The longest, most snug nap for all involved |33

Very long for one, and neverending for the other.

It certainly pays to ask the context of the party!

I like long term entrapment with hibernation vore - the inconvenience of months before the prey gets out, and then the exact same thing happens to them the next year... or they go straight out of one hibernating pred into another who sleeps opposite months. Maybe having to listen to ‘rubbish’ music on repeat, etc.

Though if it’s fatal, I like the idea that no digestion happens until like, minutes before the pred finishes sleep - and then it all catches up. So the prey is stuck for months but thinks at least they’ll be alive, then pretty suddenly the digestion just -happens- and they’re gone. Pred might not even know it happens like that!

I left it a little ambiguous because I kind of like both of those ideas!

I'll admit, the months-long entrapment only to be immediately devoured by another pred is pretty great! But I also like the idea of a long digestion, or, like you said, a delayed one -- it kind of makes sense, the bear's digestive process would certainly be slowed down while they're sleeping! And with the bear having no idea that they're condemning the person to months of being trapped... it's a fun concept.

I once wrote about (but never posted) a magical bear that accidentally hibernated.

She’d offered to carry a group of injured/weary adventurers in her stomach which healed people. Given she had a good alignment (d&d) - it was free healing, rest, and travel all at once for the group involved, so they agreed. The catch was a 1% chance each 24hrs, separate for every person, that her stomach would move someone into a second belly that could never be escaped from (they wouldn’t die, but they’re totally stuck, and the bear would learn a couple of their skills/spells at random). But she explained that risk, and letting them out and back in would reset the counter anyway, so no problems they all thought.

Except when she slept in a cave the first night, she accidentally fell into a 6 month hibernation instead. Out of the 5 she’d swallowed, 4 were moved into the second stomach, while the 5th was a Ranger who got favourable odds due to her class (had to get the 1% twice rather than once in the same ‘belly session’)

In the end, the remaining adventurer and the bear travelled as a duo, and were way more effective at being heroic than the group of 5 were.

Long off-topic comment short, hibernation shenanigans are certainly a fun concept indeed!

Ooh! I love eternal entrapment ideas like that. Thanks for sharing! Now I kind of wish I could read it!

IDK why you're unhappy, looks fine to me, only thing that's a little weird are the legs, keep experimenting, do more eccentric angles, you can only get better

Every artist is their own harshest critic! I can see lots of little things that seem wrong, and despite my attempts to fix the legs, they still look pretty bad. But that definitely doesn't mean I'm not going to keep trying!

This is a fun idea for sure. :D

Thanks! Bears aren't my favorite preds, but hibernating preds is definitely under-explored!

Heck yeah. :D

The angle is fine! Its always hard to experiment at unusual angles
Also, imagine that miss burr gets asleep quick and thus digestion gets preeeety slow and painful for the lucky sweetie in there xd

Indeed! A long, slow digestion process, with miss bear so deep asleep that she won't wake up no matter how much they struggle.

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I feel like I’ve seen that bear before.

That's entirely possible!

Oh yeah, I think that was the first story and art piece of yours that I ever saw.

Ooh, awesome! Considering you seem to be following me, I hope you liked it! XP

I did like it a lot. And I thought I was already following you, when I saw that I wasn’t I hit the watch button. XP