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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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[ghostfromthemachine]

[ looks at the writing all over her arms

looks at him ]

I didn't say it was anything to apologize for.

[gemuinemanagement]

[She's very kind. He smiles at her brightly. dokidoki]

timeskip after this maybe? sorry for a tag that's just Kaiko Introspection it got away from me

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ how dare he be nice AND cute. how dare!!

(some stubborn fraction of her wants to put her foot down. to say "no, I refuse this," just for the sake of contrariness, to prove that she doesn't need a soulmate and that she won't be happy here, because that damn angel was wrong and can go right to Hell.

the rest of her—the parts that have settled in as she's grown and gotten to know herself and fully acknowledged that she has a serious problem with cutting off her nose to spite her face, and is also a ridiculous pushover in the face of almost any sort of affection at all—does the equivalent of going "yes, yes" and patting that more rebellious spark on the head.

sometimes it's worth fighting the inevitable with everything you've got, but... fighting an inevitability once was probably enough.) ]

timeskiiip

[gemuinemanagement]

[The angel does his best to provide for the requests of those here, and happily makes a mine for Suga to harvest raw materials from. He's used to working with night glowstone, but gems of any kind, he can handle.

After a week or so, he returns to their room with a necklace of sapphires and rubies. The craftsmanship is second to none, and it would no doubt be worth a great deal.

He holds it out to her, a slight blush on his cheeks.]

Re: timeskiiip

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ Kaiko, meanwhile, had immediately demanded a library upon finding out that the angel was taking requests and promptly buried herself. congratulations, Suga, your soulmate is a huge nerd.

she looks up at his approach and visibly startles, eyes going wide as she sits up properly. holy HECK?! ]

You made that?

[gemuinemanagement]

[He nods with a wide smile. His craftsmanship is one of the few things he actually takes pride in, and for good reason.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ no KIDDING?! squeaky ]

You— you know, I maybe should have expected something like this considering you said you made a sword, but.

[ she is going very pink in the face. and ears. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[No need to ask if she likes it, then. He nudges it a little in her direction.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ she starts to reach for it, hesitates, then goes "mmm" under her breath in the most frazzled way possible and reaches up to pull her hair away from her neck instead. ]

...will you put it on for me?

[ because she is feeling thoroughly wooed, and if they are going right for romance novel levels of gestures she is going to commit, damn it. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Oh! Okay. Suga steps behind her and carefully clasps the necklace around Kaiko's neck.

She looks wonderful in it, like he knew she would.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ the back of her neck is also pink. amazing.

something interesting does happen when he closes the clasp— the colors of her hair brighten and intensify, and she just seems a little more solidly present, in a difficult-to-define way. ...her vague static prickle also goes from a faint tickle to the fuzzy feeling one might get from holding their hand near a CRT monitor. offerings!

as soon as he's done she reaches up to catch his sleeve, her other hand coming up to touch the necklace. ]

... thank you.

[gemuinemanagement]

[Huh. Not even his charms usually do that, and this is just a normal necklace. Offerings indeed.

He traces his words with his finger on the back of her hand.]

You're welcome

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ she very narrowly avoids making any of a number of embarrassing noises in response to that— it tickles, and she is far too aware of his hands at the moment, aaand either he has thoroughly beaten her at her own (trolling) game or he's completely oblivious. possibly both. ]

I think you've officially gotten revenge for the compliments.

[ her voice is mostly a mumble, and after a moment she gives up and tips forward to rest her forehead on him. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Probably both. The notion that people other than him get embarrassed has not occurred to Suga.

To confirm this, he looks confused at her comment, then blushes when she leans her forehead against him. They are... very close, aren't they. He looks at the ceiling.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ Suga? she is approximately the same color as the rubies? Suga???

she gives herself around five seconds to enjoy the contact and also to try to calm the heck down before pulling back and letting go. ]

Sorry. ...I extra owe you dinner now, though, so if you have any requests...?

[ not that she hasn't already more or less taken over cooking solely to save him from himself, but. there's making dinner and then there's making dinner. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[It's hot in here okay. At least it feels hot to him.

He shakes his head. No, he doesn't have any requests, and also no she doesn't owe him dinner. But anything she makes it leagues better than what he can do for himself anyway.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ pats his arm (and resists the urge to further counterattack by poking him right in the blush. maybe if he pulls something like this again.) ]

You do realize I'm just going to take that as a challenge to make something good enough you have to request it again later.

[gemuinemanagement]

[He shakes his head more firmly. She's allowed to make whatever she wants and he won't complain about it!!]

[ghostfromthemachine]

Nope! Challenge accepted.

You do realize this is something I'm doing for you, right? Half the fun is figuring out what you like best.

[gemuinemanagement]

[This one he needs to pull out his pad of memo paper to answer.]

But why

[ghostfromthemachine]

Why am I doing it, or why is it fun?

[gemuinemanagement]

Both
?

[ghostfromthemachine]

Why did you want to make me a necklace?

...That aside, it's, um. It's something to do, and it's a way of getting to know you better...?

[ she hesitates for a moment, and considers leaving it at that, but. is there really any point in being cagey about herself outside of the cases where it's for her own comfort? ]

I used to... I was homeless, for a while. And I still needed to eat then. So the people who took me in taught me to cook, and... in the end I ended up sort of taking over that part of contributing to the household, I suppose. So I enjoy that sort of thing.

[gemuinemanagement]

[That does make sense. He doesn't think less of her for the admission - goodness knows he's been in worse states.]

Everything you make is delicious

[So she doesn't need to try very hard.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ funnily, she is less fussy over "I was homeless," and more over "everyone who has ever cared for me has at least partly done it through feeding me and I have perhaps internalized that somewhat."

puffing up a bit ]

I would hope so. But I'm still going to be looking for favorites.