There are legends from all around the world, people, beings were made in sets of two or more forever meant to find their matches. They were given marks or songs, an extra sense to find the others they were meant to spend their time in these worlds with. The mark could be for a lover, an enemy, a best friend, or for all of them. So roll the die or pick your preference, and maybe you’ll get your happily ever after. Feel free for each character to have a different kind of mark- variety makes for fun.
Different Types of Marks:1) Name - Is it in color? In black or white? Is it a signature, a full name, a nickname? Will it change when they touch it? No matter what it looks like its their mark on your body.
2) First words- From birth, or maybe some years after you’ve always had this sentence on your body. Maybe it’s common and you hear it everyday, always holding your tongue to see if the speaker is for you, or maybe it’s a unique set of words you’ll recognize when they cross your ears.
3) Image/symbol- A small animal, a symbol, design, it could look like nothing or anything, but eventually it grow and change under just the right touch
4) Color/Color blindness- The whole world is monochrome until you meet the right person, or maybe it shows up in shades as you meet your people one by one. Now you just have learn the words for all these colors.
5) Songs/Auditory cues- Their voice is song stuck in your head you’ve never heard the whole of. Or maybe there are lyrics you’ve been singing your whole life missing the melody of a trio to be complete.
6) Scent- It’s a tickle in your nose. Something you’ve been searching for all your life, and one day you actually catch it on the air. Can you catch them?
7) Red String of Fate- Tied around your arm, your finger, even your toe, it’s a little trail leading you to them. Do you follow it or wait for it to grow shorter?
8) Timer Countdown- There’s a lot of pressure, isn’t there, when every moment tick tocks downwards until you meet them.
9) Last words- Sometimes the world isn’t kind, the mark isn’t for when you meet them, but for the last time you see them. You don’t know they’re yours until it’s too late.
10) F*** the police- Do what you want! Mix and match or make up your own soul mate signal.
Scenarios:a) First meeting- Exactly what it says on the tin! The first time you meet your soulmate.
b) One hit / One miss- Sometimes you have someone’s mark but they don’t have yours, what do you do then?
c) No mark- You might not ever have a mark. Does it worry you? Do you think you can find love anyway?
d) Not matching marks, in love anyway- Maybe your soul mate is just a friend, or an asshole set to take over the world, no matter what you’re not dating them. You’re dating someone else, and their mark isn’t yours.
e) Lost your mark before you met- One day there’s a pain ripping through you, or maybe no feeling at all, but your mark disappears, or something else happens to it and you know you’ve missed your chance to meet them.
f) Multiple marks- It’s definitely possible to have more than one soul mate, the question is are you all each other’s soulmates, or is there conflict to be had here?
g) Childhood Soulmates- You got super lucky. You met your soulmate as a kid and have had them ever since through ups and downs, fighting bad guys, or going to school they are there with you.
h) Knowledge, but no relationship- Maybe there’s an age difference, a matter of non-fraternization, long distance, some sort of complication that keeps you from being with your soul mate even after you’ve met them.
j) Too little, too late- You found them, but you mistreated them, or they mistreated you. There are better options out there even if you were supposedly meant to be with them. So, one of you is ending it.
k) Wild Card- You know how this works. Make up your own, play Frankenstein with the options, whatever fills your dance card.
Bond Optional Effects:Maybe you’ve been sharing this with them your whole lives and it’s just natural, or maybe it doesn’t kick in until you finally meet.
i) Telepathy: It’s kind of great to be able to communicate silently with someone. Except for how you can’t turn it off as reliably as you’d like.
ii) Locational: You have a built in soul mate gps system. You’re on the Moon, but you sure as hell know they’re on the third floor of that shitty apartment building you thought they were going to move out of in Pittsburg.
iii) Directional: They could be offworld or two rooms away, but you always know what direction to turn to find them.
iv) Empathetic: They can’t hide anything from you because you always know when they’re guilty, when they’re angry, happy or sad. Unfortunately, it might also mean you like their best friend more than you think you really should after just meeting them.
v) Pain: Suddenly being clumsy and stubbing your toe takes on a whole new meaning when someone else suffers with you. They might kind of deserve it for getting shot that one time when you were in high school.
vi) Powers: Suddenly, you can walk through walls, disappear, and fly, because your soul mate is much more unique than another guy! Or maybe they’re just really good at swimming and you happen to call on that talent sometime.
vii) Past Lives: Apparently, you’ve been there, done this with your soul mate a crap load of times. You just didn’t remember it until you meet them again.
viii) Mortality: Neither can live while the other survives. No wait that’s Harry Potter and Voldemort I mean, you literally will not survive if your soul mate dies, but well, there isn’t exactly a way to test that unless one of your gets close to dying, right?
ix) Sexual Pleasure: Obligatory smut option. You orgasm your soul mate orgasms and it reverberates between you. That super special sex. Or super awkward when they masturbate while you’re at work.
x) Make Your Own: These are trope examples, but I’m sure there are many other things your creative minds could come up with to share. The connections could go one-way or both-ways, and each soul mate is going to connect to the others differently.
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