Preds. Do you feel sorry for your prey?

[SnakkForheur]

Do you ever feel sorry for the cheeseburger you ate? Same thing ^_^ Food is food even if it screams the whole way down. Would you like to see if I feel sorry for you? >:)

Only when I overcook the hell out of it. I'm a lousy chef. Put ranch instead of milk into my cereal at one point. Now for the second part, I don't mean to brag but I am pretty pathetic. I'm sure I could make vultures abandon me out of pity.

[Gone]

Nah, I usually smack my belly around a bit and taunt them about how delicious they were.

[XDDX]

No that would be silly =p

[Tastymeat]

I am prey and I would never expect my pred to feel sorry for me. If I am food then that is that, I die, digest and add to my pred. No one should ever feel bad for eating another creature and does not make the pred mean even if prey are forced into doing something they don't want to do as it can also be mean to stop the pred from eating you. The pred could die from not eating you, so something has to give.

[jaykayeight]

I am prey and I would never expect my pred to feel sorry for me. If I am food then that is that, I die, digest and add to my pred. No one should ever feel bad for eating another creature and does not make the pred mean even if prey are forced into doing something they don't want to do as it can also be mean to stop the pred from eating you. The pred could die from not eating you, so something has to give.

actually feeling sorry would be only one possible feeling. i hope there is still a broad spectrum of things going on through the preds mind. wait... just being viewed as food is also tingleish as hell... i dont know whats going on with this... hmm....*runs down the stairway and slams the door*

[Silversepiroth]

From a fatal standpoint, no, because I have a tendency to be apathetic towards my meals. Their food, no matter how much they struggle. Any time I've played this, though, I've had an observer, so the sadism that would probably go towards the prey was instead directed at the observer.

When I'm doing non-fatal but the potential for fatal is there, I'm full dad-mode pred. I'm always concerned about my prey and how they're doing, concerned about what would happen if they stay in there for too long.

[emilyvore]

For me, feeling sorry for prey typically undermines my pred characters. They're getting off on the power, which is where this fantasy is rooted for me. I have written a story in which a pred feels sorry, even balks at the initial act, but is quickly overwhelmed by the joy of vore and digestion that she completely forgets that side of herself. And it's that freedom to be selfish and entirely not empathetic at all that realllly revs the ol' engine if you know what I'm sayin. This character's transformation is gradual and works with the character, in my opinion, and earning the transition from demure girl into voracious killing machine was my attempt at marrying good smut to good storytelling.

Like other people said, they're food. That's the fantasy, at least for me. It'd be like feeling sorry for a dust mite on your finger while masturbating. The fact that it doesn't enter into your mind is what makes it hot.

Of course, this isn't to say that *nobody* is into feeling sorry for prey. Someone's gotta be.

[knifesmile]

It depends on who I'm being at that moment. My whole self - sometimes, in a distant way, but I'm in the grip of my mental gators and so it doesn't touch the reality of what I'm feeling and imagining/drawing/writing/RPing/whatever. Acetyl feels no pity for the vast majority of his prey. Every now and then someone especially pathetic touches him. For example in one of my stories he breaks into a house and kills the three men he finds there intending to eat them, only to discover that the men had been keeping underage sex slaves. He kills them, too, of course, but much more sympathetically (they get a choice for one thing, but of course because I'm a sick MFer and it's one of my stories they all chose to die). Delve has occasionally felt bad for the victims of his victims, but I don't think he's ever pitied an actual victim in anything more than a mocking or condescending way. He can be weirdly, controllingly, darkly affectionate toward his prey at times, but it's a cold and selfish affection. He's in some ways "crazier" than 'Cet is. Acetyl is essentially a magical wild animal and acts accordingly, whereas Delve is a very mentally disturbed human being (well, he's an anthro, but by the standards of his world anthros are humans.) And Howling Silence doesn't even have emotions as fleshy things would understand them. Pity is probably not a concept it would even comprehend. So on the whole the answer is generally, for me, no. Control, dominance, scorn, and viciousness are a huge part of my ourve... pity just doesn't fit. Pity is for the rest of my life. This is my dark place, where the wolves are.

[Floriaaa]

If I'm pred. No I dont feel the slightest bit sorry for my prey. If my prry is pounding on my stomach walls trying to get out I'll do what I can to make his life a misery in there. Perhaps by clenching my abs or by drinking a ton of water. If my prey wants out my anus I'll clench tightly on my sphincter muscles to hold him in. I don't feel sorry for my food and I don't expect my preds to be sorry for me too when I'm in them.

[Eyefull]

It depends. The following situations I would feel sorry for them:
-I intended to let them out but digested them on accident.
-Their SO was nearby and both parties start freaking out and calling to the other.
-Prey offered themselves to me because they didn't want to go on living.
-If eating them became my job for some reason and they didn't do anything significantly wrong (eating students that accidentally failed to conform to a dress code, for instance).
-If I ate them when I was intending to eat someone else.

There might be more, but I can't think of them off of the top of my head. You get the idea.

[ChibiToy]

You SHOULD feel sorry, otherwise, I might come back as ghost to nag at you 24/7