[Report This]Date: March 01 2023 10:27 AM Title: Fifty Foot Woman from Mars
Another great chapter, I wasn't expecting Penelope to pop up like that. When I read the cruel content warning I was preparing for one of the girls to get careless and drop Derrick or Kelly into the crowd of young women who enjoy such great hits as "Gonna eat ya" and "It's fun to step on tinies".
Can people still develop the 'shrinking virus' or was it a one-time phenomenon? It would be the ultimate karma for Penelope to come down with the condition herself and experience the horrors of being partially digested and crushed by her former victim. Kelly could even house her with the spiders that creep her out so much.
Also excuse my morbid curiosity but if tinies can be killed via digestion, why can't they be drowned or suffocated too? How about if someone were to crush their skull under a high heel and liquefy their brains? Or simply pop them into a microwave oven, food disposal or incinerator?
I feel like Penelope simply chose the most cruel and intimate method of disposal. One that she could take her time 'enjoying' that evening in bed. (P.S. she's kind of an airhead for not just swallowing Derrick too)
Author's Response:
The shrinking thing was a one-time phenomenon, this is sort of a spinoff of my other story We Help Each Other Get By which details "shrinking day" in the first chapter, while there aren't any characters shared between the stories you can assume they experienced a very similar "day one."
Tinies actually can be killed via drowning or suffocation but it would take a really long time, for some perspective a scorpion can live at the bottom of a swimming pool for two days, I can't remember if I ever put an actual number on it in this universe but let's say tinies could probably go 3-5 days without needing to breathe. Dissolving via digestion is basically a constant race against the tinies impressive healing factor, they can probably sit in a stomach without feeling more than a tingle for hours, then it would start to hurt as the acid started to overwhelm their abilities to regenerate, actually killing a tiny via digestion would, as Penelope says, take days or even longer, and it would be a seriously unpleasant way to go. This allows for a certain amount of leeway for those who do want to vore their tiny friends, and as you can see it's a popular thing to do to them in-universe, but it's also a huge trust fall thing on the tiny's part. Like you said Penelope chose the most cruel and intimate method of disposal, she's pretty evil lol.
Regarding other kill methods I tend to take a similar approach across all of my "invincible tiny" stories, tinies can get permanently killed via things that totally destroy them, usually dismemberment. In the One Year Lease stories characters are variously threatened with blenders, scissors, and even guns, and while I don't really like to explore super violent scenarios much I'll comment as the author that any of those would do the job. A high heel might have trouble getting enough force to actually kill a tiny in this universe though.