Interesting but did you suddenly decided to change the plot of the story for something else?

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[Not as such. This section was planned from the beginning, and in more or less this way. I was hoping for the transition to be a little smoother, but this was just the way it went down.

With Withania somewhat stumbling around at the moment, the story needs to get into Act 2, and sometimes the only way to do that is a seemingly abrupt intervention.]

“I’ll see from the inside,” repeated Twilight, “You eat me and then I can watch the entire process first and, and we’ll find out what’s really happening in there.”

Why she always come up with this kind of idea?
Welcome to my life.

So... I was a bit put off by mulberry's antics because of the way she seemed to go about it, but was also pretty weirded out by everything else so I didn't really address it but isn't the thing she does in the same vain as rape, especially if she is basically doing the magical equivalent of drugging them to do it? And twilight is okay with this even though people are losing half a day to being part of someone's selfish pleasures with no real memory of the event and weird, possibly unpleasant dreams depending on their perspective? Kinda disturbing that there isn't any consequences for this behavior.

On a lighter note, twilight confirmed for science slut.

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[The thought had occurred to me. I did actually discuss this with someone else over Withania's consideration to drug Epoch in I, Predator, and I had to conclude that the simplest answer was "don't think about it". I have ideas about an explanation for this, but I'll wait a bit before I try and introduce them. For now, don't think about it and have fun ;) ]

[If I may make a correction, I believe "Kintetic" is supposed to be "Kinetic". XP]

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"Don't think about it" is a rather odd way to handle something of bothersome morality...

My main concern is basically that what mulberry is doing is pretty reprehensible as she is essentially preforming a dangerous sexual (?) act with drugged, non-consenting individuals who probably had other things to do that day, and twilight is okay with that because she covers her tracks well (though obviously not well enough for Withania to not catch on and by extension others could follow who may be less okay with that).

You also have to consider if things go wrong with the Reformation potion or spell, someone gets murdered so this seems like something that would have some strictly enforced rules on the subject. As for the few other things, Enoch was pretty clearly consenting as far as I know but I don't remember her being drugged covertly either and it makes sense that Withania having not understood the full extent of what happened to her and being genuinely terrified of how she is altering the minds of those around her gets a little leeway when it comes to any actual punishment. It's out of her strict control and she needs help, not punishment.

Even throughout just this story, the dangers and preventive measures are regularly checked and acknowledged in a fairly unintrusive and natural way right up until twilight kinda just lets mulberry do her very date rapey thing dispite knowing about it.

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[I have to admit, that does seem kind of bothersome that Twilight would be okay with the vore equivalent of a date rape. Wouldn't it make more sense that, instead of letting Mulberry do what she does because she covers her tracks well, they would want to put a stop to it but have no EVIDENCE of her wrongdoings because she covers her tracks well?]

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The x-ray was an interesting (and pretty logical once you think about it) way to answer a lot of questions about internals. Hopefully she figures out how to catch-and-release as well as tone down the overwhelming perfume.

As for the two pegasi, did Twilight use a magic neuralizer to make them not only forget they got gulped and but that Withania is a sneaky pred? I bet all the alicorns know that spell considering NMM's fabled threat if you don't give her candy...
"Look here please-" *pop* "It was just swamp gas reflecting the light from Venus"

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[I do see what you guys mean, but when I say 'Don't think about it' I mean you need to have a suspension of disbelief. Porn, and especially vore, requires us to take liberties here and there for the narrative to work.
Ultimately if we made consensual/willing a strict rule then we become hugely limited in what we can do with a vore story, so I try to avoid the comparison between unwilling and rape. I then offset this by having strict reformation rules in place. That's my trade-off...
But as I mentioned, I will ponder this and see if I can resolve it, but if you don't see it mentioned, it's because I can't think of a narrative that's better than the current trade-off.]

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I'm not saying stories need to be always consenting, I just feel like there needs to be some acknowledgement of what non-con/dub-con means for the victims. It doesn't even have to be some law enforcement or punishment for it, just a few lines pointing out that this is a person and they are at a detriment because of what happened to them.

