So I–or, more accurately we (we being Lazarus - @pocketsfullofspiders , Gan - @rashkah and myself) went ahead with it.
Largely because why not, the three of us have been essentially married even without the paperwork since Lazarus and Gan got married and had been a–whatever a couple of three people is since about the end of Fourth year.
And also because I was curious as to what would happen; I know how to keep blood contracts for business sectioned off, those are done a bit differently, and the other pact of this sort I’ve got was entirely accidental.
Not the pact part, the result of it, it had been intended largely as a very clear, “I don’t trust you to not find semantics or loopholes around the agreement,” sort of deal. For a long time, that’s what it was, however, the wording was vague at just six words total (”I am bound, you have me.”) and blood magic in general tends to take on a life of its own. If you don’t specify a very clear intent, it will make assumptions based on observations and adjust what it does accordingly.
I would like to point out that I don’t mind in the slightest and I still have that pact.
What I was curious about was whether a more properly set up ritual would work at all, make any sort of reference or acknowledgement to the pact that was already present, or just ignore it as it wasn’t necessarily asked for its commentary.
It turns out, at least in this case, that it made an acknowledgement, separated from the chrome diopside that makes up the stone Gan, Lazaurs, and I are bound through, by a row of copper.
The other stone, both here and in the original pact–and I would like to point out once again that I dislike the word ‘pact’ it sounds so–weird. I’m aware that contract sounds sterile and cold but pact always sounds so silly. Probably why I never delve too deeply into ritual magic that makes me have to talk like that–where was I?
Oh! Right! The stone in the original pact was a rough edged piece of labradorite on copper; it’s got my favourite property of labradorite however, in that it looks kind of a dull green-gray until you shine some light on it, at which point it’s full of brilliant blues, yellows, greens, violets, and black streaks.
So, I do like that piece of labradorite more, but the nod to it without being explicitly asked was interesting.
Anyway, to anyone in the past that’s ever implied I was a third wheel in the relationship I have with Lazarus and Gan, you must enjoy being thoroughly wrong.
