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Harlot Spotlight - Suka no-Hirudo
🕑 Added 2024-06-13 12:38:57 +0000 UTCAnother week, another Harlot Spotlight. I think people have been waiting for this one for a while, so I hope the art delivers. So, without further ado, let's talk about Suka no-Hirudo.
Suka no-Hirudo is one of the earliest harlots. I think she might be the second or third scenario I wrote. Which only goes to show that initial idea of no more than 1-1.5K words per harlot went out of the window very quickly!
Her scenario is fairly straightforward. She doesn't really do any hidden stat checks or anything like that. She has one bad choice that's instant Game Over, but aside from that the player is only at risk if he stays long enough for Suka to try and suck out more semen than he actually has. That makes her perfect for an early round harlot.
She's also quite a popular harlot. I think only Boobella beat her in a big popularity poll I did a while back. I think it's a mix of her being quite vulnerable despite playing a dominatrix, her mechanics being about the player dooming themselves, and being able to give a good hard suck!
Back when I wrote Suka I think the initial plan was for seven factions, each loosely based around a sin. That changed when the smother faction started to emerge as a nicely defined fetish faction. I later dropped the planned number of factions from 7 to 5 when I realised how much larger the project was. I did have plans for a leech faction, but that was beaten to the spot by the artificial beings faction, which left Suka without a home.
She's currently one of the 'filler' independents. There are two types of independent harlots. The true independents are the harlots like Morticia and Succuba, which fulfil a gameplay purpose in the House. The second type are harlots I wrote before I'd bedded the faction system into place and don't fit any of the five factions. They are all assigned to a faction, but only mechanically. Unlike the true faction harlots, they don't contribute to the hidden score which determines the ending. The way the selection algorithm works, once a player has shown a preference to a particular faction, they will always get a pick from that faction as one of their three choices. However, as the filler harlots are mechanically assigned to a faction, they might show up in that slot instead. It's to add a little more randomness to the runs so the player doesn't find themselves going through the same sequence of harlots every time.
As for the leeches, there is a good chance they will be added as a full faction later on. They were only narrowly beaten to the spot by the artificial beings. I have a lot of ideas for various leech girls, probably enough to fill a faction. I even had Marwmellow design a faction symbol (it's on Suka's neck) to make it easier to move her into that new faction when I write more of her sisters.
And now for the in-universe lore stuff.
The leech girls are slightly more primitive succubi/lust daemons. They are very good at sucking the semen and other fluids out of men, but lack the subtly, finesse and charm magic of 'true' succubi. That doesn't mean they're weak. Some leech girls, especially the Queen, are very powerful.
There is an animosity between them and another group of primitive lust daemons – the vampires. The vamps are a strange offshoot of lust daemon, likely corrupted from originating from one of the border regions of hell. They have more finesse and similar mesmeric abilities to 'true' succubi, but access the soul and energy of their prey through the blood rather than semen.
The leeches and vamps hate each other. The 'true' succubi think both are primitive and inferior, and therefore beneath them.
(From this you can see that I really want to add both factions at some point!)
Despite the leech girls having some leech-like elements, they drink semen, not blood, and will likely fly into a rage if you bring them blood as a gift.
Suka has an interesting personality. From looking into human desires, she's decided playing a more dominant role naturally suits her. However she has some of the self-control issues common to her type of lust daemon and is very self-conscious about them. This leads to her revealing moments of vulnerability when she fails to control her feeding instincts.
As she's one of the more popular harlots, I thought I'd have her pin-up be a little more risqué and show off more than the others. Although what she's showing off is a reminder she's most definitely not human!
Art is again by Marwmellow. I think he did a good job of depicting her, and I hope you think the same.
Let me know your thoughts below.
Comments
Many-Eyed Hydra
Yep. That's the typical blueprint for the Tier 1 harlots. The player has to have a very low value in the stat the harlot cares about or directly choose their Bad End. Ironically, I did tweak Suka's scenario to interact with the charms, but to make sure they wouldn't save the player rather than make some options safe. There are a couple of charms that affect semen count, so I needed to add additional sections to account for the player still having energy left where a base max-semen character wouldn't. The in-universe explanation is that Suka has fully lost control if the player lets her go that far and it doesn't really matter how much semen they have left, Suka is going to suck it all out.
avar
Remember getting Suka in the early versions and thinking she was one of the kind harlots. Guess not going the black rose option gives a little bit of a different feel for her overall but she never feels dangerous unless you're an idiot. On side note I tried going with anal more than a few times after you added charms, thinking that must be how you avoid a fatal end with all her choices. Do you remember if there ever was a thought to let a charm make anal somewhat safe or was she always intended to be fatal based on the player's choices in her room?
Smith lfarrel
Definitely been waiting on this one! Marwmellow knocked it out of the park again! She looks incredible! I'm thrilled to hear you have more plans for a whole leech faction! There's something about the leech girls that feels so dirty and wrong, but that in turn makes them even more erotic to me. Just like some of your spider girls from H-space. Everyone loves a good hard suck! :)
