Kinktober 2022 #2 - Petplay/Midnight

Content Warnings: BDSM Fantasy, non-consensual, dubiously consensual, pet slavery, pet play, bondage slavery, kidnapping

The concept of “pet slaves” has never taken off in the Amazon Isles as a whole. The majority of Amazon society regards the practice of transforming their captives into “human animals” as an eccentric method of handling ones slaves. Slaves should be useful, after all. Even the most sheltered of concubines are expected to keep their Mistress’s private bedchambers clean and comfortable.

With the exception of cart and carriage-pulling human ponies, which are reasonably popular on a number of islands, pet slaves are largely incapable of being useful for anything other than providing pleasure with their mouths or simple entertainment. Such things may be enough for some Amazon citizens and matrons, but not for the majority. Even the aforementioned ponyslave carts and carriages are far less common than the traditional palanquin, or even the use of carts pulled by regular slaves.

Nevertheless, one of the most notable aspects of Amazon society is the way different trends and styles take hold on different islands, and there are many Amazon islands. On one island it might be common to show off one’s pleasure slaves as accessories, bedecked in the finest of jewels and materials to demonstrate the wealth of their Mistress. Another island might view such behavior as gaudy, and prefer to keep their slaves hidden away. Gladiatorial arenas are present on nearly every island, but whether its greatest stars will be free Amazon women and men or slaves will vary from place to place.

The use of pet slaves, as well as the general practice of petplay, are no exception to this feature of the Isles. On Ephine ponies make up a large percentage of the slave population, and its frequent pony races are a popular form of entertainment. A household on the sparsely populated island of Kerbia is considered incomplete without at least one trained puppy slave.

It is the island of Bastas, however, where pet slaves and petplay are most popular. Cat slaves are the most common there, but Bastasi pony trainers frequently place in Ephine races and even some Kerbian households are known to send their puppies to Bastasi obedience schools. An annual festival is held on Bastas where Amazons from all over the isles come to display their pets, with a variety of competitions serving to demonstrate both their quality and the skill of their trainers.

Even on islands where dedicated pet slaves are uncommon, the general use of petplay for both consensual fun and as a punishment happen with some frequency. In the latter cases a disobedient or underperforming slave might be sentenced to several hours or days as some kind of animal. In rare cases such punishments have been visited upon freestanding Amazon citizens.

On a small number of other islands however, the practice is not only unpopular but actively frowned upon. In the notable case of Pegasi Isle, it has even been outlawed. In the past Pegasi citizens were known to launch inter-island slave raids on Bastas, Ephine, and Kerbia to rescue pet slaves, albeit with the intention of keeping those slaves for themselves. Today, when pet slaves disappear from those islands, the citizens are quick to accuse Pegasi of being responsible.

But despite criticism from Pegasi and other isles of pet slavery as overly cruel, it has long since fallen out of style to expect pet slaves to behave as animals permanently. While some holdouts remain, the vast majority of pet owners provide a set period of time for their “human animals” to simply be human, albeit in a time and place out of the sight of free citizens. It is believed this trend began when one kind Bastasi Matron allowed her kittens to speak freely amongst themselves after midnight, though this is likely apocryphal.

In any case, while enslaved human pets and general pet play are not cornerstones of Amazon culture, it seems clear that they are here to stay.