Just a question for anyone watching
a year ago
General
Heyo Virx here!Since I just started posting vore-related content, I feel like my work could get stale pretty quickly if I only focused on two of my characters—Hattox and Virxsin.
I actually have around 160 OCs, and while I love some more than others, I run into a personal dilemma. Many of these characters were created out of my passion for character design, and some are really well-developed. The issue is that I worry I won’t be able to take them seriously anymore if I introduce them in a vore-related context. Since I use these characters for more serious storytelling, I want to keep that depth intact. That’s also why I won’t be making any NSFW content with them—I'm afraid that if people only see them in that way, they won’t appreciate them for who they really are, and well cause I'm personally not a fan of NSFW.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Do you create separate characters specifically for vore? (or even NSFW content, though that’s not a road I personally want to go down) Or do you eventually get over the fear of not taking your own OCs seriously anymore?
For some context, Virxsin is my fursona, and I’ve had him for about four years. So that makes him more suitable for any kind of work, both serious and kink-related. Hattox, on the other hand, was always intended for this kind of content since I’m really into hairy characters (or "bears" if you’re familiar with the gay term, haha). Even though I’ve fleshed him out with connections to my other characters and a backstory, I don’t have the same issue with him because he was always meant for kink-related stuff.
Just curious! Thanks in advance to anyone who shares their thoughts or just takes the time to read this. I genuinely want to connect with others because I know y’all are wonderful people. I’ve never met anyone in my real-life circle or online who I could talk to about these things, so it would be cool to hear different perspectives!
Lots of love and possibly some stomach gurgles ~ Virxsin
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It's also good writing exercise to let the characters diverge, it helps with making distinct voices and speech patterns so you know how to write dialogue and interactions such that characters sound different. Dialogue is HARD.
Essentially I just sort of have my vore OC's and then I "file the serial numbers off" if I need to use them for serious.
I just want to make sure I got everything correctly tho... (English isn't my native language so sorry for that. And well I just want to do good)
To avoid the fear of being unable to take your own characters serious anymore, you kind of make 'duplicates' or 'mirror' versions of them. They look alike and act alike, but aren't entirely the same?
As for the talking, I think it's a great tip to dive deeper into how each and every indiviudal character I created would react to being eaten or having eaten someone. My more serious characters, like Aeudix, Kymchi and Zhymolourgh would react very differently than my already mischievious characters like Hattox, Kanthya (who is a rat! :P) and Zøhnn. Making them all say the same as it's what I'd think about when this would occur would indeed kind of deviate from the character themselves.
I'll take everything in consideration and see where I can apply in future posts.
So tysm! it's greatly appreciated :)))