Why do some consider humans boring?

[Ranger]

Humans are boring, uninteresting and there's far too many of them.

Though the dislike sort of fetishized at some point, since I have a thing for unlikely predators and they're the most unlikely.

The typical "I found this random anime character and I'm gonna use it for my character" type of Humans are the boring ones. Sometimes you'll find a nice picking out there amongst the hoard of unoriginals, but they're there.

I've gotta agree though, there's points where humans are quite appealing simply because of the fact that good ones are hard to find. Kinda like a rare delicacy in a way~

[Dragga]

Frankly, I find humans fun in most senses, but in terms of drawing, it's just sorta become more fun to draw inhuman characters because of a lot of qualities I enjoy. In fact, I would like to see more humans who eat furs. Gotta draw that sometime...

[Surge]

Frankly, I find humans fun in most senses, but in terms of drawing, it's just sorta become more fun to draw inhuman characters because of a lot of qualities I enjoy. In fact, I would like to see more humans who eat furs. Gotta draw that sometime...

I've got a friend or three who will get behind this c.c

[SolidScale]

I've got a friend or three who will get behind this c.c

First one being me I believe... maybe. I'unno, but I'm in there.


To be honest, the first thing Ranger said is what I was going to say. Along with the fact that... yeah, a majority of the human characters I find just fit into these stereotypes of some sort, all of them just seem to be the same with no depth or development to them, the kind that I found most often are the willing prey that have unexplained magical powers that allow them to do things.

I don't have anything against humans at all, but based upon how many run-ins I've had with bland, uninspired, uninteresting slutty humans wanting to crawl up inside me or force me in some hole of theirs, I just generally try and avoid them, the only humans I really want to get involved with being the... well.. my close friends. Like.. y'know, the people behind the screen, or if they have a human character, I could dig them as well, and a few people here I've experimented with before... |3

[AndromedaReject]

People basically own this planet and are everywhere. They cannot surprise anyone anymore because we all see how people are.

At least that's how I see it. Now a "furry" or a "scalie" or some other breed that isn't human entirely? Those are interesting and require a long sort of thought process in order to play and fantasize about.

If any of this doesn't make sense, I'm unable to sleep still for like...the last week. So don't be too hard. x.x;

[Ka-Atis]

For me, "boring" mainly depends on *how* and not so much on the actual species. It's true that a whole lot of human stuff bore me, but the same can be said about demi-human or anthro-stuff.

[Mark]

Well, to be fair, there are also plenty of perfectly boring furries, dragons and what-have-you running around out there. There's more to being original and interesting than just picking some random pokemon or videogame species for your character.

For myself, I admit to having trouble wrapping my head around the idea of just plain humans as predators (though that problem can be reduced or eliminated by throwing in a suitable supernatural or rubber science explanation, i.e. making them less "plain" to begin with), but I have no corresponding objection at all to humans being prey. If anything, there's something to be said for the contrast between "familiar" prey and "exotic" pred.

[C-B-A]

time for a counter point opinion!

I personally love humans as preds, or demihumans, (I find things that don't look human to be very unappealing, furries, dragons, plants, monsters ECT...) sometimes they can be boring, but for me not often, and I have a theory. vore for most people is a sexual fetish correct? so it makes sense to incorporate conventional sexuality into said fetish, I like female humans because I find them attractive, sooo possibly my interest in human preds is just an extension of that?

opinions?

[Dragga]

time for a counter point opinion!

I personally love humans as preds, or demihumans, (I find things that don't look human to be very unappealing, furries, dragons, plants, monsters ECT...) sometimes they can be boring, but for me not often, and I have a theory. vore for most people is a sexual fetish correct? so it makes sense to incorporate conventional sexuality into said fetish, I like female humans because I find them attractive, sooo possibly my interest in human preds is just an extension of that?

opinions?

Then the rest of us...are attracted to animals, of course! Genuis! It's all coming together now.

