In the MGE universe, if you were to ask any mamono if they believe love is important, without exception; all of them would state it is the most important thing.
BONDS
However like with many things, the Bond a mamono will have with her chosen one will have varying aspects to it, even varying strengths.
These things are dependent on many things, as no true Bond is singular.
Classifications for mamono range as follows;
Affinity < (Incomplete) Infatuation < Complete Infatuation < Love < Exclusive Love < Soul Bond
Affinity
An affinity for a humanoid is reached when a mamono “sees a male she likes”.
The most common expression of such a Bond is a mamono making a statement that affirms this. Something as simple as “I like you” or “You’re cute” affirms a positive affinity a mamono has for a human.
Many adolescent mamono develop an affinity for a childhood friend that often matures into a deeper Bond. At this stage, a mamono’s passive mamono energy will begin to sense the deeper nuances of the soul of the person she has an affinity for. To detect if a longer, and stronger investment is worth attempting.
An Affinity a mamono has for a male can be abandoned, broken, or dissolved with little-to-no negative emotional result.
(Incomplete) Infatuation
A mamono who develops an (Incomplete) Infatuation with a male has all but made up her mind of choosing said male as her mate / husband.
At this stage, her mamono energy is actively delving into the person she has an infatuation for. This is an overt, and direct effort that the person can innately sense. It can be perceived through actions such as intense staring, sniffing, touching, and motions designed to attract attention from her subject.
Even if a mamono takes a more passive approach to delving into her subject's nature / soul, it will still be something that her subject can sense.
(Example; A Kikimora exuding her innocence while she cleans around her chosen master will be seen as an unbearable tease. Every sway, step, or motion to clean is seen as a tantalizing gesture due to her mamono energy influencing her chosen one.)
Incomplete Infatuation for a humanoid can be abandoned, broken, or dissolved; but the mamono will suffer slight-to-some negative emotional effects from the ordeal.
(Complete) Infatuation
The only difference between incomplete and complete infatuation is; for Complete Infatuation, the male humanoid has returned the mamono’s advances with his own.
He is actively attracted to her, is sexually aroused by her, and is (physically) receptive to her advances.
The mamono energy will actively pour into her chosen humanoid and will resonate throughout his soul and being and reveal his true nature to the eager mamono.
The only thing that would make the mamono stop her advances at this point would be (interference / personal) hostile action, or the humanoid having an undesirable nature (evil/selfish/etc) to the mamono.
All men who are sexually taken forcibly by a mamono, have (in some manner or another) shown a sign of receptiveness to her advances.
Nearly all Bonds that reach the (complete) Infatuation state will result in a life-long Bond between a mamono and her chosen male.
This state typically only lasts one night, or one sexual encounter (whichever is longest) and typically progresses to the Love state immediately afterwards.
Complete Infatuation can be broken, but the mamono will suffer moderate-to-serious negative emotional effects from the trauma.
The most common reason for breaking Complete Infatuation is the male was taken forcibly and has since fled from the mamono.
Depending upon the specific species, the mamono may give up the chase from a few weeks, to never.
In the case of death of the humanoid, a mamono can, and will be able to form another Bond with a human after a significant mourning period.
Love
Love between a mamono and her mate is extremely quick to blossom, and once sprouted is nearly impossible to destroy. This is the stage where the mamono and her male both consider themselves to be in a lasting relationship (mates / married / etc)
At this stage, the mamono ceases to see any other male as a potential mate or Bond.
Flirting, touch, or any other carnal notion from any other male becomes disgusting to her unless it is from her chosen male.
Her mamono energy is now fixated on her chosen male’s spiritual energy, and actively rejects all other sources from living beings.
This fixation makes her chosen male’s spiritual energy vastly more effective to energize and reinvigorate her stores of mamono energy. She becomes stronger, smarter, and more refined in every perceptible way. Even her shape, form, and bearing bends in ways to be more pleasing to her chosen one.
NOTE:
A humanoid male can share a Bond of Love with more than one mamono, as long as his Spiritual Energy is stable and plentiful enough for the needs of multiple mamono.
Most humanoid males are only capable of supporting a harem of three mamono.
Only one Blessed Hero has been recorded to support a harem of twelve mamono.
Most Blessed Heroes range from three to seven mamono in their harems.
NOTE:
In the case of death or extra-dimensional distance that separates the couple, it is possible for either to form a Bond with another. However, this is exceedingly rare and almost always requires an individual that the grieving survivor is already familiar with.
In addition to the rarity, such a new Bond will always solidify into a Soul Bond. So great is the emotional trauma that the Mamono will not accept anything less.
NOTE:
The deceased partner of a Love Bond is fully aware of his/her partner’s suffering. And is aware of the healing of said suffering if he/she finds another great love.
The Mamono Underworld, with it’s infinite wellspring of mamono energy and magic immediately facilitates a new Bond with another single Underworld Dweller as it would with any Mamono-favorable petitioner who passed on from their mortal life without ever forming a Bond with another.
Exclusive Love
An Exclusive Love between a mamono and her husband further empowers all of her aspects. She becomes a paragon of her specific mamono type, commanding the highest echelon of power available to her.
