My Tummy, Your Hurts

In My Tummy, Your Hurts, Stabby reflexively joins the coldtaurs in hailing the Nowhere King, before quickly realising his mistake and accepting being sent to the Bad Boy Baby Boy Timeout Zone. He's later seen joining the coldtaurs' being in lead through an affirmation by Glendale.

#### Holes: Part 3

Not being able to handle Durpleton's fatherly affection, Stabby evaded deeper into the underground, where he hid and transformed into his Centaurworld form. After this and a heart-to-heart in song form with Durpleton, he became more open and warmed up to his new surrogate father, whom he began accepting as his "Daddleton".

#### Bunch O' Scrunch

Stabby participated in the herd's Bunch O' Scrunch game as the "scrunch master", as per the official rules that the role first goes to the person who has most recently been stabbed in the back (in Stabby's case, literally). After Horse exits Durpleton's backstory, his adoptive father hugs and praises him, likely due to being reminded of the unhappiness and neglect he experienced with his own parents.

#### The Hootenanny

In this episode, Stabby enquired about what hootenanies are and has a duet with his Daddleton.

#### The Last Lullaby

Stabby fought and killed a few minotaurs while fighting alongside the herd, and even saved his surrogate father Durpleton from their attacks. He admitted that as a minotaur himself, he had taken many lives including his fellow minotaurs (albeit through friendly fire). When the minotaur army stopped dead in their tracks due to the Nowhere King being frozen in place, Stabby revealed to the herd that the Nowhere King controls the minotaurs using his mind.

At the end of the episode and series Stabby sings about how he loves his Daddleton and his herd.

## Relationships

### Durpleton (adoptive father)

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### Glendale (captor)

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### Rider

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### Nowhere King (former master)

Despite the inner Elktaur half of the Nowhere King stating that he had originally created the minotaurs to be his family, Stabby himself reveals that all minotaurs are under the Nowhere King's thrall, which he uses to control them with his mind.

While it is unclear when Stabby himself became a minotaur, like all standard minotaurs, it is very likely that he is the magical combination between a reptile and a human world soldier.

### Minotaurs

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## Trivia

* Stabby as a character was inspired by *Dungeons & Dragons* sessions that series creator Megan Nicole Dong participated in where players would often adopt monsters and other creatures they came across.
* According to the series creator, Stabby did in fact begin to accept Centaurworld before his actual magical transformation. One example is when he quickly regrets hailing the Nowhere King in the episode My Tummy, Your Hurts.
* Stabby's name was revealed by the credits in episode 10, prior to his name being spoken on screen in the following episode.
* In the Japanese dub Stabby initially uses the first person pronoun "ore" which is typically used by adult men, however, after his transformation begins using "boku", which is typically used by boys and younger men.

## Gallery

### Screenshots

Who wants to be *deadleton*?

1. ↑ https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/centaurworld-season-2-megan-nicole-dong-interview/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbnV6JMH4g