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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.)

Comments

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ cuddles, possibly a nap, possibly also a movie if Suga's interested in some Ghibli— it's definitely a day for something more lighthearted than her usual tastes, and Spirited Away is close enough to a romance, right?

also definitely some white chocolate matcha truffles closer to lunchtime. happy Valentine's day, Suga. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Spirited Away is very cute and Suga cries a little during the reveal of Haku's real name. It's fine, he just gets emotional, it's fine...]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ that's a mood, though. Kaiko doesn't get visibly teary, but that's mostly because she's watched it a million times— and that just means she can cuddle up and pet Suga when he springs a leak.

(meanwhile, she'd shoved her face into his shoulder when No-face had first tempted their way into the bathhouse, and again during their rampage. it's just a little bit of projection, don't mind her.) ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Pets her hair when she hides. There, there.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ she isn't hiding, just Sad. ...also maybe a little anxious. there but for the grace of stubbornness and a lot of careful managing goes her...

petting good, though. movie also good. good... ???date??? that's a thought. which she is going to keep to herself for the moment. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Date good! Petting good!]

That was fun
We should do that again sometime

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ perking up ]

I have most of what that studio's made, and a lot of other animated movies. ...A lot of live-action, too, but most of those have sort of... mm. Bittersweet endings? If they aren't tragedies.

[ she's not inflicting those on him without explicit permission! he's too soft!

... even if she does really want to see how he reacts to Frankenstein. for reasons. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

Maybe not the tragedies
Unless you want me crying on you a lot

[ghostfromthemachine]

Mm, I figured probably not for those.

...There is one or two I think I'd like to watch with you at some point, because they mean a lot to me, but not unless you were, um, emotionally prepared? Or needed the catharsis, or something along those lines.

[gemuinemanagement]

I'll keep them in mind for later
If they're important to you, I want to share them with you

1/2

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ !!! smiling ]

We've got time.

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ ... and she shifts to kiss him on the cheek before she can overthink it ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[!!!

Kisses her cheek in return.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ immediately tries to hide her face against his shoulder before remembering she's trying to be better about not doing that for communication reasons

...averts her eyes to look at his hands instead ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[That's fine? As long as he can still talk to her. But words are complicated, so he kisses her other cheek instead.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ she has PROBLEM SOLVED

problem solving does not save her from the hot prickle of her own blush, though. feebly: ]

Nooo, I'm being attaaacked...

[ ...returning the favor to the corner of his mouth ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Suga attempts to repay the repaying the favor, but misses - instead of the corner of her mouth, he just gets. Her mouth.

Oh.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ tHAT ESCALATED MORE QUICKLY THAN ANTICIPATED

she freezes, and— there goes the static, one hand tightening on his shirt as she fluffs up in surprise and belatedly startles away. ...after another moment of deer-in-headlights expression her other hand comes up to touch her mouth. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

Sorry
I didn't mean to
I wouldn't without asking
Sorry sorry sorry

[Bury him alive, please.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ ...makes a helpless keyspam noise that dissolves into unsteady giggles as she reaches for him to try to tug his head down against her shoulder or something. shhh ]

No, it's— it's all right, I'm sorry—

[ look at us we're both travesties ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Total disasters. Suga hides his bright red face in her shoulder - it's fine when he does it, obviously.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ petting him, combing her fingers through his hair a little.

(since he can't see her, though, she lets her expression drop into something closer to a thousand yard stare. she didn't mind it, but hello baggage falling off of the mental shelf she'd shoved it on and hitting her in the metaphorical face. that's getting dealt with on her own, though— she doesn't want to give him the wrong idea.) ]

You don't have to ask me. I was just— it was my first, so I was startled.

[gemuinemanagement]

Mine too

[He hesitates, bites his lip.]

But
I would've wanted it to be with you anyway
So that's good at least

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ ... nuzzling at his temple and deliberately dropping her voice low ]

Want to do a retake...?

[gemuinemanagement]

[Bright red!!

...he nods.]