#found soulmates

[the-narwhals-awaken]

new soulmate au

So a lot of soulmate AUs- and this is a benefit, not a flaw, saying this right off the bat so people don't get mad- end up linking people beforehand, before they meet or in some cases before they're born, even. Which is cool, it lets people have fascinating dynamics, but I was thinking about another option.

Everybody is compatible with other people in certain ways, whether romantic, platonic, familial, something else entirely, whatever. If two people get close enough, they begin to form Soulmate Bonds. The first Bond is always their truest name (as in truest to themselves, not necessarily what they were born with) inscribed someplace on the other's body. The closer people grow and the longer relationships go on, the more bonds form- the closest and longest-lasting relationships leave significant permanent marks that can grant powers to even vanilla mortals, let alone those who already have powers.

The nature of the Bonds is dependent on what the relationship is like and what they need out of it. Relationships that need to stay hidden tend to have subtler Bonds, while relationships that are flaunted tend to have flashy Bonds. People who need a constant friend get to share ink on skin, or perhaps hear voices. Sometimes it's not always wanted- somebody who hides injuries often can have those injuries marked or known to their Soulmates in some way, or perhaps it cuts through a closed-off person's defences, but it's generally seen as a blessing or at least something neutral in the aftermath.

Platonic bonds do tend to be more subtle or casual than romantic bonds, and familial ones even moreso, but all Bonds can be whatever's needed for the situation. They often can, and in the best relationships do, blend into one giant mess well enough that they can't be distinguished from each other anyhow, so people generally accept that and move on with their lives- and it's proven a lifesaver, with enough Bond differences that queer people or anyone in a forbidden relationship could claim a Bond as platonic instead of its romantic nature, or in some cases vice versa to serve as a distraction.

Casual relationships often do not form bonds- both people need to be putting intent into the relationship to form them- but at the same time, people don't always recognize the more subtle Bonds, especially if they're aligned with skills they already hold. The one type of relationship with active energy that does not form Bonds are mutually antagonistic relationships without a genuine possibility or probability of reconciliation. In this case, such a Bond would only cause more harm- bonds between rivals either form when there is enough mutual respect that they could, theoretically get along and they do not Have to fight, or because one or both needs the support to get out of their situation and the presence of their opponent will provide significant aid towards that goal.

Of course, a relationship that ends would result in a loss of Bonds if it is truly fractured. If it fades over lack of maintanance, naturally and slowly as some things do, then so too do the Bonds, fading and vanishing until the only thing left is their name, written in grey on your skin. If it breaks viciously, in a fight or disaster, the Bonds tear- leaving scars physical and metaphysical, and the name dries into the color of their dried blood. If your Soulmate dies, then the Bonds wither and their name fades to scar-white, where it functions as a faint, light scar.

I thought this could be interesting- bonds connected to relationships, but in a different way- one built rather than enforced, one that's complex and unknown and so much more complicated and allowing for the full network of human interactions to be celebrated- and perhaps, help choices be made differently.

[panevanbuckley]

soulmate au where your soulmate's thoughts appear on your skin except your soulmate has adhd and your body becomes a living canvas of nonsensical, never-ending, constantly entertaining trails of thought

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 45

Hear me out. Danny gets de-aged and thrown into Gotham, everything’s sort of normal there. He’s somewhere between 4 and 6 and absolutely tiny. Looks a little sickly, covered in his death-scars and looks like some sort of fae child or something. 

Now it’s Gotham, normally this would mean he’d have gotten kidnapped, gotten stolen from the streets or something. The thing is though, he wasn’t dropped into Gotham all alone.

It’s kind of hard to take a child when there’s a giant eldritch abomination of a knight seemingly living in the kid’s shadow that causes terror with its very presence.

[raepliica]

(road trip gone wrong)

(+other doodles)

waiter! waiter! more trigun polycule please!!!

[luminarai]

I’ve seen a lot of people wonder if Taigen’s gonna pull a Li Shang from Mulan once he finds out about Mizu’s Secret™️ but I mean. This man’s internal logic is already so damn weird, this might as well happen, y’know??

Bonus:

[seafoamdew]

I’d give anything. Just let him live.

[zarla-s]

nodding solemnly

[patreon]

[oplishin]

continued from this. genuinely what is their problem

[improper-use-of-germx]

Do you remember me? We were in the same helium molecule for a while on that red dwarf— yeah I was the other electron! Y'know the universe has expanded so much since then I didn't think I'd see you until the crunch, crazy how things work out haha.

[jjoneechan]

Happy National Best Friend Day!

To the trio that sticks together through it all!

💚🧡💙📚🍏🍊🫐🟩🟧🟦

[sleepycentric]

cant get them out of my head

they make me ill (in the best way)

boat boys were such a major highlight in double life absolutely one of the most iconic duos in the series!!! RAHHH

[big-urchin-energy]

person on the internet: we need more platonic relationships!

everyone else: yeah let's hear it for sisters! i wanna see more found family where the "kid" would do anything for their "dad"! how about some ~siblings~!! wooh adopted teenagers! accidental baby acquisition!

op: okay but i meant friends-

some other guy: yeah op is clearly taking about platonic soulmates, not all soulmates are romantic, you can have one of each! sometimes two people are so close they're basically siblings or a parent and child, so they don't have to be romantic soulmates, platonic soulmates are a thing too :)

op: again, i was just talking about friendship, you know friends?

another guy: yesss friends to lovers is my favorite dynamic, mutual pining! when everyone can tell they're dating but they don't realize! building a relationship based on longlasting friendship so it's even more strong when they finally get together!

