It's not like we don't see female exorcists like Lilia and Rabiane get killed and/or eaten. Surely being a female means there's a chance the monsters would keep you alive as a milk/egg producer plus incubator, they still kill you if you try to resist. The plants and fungi surely don't care if you're female or male as long as you provide them with nutrients they need. If you consider being alive is the most priority, there's nothing stopping you from joining the evil cult as a male prist - you might even get lucky with a captured sister.Man, imagine how screwed you are to be a paladin or a male priest in this setting. Like, you get this hand:
A) You've gotta fight a bunch of mindbending horrors, some of which will blow your head off if you look at them when they're glowing. Some of them have fucking lasers for eyes. There's ghouls that'll rip you apart, the demihumans will just execute you if they get you, and the cult has no need for you so they'll probably just toss you to the Otherworlder for fun.
B) If you're a paladin you probably have a sword or something rather than Lilia and her magic wand that gives her a bow, so you've got to fight all that crap in melee. The weird pig monster in the cathedral? The munch thing under the valley? They will 110% fuck you up if you make even one mistake. You can't even fight the dangling thing in the cathedral library - if you saw it you're just dead, and there's nothing you can do about it.
C) As if that was not enough already, you're surrounded by babes like Lilia and Rabiane, but they're nuns so they won't touch you. You could be flexing all day in front of them and actually be surviving this hell hole, and still get cucked by a parasite leech in the northeast village. Even the villagers won't hook up - they hate the priests, and even if you do you could end up getting killed by your own kid if it turns out to be some sort of weird horror. There's literally no upsides for you, unless you're the Doom Slayer and just want to crush skulls and call that reward enough.
Poor bastards got the worst hand this side of being born in 40k or something![]()
While I don't see how being a male prevents you from using magic powers like Lilia, it not like meele attacks aren't affective against those monsters. After all, Rabiane did fought with a sword, a bow & arrows. While not as powerful as Lilia's magic, they also don't rely on having MP to use.
If we're talking about game designs, it can be easily fitted for a male protagonist with some tweaks. Like having the monsters crave for human sperm so they can mix in human DNA to bring the alien god to the real world. While being a male means you can't produce your own egg, it doesn't mean you can't carry them in your warm belly and eventually give birth to them.