But, yeah, that sorta thinking could also have a hand in it. To some, it's very possible that the less humanoid types simply play more into how they like to take vore.

[Dawg Dude]

time for a counter point opinion!

I personally love humans as preds, or demihumans, (I find things that don't look human to be very unappealing, furries, dragons, plants, monsters ECT...) sometimes they can be boring, but for me not often, and I have a theory. vore for most people is a sexual fetish correct? so it makes sense to incorporate conventional sexuality into said fetish, I like female humans because I find them attractive, sooo possibly my interest in human preds is just an extension of that?

opinions?

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We have a winner! THIS, exactly this, is my opinion! It is obviously so.

As for answering the original question I have no idea why people like animals. Some say it's because it's easier to fantasize about furies, because they're not real and already fictional characters, but how about movies like Dragon Ballz? They were human, yet they were able to fly and fire fire bolts from their hands and stuff. Would Dragon Ballz have been funnier if all characters had been non human (like admittedly many of them were)? I have never seen a machine gun in a movie about Dracula, and I wonder what would happen if a witch turned up in a documentary about the Civil War and cast a firepower sapping spell on the federalists? What if NASA hired a wizard in order to cast spells on various constellations of stars in order to guarantee a better passage of seasonal karma through the space ports?!? There are some things that just wont "mix". However wizards and witches, Dracula, Sherman and Lisa Nowak are all human, so the kind of character shouldn't have the final word on what kind of story it is.

As to everyone who DOUBTS!!(????) that a mere feeble huuuuman woman could beat you, let alone undo you in one piece, take a look at this picture and tell me you wouldn't run and hide in case she means to eat you:
http://jebriodo.deviantart.com/art/Chun ... 4253&qo=23

I like strong women, it's easier for me to imagine them doing stuff. Some people say that human's can't be strong, and indeed in many rpgs we have goblins and various other creatures that might have higher strength than the human races, but when I'm looking at that picture of Chun Li I'm not thinking weak. And also there's characters like witches (feed kids candy) and Lisa Nowak that prove that humans can be all sorts of things, including strong (Chun Li).

[Terastas]

Because we are humans and are rather familiar with ourselves.

That probably sums it up well enough. Though I would ad as an extension of it that vore, being one of the most unrealistic fantasies in existence, requires a lot of creativity and imagination to be able to indulge in. This is especially true of the chatrooms, which are 100% text-based environments.

Humans are not unoriginal by default, but a lot of them are either completely generic, or author avatars. Not exactly a sign of an inspired individual either way.

That's not to say that all humans are played by dense, uninspired people, but rather that dense, uninspired people tend to roleplay only as humans. And dense, uninspired people are terrible roleplayers.

I think another part of it might be that vore is a pretty extreme act, therefore the majority of those who fantasize about it like to keep their fetish grounded in fantasy. For some people, involving humans in vore may be hitting closer to home than they are comfortable with.

Me personally, I don't mind RPing with humans at all, though that's mostly because there are other signs of an inexperienced, uninspired and/or apathetic roleplayer that I look for before their character species.

[Borealis]

*This post regards stories and uploaded content rather than Roleplaying*

I almost exclusively like animals and furries with [at least] human-level intellect.

I don't find humans "boring" per se, as the pred. But I just don't find it as desirable as the above. I also dislike human males intently but am perfectly cool with animal and anthro males, so that's a factor. I guess my "normal" sexual interest in women physically doesn't automatically transpose itself onto my favourite preds in a vore scenario...

I think my reasoning is simply that I like a vore pred to have a strong animalistic element physically as well as mentally, and that sapient ferals and furries are my preferred (and obvious) vehicle for this. With me it helps that I like feral and anthro pornographic material too, so it's not like that takes away from the potential sexual element as opposed to a female human pred. I also find it more fun to design these characters, even with the narrow species lines I commit myself too.

It's all very subjective, really. I suppose I just prefer a fantasy-ish animal or furry to humans, and that's all there is to it!

