Very tempted to sign up as a another victim..

So do the succubats have a weakness?

Like some silver or kryptonite or something? No.

I guess the bat itself isn't very useful without a host

Heheh, I kinda want to get nipped now :p

How much would it be to commission a comic like this

like, $135+

i no trust big bushy tails anymore

No you gotta let them surprise you with smooches

You sure it won't devour me and turn me into a chew toy? D8

This is wonderful. Instant fan of these bats XD

I love how this turned out. could be fun to be bitten

Bite implies like, an ant bite, or mosquito bite to me. These parasites embed themselves in a host. Or do you mean you want the tail to bite you? :oc

I ment by the succubat itself. Being part deacon isn't all bad.

Bite me.

No literally bite me.

Question. Does the host's mind get taken over by the bat? Or does the bat just control tail, while changing the host's personality to be more lustful?

from what im seeing i guess the host is still herself but shes just like "oh..well shoot i guess my tail has a mouth now"

Nah. she looks a little "too okay" with it.

Demon parasites vary. Succubats and queens leave a lot of the host's personality and intelligence intact, but alter them to use it for demons. Like it warps their instincts, and their sense of pleasure and desire.

Crown Crabs are a lot more forceful, and just control a host straight up.

So my latter suggestion. Mostly the host's consciousness is unchanged, but they are made more lustful.

well, not just that. Succubats are also happy when their 'hive' does well, and try to think of ways to keep demons safe and spread their numbers.

It's not just lust lust lust sex sex sex. It's getting more food, securing more hosts, dealing with threats to demonkind. And where like, the queen being harmed, procrastinating on work, or just the general misfortune of other demons make the host feel bad. Succubats are the social and delicate work.

Balina put it well as like "Ants with better fashion sense"

Oohh okay

So do these parasites take over their host completely or is the host still thinking straight but can still feel the parasites influence? It is throwing me off WAY too much! 🤔

Succubats hardly do much at all to the host's mind, Mostly making them feel strong empathy for the hive, and smoothing out any issues that would get in the way of being productive, like if the host has clinical depression.

The host retains: Their personality, their memories, their past insterests, their skills, and their free will, aside from the empathy thing.

A host could technically spend time resisting the hive and queen, or slacking off, but they'd feel like shit for it. Like one might when neglecting familial duties. The Hive doing well makes them feel better.

Thanks for clearing that up. Possession is really hard to identify in a lot of media.

Question: How would these lil fella's fare when trying to take over a person that is a shapeshifter?

The person keeps shapeshifting abilities, and whatever form they're in at the time of infection is treated as the new default form, and the bat treated as part of their body. If they aren't specifically hiding succubat traits, they will look like a succubat version of whatever they change into

Interesting. Even if the shapeshifter species is fairly resistant to mind alteration and parasites? I think the internal struggle of such would be interesting owo These lil fella's are certainly fun to think about.

I'm not really here to talk about whatever super special configuration someone personally has that makes them specifically immune to bats.

If you wanna be like "Oh I'm immune" I'm not really here to stop you, just to discuss general things. If a shapeshifter has a spine, they can generally be infected by a bat symbiote.

Not so much 'immune', more of the effects being delayed ^^;; But regardless, no disrespect was intended.

The more I see these things, the more concerned I am that these things really aren't "only good" or mutualistic. I'm not just talking about the social stigmas, either. I mean...what is the Succubats' goal? Simply to spread and multiply? And with no specific natural predators? That sounds dangerous, no matter how one may try to gloss over the details, especially when presented in such ways. And the fact that there are so many loose ends and plot holes, too... I know this is just fantasy furry stuff, but...I worry that you've created something beyond your comprehension of its implications.

I mean, if the succubats technically don't alter the host's free will aside from a strong desire to help the hive, and they don't really affect the host at all except for altering their body, then the question I would like to pose is "Why would one even need/want to become a host to the parasite?"

If it helps, the last... *checks* nine and a half months have been exploring those implications. Exploring those implications is the point of them.

To hit on the specific questions you asked:
- They're not some kind of actual intelligence. They're flying cats and scuttling dogs. They want what wild animals want.
- Basically everything can prey on either brand of parasite. They're low-level encounters for anyone they don't sneak up on. Wild animals. Cars. A lack of compatible targets. Queens lay literal buttloads of eggs because everything preys on these things.
- You should really really see Vyruem's series about the things, starting here. He does some fantastic work about just a couple of people trying to understand what these things do to a person. Don't discount the strength of those social stigmas.

So...I read through the entirety of it, and sadly, the only thing I got from this was...well, it wasn't fantastic.

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