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The Soulmate? Jamjar?? Meme

So whatever you were doing - sleeping, eating, dying - you've been whisked away to a strange place. Well, no, actually it's a pretty cozy-looking apartment, it has an entire fridge and everything - but it definitely is not where you were. You should not have woken up in this apartment's only bed, along with somebody you've never seen before.

After you stop having hilarious misunderstandings with your bedmate, you may make your way outside only to find: it's pretty nice out here? Very 21st century suburbia. Some of the buildings seem a little out of place, like someone requested a jousting arena and a virtual reality room and the Angel did their best to fit them in-

Wait, back up a second.

The giant angel flying by (white wings, halo, radiance, the works), upon seeing you gawking, will happily inform you that this is your new home, and they brought you here because your soulmate was tragically born in another world. But now you're here together, living peacefully with nothing to stop your love from blossoming!

And no, they won't send you back. You'll be much happier here once you get used to it. Living side by side with your soulmate and being encouraged to get to know them, or get to know them, what else do you need?

Options, because we like options:
1. Soulmates are a known thing. Apply all the soulmate tropes you wish - not seeing color until you meet your soulmate, having your soulmate's name written on your body, etc. You can tell that at least the Angel's claims about this person being your soulmate are true. It doesn't necessarily make things less awkward.

2. Soulmates, what hogwash! Soulmates aren't a thing that everyone knows about and everyone has where you're from. You might believe in them, but you also believed in Santa when you were younger. Or you might think this whole thing is stupid, and your growing attachment to your 'soulmate' is just a coincidence.

(Post with character name/canon name/shipping preference. Due to the nature of this meme, cross-canon CR is encouraged and almost essential unless you have some alternate universe shenanigans in your canon.)

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[glowingpromise]

[The concept of having a soulmate wasn't so unusual. When she was in high school it had been a much more exciting topic, the first blushes of puberty and romantic attraction making every girl and guy she knew view missing objects in a much brighter light. Instead of annoyance over losing a hair clip or a pen or even a favorite CD, there was gushing over how "it must be with my soulmate!".

That's how it was said to work. Now and then an object you really liked would just vanish into seemingly thin air and poof, it would end up in your soulmate's possession. It had been confirmed often enough that Shiori assumed there had to be some merit to it. And in spite of that she had never bothered to write her name on anything she owned in spite of her friend's insistence. Nothing ever seemed to go missing for her anyhow.

... Well, not until she had gone back to school after her tumultuous summer break in Azakawa Village. And then things had begun to disappear into rapid fire succession as if they were all making up for the years of staying put. One day it was a textbook she had spent a fair bit of money on, the next it was a CD of her favorite singer. Even clothing just popped out of existence and she was beginning to completely lose her patience by the time winter break rolled around.

She wasn't going to let these vanishings dampen her trip though. She had promised Suga she would come back and she was going to do it whether she had to buy a completely new wardrobe or not. The days she was set to arrive in Azakawa approached and she actually managed to make it mostly intact! Her mood is bright when she steps off the train.]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Objects appearing in Suga's home were a surprise.

At some point, Suga must have assumed that he didn't have a soulmate, that he was meant to live alone and not drag anyone else into his dangerous existence. And he was fine with that, more or less.

But after the Kotori Obake was put to rest, he started finding things. A textbook, a CD of a singer he'd never listened to, clothing that definitely would not fit him. It was embarrassing to think of who these items might belong to, but for now he put them in one room and tried not to think about them too much.

That this was the guest room slipped his mind all the way up to Shiori's arrival.

Of course, he was waiting for her. When he finally saw her step off the train-]

Shii-chan!

[His voice has gotten a little stronger, enough that he can call out to her. Not that there's a crowd he needs to speak over or anything. It just deserves some volume.]