Prey on the other hand. Humans are definitely one of my favourites to put in the prey role. Giant sapiant animals or furries eating humans is THE vore preference as far as my personal tastes are concerned

[Liz]

Terastas, I agree with humans maybe too close to reality for some RPer or Users in general. This is one of the main reasons I tend to keep most of my thoughts in Anime style of thinking. Anime characters are usually so far from reality it makes Fantasy thoughts easier. I know some People can Be tripped out by Anime so it does not work for everyone.

As for more extreme Furry content I have looked at it but it doesn't do anything for me. Though I don't have issues with others enjoying it I just don't like it.

It is a complex Fetish IMO - with so many different styles, soft, hard, human, furry, ect.

[dangerous]

I agree with humans maybe too close to reality for some RPer or Users in general.

I can imagine this, but not that humans are "boring." Personally, though, I do not have a problem with being "too close to reality" - in fact I like it.

[Tabatha_Cat]

For me, partly it's because I want to have an element of unreality in vorish fantasy. If it feels to real, I start to feel uncomfortable. Roleplaying anthros satisfies that (especially if it's an anthro cat going after an anthro mouse).

Also, my discovery of vore as a child coincided with my learning about the food chain, animals eating other animals.

[Terastas]

Terastas, I agree with humans maybe too close to reality for some RPer or Users in general. This is one of the main reasons I tend to keep most of my thoughts in Anime style of thinking. Anime characters are usually so far from reality it makes Fantasy thoughts easier. I know some People can Be tripped out by Anime so it does not work for everyone.

Actually, using an anime-style profile picture is one of those "other signs" I mentioned. But you've got the general idea; there has to be something, anything, that sets the character apart so that we know it isn't just some sort of slapped-together fetish-fuel outlet.

As for more extreme Furry content I have looked at it but it doesn't do anything for me. Though I don't have issues with others enjoying it I just don't like it.

It is a complex Fetish IMO - with so many different styles, soft, hard, human, furry, ect.

For most people, vore itself would be one of those "more extreme" contents. Most people would be too weirded out to continue before we could even get into the difference between soft and hard vore, or oral and alternative vore.

But we all knew that to at least some degree already, right? We all know that vore is a pretty fantastic fetish by default, and I think the instinct, at least subconsciously, is to respond to that by grounding vore in as much fantasy as possible.

[C-B-A]

I can see why using non human characters makes the fantasies more outlandish and thus easier to use, but I'll be one of the few advocates for humanity in this thread, human predators are very out of the norm, a human wouldn't knowingly eat another human, which is kind of what makes them fun. the proses of being swallowed and becoming apart of the predator could be seen as a sensual thing, or the feeling of pure dominance, the realization that humans are "on top" of the food chain, then realizing another human is using you as food. just my opinion but I find animal preds as being to generic, in nature cat's eat mice, wolfs eat rabbits, bears eat slow tourists, I see it all the time. just basic natural interactions are very plain, it doesn't matter if the animal in question is anthropomorphized, it's still the same thing you see on natural geographic., but with humans or humanoid preds it's like "wow, I don't see that very often". just my opinion but human preds are more "out there" and it makes for a good dynamic, and if the prey is also human the similarities make the mental aspect more of an impact, like in one of El portero's stories a human was trying to talk a giantess into not eating her because they are the same, just different sizes. good stuff.

[Fairin]

you play a human in RL, why would you play one in RP / in games..

[C-B-A]

you play a human in RL, why would you play one in RP / in games..

I'm a guy between 18 and 25 IRL, but I play a 15 year old Asian girl on chatroulette, and every MMORPG I play, for the lulz. so i'm happy to play me self in a vore setting.

[Liz]

Hehe I play a human female on a MMORPG and have tried elven women. Wow I managed to say that without giving away what game I play .

you play a human in RL, why would you play one in RP / in games..

It is personal preference, I play a human male in RL but I can't cast magic or do same-sized Vore as my fantasy characters can. I like Using Fantasy that is close to RL then alter physics and take the rider on a trip of sorts.