Sporosia

--=OOC Notes=--

Generally, the themes for this alt are sex, strange reproductive cycles, seed (whether literal or in the cum sense of the word) TF as a vore result, breeding, abduction and bondage, mind-altering drugs, species TF into one of them, and possibly other weird things I can think of!

Please, PLEASE ask for clarification if at any time you're confused by something about this alt, though. It's a 'high concept' one, where the forms of play have rules to them, and the various kinds of creatures featured all have their own little ways of doing the sexy/vorish things they do, etc.

--=General Information=--

The Sporosia (From the scientific name Sporosia Homosimulacris) are a race of plant-girls (even if the vast majority of them are actually hermaphroditic) that come in multiple castes and live in a partially mind-linked group called a commune. It isn't even known if there's a limit to the amount of castes Sporosia can produce, or if different communes might diverge enough to be considered other species. Much is not known about these monster girls.

Sporosia live in groups numbering anywhere from around 15 or so, to hundreds, of individuals. They require a fair amount of moisture, and as such there are only temperate and tropical varieties known at present, and they usually also only root in densely-forested areas. Even in the least-diverse groups, Sporosia communes have a similar life cycle...

The prey is brought in by either a Drone or Scout, then one of the breeding castes uses it for either a semen or egg source if they didn't already get apprehended by one. Semen is usually donated to the Queen Blossom so she can birth higher-caste individuals to expand the commune, while eggs are made into seeds for the 'rank and file' castes. Sometimes, a Queen Blossom decides that a particular prey individual is intriguing, and grows a Hollow Blossom so as to assimilate the prey into the commune as a high-caste Sporosia fitting their nature. This general pattern might sometimes be deviated from, but not by much.

Unless otherwise noted, though... Sporosia all produce some form of seminal fluid in their 'male' organs (though often with some kind of additional effect), and nascent seeds in their 'female' organs. While some might have unusual shapes or configurations, their genitals /usually/ seem more humanlike than plantlike, probably for convenience in keeping up their symbiosis with humanoids.

--=Castes=--

-Queen Blossom-

The greatest Sporosia, and the root of a commune. She is always present, and if she dies, the communal link will fail. It is her who decides the 'policy' of the commune, her who determines when high-caste members are born, and what to ultimately do with prey. Queen Blossoms are immobile, for the most part, living in large flowers that make them essentially a type of alraune. They command a number of vines and have a number of chemicals at their disposal to manipulate prey with personally. Hollow Blossoms, despite having their own entry, are effectively extensions of the Queen, as well. But even without a Hollow Blossom, the Queen has functioning genitals and can, if she so deigns, act like a breeder. Her female organ is used quite normally, though she has conscious control of the caste of the resulting offspring (She can also unbirth to convert prey into her spawn, as well). Her male organ, however, can only be used for either vore to convert her partner into a reservoir of seed to use, or to inject a special semen that, over time, transforms a prey into a Princess. As such, to actually mate with the queen and have her use her penis on you, is considered a great honor.

-Hollow Blossoms-

A Hollow Blossom is, effectively, a large flower without a human-like body, making it very different from the typical member of a Sporosia commune. Hollows are, by normal standards, infertile. Their genitals are instead on vine-like protrusions that can move to match the positioning of a humanoid put into the blossom. But, a Hollow, rather than reproduce conventionally, uses many appendages to infiltrate the prey and convert them into a Sporosia of a caste chosen at the time of the Hollow's creation. Their genitals have evolved into a massive 'ovipositor' that inserts a seed into the most convenient orifice of the prey, which then germinates and begins to subvert their body, while other appendages feed them and take care of their waste. Eventually, they reach the final stage of transformation, where the blossom then shuts around the victim until they're ready to emerge into their new life.

