Yeeee these are always so cute X3

Cute pangolin

I love the big paws and tail. Thanks again!

I've been absolutely loving these host pictures! This girly in particular is a cutie! Though I feel like I would have difficulties walking around with such a thick tail....

How about this imagery: Her sitting down as her tail pulls her around like a snake.

In any case, it seems to have worked out fabulously for her...!

So they hold conventions? Whoa that's pretty advance of them

Yay pangolins!

So? Are the hive bats Good or evil I've been confused for a while ever since, or are they bad but have to do good deeds.

Succubats are animals. They aren't really good or evil. They just want to keep the hives healthy, and keep the queen fed. They do this by pairing with smarter, stronger species, namely people, and leave all the work and decision making to hosts.

Hosts and Hives are just like, the same people, with an instilled empathy for other hosts.

Hives get food for their queen because the queen needs a lot, and can't do it by themself. If the hive didn't help the queen, they'd just starve, and probably burn out trying to make more parasites to find most hosts.

this character before and after change is just so dang cute!

As good as the Hip plan.

ive been wondering can they attach to goo creatures or synthetic beings?
i assume theres no compatibility there?

Those are both like, literally my examples every time someone asks about bat immunity.

Succubats, at least the ones I usually draw, require an organic host with a spine they can access. Interfacing with robotics would be an adaptation they haven't needed, since like, that wouldn't really let them access more hosts. There are bats in areas with high insectoid dense areas, who can interface without a spine.

A major problem with interfacing with slimes, is bats are still solid, and could just be like, easily pulled out, or even digested by the slime.

cool was curious if anything could be affected or not

You have no idea how much i love this design. also....PANGOLIN!

I really like the variation on the middle panel(s) you used for this one. Though I'm used-to (and strangely fond of) the typical mid-TF, this was an excellent use of the space.

Yeah I felt really nervous skipping the mid-tf panel, but these were v important steps in my head

Very late reply to this, but I feel the same way, mind me asking why it was skipped? I also like to see the pain and possible few seconds of regret on their face before the endorphins set in. I find it amusing. XD

you see, people pay me money in exchange for drawings, and the amount of money they give me, in part, dictates how much art they receive.

Ah. That makes sense. Keep up the good work. :3

This is one of the best designs out of these parasite pics. And that's a pretty high bar to get over.

I love the idea of someone learning about the bats and joining them instead of constantly just places being swarmed and forcibly recruited.

what happens if the subject dies but the parasite lives somehow. will it find another host or does it give up? and are there mutations amongst them? like albinos. and perhaps experimented on queens.

Parasites straight up merge with the host, Their tail is the host's tail, their wings are the host's buttwings, their mind is like a third lobe of your own mind. I'm trying to think even how this would happen. It would be akin to your arm living on without you.

Yes mutations happen. Slight variations in color are normal, Albinism and Melanism are rare, just like is any animal. Succubats also have occasional magical mutations, like stronger hosts, or acid resistance, or water breathing. Usually the problem with these mutations is if it doesn't help the hive succeed compared to normal mutations, you just have a hive that needs more resources for both the queen AND the succubats, with nothing helping them get that extra food.

"and perhaps experimented on queens." is a weird sentence fragment and not actually a question or statement. I can't reply to this

have their been genetically altered queens?

Cute pangolin. Don't see a lot of those.

What kids look like only changes if the parents were trans. I.E. if the bat gave the host new genitals, they will have kids that looks like hosts without a parasite. If the host kept their original package, their kids look like they did before infection

ohh job fairs now that's interesting XD

this whole thing is so cute. looks like as they got used to modern things, they are a lot more... gentle with their recruitment now.

You just don't see enough pangolins.

oh very cute

I don't know why, but the whole forced empathy bit just doesn't sit well with me. I know that lived experiences can change your opinion on something, but I feel that there's a difference between living an experience and having that empathy suddenly thrust upon you by an outside source. Am I missing something? Am I wrong to feel this way? Am I being rude just for posting this comment?

That to me is the appeal to them. They are parasites and they do what parasites do, to hijack and take over.

LOL
Can you imagine you are even playing video games with a sucubat?

maybe remove your outfit so you don't lose it?

G-golly you can't just strip in the middle of a job fair!!!!

I’m curious! Is the initial bite/chomp/whatever as the bat merged into your spine painful?

yes. That's why I keep drawing people screaming in pain

Judging by the little emotes around her head in one of the middle panels, I guess she was aware of that, unlike some of the other people who go to transform or hang around them and don't expect it, for some reason. XD