The rules for claiming

[icemink]

I know this isn't cannon (as in from the show) but what would people say are the rules for claiming? I'm dealing with it in one of my stories, and feel caught up in the mechanics. Mostly I'm trying to figure out what in a bite makes it a claiming.

So what are your opinions? I know there isn't a hard and fast rule, and I can make it work however I please in my story, I just haven't figured out what will work best in my story yet.

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[icemink.livejournal.com]

So here's my dilemma. I need a claiming that is interrupted before it takes effect. Spike bits Buffy, and starts the claim, but there need to be some missing ingredient that makes it not happen.

If it makes you feel better, the way I have the scene written so far, they couldn't roar mine during orgasm (It would have to happen after) but I kind of liked the idea of a verbal component. Mostly because there's going to be a much latter scene with Buffy and Wesley where Buffy asks him to explain what a claiming is. I had thought up this whole long speech on work magic that Wesley could give. But I'm not committed to that idea.

So basically, what I need to figure out, is what makes a bite a claiming bite, and not just a regular, 'Ummmm nasty snack' bite. (Other than the sex of course).

[ex-bloodshed662.livejournal.com]

Why yes, I do see your dilemma.

I try to change my "claims" in each fic, the rules, etc. In one of my fics, Catching the Night, I had Spike claim Buffy but it wasn't a complete one because she didnt return it until halfway through the fic.

So basically, what I need to figure out, is what makes a bite a claiming bite, and not just a regular, 'Ummmm nasty snack' bite. (Other than the sex of course).

from what I can gather, it's intent. Mostly Spike's demon trying to take possession, and sometimes it can just be words of love or something. Fics I've read lately that play with that theme are bittenandstaked Love in Vein,(buffy claims Spike, that was a first!) Patti's challenge fic Are we Friends? and wow, pretty much every fic on the BSV...

You can have the bite, and before Spike's demon tries to take possession,(can even be some sort of growling) they can be interrupted.

What I've come to find is there are NO rules concerning claiming. That's what makes it so much fun. Plus... hot. Possessive!Spike.... yummy.... :)

[icemink.livejournal.com]

Although I like your ideas on intent, they don't entirely fit my story, because the intent is definitely there on both parts. I think I'm going to go with it being something verbal that's missing. But I want something other than the word 'mine'. I kind of like the idea that saying her name (with the intent to claim) right after the bite is what completes it. This way it could be a name magic kind of thing. And now I'm back to intent again.

[ex-bloodshed662.livejournal.com]

do what I did in Some Cold Lovin, Las Vegas Style and have some "latin" words be responsible for completing the claim. That certain latin binding phrase could be missing...?

So many ways to do it...