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New story, and a silly thought
18 years ago
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If you haven't peeked already, I just posted a four-page unbirth story. Slippery gecko pussy versus unsuspecting jaguar! FIGHT!
I had a really stupid thought a few minutes ago. There are six or seven ways to vore someone at this point, right? I thought of a new one. BRAIN VORE! It actually has showed up in various media before...and I don't just mean zombies.
Imagine a creature that devours another creature's brain. The method doesn't much matter, though keeping it whole (and alive) would certainly help. Once ingested, the creature's 'digestion' would rather absorb relevant structures from the consumed brain, reproducing them within its own brain.
You read all the Harry Potter books? The folds in your brain that represent that material are copied, and the brain eater has as-good-as read the same books.
Now, is it a stretch to imagine the predator's brain containing more than his/her own brain-contents? Well, there's a lot of the brain the predator wouldn't need. Unless the reflexes, balance, and so on were superior to its own, those needn't be copied. All the autonomous stuff like breathing and so forth would be useless. And remember, according to legend, we don't use much of our brain. Consider the rest of it mass storage.
Now, this wouldn't be all that exciting unless you assume that the creature keeps the mind conscious while devouring it. You as the prey experience your memories over again as they're drawn from you, and all the while the predator is mentally teasing you...delighting in what it's gleaning from you, giggling as your brain loses fold after fold. Eventually it's nothing but a smooth oblong, and everything that made you you is now part of the predator. Panicked fragments of you reside in the pred's brain, trapped and powerless...just trophies to be fondled and enjoyed for the rest of that predator's life.
I had a really stupid thought a few minutes ago. There are six or seven ways to vore someone at this point, right? I thought of a new one. BRAIN VORE! It actually has showed up in various media before...and I don't just mean zombies.
Imagine a creature that devours another creature's brain. The method doesn't much matter, though keeping it whole (and alive) would certainly help. Once ingested, the creature's 'digestion' would rather absorb relevant structures from the consumed brain, reproducing them within its own brain.
You read all the Harry Potter books? The folds in your brain that represent that material are copied, and the brain eater has as-good-as read the same books.
Now, is it a stretch to imagine the predator's brain containing more than his/her own brain-contents? Well, there's a lot of the brain the predator wouldn't need. Unless the reflexes, balance, and so on were superior to its own, those needn't be copied. All the autonomous stuff like breathing and so forth would be useless. And remember, according to legend, we don't use much of our brain. Consider the rest of it mass storage.
Now, this wouldn't be all that exciting unless you assume that the creature keeps the mind conscious while devouring it. You as the prey experience your memories over again as they're drawn from you, and all the while the predator is mentally teasing you...delighting in what it's gleaning from you, giggling as your brain loses fold after fold. Eventually it's nothing but a smooth oblong, and everything that made you you is now part of the predator. Panicked fragments of you reside in the pred's brain, trapped and powerless...just trophies to be fondled and enjoyed for the rest of that predator's life.
Write the story, so I can read it, 'cause I'd love to see how this works.