[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #122

In this AU you can find your soulmate after you die in the infinite realms. A ghosts core will hum and purr really loudly when they’re found. Danny and Jason are the same age but Jason dies and is resurrected before Danny has his accident. They don’t meet in the zone but because they’ve both got ectoplasm in their systems Danny’s core starts to purr when they meet one day as adults.

Jason thought the guy was cute but something was off about them. For one why they hell was he staring at Jason and two was he purring?

[findafight]

Okay I kept thinking about this post and Steve being a BNF of Corroded Coffin message board of the internet of yore.

Alright so way back in the nineties Suzie hooks everyone up with the internet, yes? Yes. Eddie and Steve got together in '92 after some mutual pining and a few disastrous relationships that couldn't handle 1) Steve and Robin's general QPR clinginess 2) Eddie's intensity 3) the secrecy required if having multiple years of monster fighting and subsequent NDAs and the trauma associated therein. They're older and more settled and ready for an Adult Relationship.

Corroded Coffin is gaining traction and doing really well and the internet is still a brave new frontier, so Steve says to Eddie something like "I'm going to see if there's some message boards about you 🥰" and find them he sure does. So he makes accounts and posts under the username EddiesOnlyGroupie because he's hilarious and also the mods banned him from using EddieMunsonsHusband (he figured it was fine on the internet because nobody actually knew who he was but APPARENTLY NOT homophobia lives on in the digital age). He gets pretty well known in the Corroded Coffin fandom, most assuming he's a woman because he will go off on how hot Eddie looked at a gig. Like. Saying unhinged internet shit because 1) true and 2) he and Eddie think it's so funny. Everyone kinda believes the groupie thing too because of all the performance pics he's able to post and how he'll sometimes offer tidbits if knowledge about the band.

When they transition from chatrooms to livejournal etc he follows, with the same username. He's kind of a legend by the mid aughts. EOG is the acronym people use when discussing theories on his identity, and he's like "guys I'm literally his only groupie it's self explanatory. Guys why don't you believe me Eddie hasn't slept with anyone but me since 1992. We're basically married". He goes "it's not a mystery we literally are in love and Jeff and I go to Cubs games and cry when they inevitably lose together. Gareth is Godfather to my cats" (Eddie is still offended that he was not named Sassafras and Moonshine's godfather when Steve and Robin adopted them in '89). No one believes him.

Possibly because he still thirsts after Eddie and whenever someone posts a new Eddie pic those in the know wait for him to pop up with comments like "I want to bite his neck omg" "he has no ass but nobody is perfect I'll settle between his thighs anyway" and "literally a crime I am not married to him right now what the fuck" As twitter grows he swoops in to grab his handle, and follows a bunch of other CC fan accounts (some of them old friends, some of them new to the scene)(EOG 100% has his own fanlore page, which also has speculation on who he is and how he gets all the bts pics. It also doesn't believe when he says what it says on the tin. He's Eddie's only groupie.)

tumblr and tiktok come round and Steve is like. Openly horny on main. He's seen some shit go down on the internet but he's still commenting on Eddie fan edits that are title shit like "why am I attracted to this middle-aged white man" and "retro cc fancam" with things like "I'd let him lick the inside of my ear and only bring it up to tease him on special occasions" "his FINGERS" "back in '89 Jeff and Howie and Claire staged a mutany over this song because they were 'sick of Eddie only writing about biting bats' lmao" and "Jeff is my favourite member of cc"(just to stir the pot)

Eddie comes out in the 2010's and he's like "yeah I've been in a long term relationship with someone who is usually mostly a man kinda (gender is fucky) for the past twenty years, lol. His name's Steve. I love him a lot even if he mocks me online." and of course EOG comments "the mods of that old message board should have let me keep my original handle of EddieMunsonsHusband. When're you gonna make it reality, Munson? smh" and everyone is like Huh?? EOG is a MAN? And he's like yeah? Sometimes?? Not always?

(He 100% thinks this is him telling people he's Eddie's Steve. They don't get the message)

Anyways life goes on Steve continues to thirst under pictures of Eddie, he has his pronouns and name in his bio on twitter (Steve, he/him, she/her, Eddie Munson's first and only groupie 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ) and continues to post behind the scenes photos that shockingly few people question (she always says "because I'm his groupie" though. He and Eddie think this is VERY funny and also true. Robin groans. They've been making the same joke for two decades.) and people believe it because Eddie has interacted EOG sometimes, liking photos or videos, commenting sometimes. (Steve has a more professional realname account that he rarely uses but Eddie usually tags Steve there)

And THEN Internet user EddiesOnlyGroupie says he's taking a few weeks off for her honeymoon because "I'm finally marrying the man of my dreams!" And people are happy for him but also bummed because Eddie is also taking a two week hiatus but EOG promises wedding and honeymoon photos. (Face reveal! Sorta!)((he doesn't get why people are excited because he's pretty sure he's been in a lot of Eddie's recent pictures, but whatever)

Imagine the Internet's surprise when Eddie Munson posts a collection of pictures spanning '86 to his 2016 wedding of him and Steve, including one of Steve looking seriously at an old desktop computer, captioned "Steve starting his internet career" and tags EOG.

Steve qrt with "I told yall. I'm his only groupie, and they should've let me keep EddieMunsonsHusband even if they WERE homophobic. Because now it's TRUE"

Niche internet community drama chaos ensues.

[robot-carl]

I want what they have. Where can I find my platonic soulmate.

Also the 2023 specials have reawaken my doctor who hyperfixation from 2011 and I’m perfectly fine with that.

[gunsatthaphan]

#safe.