FATED FOR WORSE

There is someone in this world made for you.

That is what everyone says, anyway.

Somewhere, there is a person whose soul fits yours: someone written into you before you ever met, waiting at the other end of whatever thread, mark, dream, scar, or old piece of magic proves that neither of you was ever entirely your own.

Sometimes, finding them is wonderful.

Other times, you look into the face of the person fate chose for you and realize that something has gone terribly wrong.

They're your enemy. They're cruel. They're afraid of you, or you are afraid of them. One of you loves somebody else. Perhaps you already tried to make it work and learned, the difficult way, exactly how much damage two people can do when everyone keeps insisting they belong together.

You can leave.

The mark remains.

Then the bond begins to hurt.

Perhaps it always did, and nobody thought that part worth mentioning.

Your soulmate bleeds, and you wake with blood beneath your fingernails. Roots may be curling around bone before you even know they are there. A healthy tooth comes loose over breakfast. At odd hours, your pulse catches on a rhythm that isn't yours.

Distance can make you sick. Proximity may do stranger things.

Whatever lives in the bond has decided the two of you belong together.

Your body agrees.

• Comment with your character, canon, preferences, and whatever soulmate rules apply.
• Roll from BAD for a wrong, unwanted, or doomed match; roll from WORSE for the physical horror of the bond; or choose from both.
• Roll from WHAT NOW? if you want an immediate scene.
• Play the horror anywhere from unsettling to grotesque according to everyone's limits.
• Soulmate bonds may be romantic, platonic, familial, or something harder to define.
• Thread!