WoMon:Bonding

Taming the Fox

It was then that the Fox appeared.

"Good morning," said the Fox.

"Good morning," the young Human responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.

"I am right here," the voice said, "under the apple tree."

"Who are you?" asked the young Human, and added, "You are very pretty to look at."

"I am a fox," the Fox said.

"Come and play with me," proposed the young Human. "I am so unhappy."

"I cannot play with you," the Fox said. "I am not tamed."

"Ah! Please excuse me," said the young Human.

But, after some thought, he added:

"What does that mean--'tame'?"

"You do not live here," said the Fox. "What is it that you are looking for?"

"I am looking for men," said the young Human. "What does that mean--'tame'?"

"Men," said the Fox. "They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens?"

"No," said the young Human. "I am looking for friends. What does that mean--'tame'?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the Fox. It means to establish ties."

"'To establish ties'?"

"Just that," said the Fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ."

"I am beginning to understand," said the young Human. "There is a flower . . . I think that she has tamed me . . ."

"It is possible," said the Fox. "On the Earth one sees all sorts of things."

"Oh, but this is not on the Earth!" said the young Human.

The Fox seemed perplexed, and very curious.

"On another planet?"

"Yes."

"Are there hunters on that planet?"

"No."

"Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"

"No."

"Nothing is perfect," sighed the Fox.

But she came back to her idea.

"My life is very monotonous," the Fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat . . ."

The Fox gazed at the young Human, for a long time.

"Please--tame me!" she said.

"I want to, very much," the young Human replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."

"One only understands the things that one tames," said the Fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . ."

"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the young Human.

"You must be very patient," replied the Fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."

The next day the young Human came back.

"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the Fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."

"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.

"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the Fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."

So the young Human tamed the Fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

"Ah," said the Fox, "I shall cry."

"It is your own fault," said the young Human. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

"Yes, that is so," said the Fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the young Human.

"Yes, that is so," said the Fox.

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good," said the Fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then she added:

"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."

The young Human went away, to look again at the roses.

"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew her. She was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made her my friend, and now she is unique in all the world."

And the roses were very much embarrassed.

"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

And he went back to meet the Fox.

"Goodbye," he said.

"Goodbye," said the Fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the young Human repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the young Human, so that he would be sure to remember.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the Fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose ..."

"I am responsible for my rose," the young Human repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

Bonds

Due to WoMai biology, WoMai normally bond to a particular tamer. Those manifesting this common bond regard him (or her) as the pack leader and often defer to that Tamer.

Alpha class Bond

This most common bond is a simple physical one, and is referred to as an Alpha Bond.

Beta Class Bonds

The most common form of psychic bond, that can occur between those with high Empathy ratings.

Delta Class Bonds

More powerful and with more long-term effects are the much rarer Delta Class Bonding; It is also dangerous as there can be a psychic backlash from injuries or death of one affecting the other through the link. The Delta bond usually cannot be broken, and so the tradability and combat usefulness of the WoMon is much reduced.

Usually, Delta Bonds last until one of them dies.Whore-Oh can turn Delta Bonds to Beta Bonds, thou it's little known as no one believe she would ever use this ability. While she will never admit to it, she always converts the Delta Bonds of anyone that she thinks is going to immediately going to sure the psychic backlash from the serious injury or death from one's partner.

Far rarer and much less sought is Recognition.

Bond Formation

Forming Alpha Bonds

A Feral Womai just needs to orgasm earlier in the same sex scene that they are Tamed to form an Alpha Bond. If they haven't, they still become tamed but remain unbonded.

Feral will form an Alpha bond with a WoMon if that WoMon makes her Ahegao until she collapses.

An unbonded WoMai will form an Alpha bond the next time they are tamed by anyone that makes her Ahegao until she collapses.

If you are Intimate Friends with a WoMai that's Alpha Bonded to someone else, you make them Ahegao until they collapse in a sex scene that only you tamed them in their old Alpha Bond is broken, and they form a new one with you.

Forming Beta Bonds

Ferals only need to be Acquaintance stage or later to form a Beta Bond if they are made to climax by their Tamer in the same sex scene that they became Alpha bonded in earlier, under those circumstances they instantly become up to 'Close Friends' too.

If you manage to form a Close Friends with a Feral before forming a Bond they will jump to max stats in their relationship to you when you Tame them and form a Beta Bond instantly.

If a WoMon maintains the same Alpha Bond from their Feral state they will form a Beta bond when they are next time you make them Ahegao, without orgasming yourself, at the Casual Friends stage.

The bond will form when next time you tame her.

Otherwise, you need to form an Intimate Friends level to form a Beta Bond with a WoMon.

If she is not feral, and you are at least Intimate Friends with her, and she is not bonded to anyone else, you can form a Beta Bond by making her Ahegao until she collapses. If this happens outside a taming session, then the bond forms the next time you tame her.

If you are at least Intimate Friends, and she is Alpha Bond with you, you just make her Ahegao in a taming session