The Soulmate Fuck-up Meme

[cornichaun]

The Soulmate Fuckup Meme
There's a name on your wrist. Maybe you were born with it; maybe it arrived around the time you reached adolescence. It's spelled out, in clear script - the script you learned to read first, your native language. It's the name of your soulmate.

What would a world like this be like?

Fucked-up, that's what.

(Based on this tumblr post.)

PROMPTS:
Choose just one, choose a couple, mix and match. Do what you want.

RELATIONSHIP
1: ORIENTATION CONFUSION. The name on your arm is the wrong gender. Maybe you thought you were straight, but the name is the same gender as yours. Maybe you knew you were gay, but the name is opposite-sex. Maybe you just didn't want anyone to know, and you hide your arm, pretend to be something you aren't. But there it is - the evidence glares at you every time you brush aside your sleeve. The name has to be right. Doesn't it?
2: JUST PLAYING AROUND. You're not soulmates with the person you're with. You're just playing around. Or maybe you're really in love - and no one will believe you. How do you face the complete inability of society to accept you? How do you face the inevitable, fated end of your relationship? How can anything be important, when you know it won't last?
3: ONESOMES, THREESOMES AND MORESOMES. You're soulmates with person A who's soulmates with person B who's soulmates with you. What now? - Or maybe you're meant to be in a polyamorous relationship. Or you're asexual, and the thought of that name fills you with dread.
4: ALONE. Your soulmate died. Your soulmate never showed up. Your soulmate never existed. Or your soulmate refused you.
5: FIRST TIME. You've never dated anyone else before. What would have been the point? And now you're moving in, you're getting married - why wait? You're soulmates, aren't you? What could go wrong?
6: TOGETHER. Yep. Here we are. Here you are, and here I am, and here are our names on each other's arms.
7: OTHER.

STAGE
1: INVESTIGATION. So there's this name, and you've plugged it into Google, and the only match you can find is some asshole's Facebook account. He looks like a real jerk. Or maybe you got nothing, and you hired a private investigation firm that specializes in this kind of thing. Now you have an email address, or phone number, or a home address, and what's next is to pick up the phone, write that letter, knock on that door.
2: REVEAL. A superstar's name is on the wrist of a teenager. The President's name is on the wrist of her opponent. Your name is on the wrist of someone in jail. Turns out that name on your best friend's wrist was yours - only you never knew, not until you found out who your parents were. You've just discovered your soulmate, or just revealed yourself to them. What next?
3: GETTING TOGETHER. You're in the early stages. Dating, maybe. Getting to know each other. Moving in, under the watchful eyes of other friends, happy and soulmated and eager to have their view of the world confirmed in you. But do you even really know this person? What makes you so suited, anyway?
4: TOGETHER FOREVER. Maybe you've been together thirty years, and you still have that same fucking argument about who washes the pans after you cook a steak. Maybe you sit in silence because there's nothing to say, and it's incredibly boring. Maybe you work in harmony, but you wonder: is it because you were supposed to be together all along, or just because you never had another choice?
5: TECHNICALITIES. Society won't let you get married. So what if you just change your name to the name on her wrist, and she changes her name to the name on yours… Or maybe you can't get insurance, because you're not married with a soulmate. Don't have the right to vote. Can't get promoted in your job.
6: A BROKEN SYSTEM. Soulmates might be perfect, but people aren't perfect. The world isn't perfect. And this world has screwed you over, time and time again. But - maybe you still found a way to be happy.
7: OTHER.

Comments

winston pell | star shards

[curmudgeonly]

lila zacharov | curse workers

[gitanes]

cassel sharpe | curse workers

[patheticvillain]

Molly Swift / OC / OTA

[lastleg]

[ Ex-cop, current grumpy investigator for a public defender office. ]

Jemma Simmons|Agents of SHIELD|OTA

[technicallysmarter]

[notpmsing]

(ooc; You want to do something where Jemma can recognize Bryce as her soulmate because Bryce has had her name and picture filed in with SHIELD since the accident, but Bryce has no idea who Jemma is because she was introduced as Dr. Simmons and there are plenty of those? Or something like that.)

julian arenas . original

[sociospatial]

[ Scumbag lawyer. All smiles, smooth as hell. A soulmate would probably be someone who would fascinate him; Julian is obsessed with the balance of black and white in humanity and the chaos of systems developed between people. He likes manipulating structures and destroying them. He's evil, but evil in a weird post-modern way that generally considers being evil for a specific goal pretty passe.

So someone who is really good could defy his plans and sort of fascinate him even more, or someone morally grey he could have a lot of fun playing with. ]

[deadsmiles]

( I'm offering up Nic here if you don't mind some magical hocus pocus. He's all smiles and easygoing sunshine but he grew up with a family that embraces the darker aspects of life. He's super bff with his older sister who can be sadistic and cruel towards Nic, and he rolls with it, so it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine him with a person like Julian. )

Steve Rogers | MCU

[starspangledspandex]

[reflourish]

( would you prefer seven or four? )

James "Bucky" Barnes | MCU

[who_is_bucky]

malak sutton . original

[treasureling]

[ Available in fantasy flavor (blacksmith from a female-dominated society, shy, quiet, puts a lot of artistry into his work) and in modern flavor (a jewelry maker, has two children with women who aren't his soulmate, so be prepared for baggage). ]

Sokolov / REAMDE

[spetsnaz]

[ A Russian ex-Special Forces, now a mercenary, but, weirdly, he's an extremely logical and pragmatic person. Pragmatic to the point where he usually ends up making morally good choices because that's just smarter, okay. His brain is basically a flow chart of options and outcomes all the time. He is very thinky. Very Russian. Doesn't speak great English. ]

[poisondarts]

ooc: how about a very early 1900s-esque women who is part of a secret organization that is actually a metaphor for the rise and fall of societies in the midst of a schism?

