Do they believe in soulmates?
Notes: They need to bring Valko back because all of my headers are grainy as fuck and I need new pictures, but I refuse to log in. Right when I finally got everyone's third myth outfits too, I was so hype to take those photos. Anyways if you want the old version of this post it's here
Xavier
he does now
soulmates meant choosing each other every single time
not because of destiny or fate but because they wanted each other, needed each other
defying fate and destiny to be with each other for even a moment longer
racing against time and extinction for a glimpse of their faces and a whisper of their voices
missing them when they're lifetimes apart, waiting patiently for them to reincarnate and join him once again
not even death could keep them apart
that's what soulmates meant
Zayne
yes firmly and without a doubt soulmates are real
matter of fact he believes in past and parallel lives too
sure the Fractal library kind of makes it cheating since he's been proven correct
but that's not why he believes it just supports something he decided was true a very long time ago
he believes in soulmates because what else could this be called?
his coworkers used to find his belief in soulmates uncharacteristic given his disposition
that's very quickly changed when they see him around his partners
he doesn't think there's any significant change in his behavior when he's with his partners versus when he's without them
everyone around him fervently disagrees
his pupils literally dilate every time he sees his partners
Rafayel
he does
Lemurians live for love
it was something he forgot sometimes
between all the sorrow and loss, it was so easy to forget that the reason was for love
in the years before finding his lovers he only had half remembered nightmares of fear and pain
the feeling of a warm body turning into cold sea foam in his arms was frighteningly familiar
soulmates exist and he knew he had one (so many) but that meant so little when every everything hurt so much
but as all things did, they clicked as he gathered the pieces of himself
they had been at a Lemurian funeral, the seven of them sat together on the shore with the small waves lapping at their bodies, hands interlocked, leaning on each other, pressing kisses to foreheads and cheeks, whispered words of comfort
behind him his people sang and dance, played music and celebrated the life of their loved one, children ran on the beach and played games, adults exchanged easy conversation
it was then he knew
Yes.
This is what love was
love for his soulmates
love for his people
love for himself
this was what the Lemurians meant when they said they live for love
Sylus
he's worked so hard to make soulmates real fuck literally everyone else's opinion
whether soulmates are real for anyone else couldn't matter any less to him
what matters is that he worked hard across multiple lifetimes to make sure he has his hoard with him
fate could go fuck itself
fate wanted him and Lyra to kill each other
fate wanted Zayne trapped in the Fractal Library
fate wanted Xavier to die a gruesome death in service of Philos
fated wanted Caleb to become nothing more than a weapon to be used
fate wanted Rafayel to lose all sense of himself to serve his people and the ocean's will
fate wanted Valko dead
fuck fate
fuck predestined soulmates
he chose his soulmates and has made sure they are his
fate couldn't take credit for that
Caleb
he doesn't know if soulmates are real still, frankly he doesn't care
fate mattered little to him
he was where he was always meant to be
somewhere soft and warm filled with people who love him like it was breathing
like this was what he had been to be
on strange days when he is alone in the Farspace Fleet while they steal his memories away from him, he knows that no matter what the important things will stay
loving them would stay no matter how many times he was rewritten
as if it was woven into the fibers of his being to love them
like this was what he was supposed to be
they were the missing pieces of who he was
the other half that was torn away from him before he could even understand what that meant
it's why everything good in life led back to them
and he was okay with that
Lyra
she stands by her words that it doesn't matter if soulmates are real or not
the whole spiel about bending fate and time to her will is even more so true now than ever before
but more than that she has come to a very interesting discovery about herself
she existed for love
the universe that loves so much it wanted it to experience itself as a human girl
from the sinew of her body to the marrow of her bones, every cell of her body was made to be this
to be something that could experience the little loves some distant version of her had crafted from the threads of the universe
each time she danced, every song she loved, every strand of hair she carefully brushed, every hug she gave, every kiss was her reason for existing
the universe wanted a chance to say I love you back
and so she was
Valko
of course he does!
look this man in his big yellow eyes and tell me he doesn't believe in true love and soulmates
he was raised on stories of fated mates and destined bonds, of finding that person who would complement him
he was so fucking lucky it wasn't just one person
he got six soulmates
how cool was that?
six soulmates who were all so different yet worked so well with him and each other
six soulmates who sacrificed life and limb to get him back in their arms even though they knew so little about him
they love him even without really knowing him
they want to save him
to hold his hands and kiss his palms, cradle his face in their blood-soaked hands and promise that he's loved
if that wasn't soulmates what was?
