Vore and Me

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 4 years ago

 

Vore and Me

Vore is fantasy, but different vore aficionados indulge in it for different reasons. Some like the total domination of a predator over prey; some like the humiliation of turning a sentient being into feces; some like the idea of being “cuddled” inside of a stomach (and usually don’t like digestion). There are likely as many reasons for liking vore as there are people who like it.

So what about me, and who cares? Well, in case someone does, I wrote this up—maybe because I might end up repeating it less on Eka’s forums, which is probably better for everyone. This wall of text will be tucked away in a blog no one reads and I won’t clutter up the forums.

On with the show.

Fatality: I dislike fatality in vore—not because I’m squeamish about death, but because for me, vore is more about the process, and I want the prey to experience the entire process in some manner. Making vore at all “realistic” would mean that the prey was dead before being eaten (whether swallowed whole or in pieces), and to me that’s not vore—that’s just eating. I’ll write fatal vore on occasion, but it is never, ever my first choice. For this reason, among others, I strongly prefer soft vore: the prey has to reach the stomach or equivalent mostly intact.

Digestion: Since vore for me is about the process, I very much prefer to include digestion. At this point, one might wonder at my sanity in not liking fatal vore but liking digestion. (One would be correct to wonder.)

This is a major reason why I have a setting, the fantasy-based world of Āen, that has magic permitting a swallowed creature to survive the process. Digestion is simulated, turning an otherwise long, horrific (for those still alive) process into an intensely sensuous one. This is discussed in more detail elsewhere. This is not death and reformation: the prey survives the entire way—unless a mishap occurs. (The magic is not perfect; nothing is.)

Size and Vore: Despite the use of magic mentioned in the previous section, I find it very difficult to hand-wave the myriad violations of physics, biology, and chemistry needed to justify soft-vore predators that are not significantly larger than the prey. Any such predators that start the same size as the prey had better have access to enlargement magic for themselves and shrinking magic for their prey, and even there they might require additional magic to get the prey down their throats.

Neither do I like the predator being ridiculously larger than the prey. I prefer the prey to be a satisfying meal, not one piece of popcorn in a bag. Typically, this translates to a volume ratio between predator and prey of at least ten-to-one but not more than thirty-to-one. The necessary size differences can be caused by judicious use of enlarging and reducing magic or shapeshifting if necessary.

Types of Prey: My vore is about human or humanoid prey, since I relate best to this. Even when I’m playing the predator in role-playing, I’m far more interested in the prey’s experience than the predator’s.

Types of Predator: Here I am more flexible. As long as it falls within the the size ratios described above, the predator can almost any carnivorous or omnivorous creature. Herbivores are less interesting to me but not ruled out. (My setting has a beastiary of possible soft vore predators here. It is not all-inclusive.)

Gender: While I am nominally male, I write male or female characters with equal ease, but not mixed genders (hermaphrodites, futanari, etc.). I am not particularly interested in role-playing opposite such a mix.

Sex: Optional. If a plot calls for it, I’ll include it, but I don’t get bent out of shape if it isn’t; the vore’s the thing. I’m not into hypersexualized characters unless it is somehow necessary to a particular plot—and it almost never is. I generally limit sex scenes to M/F or F/F pairings; in rare cases where there are more than two in the scene, at least one character must be female.

Age: Adults only, please. I don’t mind ageplay but only between grownups. Let kids—even fictional ones—develop their own problems.

Disposal: What goes in must come out—but it can be implied rather than described. Since it is the end of someone’s visceral voyage, I usually include a description of it but try not to be tasteless about it. Disposal methods can vary considerably but usually do not involve flushing the prey away, since this could make it difficult to safely dismiss or dispel the protective magic. Unless the predator ate something else at the same time, ending the protective spell usually just leaves some intestinal mucus on the former prey’s body, but no actual feces. Whatever the circumstances, a simple cantrip makes for quick and easy cleanup.

Even in fatal vore scenarios (which I rarely role-play in any role, as stated above), digestion is complete enough to destroy bones; otherwise they would become very painful if not fatal bowel blockages. Most wouldn’t even fit through the pyloric sphincter until the stomach broke them down enough to pass as a liquid anyway. In short, I don’t do bones in scat.

Willing or Unwilling Prey: The prey may not know of the protective magic, so their fear of death can be real, especially on his or her first visceral voyage. After that, they may be unwilling because they don’t want to think about how good it felt and are afraid they could become addicted to the experience. Equally likely, the prey will seek to repeat their experience in the future.

Willing or Unwilling Predator: Most times a predator will be willing. Critters gotta eat, after all. I have written unwilling predators: humans may not be their natural prey, for example, or they may be uncomfortable swallowing sentient meals whole. The story, naturally, will determine this.

Setting: Most of my writing takes place within Āen, the setting I use for the bulk of my vore stories. I tend to avoid using modern or science fiction settings for such stories and role-plays because it’s hard to make non-fatal vore if any sort of digestion is present. (I’m a lot pickier about science in modern and science-fiction settings.) I will try other settings on occasion, but I’m not a big fan of “canon-play”, out of respect to the artists who created those settings. Also, I don’t keep up on popular culture as much as in the past, so I would make tyro’s mistakes when playing an unfamiliar setting, or default to science as known on Earth when that might not be appropriate to a particular setting.

Non-standard Vore: In general, vore only works one way—in the mouth and out the other end. Slimes and oozes, lacking either organ, are obvious exceptions. I’m not into anal vore because for me a predator couldn’t credibly survive it, never mind the prey: intestines aren’t built to handle that sort of abuse and peristalsis only works in one direction. Likewise, I really am not interested in vore through other organs, mainly because I can’t come up with a reasonable way, even in a magic-heavy fantasy setting such as Āen, to justify it, or a plot where it would make sense.

I have but one exception, and I wrote a story based on it because once I thought of the exception, it had to be written, if for no other reason for the comedy value. The story is simply titled “Dick”. If that sort of vore (and I think you'll be able to guess what sort it is just from the title) is your preference and the story idea is good, I might ask Erhain to let Dxyxallyxikspt out of his cage. This is not advised; Dxyxallyxikspt has all the self-control of Beetlejuice, but with less class, much to Erhain’s dismay.

A more recent spell in the setting called lactomorph (see “The Magic of Āen”) would seem to imply breast vore, but this is a temporary transmutation usually done as a prelude to oral vore—and also an opportunity for a very bad pun.

Style: My writing style is verbose. (Bet you couldn’t guess that!) I do not expect a role-playing partner to reciprocate, but an effort to write even short responses well is appreciated and more likely to elicit a request for a second role-play. I am not expecting Hemingway or Shakespeare (a vore story done in the latter style would be strange indeed) but I prefer not to struggle through text with an error count that approaches the word count.

So that’s an insight into what I look for in vore. If nothing else, it makes a marvelous soporific.