Posted by Pkmnguy6262 5 years ago Report

Definetly enjoyed the story and certainly love the characters a lot. Great job as usual<3^^

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Thanks Cynthia. Really glad you enjoyed it.

Posted by ObsidianSnake 5 years ago Report

I stopped writing myself to read this. Oh no!

I was curious about how these two met, and it was about what I had expected: complicated! Everything about this setting is full of little unspoken complications and uncertainties, which is why you it's so hard addictive.

It's interesting to see how Hazel seems to have acclimated to her indirect power of life and death. You can see here how her part in Sellas's death, and her complicated reaction to it, leads directly to some of the events that happen inside her house later, in A Friendly Reunion. I wonder how this relationship is going to conclude. Kliss and her emotional support mouse...

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Thanks. I’m really flattered by that praise, particularly from someone who writes such stunningly detailed worlds, and am delighted that you are still enjoying this series. I definitely hope to play around some more with these characters soon.

Posted by ObsidianSnake 5 years ago Report

Oh geez counter-praise, thank you! I'm unaccustomed to all this kindness.

A lot us are playing in some of the spaces that you've help make, and watching the interchange between people as of late, and finally participating myself, has been a wild ride thus far. I'm becoming fascinated by the development of these ideas, such as the legal and societal concept hunting hours. I'll get right to the heart of this: was the world of Kevin & Kell partly an inspiration for it? When I first encountered these, my first thought was k&k, which had a really dark and enthralling concept working in the core of an otherwise light-hearted comic.

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

I don’t think of Kevin and Kell as an inspiration, or at least not directly, but now that you’ve mentioned it I can see it might have been. It did strike me as a little odd when reading it that so many of the prey species were usually willing to stand so close to something that could eat them at any moment, and that’s something that often seems odd in other fatal vore stories I’ve read. If the prey has any reason to suspect that they are so much as in the same room as someone who even might try to eat them, they should be terrified and desperate to escape.

On the other hand, one of my favorite aspects of vore has always been the predator and prey being able to talk to each other casually. A story that definitely did help inspire Hunting Hours was the first of the Vixen Arc stories by JackTheRabbit https://aryion.com/g4/view/237662 as it got me thinking a lot about other situations under which predators and prey could talk to each other, and what kind of rules would allow a society to still function despite some of its citizens occasionally eating others.

It’s definitely always flattering to see people using the concept in their own stories and wonderful to get to read new ideas and takes on it.

Posted by ObsidianSnake 5 years ago Report

Oh of COURSE JacktheRabbit is involved! Isn't this fun: not but last night, they uploaded something quite related to this.

Society is a major thing that I explore in a lot of my own projects. I suppose it is quite appropriate I would end up here. Speaking of that, the society in this story is certainly bound by rules, but doesn't have a functioning sense of social contract. That makes sense, as a small group of them need to eat the other group to live, so they're not really able to understand each other as equals.

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Ooooh, just found that, and yes, it's awesome and I love the idea of a midday hunting hours just to really keep the prey on their toes.

Also, I’d say that this setting possibly has a stronger social contract than most societies in our world. In most countries in our world, I suspect that any subset of the population going seriously hungry for any length of time would quickly erode the authority of their government had over them but, in my hunting hours setting, most predators continue to follow the law, even when they are going hungry and are surrounded by food that they are forbidden from eating. Likewise the prey species tend to begrudgingly accept when those they know become lunch, just as long as it’s not happening to them specifically. It’s definitely not a nice version of the social contract but it is there.

Posted by ObsidianSnake 5 years ago Report

I spent some more time thinking about this, and I actually agree with you. For how they are in their words, the hunting predators are extremely well-behaved. An interesting aspect of this is how predators have a tenuous rivalry that can reach bloody ends as Kliss ponders or explores in every one of her appearances. If at some point in history, if they had created their own cooperative culture, things could have turned out very different for them. It seems like the prey in this world reached the best agreement that they could with the predators. The fact that predators are are able to mess the times of hunting hours might represent a shift in power happening... Makes me look at that illustration Jack did a bit differently.

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Mmmh, one of the world building details is that that (in part due to their larger numbers) this world's industrial revolution mostly started in prey settlements, so many predators were faced with the choice of joining the growing prey cities or falling behind. Of course, the predators still ended up having a disproportionate amount of power pretty quickly.

Also, that might actually be a pretty neat concept to show. What happens if the predators start increasing the length of hunting hours and how the prey react. It might also be interesting to try a story about what happens if the prey species constantly vote to reduce hunting hours further and further until it becomes almost impossible for the predators to catch anyone. I might have to think about those and see if I can build a plot around either of those ideas.

Posted by ObsidianSnake 5 years ago Report

It occurs to me that there could be groups of prey that would stand to benefit from longer hunting hours: the comfortably affluent. They would have the means to circumvent the threat of hunting hours, and they influence the terms besides. This would help keep them and their kin on top, with basic safety answered for. This tips all of prey society even more in their favor. I imagine they would go a step farther than that, and form outright partnerships with reliable organizations or families of predators. It's obvious how that can go wrong for everyone (except the predators).

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Ooooh, that is a good point, although it would still be a bit of a risky strategy for them. While there are plenty of ways that money can reduce the dangers of hunting hours (hiring pred bodyguards being one that I have some plans to write a story about at some point) no strategy is perfect, so increasing hunting hours would be a high risk move even for wealthy prey. I can definitely see that there would be a few who would pursue that goal though.

Posted by Kasra 5 years ago Report

Ah, the budding of a friendship. Really enjoyed this!

