People have to get over shit that makes them uncomfortable. For convoluted reasons, there was a period of time that I was extremely uncomfortable with anything involving something eating something else, especially whole. During this same period of time, I was big into League of Legends and they had just released a character called Tahm Kench - a big catfish monster who swallowed things whole. I couldn't play the game at all during the first week he was out (new characters get played constantly when they're novel), but eventually said fuck it and bought him myself to play. I discovered very quickly his ability to pull enemies off fragile teammates ('peeling') jived very well with my playstyle and I adopted him as main role. It also helped enormously with not being made uncomfortable by that shit.
For reference:
https://youtu.be/VYlOFKLmiHA?t=9