I Really Like The Idea Of A Pred Not Necessarily Cooking Their Prey But Preparing Them. Maybe Theres

I really like the idea of a pred not necessarily “cooking” their prey but “preparing” them. Maybe there’s special soaps and hygiene products that are easy on a Preds stomach and palate. Or maybe the Pred has to make these things themselves and marry them to an individual preys natural taste like a chef would find the perfect sauce or glaze. They give the prey a whole spa day before eating them.

Maybe certain foods make a prey more healthy or even subtly change their flavour and the pred is an accomplished cook who works hard to make food to both the prey and eventually the Preds satisfaction. They feed them over maybe a week so the prey’s body has time to feel the pred’s cooking at work before the pred gets to enjoy their own meal in turn.

Dressing the prey up in something that makes them look good, maybe the fabric is easier on the Preds stomach or maybe it’s going to be removed while eating and is purely decorative.

The mix of domestic rituals or crafts but with something more voracious just under the surface.

Sort of an offshoot of my last scenario. But the idea of prey being more scared for the pred than themselves has always been fascinating. Like they know it’s the preds nature to turn on them and they’ve already forgiven them for it. But they know that the consequences of the pred doing so could lead to the preds death or imprisonment, even as they’re disappearing down into the pred they’re more worried for the pred than themselves.

Watching Hannibal with a psychiatrist is greet! The amount of disapproval that radiates off my mum when any of the psychiatrist characters open their mouth (not just Hannibal) really adds to the experience.

I find that writing fatal romantic vore can be very difficult. It’s about juggling the sensual and erotic aspect of vore with the metaphor of becoming one. It’s easy if you want to write a pred that’s completely selfish or deluded. But if you want to write something mutual, something that’s more than just the pred getting off to their lover dying. Then it becomes a very big balancing act.

The prey is in a dangerous place where predation is rampant and they could be snatched up at any moment, of course their pred friend can’t stand for that and snatches them up first.

I usually imagine Bastion with just one pair of chelicerae, but I saw someone else’s drawing of a humanoid spider monster with two sets of chelicerae and a pennywise-like jaw-split and I was like “Okay but this would actually absolutely work for Bastion” and now I’m kinda torn.