Interesting that there are in fact prey that gamble with hunting hours in an attempt to get eaten. And an interesting point about living safely compared to just living; so it's not just a matter of there being some times when you just need the job.

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

It’s possible that that was a touch wishful thinking on Kliss’s part. There are always going to be thousands of different motivations and reasons that people might decide to do something risky, but the ones that are actually trying to get themselves eaten some day are probably pretty rare to start with and not exactly likely to last long. Still, there will always be a few, and definitely plenty of others who take Yen’s outlook that some risk is necessary if you want any chance of enjoying your life.

Posted by Kasra 5 years ago Report

I mean, yeah. In a society like this, any level of seeking out being eaten, you...you don't last very long. It's hard enough to avoid ANYway, like if a bus runs late.

Regardless of accuracy, it was probably my favorite small moment from the story, just because of how Kliss moved and how Yen reacted.

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Thanks. I was pretty pleased with how that scene came out.

Posted by wolfSnack 5 years ago Report

Oh my gosh I’m so happy to see more writing from you!

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Thank you. I’m glad you like it and hopefully will have some more stuff out soon.

Posted by SnowbellWinters 5 years ago Report

Great characters, interesting scenarios, and beautifully detailed. Excellent as always, Blue!

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Thanks. I’m very glad you enjoyed it.

Posted by Kimbunny 5 years ago Report

It's ssuuper lovely to see you posting more of your writing again! You are easily one of my favorite artists. The emotion and story building you are able to put into your writing is always a joy to read and it never takes away from the vore itself <3

Thank you so much for sharing all your lovely work with us~

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Thank you so much. I’m really flattered to hear that and particularly that you don’t find that the non-vore sections (which do tend to take over large parts of the story) make it take too long to get to the actual predation parts, as that often worries me.

Posted by Kimbunny 5 years ago Report

Not at all! The way you write them adds so much to the vore itself.

A lot of writers will waste so much time and effort creating beautiful descriptions that go into great detail about the setting or the character's looks, but when it comes down to it, those descriptions don't really add to the vore itself. You could strip them all out and the act of the vore would still be the same.

With your writing, every scene that you include builds on top of one another with such purpose! The world you've dreamed up feels so alive and believable because of the subtle nuances you include in the mannerisms and choices of your characters. Kliss' emotional scenes make me feel so tense as I imagine the little sympathetic mouse risking her life to help her new friend and the clashing emotions she feels as she watches the aftermath of what Kliss has done to her neighbor...it all adds so much depth to the vore itself.

Every one of your stories really is a pleasure to read from beginning to end <3

Posted by BizzareBlue 5 years ago Report

Thank you again. I'm really glad you are enjoying it and that the world feels that way to you. I guess, as a rule, I’d say that any scene or description that doesn’t serve the story in some way probably shouldn’t make it to the final draft. I also really have to give Arta a big chunk of the credit for helping direct the way the plot turned out, as well as a lot of the general feel to this series.

Posted by xvx17 4 years ago Report

Oh por dios, esto es demasiado bueno, me hiciste sentir... eso se valora mucho

Posted by xvx17 4 years ago Report

En serio, esta historia es increible, no se como puedes escribir asi de hermoso, esta es de las mejores historias que he leido. Si me pusiera a resltar todo lo que me gusto tardaria demasiado.

Posted by BizzareBlue 4 years ago Report

Muchas gracias. Me alegro mucho de que te haya gustado. Arta se le ocurrió la mayor parte de la historia que ayudó mucho con esto. (Además, lo siento si esto no tiene sentido. Tuve que usar el traductor de Google)

Posted by Grapefruitvenison 6 months ago Report

I just realized something while reading your other story, 'A Mesmerizing Experience'. Kliss always seems to rely on brute force to catch her prey. Could it be that the reason she struggles in hunting is that she never learned how to dance?

I’ve also got to say, your characters are incredible! I especially loved the ending of 'A Friendly Reunion'—such a satisfying read, but it definitely left me craving more. Honestly, I’d even commission a digestion scene if that’s something you'd ever explore! Just food for thought.

Posted by BizzareBlue 6 months ago Report

Ah, good question. I’m not actually sure if those two stories are in the same universe or not. I generally try to leave it somewhat ambiguous as to how connected most of my stories are, partly because it means people can read them in any order without missing stuff, but also because it lets me adjust the details of the setting to fit each story. I try to avoid directly contradicting things in other stories where possible, but also avoid confirming anything that might not fit as well, or that would require too much exposition to include.

In that one, the stoats definitely had access to something that at least bordered on being magical, but this one was supposed to feel more grounded and blatantly magical abilities would probably have felt a little out of place in it. Yen getting momentarily distracted by Kliss’s movements was still a reference real-life weasel hunting dance, but whether that’s because that’s pretty much the limit of what a stoat’s dance can do in this setting, or if it’s just because Kliss never learned how to do it properly is supposed to be open to interpretation.

And thanks. I’m really glad you liked it, especially the ending part. Endings are usually the part of any story that I struggle most with to get right, so that’s definitely encouraging to hear. I’m afraid I’m not really sure if or when I’ll be opening up for commissions again though. It definitely won’t be until after I’ve finished work on Pacha’s Quest, but I’ll have to see what I move onto after that.

Posted by Grapefruitvenison 6 months ago Report

Thanks for the detailed response! That makes a lot of sense.

No worries at all about commissions! I totally understand wanting to focus on your current projects first. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for when Pacha’s Quest is finished and for whatever you decide to dive into next. Your storytelling really pulls me in, and I’m excited to see where it all goes from here!