Muscle gain post digestion instead of fat weight gain?

[Miridium]

I'm into fitness so I know firsthand the importance of eating big in order to gain muscle.

Yet I never see any muscle gain due to eating prey. It's always gains in fat. I have seen only about 2 or 3 works with muscle gain and I wish there was more of it.

Do you guys like the idea?

[FunnelVortex]

True. I mean that's a lot of protein, calcium, and other critical nutrients the pred is intaking, there should be at least some muscle gain, especially if the pred is active.

My ideal pred bod is one where the prey contributed to all sorts of bones and tissue. One that is both perked up muscle-wise but has a bit of fat padding and also has stronger bones and organs. I guess a dad bod/mom bod (or whatever the female equivalent is called) pred is what I like? I don't like the idea of the pred just turning into a morbidly obese blob.

I guess it depends on how active the pred is, but overall I like to see the prey evenly and meaningfully distributed.

[IddlerItaler]

Preds that get bigger or stronger after eating a meal are not unheard of - there's a not-infrequent understanding that the more prey a predator has consumed, the greater their physical capabilities will be. This is especially true in settings where anyone can become a predator through experience, but even in stories where certain subsets are innately preds (like werewolves, demons, giantesses, vampires and so on), power and status can be tied to the quantity of prey consumed.

However, preds who specifically are noted as growing more muscular after consuming a given meal are rarer indeed. I'd wager most people are not interested in tracking muscle mass in detail, beyond establishing whether given character is muscular or not, whereas if your pred has grown a pot belly, breasts larger than their head, or clapping glutes or neck-snapping-thighs, that will be immediately obvious to describe. If you told me that's also because people are more interested in the elements I listed than in muscles, I would believe you, though there's also the fact that if you're attracted to healthy proportions you don't need to go super-pronounced on any of them.

Though a "vore bodybuilder" who wants to become super-jacked sounds like an interesting idea for those who'd enjoy muscle growth the way others enjoy fat gain.

[DevourerOfLolis]

Personally, I love the idea of a pred gaining muscles made from the flesh of their meal rather than fat just so they can use that muscle to secure even more prey. It's like, imagine if the prey's dying thought are that their body is going to be used to devour more girls like them. For unwilling prey, it'll fill them with horror to know that they'll be indirectly betraying and taking the lives of their friends and family. For willing prey, it'll fill them with joy knowing that they'll helping to build a better, more deadly pred.

[Baz]

With my hippo-taur character and how much she works out (as a MegaCity One Judge), food gets turned into fat before exercise and working out turns it into muscle.

You gotta remember, fat forms quickly and passively. If you want the muscle, you gotta work for it.

[JettCabino]

As a gay guy into both muscle and fat, I like both of any aspects of either. Get me a monster beefcake with need for meat to die behind his abs with brutal cracks and then shit the prey out? Yes please. Same with muscle guts where it does both, and big round bellies that just need more layers of lard. I love all three, and all three combined with the additional cock length, ball heft, and skeletal expansion from each meal snuffed out by the brutal processes for some protein to fuel ever expanding caloric intake needs is incredible.

[Bradleymiddler]

Yes, I love muscle growth. Muscle gain instead of fat gain is an unbelievably sexy and underused theme.

[fyva111]

Yet I never see any muscle gain due to eating prey. It's always gains in fat.

In fact, I saw it quite often. Last I read was a story called "My ex loves seafood" by Hubert2004 of DA (his profile on DA is now purged and I can't find his work anywhere else). In that story protagonist was digested and his parts became self-aware parts of muscles, fat deposit, and stool simultaneously.

But to be honest, being materially converted to the muscles is least likely, even for a fit predator who is in active bodybuilding journey. Muscles gain very slowly, and it would be miniscule fraction of every meal which would have chance to end up there even temporarily. Fat tissue seems much more likely (though not exclusively in the bottom and breast areas, as many F/M fans suggest), but this is still not primary destination for absorbed part of the prey.

Most articles on metabolism state that most ingested calories are burnt by internal organs, among which consumption leaders are brain and liver. And I didn't see any art in which prey is used for predator's internal organs. Though idea of part of the prey being agonizingly burnt in someone's head as their brain performs its higher nervous activity seems interesting for any vore story.

[FunnelVortex]

Yet I never see any muscle gain due to eating prey. It's always gains in fat.

In fact, I saw it quite often. Last I read was a story called "My ex loves seafood" by Hubert2004 of DA (his profile on DA is now purged and I can't find his work anywhere else). In that story protagonist was digested and his parts became self-aware parts of muscles, fat deposit, and stool simultaneously.

But to be honest, being materially converted to the muscles is least likely, even for a fit predator who is in active bodybuilding journey. Muscles gain very slowly, and it would be miniscule fraction of every meal which would have chance to end up there even temporarily. Fat tissue seems much more likely (though not exclusively in the bottom and breast areas, as many F/M fans suggest), but this is still not primary destination for absorbed part of the prey.

Most articles on metabolism state that most ingested calories are burnt by internal organs, among which consumption leaders are brain and liver. And I didn't see any art in which prey is used for predator's internal organs. Though idea of part of the prey being agonizingly burnt in someone's head as their brain performs its higher nervous activity seems interesting for any vore story.

Also, the internal organs in general replace their cells at a higher rate than the rest of the body, with the highest cell replacement rate actually being in the digestive tract itself. So while a good chunk of the prey would be burnt as fuel a large amount of them would actually become a more permanent part of the organs that digested them in the first place (ironic, isn't it?).

Then more of their mass would probably go to becoming part of their other internal organs, then fat, then muscle, and then finally bones.

Personally I love the idea of a pred gaining general performance, energy, perkiness, and being in an good mood after digesting a meal as well as the prey being distributed across the entire body. The pred getting some padding is good, don't get me wrong, I just don't like the pred becoming a sickly blob or having it all go to boob fat. In fact I like the idea of the padding on a well-fed pred being deceptive, hiding how they are actually very high-performing underneath causing prey to vastly underestimate them.

Preds that look/act/feel like they subsist on nothing but McDonalds and mountain dew don't feel dangerous thus don't appeal to me.