[Report This]Date: May 16 2024 5:22 PM Title: Chapter 20: Cat and Mouse
Oh my God, Trish making Thomas wear protective gear while she crushes a tiny abandoned city may be one of the cutest thing I've ever read.
This chapter was incredible! I was really curious to see where you went with Trish after her epiphany last chapter, and holy shit am I fan of how that all turned out here! Seeing her embrace her size, not only to make Thomas happy but to enjoy it herself, gives this chapter a liberating feel. After struggling to understand this growing enjoyment of her size in the previous four or five chapters, I feel like now that she has nailed that down we're seeing the "real" Trish here: not someone dealing with guilt, shame, denial, or confusion but an unrestricted Trish enjoying herself without burden.
And as great as her earlier giant antics were (and how heartwarming it was to see her "practice" routines for Thomas), seeing her being so into this cat and mouse game just hits different. It's a different style of playfulness, and I love how you convey her enjoyment of Thomas's gift. Little things like her saying "So cool" at crushing the general store or her whispering at him to run when she had pretty much caught him the first time help make her teases and taunts feel more legitimate rather than a simple act to get her fiancé going.
Yet, at the same time, Trish maintains her sweet, caring aura while tearing a small town apart. That lecture she gives Thomas at the start (using his full name and everything) was so adorable, yet it also showed that she had some lingering concerns about things that could go wrong during their game. And her panic attack after sitting on the factory both amplified those concerns and represented the last of her lingering doubts about his safety. I thought this line was quite telling:
You got this Trish, you’re the apex predator, and Thomas trusts you and you trust Thomas. Nothing bad is going to happen. Just try to enjoy it.
She knows that she's being careful and has taken precautions, and this is her realizing that she trusts Thomas to make sure he keeps himself safe. Once she reminded herself of that, she was able to move forward without worry, and her playfulness was turned to 11 (I can't tell you how much I enjoyed Trish's dialogue throughout this game!).
You know, Trish has always had a lot of moving parts, and it continues to amaze me how well you've navigated said parts throughout this long, rewarding mental (and physical, of course) transition that she's on. It's what makes her so likable, in my opinion. Yeah, the fact that she's a good person and super sweet helps, but following along with her on this journey and watching her develop has been so satisfying to read. Because of that, it's so easy to empathize with her despite not really having gone through anything remotely comparable to her growth.
That conversation at the end was pretty interesting, too. While I agree with Thomas that Trish isn't a megalomaniac, her thinking she is just because she enjoys her newfound power is a very Trish thing to think. I feel like that's also her way of reconciling that guilt she previously expressed about betraying her smaller self. She's embracing her size now, but instead of just accepting that, she has to tie a potentially negative label to it.
The two of the settling on her feeling like a goddess stood out to me as well. Was this just a fun ending to the chapter and a bit of semantics to get the reader going even more (goddess is one of those words that means something a little different to people with this fetish, after all), or was this a little foreshadowing on your part? After Trish regrew her hand a couple chapters ago, I speculated that maybe those crunchy assholes might be onto something with this whole goddess thing. That's as good an explanation as any other for her growth, isn't it?
Lastly, while everything I said above was great, the actual action of this chapter was straight up amazing! Like I said before, the playful way that Trish spoke and conducted herself during the game was so alluring, but the ways in which she actually went about destroying the town and chased Thomas were the highlight here. The blend between playfulness, experimentation, and the expression of her raw power compared to how she usually (unknown even to Thomas) holds back for the sake of everyone else made this whole chapter so hot! You did an excellent job in terms of both creativity and description, as well as setting the mood through the narrative from Trish's perspective.
I just felt like that needed attention called to it as well, in addition to the stellar character work you put in here.
[Report This]Date: May 11 2024 1:05 PM Title: Chapter 20: Cat and Mouse
Nice mix of pure physical destruction mixed with some playful vore at the end. It's endearing to see that Trish is cognizant of her power as she grows larger and larger, not letting it go completely to her head as she transcends into an outright giant at this point. I find it somewhat heartwarming that she always bears in mind Thomas's safety as they have their fun together, keeping that tiny bit of worried restraint in the back of her mind and not getting too carried away when displaying her raw power.
I'm curious as to whether or not there'll be no more attempts on her life, whether by vigilantes or someone in the government. I suppose if word gets out that she's capable of regenerating limb damage scary fast then your typical vigilante posse would probably steer away from attacking her, but if someone more professional were brought into the picture with some serious military-style hardware (helicopter, fighter jets, tanks, etc.) then that might prove a more worrisome challenge for Trish, at least while she's not so gigantic that their attacks would feel like insect bites once she's large enough. It's possible that they might go after Thomas to keep Trish in line, knowing that he's become an emotional pillar for her to lean on at this point.
Also curious as to what the endgame of this tale is, depending on what Trish's final size ends up being. If she really ends up teetering into the realm of towering over skyscrapers, then she's probably gonna need her own private island or a stretch of land fenced off from the rest of the country where she pretty much has to stay in order to keep the general public from freaking out. I think that's the only way that order could be kept among the broader American public in order to calm their nerves and alleviate their concerns about having a gigantic woman living among them. Otherwise they'd be too worried about being at her mercy and accidentally being crushed, devoured, or wiped out by her, especially if she's literally thousands of feet tall (especially if she ends up being miles tall!).
But perhaps you already have remedies to some of these postulations in mind. In any case, this was a nice and spicy little add-on to the broader story.