I can understand using a blood exchange thingie for magical reasons on the joining of a human youkai couple. That makes good magical sense, counting on how you set up the parameters of your story universe...but the mating mark thingie supposedly is a migration from the Buffy the Vampire fandom that caught on like wildfire. It's not the blood exchange I bitch about...It's the biting. Many youkai in the Japanese mythic world aren't even animal types. Why would biting be the definitive sign of joining?
I won't even use the term mating. In all the Japanese folklore I have read, supernatural beings in their relationships with each other or with humans tend to seem to use the same terminology for pairing off that the human Japanese do. Calling Youkai pairs mates instead of husbands and wives is really itself a fanon convention, an early one, but still.
Lots of really bad Kikyou bashing out there. She's not much of an issue in any of my stories, since they all take place after her death, but I really dislike character abuse.
And you know I'm part of the Miroku Anti-Defamation League. He's never seen as a stupid comic relief device in my stories. A tease and a joker, yes, but wise and clever and loyal to his friends and who will put himself on the line for those who he cares for, and he loves Sango with a deep love.
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I agree with all of these!
I can understand using a blood exchange thingie for magical reasons on the joining of a human youkai couple. That makes good magical sense, counting on how you set up the parameters of your story universe...but the mating mark thingie supposedly is a migration from the Buffy the Vampire fandom that caught on like wildfire. It's not the blood exchange I bitch about...It's the biting. Many youkai in the Japanese mythic world aren't even animal types. Why would biting be the definitive sign of joining?
I won't even use the term mating. In all the Japanese folklore I have read, supernatural beings in their relationships with each other or with humans tend to seem to use the same terminology for pairing off that the human Japanese do. Calling Youkai pairs mates instead of husbands and wives is really itself a fanon convention, an early one, but still.
Lots of really bad Kikyou bashing out there. She's not much of an issue in any of my stories, since they all take place after her death, but I really dislike character abuse.
And you know I'm part of the Miroku Anti-Defamation League. He's never seen as a stupid comic relief device in my stories. A tease and a joker, yes, but wise and clever and loyal to his friends and who will put himself on the line for those who he cares for, and he loves Sango with a deep love.
Ah well.