OOC @jonathan123: Okay, sorry! I misinterpreted your ‘can’t do this’’ as being ‘can’t play in this game’. That said the request to play a man raises problems on lots of levels. Let’s see if we can solve them! Spoilered for length, but anyone can read.<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">I’m… going to make a couple of requests of you at this point, and one statement/decision. <br/><br/>1) Can you do the  ‘vore, sex and fetishes preferences’ thing I’ve asked everyone else to do, even though you don’t have a character yet. <br/><br/>2) Can you - if you haven’t - read the Ishtara background (particularly the ‘Overview’, ‘Sexuality’ and ‘Genetics’ entries. I’m afraid its not just that men aren’t mentioned, they explicitly don’t exist. And even Girls aren’t really human…<br/><br/>3) You can’t play a male Girl, since Girl is basically a species, which anyway isn’t human. If you’re not a Girl you’re, well, not a Girl. Which makes you a monster. Which is okay! Everyone else is playing monsters (even though I’ve used the term ‘beastwomen’. Presumably they don’t see themselves as monstrous). The good news is that, if you are a monster, we’ve got more flexibility to play with the biology and traits and so forth without damaging the suspension of disbelief. Hence (oh, it turns out this one is a request, too), can you tell me what masculine aspects or human aspects it’s important for you to have in your character, and also what feminine aspects its important for you not to have featured - then maybe I can do a first-draft of a monstrous race that’ll work for you and fit in the setting, then we can work it forward from there.<br/><br/>PS: Just to note this, I don’t take this request as evidence that you’re an ‘awkward player’. Gender’s a very important part of identity, and its important that your character is someone to pretend to be. I want be male is a very distinct request from, say, ‘I want to play a vampire’, and under any other circumstances it would be entirely normal, hence I’ve got a lot of time and patience for trying to resolve it for you. On the other hand you’re asking for a male character in an RP set in a Universe that specifically doesn’t include them… I’m basically just assuming that what you’re actually interested in is a soft-vore fantasy-style group RP with restricted rules that you can join from the beginning. Or maybe its the set of people that are attractive to RP with… that’d be flattering. Anyway, my first assumption is that you’re making a basically normal request in what happens to be an odd context, and there was no intention to be difficult on your part.<br/><br/>PPS: Sorry, it’s the internet. Sometimes you can’t help but wonder the ‘worst’. That… well… that you want to play a man to be a memetic sex-god, whom every girl and beastwoman is falling all over themselves to bed because he’s got the only cock in the universe, and who’re totally willing to fawn all over him despite the risk he might gulp them down at any time and who, generally, are entirely delighted when he ‘eliminates the competition’ by actually doing so. Um, so, yeah. That’s fine, but it’s not really suitable for a group RP. If it is what you have in mind, then we should do it privately, just the two of us!</div></div></div><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Aliane</span><br/>Girls, I knew, went missing all the time, and all we ever found of them were the piles of steaming fertiliser the monsters left behind.<br/><br/>Now I’d ‘gone missing’. I hadn’t even done anything<span style="font-style: italic">wrong</span>, the guards with us had… but they’d long since gone, passed screaming through throats and into burbling stomachs that’d silenced their begging, and shrunk down until… I supposed I’d been lucky that I’d been one of the Girls they’d brought back to their camp.<br/><br/>I wriggled surreptitiously against the vines that bound me, and tried not to be reminded of my little midnight fantasy of a warm, wet place to rest my head that clutched me in an embrace as tight as these ropes, and slowly melted me down whilst I squirmed in futile escape…<br/><br/>If I could worm my way out of these vines - and I was sure, in no more than another hour or two, I could, for they were<span style="font-style: italic">already</span>growing loose - then it’d be dark, and I could slip away into the midnight jungle whilst the monsters were comfortably… digesting the remains of my friends. I made a low, soft whimper in the back of my throat, reminded myself I didn’t<span style="font-style: italic">really</span>envy them, and struggled on.<br/><br/>Normally, I’d consider going into the jungle alone in the night suicide, a swift way down a monster’s throat, and I’d fingered myself to orgasm considering that fate, alone in the dark silence of my house, fantasising I could just walk downstairs, out of the village and…<br/><br/>The rope between my thighs was damp, very damp, and that was a good thing because it was<span style="font-style: italic">only helping me wriggle out of it</span>I reminded myself.<br/><br/>I don’t know how I didn’t hear the clatter of the Kari’s skittering approach. Distracted, I supposed. She had - I noticed as she lifted me bodily - great breasts, and a really nice smile, though I didn’t get to see it any closer, as it was the lower maw within her torso that she pushed me into without a second thought. I felt the firm brush of teeth, as I passed through, and sure enough, I could glimpse the stars through their prison bars, as her lower-lips smiled in pleasure at the meal they’d received.<br/><br/>I’d… heard… that a Kari’s torsomouth was their…<span style="font-style: italic">flower</span>- and I believed it. The one time I’d pushed my fist deep within my own petals, imagining a situation very much like this one, I’d felt… my fingertips had felt… acid. The hot, burning acid of my stomach. I’d smeared it on my stomach, breasts, face, and wondered if that would be what it would feel like to be…<br/><br/>…it wasn’t. The Kari’s stomach was far, far wetter and frankly filthy. I was sharing it with fruitpips and nuts, little scraps of cloth and shards of bone, even rocks and bits of<span style="font-style: italic">whatever</span>her meal had happened to be clinging futilely too when she’d…<br/><br/>Oh well, I thought. It wasn’t really my problem, I considered, as I lay back and let the<span style="font-style: italic">liquid</span>level rise around me, the Kari’s stomach enjoying my presence… it’s meal. In fact, soon my bones would be part of the problem, I thought. Gradually - as I began to tease and finger my flower - I realised I’d worked my hand free of my bindings. I really ought to try to escape, I considered, but, after squirming around a bit, all I’d achieved was to slosh acids all over my body - and several orgasms. I could feel them becoming more important to me, the only solid thing I had left to hang on to… because I really was melting away, being digested and absorbed to fuel the pretty Kari body and soul.<br/><br/>I hoped, as consciousness faded (as my immortal soul became more aware of itself and its past lives) that when I was reincarnated I’d have a<span style="font-style: italic">slightly</span>longer life next time - and that it would end<span style="font-style: italic">just</span>as pleasurably...