bakerstreet | & those bright blue eyes can only meet mine across a room filled with people less important than you

Originally posted by

cornichaun; reposted by request!

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.

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( the more tragic, the better. also open to reincarnated soul mate screw ups, because who we were in pasts lives shouldn't define who we are now. )

[ perfectly fine with assumed cr/aus/whatever. will match to prose or brackets. ]

[ OTA, can start.

He usually keeps his name covered up via wristwatch. ]

(reply from suspended user)

More interested in the things that deal with being uncertain, impossible match ups, or unlikely ones, or that kind of thing. Not interested in scenarios where soulmates don't pan out, fake soul mates or 'why did I get one so early'. Dead, how do I move on ones or 'all my life and where are they??' and the idea of soulmates ruining all relationships that aren't between soulmates and stuff are fine.

As is a situation where soulmates are compelled to fit, so an awful match up means that these two people will be forced to fall in love anyway.

~~Is it terrible to think of a #3 situation where Sakura is Lee's, Sasuke is Sakura's, and no one even knows what Sasuke's is, because he is flat out ignoring it and running off on VengeanceQuest~~

I have an old messed up soulmates AU for Sakura where her soulmate mark is just a smudge, but whenever she gains feelings for a person, that mark becomes their name. Whether or not their name is hers. (And it hasn't been so far). So basically, a broken soulmates mark that just exists to show off her feelings and make it seem like she's faking.

Is freedom of choice in a world without it a blessing? A curse? Are her friends jealous or disdainful? Does she have friends like her with defective marks that fix themselves? Does she grow up forever alone? If someone has her name can they win her over??? Will hers ever settle on one of its own accord?

Angst.

Edited 2015-02-08 06:31 (UTC)

[Regardless of what the name on his wrist is, there's only one person who he's ever loved and she doesn't even know who he is. Open to playing out whatever mess this might end up causing.]

[He's on the record as hating that whole "fate and destiny" business, so good luck, soulmate...]

[ The name on Riza Hawkeye's wrist is Roy Mustang. That has always been the name on her wrist, since she was a little girl. She'd been born with the script bold and clear and easy to read, and when she had learned to read, the name of her soulmate had been one of the first things she'd read. She'd never gone looking for him, even so. Her father had never had time to deal with that sort of thing, too lost in research, and Riza had been busy taking care of her father. Had figured that if there were such a thing as fate, it would happen on its own.

It had. Roy Mustang had shown up and become her father's student, his only student. He'd learned flame alchemy and Riza's name had been scrawled on his wrist. He'd once said His name was Hawkeye, so I thought perhaps - perhaps it had been fate, or something. Roy was like an extension of herself. He and Riza were different in many ways, similar in others, but they were a team above all else, especially after she followed him into the military. Into the dark, always. She had his back, to defend, to cut down - whatever he needed.

Except for the one time she didn't manage to get there in time, when she wasn't standing steady at his back, and then he was just gone. There wasn't anything left of Roy Mustang but a scar on Riza's back and his name on her wrist. There wasn't even a proper body, because that had burned away.

Years ago. Years ago, now, and Riza's not military but she is a cop. She does her work quietly and efficiently and doesn't think about things like fate and soulmates any longer. She wears a watch on her right wrist and only looks at the name beneath it at night, when she's alone.

Dick Gumshoe's name isn't on her wrist, but it is familiar. She can't think why, when she sees he's coming into the department she's in, checks over the transfer papers and mentally shrugs. It isn't until later that she remembers.

Letters. Letters she'd never opened, letters she'd never cared to read, because she'd been so lost in grief when Roy died and after that she'd just never found herself again. She'd lost herself in work. She'd lost herself in losing herself. She'd once told him that if he died she didn't have a reason to exist any longer, and sometimes that still felt true.

Other times she'd hear what he'd say to her, hear him yelling at her, and it kept her moving forward mechanically.

She'd thrown out every letter from Dick Gumshoe without reading them, and now Riza wonders if she should have, because the first time they meet is on the crime scene of a murder and the transfer detective is looking at her like she's changed his entire world just by giving him her name as she crouches down by the body - an old man, late seventies, no name on his wrist. That still happened sometimes. ]

Detective? [ It's a prompt, even as Riza's lips twist downwards. If she'd ever read any of those letters, she'd know why they were sent. The system messes up sometimes. Sometimes people's soulmates die, like Riza's. Sometimes it happens before they ever meet. Sometimes, like the victim, people just never get a name.

Sometimes they get a name and the person they got doesn't have a matching name on their wrist. Riza's wrist says Roy Mustang, but Dick Gumshoe's says Riza Hawkeye. It happens. ]

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