Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: November 14 2023 5:17 AM Title: From the Depths

You know, this fetish is really interesting sometimes. I mean, where else could something like this make sense:

Chloé: I shouldn't eat you now because I want it to be special (with an entire ship's crew and a state in her stomach already).

Mika: Cool.

Chloé: So I'm going to put you in my sex instead.

Mika: Also cool.

It seems so surreal out of context; how could being shoved inside a woman's most intimate place be less, well, intimate than being eaten, especially if it's not done fatally? But within the context of the story, this makes perfect sense, and not just because vore is a thing.

Pretty much from the start, this story has been building to that moment when Chloé finally eats Mika. In most of the stories I've read here that focus heavily on vore, a lot of the intimacy tends to come from the fact that either pred or prey (or both) have a vore fetish and are either reluctant to act on it or happy to take their time stalking and teasing and whatnot. But here, the tension hovering around this throughout the story give it a more organic feel, if that makes sense.

Neither one ever seemed to think of eating or being eaten as a sexual thing until they met each other. And while I still think there's a genetic component to their mutual desire for this to happen, it's clear that the driving force behind said desire is their feelings for one another. I think the hesitation be each of them is a sign of that (Chloé's hesitation hasn't been as obvious, given her bubbly nature, but just like she said when she teased Mika, she could just do it whenever she wants. So technically, every second Mika spends outside of her stomach is her hesitating to put him in there).

But yeah, I just started thinking about all that during that scene and thought it was funny that being swallowed by Chloé (or swallowing Mika, from her side of it) has become more intimate than crawling around inside her pussy.

Also, I mentioned it after the last chapter, but I wanted to point out again how much I appreciate the way you've built the relationship between Chloé and Oklahoma. I don't think it would have served the story well to have made that a focus "on screen," so to speak, so having them bond between chapters, when the trio is actually doing most of the traveling and we're not around, is a nice touch.

I bring this up again because it struck me just how comfortable Oklahoma has quietly become around Chloé. When she thought the giant mermaid was Chloé, Oklahoma's first response was to chastise her, which isn't something I thought she would ever be comfortable doing to the Naga in her actual form. Then, of course, there's Oklahoma volunteering to go inside Chloé's stomach first to show the crew that it's safe. She REALLY doesn't seem like the kind of person that would volunteer for that sort of thing (in fact, I expected her to argue about it until it was just Mika and her left on Chloé's belly), so this really surprised me. Chloé has earned a lot of trust with Oklahoma, and the pilot definitely isn't someone who trusts easily.

And it was also sweet how Chloé included Oklahoma when talking about what she didn't know was missing in her life. That not only shows that the feeling is mutual, but it also subtly tells us that, yes, the two are getting along quite well when we're not around to see it (or even in those quick notes in the story, like when it was mentioned that Oklahoma brought Chloé to play cards with the crew).

I just really like the discreet way this has been brought along, with little hints here and there to let us know that this is happening. It makes scenes like the ones in this chapter make sense when they would otherwise feel pretty random for the characters.

I do feel bad for Carl, though. I feel like he indirectly called dibs on Mika's riding spot, so he kind of got screwed, and not in the way he wanted. Not only that, but a mermaid showed up and he still didn't get any sex (I mean, we are playing by Lovecraftian rules here, right?). Poor dude.

Emilia seems to genuinely like Higgins, even though she knows he's not a good guy. Maybe hanging around her sisters so much has gotten her used to sharing company with unfeeling killers (I mean, compared to Yukia, Higgins is seems downright cuddly). I also like the dynamic between these two, with Higgins' experience in high pressure situations giving him a bit of an edge on Emilia, despite the vast age difference. She's able to keep it together, but Higgins can keep her on edge. Between that and the mutual respect they seem to have for each other, it's always interesting to see them together.

And speaking of Emilia, I was curious how she was going to introduce herself to Mika and company, and it looks like she's going with the honesty route. That means it looks like we'll be getting a better view of the big picture in the next chapter, as I'm pretty sure the archivist of all people is going to have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Yeah, we've got the gist of things, I think, but, you know, unanswered questions and all that.

Author's Response:

It's a weird dynamic all around, Mika's wanted to be eaten by Chloe more or less since they met, call it instinct lol.

Oklahoma has developed a certain attachment to the pair that goes beyond it just being a job, or mind control for that matter.

Emilia obviously has some pretty low standards for friends. She's mostly going with the honesty route, though her own place in Mika and Chloe's big mystery will become clear soon.