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 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:10 pm
Alright, I'm going to say it right now, I'm severely addicted to yaoi fanfiction. Two fandoms in particular are Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha(I'd lose track if I mentioned all the pairings/triads I've become attached to sweatdrop ) and in alot of the fics when dealing with a demon, there's usually a whole big bonding process that involves the mates to be either biting each other on the neck or, less often, using a knife to cut each other and share blood, both options leaving a significant scar. My question is where does this idea come from? Are there animals in nature that do something like this, some old human ritual I'm not aware of, or did some fan just make it up and it stemmed into a tradition of sorts? I ask because when I'm unable to sleep my mind wanders and thinks up weird questions like this and now this one's really piqued my interest. I've also seen the bonding ritual/mark thing happen in vampire stories, but for some reason I never thought about it until I saw it happening with demons.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:32 am
AnonGirl88 Alright, I'm going to say it right now, I'm severely addicted to yaoi fanfiction. Two fandoms in particular are Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha(I'd lose track if I mentioned all the pairings/triads I've become attached to sweatdrop ) and in alot of the fics when dealing with a demon, there's usually a whole big bonding process that involves the mates to be either biting each other on the neck or, less often, using a knife to cut each other and share blood, both options leaving a significant scar. My question is where does this idea come from? Are there animals in nature that do something like this, some old human ritual I'm not aware of, or did some fan just make it up and it stemmed into a tradition of sorts? I ask because when I'm unable to sleep my mind wanders and thinks up weird questions like this and now this one's really piqued my interest. I've also seen the bonding ritual/mark thing happen in vampire stories, but for some reason I never thought about it until I saw it happening with demons. I think that it is animals in natures, but i could be wrong.
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:57 pm
Okay ive heard this before, but the breaking of skin, biting, sucking blood, and marking can be all traced to past human rituals of ancient times. It can also be said to relate to the animal kingdom between mates and its young.
But many have adapted these things into the modern age as a bonding moment in many fan fics. But is still practised as a sexual practise as well.
Bottom line is its a way of the writer to express the demonic love between 2 characters that would normally never consider love.
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:44 pm
the way I see it, it is an old form of human rituals or something and is mostly used with demonic love that some people would think of as hate
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:03 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:48 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:42 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:25 am
I don't think anyone knows.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:35 pm
Perhaps because in antiquity blood was concidered prechous, life itself. So of cours when dealing with charaters who are not quite human, it seems logical to imagine them bonding in primal ways, and what is more primal than binding with blood.
Another angle is the horror element, many demons seem to live in a world soaked in blood so why would it stop at their enimes, or perhaps showing such vulneribilty is a way of expersing trust and intimacy to their mate?
I don't know the real reason but both of those ideas seemed plausable to me. Hope that helps. wink
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:34 pm
The fact is...
That almost every animal (non domesticated mostly but cats and dogs also do) that has a heirarchy system IS in fact based off marking their mates...
Example cats...
males mark the **it out of the females they really.... enjoy. females will too on occation...
dogs will urinate on their mates...
lions fight and the winner, (a tad bloody) is licked by the female they fought over.. tasting his essense in a way
all creatures KNOW that blood is life... and shareing their blood (even in the smallest amout) or touching another's blood is considered bonding...
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:45 pm
Besides...
We Humans do it in almost every other way...
We brand our property.... try make it ours... put our names on clothes.. items..blah blah...
Some time along our evolution from cave monkey to present day computer whores... It got stuck in our minds to make our partners... OURS to the point of making it public... to keep them fook them and in some cases kill them.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:41 pm
Blood is thicker than water is much to the different human traditions.
Blood, is a bonding thing.
Blood brothers is one.
Blood mates is another.
And also Blood Partners.
Probably why vamps have it so easy.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:13 am
Sukal Blood is thicker than water is much to the different human traditions.
Blood, is a bonding thing.
Blood brothers is one.
Blood mates is another.
And also Blood Partners.
Probably why vamps have it so easy.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:45 pm
Gurei Zuvuya The fact is...
That almost every animal (non domesticated mostly but cats and dogs also do) that has a heirarchy system IS in fact based off marking their mates...
Example cats...
males mark the **it out of the females they really.... enjoy. females will too on occation...
dogs will urinate on their mates...
lions fight and the winner, (a tad bloody) is licked by the female they fought over.. tasting his essense in a way
all creatures KNOW that blood is life... and shareing their blood (even in the smallest amout) or touching another's blood is considered bonding... She is on to some thing here...
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:03 pm
wow....some deep thinkers here! sweatdrop
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