Phil Coulson / MCU

[reasonability]

Dean Winchester || Supernatural || ota

[markonmysoul]

[mr_comatose]

[1&2 or 1&3? I'm good with anything like Highschool/college AU or whatever. Figured Dean having a sexuality crisis might be fun??? ? ?]

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow | MCU | OTA

[unmakeme]

[[OOC: This is horrible and I love it, because obviously Natasha is going to be totally on board with the universe telling her who she should end up with. Of course.

All love for canon-mates, but cross-canon stuff is also quite often amazing. Blended worlds are good, one character being transplanted into the canon of another is good. If you want to assume past CR, just give me a heads up so we're on the same page.

Prose strongly preferred. If you only feel comfortable tagging in actionspam, that's fine, but I will be responding in prose.]]

[conceivedeceit]

[ ooc: awful or awful? ]

Chuck Shurley | SPN | OTA

[godsprophet]

Charles Xavier | X-Men | OTA

[missense]

Newton Geiszler | Pacific Rim

[kaijurious]

[dekiru]

[ Oh, how has she gotten into this mess...

The medics say that Mako is a special case. The late bloomer to end all late bloomers. Where every other person she's met had the name on their wrist appear between birth and age fifteen, she had reached eighteen - twenty - twenty two with nothing. It happens sometimes, they said, with that look in their eyes that told her they were lying. It'll show up eventually, they said, and she knew that nobody was sure. She's kept it quiet and kept her wrists both bound in bandages to hide the glaring absence of the solid, dark letters other people take so much for granted. Most assume she's just keeping it private until she finds them. The idea that she might not have one is so strange that it doesn't occur.

That is, until this morning.

The grass is always greener on the other side - Mako has found that true, so very true that to her it seemed that there was no grass on her side at all. She's been so desperate, willing the name to appear that she hasn't thought about what she'll do when it does. And now it has. She can hardly help but be elated - she's normal, thank god, normal finally - but at the same time completely dismayed.

Which is what's led her to where she is: pacing back and forth outside of the door to the K-Science laboratories. She can't bring herself to ask anyone, convinced her predicament will be immediately obvious if she does. Because she's never really spoken to anyone in K-Science. So while she knows Newton Geiszler (helpfully subtitled ニュートン・ガイスラー) is down here... She doesn't actually know which one he is. German names aren't exactly easy on Japanese ears. ]

Levi | Attack on Titan | OTA

[cuttingly]

Stage 2?

[tree_hugging]

[She couldn't remember a time that she had been so nervous before. She had seen him day after day, but she always managed to hide the name on her wrist. Thankfully their uniforms did that most of the time. It wasn't a difficult thing...but still it weighed heavy on her heart.

She had wanted to tell him for so long, but how? How could you just spring this up on someone- your superior at that. She couldn't just flash him her wrist and expect him to care for her as she did for him. If only life worked like that.]

Captain?

[She knocked on his door.] Are you in there?

mal | discworld

[deshabille]

[treasureling]

I'm just not that interested in romance right now.

[ This is a ridiculous situation.

Malak has always been leery of the name on his wrist. (Mal - what does that mean? Male, or female?) He is a blacksmith. He is the best blacksmith around. He makes awesome swords, great daggers, things that gleam with the light of destiny and so forth. Heroes from all around seek his handiwork. He's happy, even, to carve a name in the sword in an ancient and dead language, for a little extra power. He's making a pretty good living at it. He has a decent life.

Now it turns out his soulmate is a vampire and everything is the absolute worst. ]

I have two daughters. I thought I would - focus on them.

[ Malak is denying himself fulfillment because it never works out. Mal seems strong, brash, abrasive. Exactly his type, but that means she could hurt him, just like the others. ]

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf - Open

[bydefinition]

[ ooc: can play either platonically or romantically. ]

[pinned_butterfly]

[This is... pretty much his canon]

xerxes break • pandora hearts

[decrepit]

Daud | Dishonored | OTA

[bloodandfilth]

Thor / Marvel Comics / ota

[hamarr]

[demonbody]

[hmn... how about: Thor didn't have a name for a very long time, and Naoki used to have one but it changed when he received the Magatama and became a demon?]

Gilgamesh | Fate/series | OTA

[king_of_heroes]

[ Good luck with this asshole as your soulmate. ]

[vectorsnake]

((ooc: Up for 2-3 with a Witch? I know that Medusa for one wouldn't want to admit that she might have a soulmate - she'd see it as a hookup and just that, at least at first))

Hanamiya Makoto | Kuroko no Basuke | m/m

[bad_boy]