The actions they take are that of a broken person: wailing sobs, silent tears, a stunned lethargic demeanor, impotent or misdirected rage and frustration even after any semblance of revenge or safety has been reached, psychotic ticks and twitches, desperate needs to find some semblance of worth that never seem to be truly fulfilled even from their abuser, a lack of self preservation, self degradation, nervousness and general PTSD, a full psychotic break from reality, ect. Things that would be selected as appropriate for the character and just what they went through to convey that the event had adverse psychological effects.

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[aaaaaand that is exactly why I don’t really want to address this. These kinds of things aren’t what my stories are about. Vore is a fantasy fetish, and in most cases, including my stories, a somewhat silly one.
I’m not saying that non-con/rape is something to take lightly IRL - but when we go into fiction and fantasy, blurring the lines adds an extra thrill when you push the envelope just right. You have to leave some level of morality at the door.

I’ve spoken to a load of people about this today to get more ideas and they all had very similar responses to my previous comments; words to the effect of “Why are you trying to address this in a light-hearted pony-vore fic?” To which I replied “Well, I didn’t want to... and in fact on that note, I’m not going to.”

Basically I see most pony predators, at least in the Withani-verse as mischievous rascals. No one really comes to any harm as a result of what goes on. And if you start trying to analyse that as problematic, you open the door to a truckload of dark ideas from the show itself, such as Discord routinely messing with people, Starlight brainwashing the mane six into doing her bidding, and a plant that instils a horrifying disease that slowly and irrevocably turns living ponies into inanimate trees and wiped out entire villages.]

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[Well, I say enough with the drama so we can enjoy Twilight squeezing into a plant pony's belly... for SCIENCE! XP]

I've been wondering something, Withania. How exactly does Balducci Almond's spell work? Does it simply create a clone body for the soul to inhabit before that 24-hour gap upon physical death? And why did he create that spell? I can't imagine he created it to get a kick out of eating other ponies or being eaten himself. I'd like to learn more about it and how you and this Mulberry Tart pony managed to learn about it.

[I mostly feel like expanding on this spell a bit, making it more accessible to the fanfic community, and I'd like to tackle how we can make that possible if you don't mind.]
[I also noticed that MLP already seems to have a "reformation" spell, and it doesn't describe what we're talking about. Damn Season 3... I think a good alternate term for our spell would be "resurrection spell". What do you think?]

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I was potentially going to explain it in the next chapter, but the timeframes are too tight for the story pacing (which is why chapter 8 is taking a while, it's unexpectedly tricky) so I might as well share it here for you guys.

The spell works by reading muscle memory. The body remembers actions it has performed, even if only once, and the spell reads this latent memory and uses it as a baseline to reconstruct the prey that was digested. It draws off the mass that the predator absorbed - sorry folks, you don't get to keep the chub, we need it to remake the prey's body - and the prey is reformed as they originally were.
When we wake up, our mind defaults to a place we expect to find ourselves, the most familiar bedroom we think of as home - and that is where the prey reappears. So they will usually reappear and wake up in their bed. So the reformed prey isn't a clone - they are in fact, the original body brought back again.

I've actually written up the guidelines for this spell, and my potion version of it HERE. There are some fun quirks regarding timing that can be explored with the spell and potion, but it hasn't yet been relevant to a story I've written, since myself and my friends are usually fairly careful.

I'm more than happy to share it with others as well! It's not had strict development, but it serves its purpose!

I can imagine gobsmacked expression of earth pony

“I’ll see from the inside,” repeated Twilight, “You eat me and then I can watch the entire process first and, and we’ll find out what’s really happening in there.”

I can actually see twilight doing this

What chores do you need done this afternoon? I’ll get Spike to do them for you.

Remember to warn him to not play with a certain plant...

I must let you eat me. For science. It has nothing to do with your aphrodisiac pollen. I swear.

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Not the first fic of Twi getting eaten