-Scouts-

A Scout is usually only maybe one to a commune (or more only if it covers a large area, or the Queen decides it's time to expand territory, OR if the commune needs to interact with humanoids socially). Scouts are an ambulatory caste, and as such can leave their blossoms, walking like humans do. They can even do so for even months on end - nobody knows if they have a practical limit to their wandering. Scouts tend to know the most about the outside world or, indeed, period, and are thus considered the best-educated of Sporosia short of the Queen herself. Some communes use Scouts to lure in prey for that reason, in addition to their exploratory and diplomatic roles. Scouts still have genitalia, but they aren't quite as functional as other castes' - the fluid their cocks emit is modified to instead be a mild hypnotic agent, to encourage easier transport of prey... while their pussies don't have any reproductive function at all, but instead use their unbirth capability to imprison prey for transport to a breeder. (Though it still feels good for the Scout to be penetrated or played with there)

-Drones-

Drones are, naturally, the pre-eminent breeding caste of the commune. Middling in capabilities and somewhat docile, they nonetheless have /raging/ libidos when given half a chance, and mostly exist to perform menial tasks or more crucially, breed with prey. Drones are ambulatory, though they can only go a few days outside of their blossoms before they start having issues. They have 'standard' genitals by Sporosia standards of such: Their male organs convert a humanoid female's eggs into seeds and then fertilizes them, usually producing more drones or warriors (in accordance to signals from the commune mind). Their female organs, though, collect sperm in reservoirs that can then either be used to donate it to the Queen, or in a dire time, fertilize a small amount of their own seeds to produce more drones. Sometimes, a Drone will instead perform vore with said genitals - the cock can naturally make the prey into very very potent seed that might be useful to quickly seed from a female's eggs in exchange for losing a somewhat-less-useful male, or they can unbirth someone to convert them into a large seed, and when this happens they will usually grow into a semi-unique member of the commune. In /very/ dire circumstances, the dying communal mind may choose a Drone to 'uplift' into a Princess, triggering a pre-programmed metamorphosis. The Drone returns to her blossom and cocoons in the petals much like a victim in a Hollow, to undergo the process.

-Warriors-

Warriors... Sporosia warriors are subtle. They are usually not 'bulky', favoring lean muscle and remaining soft, feminine, and attractive. But don't ever underestimate them - they are, while not by tons, stronger than humans, and also are fairly well-educated, as well. They have to be, to create weapons to fight with in addition to their own natural prowess, favoring spears and bows. Warriors do have some vines even outside of their blossoms (and while they don't quite have the longevity of Scouts, most Warriors can stay out of said blossoms for a good while), and any of the vines can extend a tip that injects a paralytic agent. Since Warriors are usually only brought out to defend the commune, their reproductive organs are reconfigured for war as well - they ejaculate a fluid that contains tiny seeds which, between the fluid still being laced with paralytics, immobilize a foe long enough for the seeds to take root, causing them to turn the victim into a mere food source for the Bloom; alternately the cock can consume the victim and turn them into a thick nutrient-rich seed paste to manually spread the Bloom. Their female organs are similar to a Scout's in that they only unbirth, but they can also dissolve captured prey into sweet nectar to sustain the Warrior (or feed 'civilian' Sporosia). To wit, while they have survival instincts and know when to stop fighting, most Warriors are perfect masochists, deriving deep thrills from pain, and are even programmed to feel immense ecstasy from dissolving prey.

