Why do people keep acting like we're somehow the parent of this monster, there are plenty of insects that lay their eggs in other animals/humans, those eggs hatching and going out into the world doesn't turn the insect's victims into the parent of whatever was in the eggs, such a thing would be a bastardization of maternity.
Personally, this is the turn of events I hate the most, where the character stops being the character (this isn't development, everything the character stands for is being thrown away at this point and she's giving up on her life so far) and simply submits, submission, losing what you are to someone/something else is a fate worse than death. Losing your mind is the mental equivalent of breaking your back, your mind becomes useless, your body nothing but an empty shell acting on instinct. Rather than having a mind trapped in a useless body, you have a body encasing a useless mind.
The ego is what makes us who we are, losing that essentially kills who you are and turns you into a puppet to be pushed around, if you don't value yourself, you don't value the thousands of lives ended on the behalf of your survival (all the plants/animals you've eaten, all the creatures you've stepped on/or and denied existence simply by being alive. The only way anything can be selfless is by being dead, wanting to be both alive and selfless is like having your cake and eating it. The simple truth is that by being alive you are essentially valuing your life over all the lives that were ended because of it. (this paragraph is mostly about RL and doesn't relate to the story much, though the concept of value of life still applies)
This rant does bring up a question though, where are all the animals in the world? Do the tentacles kill them as they have killed the males, for being useless to them and a threat at worst (many animals could certainly be a risk to the females, if not them).
Anyway, I would like to know why people are voting to turn Elle into a second Zoey (maternal slave). Why can't we just let Elle be Elle, and enjoy Zoey for what she is.
Either way our character has been through some seriously mind altering situations recently and some time to process it all in my opinion can be nothing but good for our heroine.
And exactly how do you figure being fucked by a mind-altering tentacle (not to mention addiction to its cum) is a good way to process the situation? Time? The very reason we started fighting in the first place is because the damn things wouldn't leave us alone, do you really figure we'd get the time to think things through while caring for a monster as well?
The options are the same they have been since before C was introduced, we give up or we fight, C is just another flavor of giving up as it's only a matter of time before we'd be captured, or our own spawn essentially turns against us. Remember the ending to chapter 1 anyone? Where we chose to sacrifice someone to escape only to build a new prison for ourselves? Remember how hollow that ending was, that's what you're now voting for, instead of going to an existing lair you're building one around you, and your fate will be the same.