Excellent and long overdue! Contrary to all of the ridiculous artwork and stories that abound here in which deadly, dangerous fire breathing dragons are casually swallowed alive and digested as if they were no more of a threat than a big scaly sausage seemingly begging to be turned into fat and fertilizer, it finally nice to see what would REALLY happen if any predator attempted to eat a live dragon. And even if something went wrong with the fire, unless the predator was totally huge and the dragon tiny, it would also be able to rip and rupture the internal organs with deadly sharp claws at the ends of powerful, muscular limbs. It is amazing how few people are able to grasp these simple concepts and portray the most dangerous creatures early man could even conceive and just another meal for the most unlikely of predators, even things like cows or humans. Thanks for sharing and bringing a small bit of common sense amongst the sea of absurdity. If I had any criticism it might be that all of that flame should have made Trico more of a smoldering, or even burning carcass given the fact both fur and feathers are flammable. Also, with your penchant for depicting the skeleton of prey in your artwork, I am surprised we didn't have a final shot of a bloated little dragon, sleeping off his meal amongst the gnawed, strewn bones of his would be predator. In fact, this is the ONE artwork you have done in which the bones would have survived, as so many predators that swallow whole prey are able to completely dissolve the skeletons.

It's fantasy, it doesn't need to be 100% realistic. It's not that people aren't aware of what a dragon can do, it's that it wouldn't be fun to never have dragons as prey.

One of the qualities and challenges for the best fantasy writers and artists is the ability to make their 'fantasies' seem real to those who read and view their work. As several other people who commented here agree, swallowing a live creature that spews searing hot flame from its mouth, and has very sharp talons and spikes that could fatally damage a predators internal organs would be a foolish and fatal decision, just as a it would be for a person deciding to swallow a poisonous-spined lion fish like they might a goldfish. There is no rule that states all vore stories and art automatically have to be stupidly unrealistic, though the majority of it seems to be. And what you say is completely wrong. Literally every day we see art and stories here about dragons being eaten alive that would be 100% fatal for the creatures (and even humans in the dumbest cases) that attempt to swallow a fire breathing dragon alive. This artwork is the rare exception which shows what would really happen yet rarely seen because most people seem to prefer the dumbest stuff.

I know this is 5 years old but I laughed out loud at the idea of someone taking frickin vore this seriously. It's a fetish that is inherently impossible and unrealistic to do. Calling people dumb for them depicting pure fantasy in however way they want is some elitist BS. especially since realistic scenarios are simply not liked by a lot of people, hence the existence of safe vore etc.

I believe if you happened to look at this a bit closer you would see that by and large, the most favorited vore-themed art and stories are those in which the vore aspect of them is relatively realistic, such as predators that are actually large enough to swallow their prey whole, prey are digested as they would be in nature, etc. Of course, it is the inherent right of writers and artists here to produce work so ridiculous that not even a five year old could possibly take it seriously, though in many cases, not a single person will give them a favorable comment. It is a great thing that tags accompany the stories here, so potential readers will know a bit about the content before taking the time to read them. Do you think the wildly popular Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon phenomena would have been so successful if people in these shows could swallow a dragon a hundred times its size, or dragon riders could safely sleep in their dragons' bellies?

Dude, there are countless of safe vore/full tour/inflation vore/anal vore/unbirth... and countless other sub types of vore that are inherently unrealistic. yet have many many people loving it. Almost like not everyone is into the same goals as you

Just seek up vore and sort by most popular, the far majority of results have one or more unrealistic elements.

Not sure why you're comparing a series to frickin vore either. Of course game of thrones wouldn't work as a vore fanfic haha.

Feel free to have preferences, but lambasting peoples work for not fitting your preferences is childish. Not everyone is into hyper realism like you are

If Trico could breath fire, that would have been awesome.

Seconding everything Sirrush has said here... this is how things would go down when eating anything that can breathe fire, and your pred doesn't have kink/plot armor enabled XD

Its not often that you see vore art of the prey escaping his pred without actually eating them, a nice breath of fresh air. ;)

*Press A (or X) multiple times, escape successful*

Ouch, that might hurt! That's surprising, you never see such artwork! You barely see a prey escape against the pred's will, but this time the pred even perished for his foolish meal! Too bad Trico, too bad...

Sirrush was speaking about that in the first part and I think this was a good idea, most of the time eating someone alive, which is way more dangerous than just killing and eating, just goes without consequences. But for once, there were consequences.

