Character numbers don't make a difference to me - making them is fairly trivial and I'm fine with death when it suits. Really, it's just the fact with death involved that the tone takes a decidedly darker direction, and in the case of vore, I just don't get any of the actual kink out of the business. But, all in all, yes, non-digestive certainly makes for a reusable victim, and that's nothing if not conservative >.>