Alternatives to standard melty or hard digestion?

[FishnorFowl]

I saw a few people on here expressing an interest in alternatives to the standard digestion options and I do have a few ideas myself so I figured I’d make a thread

An idea ive had is something sort of like a mix between the cartoony nature of melty and the graphic nature of hard, more specifically, something where the prey’s body cracks like glass or broken porcelain, it’s more graphic than melty, but less graphic than hard

I’ve also considered a variant of hard digestion where the gore is more unrealistic or cartoony than usual, perhaps something like Candy gore

What do you think about that? Do You have any ideas of your own?

[IddlerItaler]

Hypno-digestion. The prey is lulled into a state of deep relaxation and doesn't even realize their fate.

Absorption. The prey is encased by the predator's flesh, which presses them tighter and tighter, until the prey eventually becomes part of it.

[baranxlr]

Shrink-gestion: The prey shrinks and shrinks in the acid until they're reduced to a speck and disappear completely.

[Abyssal]

An idea ive had is something sort of like a mix between the cartoony nature of melty and the graphic nature of hard, more specifically, something where the prey’s body cracks like glass or broken porcelain, it’s more graphic than melty, but less graphic than hard

Break a motherfucker like a minecraft block. Efficiency 4, Fire Aspect Stomach.

[ArcaneSigil]

"poof and they're gone" digestion. Literally instantaneous. They get eaten, hit the stomach acid, poof. Prey gone, pred gets padding.

[Psycho_wolvesbane]

What if a predator's stomach only absorbs heat from the body, even the radiation keeping your atoms together? Something like this from the episode of Fringe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Bhxx26YiY

The rest of your body is just inert ash that has no more energy left and is expelled somehow accordingly.

The other method is the body freezes and becomes brittle like glass because it was frozen all the way through, the grinding of the stomach would break it apart easily.

[BlackWidow552]

One I've heard of is where the person just fades away, becoming transparent before vanishing forever and being absorbed into the body of the one that swallowed them. I've seen this with dragons and other mystical beings that absorb the life force as the body simply disappears.

[mrme181]

I thought of a alternative based on liposomes drug delivery systems. However instead of delivering drugs it would cause the prey to become soft and easily mush-able. The process of digestion occurred in steps using several chemical deliveries. The preds stomach would secrete a fluid that contained the liposomes that would be absorbed by the prey inside their stomach. Once inside the prey it would release its first chemical component that would induce arousal in the prey. The longer they were in the stomach of the pred the more aroused they would become. Then once they take care of their arousal the endorphins they released would interact with the liposomes causing it to release two chemicals. One that would cause the prey to become mushy and easily churn-able. Another chemical that would seep out of the prey through their pores back into the preds stomach to make it start churning.

One of the implications of this was that since this was a replacement of the digestive system it would mean a pred couldn't digest non-living things.

[Tallexi]

Bubbling like an aspirin. So we see bubbles obscuring everything, and when they finish, the prey is gone.

[IddlerItaler]

A bit of an outlandish one - vortex vore. An air elemental (think a sentient tornado) sweeps up its prey and whiiirls it around until the prey is worn down to the bone and then to nothing.

[IncubusJester]

Soft Erosion?

The prey is slowly worn down bit by bit, losing certain features as the pred’s insides continuously work them over. And everything that’s lost is still covered by smooth skin. So they could lose hair, digits, limbs, genitalia, facial features, some or all of that in varying orders until either nothing is left or they have been worked down into a “pearl” of sorts, either fleshy or hardened, sentient or not, to be passed from the body.

I kind of like the idea of prey being reduced to sentient head-shaped pearls with a face locked in expressions of horror or mind-breaking bliss. Maybe the pred can accessorize with them or sell them for a high price on the market, with the value accounting for the prey’s former identity.

Or a plant that works its prey down into a semi sentient sextoy comprised of the prey’s privates and little else.

[Voremugen]

There was a written series with Wolfes, where the body is digested but the soul transported into an inner dimension of the predator. Then, if the wolf mates, that soul got reborn into their offspring, with returning memories and all. Was kinda neat, wish i remembered the name.

[IncubusJester]

what about stomach lining absorption

I love the idea of prey landing in the stomach to find themselves surrounded by pink fleshy walls of moaning faces that they are soon going to join.

[GojiraMetaru]

what about stomach lining absorption

I love the idea of prey landing in the stomach to find themselves surrounded by pink fleshy walls of moaning faces that they are soon going to join.

not quite the same but in the second devilman movie there's a turtle who's shell is made of all the faces of the people they've eaten still living as part of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3BHCkdo8M

[IncubusJester]

what about stomach lining absorption

I love the idea of prey landing in the stomach to find themselves surrounded by pink fleshy walls of moaning faces that they are soon going to join.

not quite the same but in the second devilman movie there's a turtle who's shell is made of all the faces of the people they've eaten still living as part of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3BHCkdo8M

It’s close aesthetically but spot on thematically! Trapped souls represented as terrified or pleasure-crazed faces as part of a pred? Fantastic.