The Soulmate Fuckup Meme

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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

Jack Rackham | Black Sails | OTA

[calicojack]

Biffy | Parasol Protectorate | OTA

[justdandy]

Brock Rumlow | MCU

[infligere]

[He's probably the reason for this being screwed up. No apologies.]

[punybanner]

(ooc: Hey there! I think these two would make a pretty interesting/messed up pair. Is there a specific stage of their relationship you'd want to go for? Let me know and I'll write up a starter! :D)

James "Bucky" Barnes / The Winter Soldier | MCU

[disassembling]

THIS IS AWFUL AND I'M SORRY

[shwarm_after]

When he was a teenager, he'd always thought it was strange that his tattoo had never showed up. Often times he'd hear 'you'll get it when you're older' or 'you're just a late bloomer.' And it was true. He was only a teenager, but around him, his classmates at MIT were getting their tattoos left and right. But it was fine, he'd get it eventually.

Except he didn't. He went through his adolescence, his twenties, even his thirties without the damn mark. There wasn't even a tingle on his wrist. No name, no emotional feelings, nothing. It was fine, though. He was too busy for it, anyways. He had a company to run, a country to keep safe, a legacy to keep alive. And when he became Iron Man, he had an entire world to avenge.

And throughout it all, he never got it. But there was Pepper, and maybe she wasn't his soulmate at first, but they could make it work. She was goddamn perfect and she knew him better than anyone else. And maybe, their names would just show up on each other's arms. It was a nice thought until Pepper came back from a conference with the name of another man on her wrist-Some accountant she'd met who was just as responsible as he was.

It hurt, but Tony had ways of distracting himself. SHIELD had fallen, HYDRA's files had been leaked, and Tony found out who had murdered his parents. The Winter Soldier was a secret that'd been leaked, and Tony had taken on the task of hunting him down himself. Of course he didn't tell Rogers or anyone else. Cap would only get in his way and everyone else would only slow him down. No, he had to do this alone.

And now, he finally had locked down on the soldier's location. It was an abandoned warehouse just out of DC. Coulson and his team didn't know about this, and neither did Fury or Hill. He pushed open the doors and entered the quiet warehouse.

Derek Hale | Teen Wolf

[lurkerwolf]

Re: Derek Hale | Teen Wolf

[keepsmeawake]

[I'm a terrible cliche, shoot me. But also potential for much amusement and drama if you're interested?]

agent washington | red vs. blue

[fulminator]

Corey | Teen Wolf

[hiddenchimera]

agent maine ("the meta") | red vs. blue

[soterial]

i'd apologize but you'd know i was lying.

[vadiation]

[ i did die rolls for maximum horrors and got 5-1, 1-3, or 2-5. :') you wanna pick? ]

Kieron Dawn | Original character

[roughedge]

Re: Kieron Dawn | Original character

[snitchingscars]

[[ if you don't mind, maybe 2-6 or 6-1? ]]

Melaine Tyrt | Original Character

[gonnamissme]

Chuck Hansen | Pacific Rim

[suicidemission]

Hermione Granger | Harry Potter | M/F

[mudblood_andproud]

Elise | fire emblem fates | ota

[demoiselled]

[ I'm fond of having the first words your soulmate ever says on your skin (or the last words if we want something brief and terrible) but can roll with whatever. An easy canon fuckup would be opposite sides of the war, but again I'm easy. I'm okay with auing Elise or your character somewhere if cross canon, and if I know your character's canon I am willing to start. ]

Clark Kent | DCEU/DC Comics | OTA

[stands_for_hope]

Re: Clark Kent | DCEU/DC Comics | OTA

[justlikeacircus]

((IS IT WEIRD I KINDA WANNA DO THIS?))

Theo Raeken | Teen Wolf

[firstchimera]

Rey | A Star War | ota

[jakkuorphan]

mikaela hyakuya | owari no seraph

[infatyuated]

Rey | Star Wars

[girlandherstaff]

Stefan Salvatore | The Vampire Diaries | OTA

[angelus]

Pietro Maximoff | MCU | OTA

[kurogane]

Alcide Herveaux | True Blood | OTA

[ex_redxiii705]

It's worse than 1

[messingthingsup]

Gia never had a mark, never had that horrible predestination crap that her mother went through with Gia's "jerk step-dad". Yeah, the one who killed her mom - killed her, got her killed - you say potato...

Anyway, no name. No name that is until she woke up after being dead, or in this case, undead. In impeccable writing, even turned the right way so she could read it, the most unusual name appeared on her wrist. A little bit of Googling got enough information for Marcel's contacts to do a little digging and what they found wasn't good, at least not good for Gia.

But when things went bad, when Klaus nearly killed her, when she finally was able to crawl out of a crypt where she had nearly been consumed by some spell, Gia left New Orleans and, following the tug of the mark on her newly healed flesh, hitchhiked to Shreveport to find this man, this wolf that she was supposed to be soulmates with. What did she have to lose, other than the life Klaus had come so close to taking or barely managed to preserve? Wasn't going to stick around to ask any questions.

Following directions of those she compelled and made forget that she asked, Gia found herself looking at the Herveaux Contracting sign. It wasn't too late to back out. No one had spotted her yet. Could go back to California or even New York. Get a violin and earn her keep legitimately, just like she had all of her life. Rubbed the stone of her daylight ring, pulled down the sleeve of her sweater again, and knocked before opening the unlocked door.

"Hello?"

scarlet benoit | the lunar chronicles

[petitrouge]

cress darnel | the lunar chronicles

[orbitings]

jericho jones | the diviners

[ironcoffin]

rapunzel | tangled

[watcheslanterns]