-Princesses-

A Princess is, in all purposes, an immature Queen. She is unique in that she has no Blossom, nor needs one. However, she has a set lifespan because of that - a Princess has approximately a year and a day to find a new forest to take root in and become a Queen, or she will begin to starve and die. She can eat creatures like a normal animal to prolong that period, but because she is usually without the protection of her commune, she tends to avoid doing so. In addition, a Princess is very special, in that she is /usually/ born from a humanoid converted into one by a Queen (or, rarely, a Drone uplifted into a Princess as a last-ditch effort to restart a dead commune)... and for the most part, can pass for the former humanoid's species. She is, functionally, still a plant and Sporosia, and becomes hermaphroditic and feminine even if the template creature was not, though. If the template was not capable of stretching enough for soft vore, the Princess becomes capable of such in all the major orifices. Reproductively... Her vagina is mostly useful for storing semen for the future, though she /can/ metabolize said semen into seed packets. Said seed packets are then routed up into her cock and injected into a sexual partner, where they take root and painlessly fuse to their insides. Over about 2-3 days, the seed will transform them into a Princess-Escort, who is in all ways a Warrior save that she does not have a Blossom to return to, and is encouraged to feed orally or anally to keep up her food stores. Once the Princess has found the correct place, though, she must entice a humanoid to her - made easier by another feature, namely the Princess's ability to secrete contact hypnotic agents from her lips and mouth when she enters the nesting phase of her lifecycle - and proceeds to have prolonged sex with the creature however he or she can provide the Princess. Once the mating ritual is complete, the Princess implants a special seed into them... whether with her penis into an orifice, or in rare cases using her vaginal muscles to force it down the urethra of a cock. This special seed quickly takes root and melds the victim into the Princess, turning them into the first Blossom of a new commune, and forever linking the souls of the two.

-Alchemists-

A specialist caste, with weak ambulatory abilities. An Alchemist superficially looks like a Drone, but often has flower-tipped vines coming from various parts of them. These vines also conceal modified stamens that can, like with Warriors, inject the chemicals directly into a victim. But unlike Warriors... Alchemists are limited only by their imagination and the genetic diversity provided by their Queen when it comes to /what/ they can inject. Aphrodesiacs, paralytics, mild transformative potions, hypnotic agents, and even actual poisons are commonly seen in Alchemists' usage. As such, they're often called in to deal with either overly willful, or 'special' prey that is in need of their... touch.

-The Bloom-

Spread almost exclusively by Warriors (Except for some initially spread by the Queen), the Bloom is the secret behind the commune-mind. It is a mass of nonsentient creeper vines and flowering plants that subtly entangles a forest, leading back to the Queen when it can. A commune's territory is marked by its Bloom, and the Queen (or anyone else in the commune) is usually aware of creatures that enter its area, though only in the vaguest sense of knowing its scent, mass, and size. The Bloom also farms nutrients for the commune, in part explaining why even the ambulatory castes have to return to their blossoms eventually, so they can feed from the Bloom's reserves. Sometimes, a commune might develop a non-human-imitating carnivorous plant from the Bloom, but this is rare, and often the sign of some as-of-yet unknown caste's genetic tinkering.

-Gardener-

A rare caste seen only in some communes, the gardener superficially resembles an Alchemist, but... she has a different talent set. Rather than working with toxins and chemicals, a gardener cultivates seeds for the bloom to create nonhumanoid plants, modifies 'strands' to make more unusual caste variants... at least a few communes have, after developed Gardeners, made the breakthrough of Emissaries. As such, a Gardener is vital to the process of creating them. Reproductively, Gardeners often resemble drones, save that they can and will 'oviposit' seeds with their cocks in addition to their equivalent of sperm.

-Emissary-

Even rarer still (or /is it/?), the Emissary caste is actually a true hybrid rather than a converted humanoid. Emissaries take a symbiotic seed from the commune's Gardener into their bodies and gestate in a pitcher filled with what they dub "Ambrosia". Later, the humanoid will gain the ability to connect to the commune at will, develop hermaphroditism if they didn't already have it, gain the ability to raise an aura of pheremones that put people at ease and make them more suggestible, and then most importantly of all... can dope their seed with spores that set into a partner's body and link them to the commune. Link them in such a way that the queen can begin psychically compelling them to go to the Emissary's home-commune for whatever she has in mind with them. For the sake of plausible deniability, only the most eager-to-be-feminized (or futanarized, really) of males are converted into an Emissary, as the process /does/ feminize their body, even if they keep their male genitals and just /add/ a slit underneath.

...There may well be more castes out there, yet to be discovered...

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All unshown sliders are as Sacred_Bells.

(( The Blossoming Tone amidst the Sacred_Bells. ))