Skree's Age

I'm working on Overwhored today and decided to give some thought to the subject of Skree's age.

Bats, as you may or may not be aware, are not long lived creatures. The longest lived ones live to about 40 years of age in captivity, and vampire bats (which is a plausible species for Skree) are much shorter lived, going from only 9 (wild) to 20 years (in captivity) of age. They reach sexual maturity in about nine months (which means their equivalent to 18 is probably something like a year old.)

Skree obviously isn't a normal bat, though. She can change into human form. You might be aware that 40 is merely the age of MILFy goodness in human women. Your average human lives twice as long as the longest lived bat, and about four times as long as your longest lived vampire bat. To a bat we'd be like strange immortal monsters, or elves.  (Same difference.)

Skree is currently eighteen solar years old. In vampire bat terms she was positively ancient when she first found the Orb of Dominion three years prior. She was frankly a perverse old lady before she found the orb, the bat equivalent of 80.

However the orb syncs her more closely with human form than bat form, and also reinvigorates her. Turns out the endless power of orgasm really is good for your health, at least in "magical radiation from evil artifacts" form.

Due to her exposure to the powers of the Orb, she'll live to at least 300+ years old. Four times as long as a human. Roughly 32 times longer than an average vampire bat. And potentially longer if she gets regularly injected with the Overmind's energy, or hangs out around the orb more.

Daughters of the Overmind can live for Millennia, Granddaughters can live for hundreds of years. This is balanced out by the fact that he can never have sons and that grandsons are EXCEPTIONALLY rare, regardless of who the monstergirls breed with.  Those that are born trade their incredibly long lifespans for a short life with godlike magical power. They also tend to look, think, and act more like extremely passionate (and curiously noble and good) humans than anything else. Indeed, some of the heroes who defeated the Overmind in the past were his own descendents, and they're arguably the most stalwart defenders of humanity from evil monsters and evil monstergirls when he isn't around.

But this isn't about them, it's about Skree. In bat terms, she's a positively ancient, brilliant, perverse old lady that looks like a young teenager, has magical powers, and can change shape into the form of strange titanic monsters and even speak their language. She doesn't need to eat or drink, but when she does she prefers the blood and sexual energy of young male bats and magical energy.

Being a Batwere she's what vampire bats would consider a combination of vampire and werewolf. She's not "harmless" to a human with all the power she has but she's never been particularly out to get humans either. If not for the Overmind it's likely she would have completely avoided human society so she could continue to absorb the orbs energy and prey upon what she would consider handsome male bats.

I would say that she doesn't like or dislike humans. She considers them somewhat insane and bizarre in the way a human might consider otherworldly, sometimes malicious fey to be insane and bizarre. They do strange things for reasons that don't make much sense to her - although the older she gets and the more time she spends around them the more she'll understand them. Because she's effectively part human now she can see in both worlds and lives fully in neither. It has only been three years since she started to awaken as a human, so she's very new to it.

The Overmind considers her his and she loves soaking in the energy he radiates so she won't go making harems of handsome, young male humans anytime soon. But without him around she might include a few humans in her isolated wilderness harem, albeit only willing and carefully controlled ones. She rightfully considers humans dangerous and strange and knows enough to know how little she understands them. She's perfectly alright with grinding hips with humans, though. She's got a healthy young human girls sexual appetites and a perverse old woman's mindset. Handsome young men beware - she'd use you well past any human level of endurance and keep on going.

 In a lot of respects she understands the mind of the Overmind more than a human or even a descendent monstergirl could, and not just because she cannot have her mind altered by his energy. He's not a human, and he does things for his own reasons. As much as he resembles a human, he's far more primordial and bestial than they are. But neither is he a beast, because he has a mind - a dichotomy that Skree understands only too well. Humans often make the mistake of thinking of him as a mindless monster or an evil human, and he is neither. He is The Overmind, and he is his own class of being. Skree thinks of his mind as an alien mind rather than trying to think of him as a type of bat personality she's familiar with, and in many respects that makes her understand him better than any other character.