I know its more common then not to see prey (no matter what it is get digested) and completely agree with Sirrush and in this case nice to see a change in pace, but i've noticed many forums and fanfictions talking about Trico's having full control over their digestive system, and as soon as a Trico swallows someone, it is immediately succumbed by its blue stomach fluid, either to digest, or to kept alive in a unconscious state by delivering oxygen directly to your blood platelets, and to either regurgitate (as in the game) or can pass you through the digestive tract unharmed.

Some have gone into even greater detail that a male Trico can eat you, and if they like you enough, can digest you but save your soul (memories) and transfers them to a sperm, where he can mate with a female and turn you into a Trico.

That all seems unrealistically complicated and fantastic to me, especially the idea of somehow not suffocating while slowly traversing through yards and yards of small intestines without any air. The simplest way of handling this, and the one which I assumed the game designers had in mind, was that Trico had a completely normal avian type digestive system which includes a 'crop' kind of storage compartment in front of the glandular stomach that is used to hold food items when the stomach was already full, or in the case of Trico, for safely holding the boy he is protecting. By occasionally gulping air it would keep him alive and also insure he would not be crushed by the weight of the other organs all around him. But in this case of swallowing a live, fire-spewing dragon, it would still be an incredibly risky thing to do whether it was destined to land directly in a stomach or pass through the crop first. One wonders why this dragon deliberately let Trico swallow him as if he were just a common lizard, instead of blasting his face with fire to keep him away. Perhaps he planned on killing Trico by burning him internally and then eating whatever he could of the carcass, which is why I thought the comic deserved a few more panels.

And i'm sure thats what team Ico was thinking of for the game, the boy would fall in his/her crop for safe keeping, though the blue fluid would need to be there to create the tattoos... which led me to think that Trico's had some ability to control what happen'd in their stomach, perhaps in evolution, the Trico's never had (or lost) their crop, and their stomach fluid was a way to keep prey fresh to regurgitate for their young.

IDK, in my mind, i love the thought that Trico's have full control over their body, and after defeating the master of the valley, the humans and Trico's became friends, and helped each other, building trust. They learned what they could do, and that a Trico can heal you in its stomach, becoming a right of passage, or simply just being a nice place to sleep on a winter's night was just part of life in the village. Some humans would get very attached to their Trico's, and if a Trico thought you were ready and/or wanted to, he/she would eat you for the last time, mate with another Trico, and after a year or so, lay you as a egg.

Usually around preteen stage (just before puberty in Trico years) you start to get your memory back, many stay in the village and let the other humans know who they once were, but some would tire of the village and fly to the nest where they sot a more simpler life among the wilds of the valley.

Tricos can fly??!! I never played the game but have the big figure that comes with the game, and the wings look tiny and vestigial. It is hard to believe they could fly with them, or was this Trico somewhat immature, and the wings grow out fully in adulthood?.

Oh can they fly, most certainly, its a sight to behold in the game, his wings heal and get much bigger. Really don't want to spoil anything else, it is a really nice game to play, its like a good book you just can't stop reading (for me anyway) the story was just spot on, a tough of magic, not over done, just one of those games you wish you could be there in it.

The sad part was, all of the complaints about the game is what made the game so great, that it was built around how real Trico was and how hard Team Ico worked to get him there.

If you like niche games, that is one to try.

I think most 'fantasy' video games are just so much ridiculous, unbelievable rubbish catering to "God Complexed" adolescents who "need" to imagine themselves as mighty monster slayers, so I do not waste my time with them. From what I could tell though, this one was quite different in that the players fate is essentially in the paws of an animal they cannot control, so this one has piqued my interest. But it is easy to see why this wouldn't appeal to the "typical" kind of gamer who has the psychological need to be a conquering hero, and is usually accommodated in most games specifically designed to satisfy this mindset.

Along with the beautiful Trico figure I bought was a little book of the art of the game which showed at least one of these massive and obviously incredibly dangerous creatures somehow killed or grievously wounded by humans that seemed to only have ancient military technology, which also struck be as highly improbable'. "The Last Guardian" title also evoked the same stereotype as the equally nonsensical " Last Dragon" clichés in the popular media, which come off to educated people as usually quite stupid given something like a large intelligent flying dragon, (much like a Gryphon in this case), would be a near omnipotent super predator in an ancient tech world, and if they really existed it would more likely be stories and games about "the last human".

Why are you so arrogant... go visit r/iamverysmart

I'll maybe do some more if I find the time, I like hard vore and all but I don't think everyone will :(