Now the real question is...does this count as a fatality or animality? Probably the latter huh?

Option 3: Vorality!

My kinda finish him. XD

Animality in the originals, Fatality in the NetherRealm Studios versions, and Friendship in the Australian version.

The look on the badger's face at the end won me over. Looks like he'd be saying (if he could talk) "Dreams do come true!"

Oh he dead.

*shrugs* We'll never have confirmation, so. . . Enjoy whatever interpretation floats your boat.

Maybe the skull icon means he's dying. Or maybe he's in there muttering death metal lyrics.

Maybe the badger is all and rubbing his belly after a satisfying meal. Or maybe he's petting the human that he's eventually going to release at the back of his den and train to be a pet just in time to show him off during mating season.

Badger: "Hey ladies, wanna' come back to my place? I'll introduce you to my pet human -- his name is Bob. . . No. . . I'm gonna' call you Snickers."
Bobby: "Babble babble bitch bitch rebel rebel party party-"

nah, he dead https://youtu.be/MqK_17dc0cc?t=6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFv4mmU68Ww

If we're being realistic, so is the badger. But we're so very clearly not being realistic, and the only word we have received so far from the Stregaverse's O-vore-lord-

*laughs and trollfaces whilst dodging bricks and beer bottles being lobbed by the "we hate puns" crowd for five hours*

-is that Bobby is not going anywhere for a while, not happy, and has really lousy friends.

How stupid are people who get a stick up their ass about people interpreting ambiguous vore in the opposite direction to the way they prefer?

Stupid enough that not a damn one of them noticed I'd set them up for the perfect counter joke with my choice of death metal lyrics.

The lyrics are from Maralyn Manson's "This Is The New Shit". If it's so bloody important to you that I acknowledge Bobby is going to become shit, how did not a freakin' one of you think to capitalize on that?

you can't beat a free meal

After a big satisfied belch like that, it seems like this was worth all of the effort~

Now I'm curious just how long he'll be stuck in there, good thing humans are like 60% water l3

Lucky Bobby. :D

And a well-earned meal for the lendri capped off the way all such meals are.

I had to look up 'Lendri' to see what it was, though from context it was clearly a badger. I've actually never read or seen WD, but I know the plot. It, Plague Dogs and The Animals of Farthing Wood are the trifecta of grim early animal stories. 83

Yeah. "lendri" as seen from the rabbits' perspective were dangerous, but not generally feared. European badgers aren't big into rabbit-hunting. In the UK TV series, there even was a friendly badger character named "Bark" that sort of adopted an injured Fiver ("I will pet him and stroke him..."). Hilarity ensued, but she later proved an invaluable ally during the siege of Watership Down.

More on topic, I'm seriously going to have to borrow this badger character. Male or female?

He's a male badger, but due to the presence of young prey in this one I've scrupulously kept any bits out of view. Thus the convenient positioning of his tail in the third panel. 83

I have seen him before. Once I can afford art again, I had an idea I wanted to use him for.

We haven't seen this particular badger before, but one normal-sized man eating North Ameican badger looks much like another. 83

Especially from the inside!

From the perspective of the person being digested, one gastrointestinal tract looks much like another. 83

But the badger is happy! That's what counts!

Great series. I've known a few kids iRL that I only wish could be subject to this treatment. (Screamers are always very high on my list).

Two more pages to go. Maybe three if the third one proves hard to do in one page. A couple of people are lambasting me for drawing underage prey, but some people apparently don't know what happened to kids in a lot of classic folk tales.

Well, yeah. And in nature, kids/cubs/hatchlings/what have you are often preferred prey. If you catch the den/nest empty of defenders? They are the easiest food source there is, defenseless and all lined up nice and pretty.

Sorry, but kids are not sacred and no matter how much we yell about it, our actions don't match our words. (But that is getting dangerously close to politics so I will stop there).

Par the course for vore. People are going to grumble no matter who the prey is. All that's different about children is the smug sense of piousness some have about it that makes them feel comfortable saying so openly. -_-

this is a nice vore sequence

Man, skulls always sell it for me <3 Love the work man!

Alas poor Bobby...today, a wayward youth and temporary ball collector; tomorrow, the biggest, warmest (for a while at least), muskiest pile of badger scat in the country.

But at least his sacrifice was worthwhile; keeping distant kin of mine well fed for a few days.

Beautiful result, and a well-deserved meal. That'll teach those fools to makr such a ruckus and tbrow balls down there!

Oh wow! Strega, you did a fantastic job with this sequence. You've consistently done some of the absolutely best feral preds online and this demonstrates that well. You do a good job making them feel natural even with giant gaped jaws and behemoth belly bulges. Those both were great here with some marvelous mawshots on earlier pages and beautiful bulges on pages like this one. Plus one of my favorite aspects of your work is how expressive you can make characters, even ferals like this badger. You did excellent work portraying his sheer satisfaction in the last panel. I think you're singlehandedly responsible for getting me into post-vore belches and this one is top-notch! Both the badger's look and the sound effect for it are excellent. Speaking of sound effects, you've always done details like that nicely too and the variety of other sound effects plus details like the skull are great touches.

Thanks again for sharing your work online Strega! Hope we get to see more like this from you. Best of luck with your raffles and all your other projects!

Belches are one of my favorite things in vore. It's a shame there seemed to be a rule against them in the early, high quality theatrical cartoons like Who'S Who At The Zoo and A Day At The Zoo, not to mention others. At least that one Atari Jaguar commercial has a good one. 83