Origin
At some point during a fascination with the praying mantis, I came across a term called Sexual Cannibalism. It's a trait of female praying mantes and other carnivorous insects, who eat their mates prior to, during, or after copulation. There are a few theories as to why this behaviour evolved -- the theory of adaptive foraging, for example, suggests that the mate may be more valueable as a meal than a partner (lol).I had also been watching Scavengers Reign at the time, and completely in awe of some of the wildly obscure and chained biological processes that the animation team had designed.
These themes eventually fused together in my head to create the concept of the Alien Seductress -- an alien that is sent to earth to assist her species in their modest goal of biological survival. In this universe, an alien species discovered codes in the human DNA that could be used to optimize their reproduction cycle.
They observed humans and the absolute power of female seduction on men, and devised a strategy to retrieve the human specimen: sending disguised females down to earth to seduce, capture, and feed males into their biological baby making machines...
Aiji is a director, photographer, and body artist, from Nizhny Novgorod and with roots in Kyrgystan. We met in 2024 in Tbilisi, and I fell in love with her soft charm and whimsical vision of beauty and femininity. We were so in line creatively, but sadly did not have enough time to create together before her move to Belgrade.
In 2025, our paths aligned again in Tbilisi and I told her the story of The Seductress.
