I might be overdoing it a little with how good looking this guy is supposed to be (and granted, that profile view isn’t really doing him any favors, but roll with me on this.) But as the Mythbusters say, if something is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.

That said, making a succubus arch her back at you does not carry the highest difficulty factor in the known universe. They were explicitly made to be sex slaves, once upon an age ago. Those instincts are still in there, especially for the younger ones. (Not inappropriately young ones. I mean the sexually mature, newly collared ones.) Dabbler is 187, which is well past the journeyman succubus stuff, but she’s still a little on the young side.

Fun fact, “average” or “mean” is the sum of all numbers in a set divided by the number of numbers, “median” is the middle value in a data set that’s been sorted small to large, “mode” is the most commonly occurring value in a data set. They all have their uses and flaws. A “trimmed mean” is often the most representational function, because it excises the top and bottom 10% of the data set before you calculate the average. This is useful because let’s say you want to figure out the average salary at Twitter. Well, let’s say most software engineers there earn 90K, most general office staff earns 60K, most building staff like janitors earn 30K. But there’s this one asshole who earns $4 billion dollars a week, and if you have 100 staff total, that one cyberdouche is going to wildly throw off your average calculation, thus “trimmed mean” becomes useful.

I bring all this up because while succubi can be very long lived, their age distribution is a little odd. Vampires have a pretty predictable population falloff with age. Tons of young ones that don’t make it ten years (or even a year) because after getting turned, the think they’re immortal and the toughest thing on the streets, then after all the impetuous punks get dusted, the decline becomes a little smoother. Figure about a 50% drop-off in population in the first decade, then the ones that make it past that first filter tend to be better survivors, so maybe 60-70% make it to their first century, and their survival rate tends to drop by about 10% per century after that. i.e. about 50% of the remaining population makes it to 200, 40% make it to 300, 33% make it to 400, 25% make it to 500, etc.

95% of succubi make it to 100. They spend a fair amount of that time being “sheltered” for lack of a better term, by their “master,” who, in this day and age of a vigilant and vengeful council of Succubus Matriarchs, ensure that fledgling succubi are all but coddled. After their first century, a lot of them will have set out on their own, often outliving their masters. There’s a lot of different paths for succubi, so survival rates vary, but major drop-offs in population don’t really start occurring till about 300. They’re not innately ageless, but if their tantric magics are well-developed and they have a steady diet, they can become functionally ageless. But the older they get, the more likely they are to get embroiled in ancient magics, high-level politics and other hobbies that can become dangerous. The “trimmed mean” of succubus ages is somewhere in the early 400’s. The “mean” age is right about Dabbler’s age. The “mode” is like… well, that’s probably not a useful number because any population will always skew extremely young unless there are weird gaps in birthrates. Which does happen to succubi since they tend not to have children till they’re out and about and independently established. But the number would still be something like… 12?

I’m going to try something with this new vote incentive.

This month, I’m closing on a new house, selling my Mom’s house, finishing packing Mom’s house, moving city to city to the new house, forwarding mail, canceling utilities, all that. And after that’s done, I get to start the process of selling my old house, which needs a little work before it can realistically go on the market.

SO. I’m going to try and do this vote incentive in stages. Currently it’s just pencils. The TopWebcomics one will update with colors and detail until we get to the no clothes versions, then that will continue over at Patreon. Also there will be a comic or two in between each version to fill out the story.

I know it’s hard to tell from just the pencils, but this is Heatwave and Jiggawatt. The comics will explain why they’re doing what they’re doing. Although I feel like even saying that much makes it easy to guess, but hopefully the journey will still amuse.

Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.