Long-term pred-prey relationship

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Lets consider the model of relationships, where the pred swallows the prey every evening and lets the prey back out every morning. Every day, during the daytime, both the pred and the prey live their normal lifes (like normal lovers, or just like friends, or even completely independent), only to meet again the next evening. The prey is irreversibly digested all that time, night after night, slowly and gradually. But a lot of nights are needed. And every day up to the very end, the prey is viable enough to survive outside the pred with no problems.

How do you think this model would work?

-- How would they come to the very first night?
-- Why would the prey come back to the pred every evening?
-- How would that change the pred and the prey day after day? Both physically and psychologically. How would other people react on the changes?
-- How special the very last night should be?
-- How long should that take? How many nights?

And so on.

Is there any potential at all in such a model?

Are there stories covering it?

[IddlerItaler]

The closest thing I've seen to this scenario are couples where the pred eats the prey every night safely, until one night the prey asks to be digested or some accident happens which causes it involuntarily, though even those are relatively rare. I don't think I've ever seen a prey being let out after being partly-digested if the explicit endgoal was digestion by that same pred, though I can think of a scenario:

A gluttonous pred meets a powerful heroine who can withstand digestion. The heroine falls in love with the pred and asks to be eaten. The pred obliges, but after a while she gets hungry for more and spits out the prey, telling her she wants more food. The heroine obliges and goes hunting, swiftly returning back with more preys to offer her. The pred eats her as dessert, the heroine gets partly digested, then spat out once the rest of the feast has been digested and the predator is hungry again. This process repeats a few nights to a few months, until finally the predator "rewards" the heroine with fatal digestion.

I also did read a story, which was pretty unsettling in its implications, where there were experimental pills which caused the prey's body to pre-soften before it was even eaten by the predator for easier digestion. If you wanna read it, here's the link.

[Blonner]

The only real options is a "reborning" via magic or high tech (cloning with mind transfer). Only with this there can be a long term relationship. Because for exemple adopt a young girl,only for growth to eat it sometimes can create emotional dissonance to the reader see the Pred can act so motherly/paternally only for devour who growthed like a son/daugther...because normally we humans start to affectionate to...well everything we care and live with us (exemple: our pets) and obv if you anyone will have a slave...not start to affectionate it? Because is different growth a rabbit or a chiken (you see only for few time in a day) than have a pet,or a "human pet/livestock" (aka slave)...Exemple i feel "sad" or better angry toward the pred because i am one "loyalty rewarded", and for me "loyalty will need be ever rewarded! exemple if i have a loyal maid can is my slave...for satiate my crave of girl meat she can lure other girls or bougth girl meat at the butcher shop-

[jude]

I used to find this idea of a long term relationship between a pred and prey somewhat unrealistic, but recently, it has started to appeal to me. I'm not sure why, because fatal vore is my preference generally. I do like the idea that the two of them have normal lives during the day, but when they come together, their encounters end in vore.

There is a story I know of that considers exactly that idea, though in it, the guy who is prey, is a professional, and he is the favourite of a woman who orders him as a treat for herself, usually consuming him with a meal as part of their rendezvous. She then digests him completely along with the rest of her food, but the premise has him reformed through technology, in a completely new body that is exactly the same as his last. The idea of such a technology means that she is truly consuming him each and every time, yet, because of how it works, they are able to have the experience multiple times, and she even teases the idea that there could be more to them, leading him to develop feelings for her, in spite of his professional attitude.

A Quick Lunch Date by Pharo

Personally, reading this story got me wondering what it would be like for a pred and prey to have a romantic relationship that developed out of their mutual enjoyment. The thought that they could even be in love, enjoying a nice evening together before retreating to the bedroom, making love until she decides it's time... And then falling asleep together, with him inside her, knowing they get to do it again the next day. It really isn't something that anyone writes about, especially when the premise is fatal vore. And I suppose, in time perhaps that is how the relationship ends, either through a mutual decision to experience a moment of finality together, or perhaps when they decide it is time to end the relationship, and one or the other chooses to go through with it rather than let the other go. There are so many ways it could play out, but what I think attracts me most is the thought that by that time, they would know each other so intimately and regardless of how it ends, they would have had something special together.