An Exclusive Love means her husband has forever forsaken the notion of ever accepting a harem.
This Exclusivity is not lost on the mamono. Her fertility rises by 50% due to the sudden spike of power generated by such a special union.
Soul Bond
A Soul Bond can only be had between an exclusive mamono and human. Their souls are connected on such a deep and fundamental level that death for one, means instant death for the other. Their connection brings empathic, and telepathic ability. They can share each other’s magic, memories, and thoughts effortlessly.
This is the only Bond that transcends death
IMPRINTING
Imprinting between a Mamono and a male is effectively an instant Bond that connects the male and Mamono into a Love Bond, bypassing Affinity and (incomplete / complete) Infatuation.
This can only happen if a male and mamono are actively seeking a partner / mate, and are open and receptive to a suitable candidate.
NOTE:
Imprinting is a perfectly mutual phenomenon; the male's spiritual energy entices, draws in, and welcomes mamono energy.
The male's soul is blatantly revealed, along with his nature to the mamono. That a mamono Imprints onto this male, signifies that the male has characteristics / nature that makes him extremely suitable as a mate / husband.
It is possible for a Mamono to Imprint on a humanoid she has never met, but has sampled his Spirit Energy. This ‘sight unseen’ Imprinting is still a mutual phenomenon so long as the male is unclaimed. A claimed male's Spirit Energy will ‘’expire’’ and be undesirable to almost all mamono.
A male who has a Mamono Imprint on him sight unseen, will be subconsciously drawn to his partner. He will be seen as ‘’claimed’’ by other Mamono and his Spirit Energy will render him unsuitable to almost all other mamono.
Once a mamono has Imprinted onto a male, her eyes will luminesce with a pink light. It is said that a Heart Rune can be seen deep within her pupils and it is the rune that glows pink.
SEX
It is commonly known that Mamono reach sexual maturity (full adulthood) before most humanoids do.
It is also commonly known that Mamono do not actively seek out non-matured / non-receptive / disinterested / unsuitable humanoids for a carnal / lifelong partner.
Mamono view intimate relationships differently than most other races / cultures.
The primary difference is centered around the taboo (or lack thereof) of physical pairing before a committed / lifelong relationship.
For most other races, gratuitous non-committed / non-serious physical relationships weaken the emotional / physiological Bond the male and female can form, thus enabling a cycle of a life-long bachelor (tramp) or a life-long maiden (spinster).
For Mamono, it is far more likely for her to be a virgin for her chosen mate.
However, Mamono that have forcibly taken a (or multiple) physical partner(s) in the pursuit of finding a permanent mate, do not experience this degradation of how they regard exclusive pair-bonding with a mate she has chosen, and who reciprocates her intention(s).
For a Mamono, each failed attempt to secure a life long partner will strengthen an instinctual imperative to ‘not let the next one get away’ to the point of (if needs be) to capture a mate and secret him away until he fully accepts her.
Once a Mamono secures a permanent mate, she will quickly forget about everyone and anything carnally related, except her Mate / Bond / Husband.
This targeted amnesia will also affect any humanoid who had a physical encounter with the mamono as her residual mamono energy within the human will eventually vanish without a trace, taking all memories of her, and any sexual encounter with her.
Residual memories that are not carnally related will be dulled and generalized until the humanoid only remembers things like “the one time I bought my sword from some strange shopkeeper” when the true memory was; ‘a forced encounter with a Cyclops who gifted him a sword afterwards.’
In the instance of outside individuals / means attempting to ‘’remind’’ either party what the targeted amnesia took away; all involved in such an event will find themselves unmoved to care.
This includes all partners on all sides of the union that never was.
END OVERVIEW
Bonds, Imprinting, and Sex for Mamono are not the same as Humans typically understand them.
1) (Authors Note; If it is within your logic / storytelling sense to have you or your partner die in a fantasy setting and worry about being “cheated on” I would suggest you not allow yourself / or your waifu to die in a fantasy / story setting that you control, or make use of a Soul Bond and ensure you stay together even in death.
If you cannot help but allow yourself to die, and find it pleasurable / permissible for your grieving spouse to suffer, that is on you, and your sensibilities as to what does / does not qualify as love.
If you feel like your spouse finding another great love is cheating on / cucking you when one of you is deceased, leaving the other... that is also on you.)
2) (Authors Note; It should be noted that usable Male Human Spirit Energy is not commonly found, nor is it found by chance. Usable Male Human Spirit Energy that is in substance form is essentially; Sweat, Saliva, Seed, or Blood and has the normal spoilage rate for such bodily substances.)
3) (Authors Note; It should be noted that fans of MGE can easily have lore+logic inherently allow for your waifu to be an absolute virgin if need be.
If you are hung up on the possibility of a mamono sexually knowing someone before you, then just create a virgin waifu.
If you cannot create a virgin waifu and are still hung up on a non-virgin waifu, then that’s on you.
To be absolute to the point; beyond the very minuscule exceptions aside from a Unicorn Mamono, virginity is not as severe an issue for a mamono. A Mamono will pair-Bond with her one-and-only forgetting and forsaking all others and be faithful to only her one-and-only.)
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