Talk:Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide I: Fallen Maidens/@comment-45424649-20200614165201/@comment-10429980-20200615120711

I think you've misunderstood dragons if you think they feel the marriage is incomplete if the man is weaker than them. It's not about such a situation being seen as worse as it is about it being different. A dragon will be just as in love and just as happy with a weaker man, it just means that she'll be more dominant in the relationship (basically for the vanilla dragon whoever is stronger is dominant, it's just sort of how they roll).

As for preferences, I think MGE volume 2 explains/clarifies well how things work if there is any dissatisfaction and builds off what the previous world guides explained. You won't find the info here since it's an official release by Seven Seas. In short monsters aren't going to just live with discontent, they will do something about it and fix it one way or another. To quote the book in more detail:

'The criteria by which monsters select men differ from those used by humans. Monsters do not account for comeliness or age, and rarely consider the magnitude of a man's member or the abundance of his seed, for these are attributes they can grant in due time. Monsters approve of the lust and affection men feel for them; human males who exhibit such interest are most often favored when a monster doesn't already have a partner. Though certain races instinctively perceive the men they have defeated as their husbands, many monsters cast off such instincts in favor of deep affection or true love-bonds, for instance, that develop from a friendship formed at an early age. A monster who develops such a bond often comes to eventually view the man involved as her husband. '

'In general, monsters are full of instinctive love; their behavior follows coherent patterns closely linked to love, lust, reproduction and appetite (for men's essence). They rarely fall in love with their ideal man, and instead glorify the appearance, personality, endowments and essential flavor of the man they love-or develop them to fulfill their ideals.'

Basically the rule of MGE is that love conquers all/matters most, even more than preferences or ideals a monster may have. On another note, the "develop them to fulfill their ideals" line likely refers to examples such as salamanders training a love interest until they can give her the kind of fight she wants.