CW: Vore
Furry friend groups with a very poor pred to prey ratio.
Imagine being the one prey in a group of preds and being so much smaller than everyone else. Basically shoved into tummies even when nobody means to. You just get tripped over and pushed around a lot. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing? They keep you safe! At the cost of, like, giving you the occasional lick or two. Or just sending you to their gut for a little bit if they REALLY need to. Getting passed around a friend group because they wanna keep you safe but also like, we can save a movie ticket if we just smuggle you into the theater, right? And so anytime there’s a movie they’re arguing over who gets to eat you and bring you in. They’re SUPPOSED to let you out once they get into the theater but… that doesn’t always happen. So you’re mostly watching films from the back of someone’s throat, if the selected pred isn’t greedy and keeps you in their gut.
Wanting to stay out late with your pred friends but they all agree that if you stay out with them into hunting hours, you’re going in a gut. Not permanently, of course, but they’re gonna swallow you to keep you safe. Because the last thing they want is their communal snack disappearing.
Not having enough seating in the car and you see tails start to wag and flick, folks start drooling, as they beckon you. “No no, I’ll take care of ya!” “Noooo, it’s my turn!” And soon you’re in someone again and you’re really wondering if it’s even worth getting dressed at this point if your clothes are just gonna get soaked.
You’re petitioning to have your hyper breast friend be your “designated driver”, but first they’re gonna need to prove you’re not just going to bump up their chest size/they’re going to KEEP you…
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The inverse is also fun. The one pred in an all-prey friend group. Now they’re the ONLY one that could reasonably protect their pals… Which wouldn’t be a problem if there weren’t so many of them.
While a prey-focused group is much more likely to be cautious and not get themselves into places where a pred eating them is necessary, emergencies surely crop up. Which leaves the pred a sloshy mess, huffing and puffing with the weight of their pals whenever needed.
And let’s not pretend preds don’t have their urges! Seeing one of their friends alone… Knowing it would be so easy… And GLURK. And then getting reprimanded by the other prey, and having to relinquish their meal.
Maybe the pred DOES get away with scarfing down one or two of their friends. Successfully hides it until they show up a few days later with their belly a little softer, a skeleton still somewhere deep in the pred’s colon. And the prey none the wiser, laying atop that soft belly they find so comfy, not knowing one of them is taking the extended tour of it.
