ExTheHex Volume #2: 7000 Words of Noble Heroes Vored by a Dark Mage Queen

With the year ending, I've now written 50 stories over the course of 2023. I'm very happy with this, and will mostly be taking a break until the new year. As compensation, I'll be posting 2-3 ExTheHex volumes here as a thanks for supporting me. 

Last time, I posted several small wips that never went the whole way. This time, things will be a tad different! I have a haymaker of a fic to share, left petrified and incomplete from over 5 years ago, even with 7000 words of progress.

Today we’re traveling back in time to August 2018. I had been writing for just over two years. I’m unemployed. Tumblr still allows porn. My avatar is a stolen piece of Hex Maniac fan art. I don’t have a Patreon yet. I hadn’t even written about stepfordized boys yet.

This summer, I caught word of “Vore Day” (August 8, 8/8, or ate ate) for the first time. One thing I really enjoyed doing, and still like doing though I can’t act on as frequently, is to tackle fetishes I have maybe a tertiary interest in to see if I can encapsulate what makes them appealing. Vore isn’t something I’m typically that interested in, and when I am interested in it, it’s usually for its use as a vehicle for gross stuff. With vore day around the corner, I figured I’d give it a whirl and wrote perhaps too big a story for what I wanted.

Most of the time, I don’t make a story focusing on one OC or whatever. I let whatever happens happen, and if maybe a character I’ve made before fits nicely, I’ll make the appropriate adjustments to fit them in there. This was a little different. I tried to design a character and wrote from there, the focus of this particular story being a witch a hero could never hope to defeat. 

I even drew her in paint without a tablet back in 2018!  

Keen eyes might recognize I recycled her design for a little Twitter image just a few weeks ago:

(nothing like this happens in the story. She actually has a vagina there. I just thought it was fun to redraw her after 5 years.)

The story tackled a lot, with a party meeting their end at her hand. The main features were to include:

• Character A is TFed into food and eaten
• Character B is eaten by with as if she were a frog
• Character C is mind controlled into getting eaten.
• Several endings! I was learning more about twine at this time, so I wanted to fiddle with it more. I think I planned four. Only two ever got written (one relatively vanilla for vore, one gross (disposal).

Ultimately there were a few major factors that stole away any momentum and lead to this story dying:

• Mostly, In August 2018, I was really poor. I needed whatever money I could scrounge up. Spending time on personal stories, especially long ones like this one, was a hard luxury to afford. Ultimately when I had free time after the first draft at mostly near completion, I went back to things like commissions instead so I could stay afloat.
• This is going to sound so stupid, but it’s a legitimate factor in why this never got made. Do you know what happened on August 8th 2018? That one Smash Bros direct happened, and King K. Rool got revealed for Smash Ultimate. I was one of those guys who used to post like Donkey Kong Country TV series song clips to campaign for King K. Rool votes. There was too much child-like joy in the system to write about a hot witch eating people for a bit.

Over the course of 2018 and 2019, I poked at this a few times to finally see if I could get it out the door. Through both of those years, money was tight, so the previous financial burdens never went away. Whenever I peeped back on the piece, it felt like looking at a dirty room with way too much to clean up. It kept falling through the cracks, until I mostly forgot about it, and left it to rot.

Sometimes a whole lot of work goes into a piece before, for whatever reason, it just isn’t meant to be. I used to be a little more frustrated with not producing something, but now I recognize that time spent making something is still time spent learning and training. What isn’t finished at least builds on skill, and provides a useful pillaging ground to make something else. I don’t think “Joyce Chemical” would probably exist as it does without this character-first approach to smut. Likewise, this was one of my first attempts at a longer story, and absolutely helped to build up stamina for a lot of the really long ones I'd write over the course of 2019 as Patron rewards.

Obviously I would have liked it if this finally got to the finish line, but the opportunity cost of combing through this much writing after so much time probably means a few other things never see the light of day. Maybe someday I’ll give a huge vore story another shot, maybe even finally get this piece to go all the way. At least as it stands for now, I know it’s been at minimum a helpful component of the silt for other stories over the past 5 years since its first draft sat 80% done. Here it is, with only minor touch ups, left preserved to enjoy. 

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The main PDF of this story is the incomplete first draft with the not-gross ending. The other ending has been tucked into a separate pdf for those who don’t like the nasty stuff. Enjoy!