Soulmate AU idea: Paint and Canvas.
I NEED SOMEONE ELSES THOUGHTS, please?! I wanted to mesh together several different soulmate ideas and came up with the Paint and Canvas AU. I wanted it to be fluffy as hell but it has the potenial to be dark, too. I just needed a break from a main book I am writing right now and thought I could wright a short story on this. I want to know what y'all think; should I change, add, or take away something? Or let me know if someone else had come up with this idea! I would love to look at their version!
Paint and Canvas deals with the following S/M ideas:
Red String of Fate: as expected, a red string connects two people that are fated to have big impacts on their lives. It can be platonic, romantic, or between protagonist and antagonist. A pair (or more) that share a Red String are considered Fated Ones or Fated Pair. The following S/M ideas play with the RSOF more than the String being what it actully is.
Emotions and Eyesight: There were tons of ideas based off of emotions being felt or the eyesight. I have chosen the color of emotions mixed with eyesight changes based off the emotions. There are 3 catagoroes of people: The Grey, The Paint, and the Canvas. The Grey deals with those whose soulmates have died; there are the cases of one soulmate becoming blind and the other becoming a Grey as a result. A Grey is a person who sees only in greys, black, and white. In contrast, we have the Paint that sees in normal, everyday colors. The Paint can see the String when within a mile of their Fated One. Finally, we have the Canvas that sees only in the color of the emotion that is strongest within the Paint. This strong emotion is like wearing tinted goggles so that eyesight is not a monotone plane of color. The Canvas can only see the String if the Paint is physically touching them anywhere on their skin. This is due to the Canvas not being able to make up the color of the String by themselves. One knows if they become a Grey because they do not have the tinted color. Here is where the angst can happen: a Paint having such a horrible life that they only project black towards a Canvas so the Canvas believes their Fated One has died. Then there is the fluff/humor: A Canvas seeing mostly in different shades of pinks during key times such as mornings, afternoons, and bedtimes as if the Paint was saying "good morning", "welcome home", and "goodnight." These colored emotions can be projected no matter how far apart they are.
Physical Color Changes: I liked the concepts that dealt with color changes on a person's self. They had a whole bunch of S/M ideas (from hair to skin to nails to even blood color changes) but I went with the eyes again. The whole 'eyes-are-the-portal-to-the-soul' cliche. I made it where the color of emotion that is projected onto the Canvas is the color of their eyes. A Paint would have the same color eyes as the Canvas because that emotion is the one that is "coloring the canvas" or "on the paintbrush" at the time. There are cases of heterochromia eyes when a Paint is feeling two strong emotions at the same time, and also a crazy phenomenon where a rainbow of color could happen during times of stress that is either caused by good or bad emotions. As expected, a Grey will only have black, grey, or white eyes. The Grey's eye color comes from within so whichever emotion they are feeling the most at the time will decide their eye color. The general white is 'good' and black is 'bad' applies here. When a Grey is conflicted or too many emotions spills through, their eyes become a shade of grey. Depending on the most likely used color out of black and white, the grey will lean towards that color when a barrage of emotions happen at once. If it was not clear: If a Grey is generally a happy person then when they feel a large dosage of emotions their eyes will change from white to a light grey. This barrage of emotions- again- can be good or bad. If the same Grey as the example experienced the birth of their child they might be overwhelmed with emotion and their eye color turns light grey. It would still turn into light grey if the same Grey test-dummy would see their partner die while giving birth. (Is this too specific? Should I not be limiting the grey hues as much?)
Taking/Receiving Emotions: This is going back to the String and will play a large part in the world building part. The String is a one way circuit. A Paint can not take emotion away from a Canvas nor can a Canvas give emotion to a Paint. That being said, a Paint can not give emotions to a Canvas. They can only send tinted colors over. A Canvas, on the other hand, will be able to do three things with a Paints emotions: take, feel, or feed. Taking an emotion makes that emotion the Canvas' own. It makes the Paint not feel that emotion until the Canvas decide to give it back. A Canvas can only take emotions if they are touching their Fated One. As a Canvas nears their Paint within the mile radius, they will start to feel the emotion that is tinting their vision. The closer they are the stronger the signal between them. Feeding is much like taking an emotion only that the Canvas is not taking the emotion away completely. The Fated Pair(or OT-insert-number-here) feel the same emotion at the same time, and the Paint controls what emotion is being felt. This feeding can only happen when the Paint is touching the skin of the Canvas, allowing the Canvas to see and touch the String. The major difference between taking and feeding is that taking is done completely by force while feeding is done with consent. The consent can be emotionally, verbally, or mentally given. Being forced does not hurt the Paint but a feeling of 'wrongness' might overtake them. Paints would not like being forced because of the idea of never feeling that emotion again until the Canvas gave it back. A Canvas can only give an emotion back if they are holding the String and are feeling that emotion the strongest. A paint risks losing the emotion if the Canvas refuses to grab the String again or if the Canvas has an emotion that outranks the stolen emotion. If you want to skip the example go to the bolded italic words with ashtrics, but if it was not clear, continue on. As the example progresses, if you are not sure of what is being expressed then read what is in (brackets) to get a better understanding (examples within examples...huh i could do this better but eehhh) Example time: Think of an actual canvas, an artist acting as the String, and the color as the paint/emotion. Now, an artist brushes their paintbrush over the canvas but accidentally applied too much paint because the canvas was rougher than what they are use to. (Canvas taking emotions when the Paint did not consent.) Trying to fix the problem, the artist can either panic or think rationally. If they panic, they might try to paint over the mistake with another color and this causes the canvas to smear over, losing the original color until they can calm down enough to carefully fix the problem. (This relates to how a Canvas might have panic over taking an emotion from the Paint which makes the String hard to work with.) If the painter remains calm, they can use their brush to mop up the extra color before it cools or changes and return it to the paint bucket//them circle things (I call it a damn bucket because I'm am uncouth swine). (Here, the artist is a symbol of the level of connection between the Canvas and the Paint. If the connection(string) is not shocked by emotions then the transfer back would happen whenever the Canvas gives it back .) ******Okay, end of the example.******* There are some problems with the concept, though. I don't know if I should make it where the level of emotion stolen will return at the same level or as a weaker version. If at the same level, I would make it were the Canvas needs to feel it at the same level that they received it to be able to give it back. If at a weaker/stronger level then the Canvas can feel the emotion, send it over as however powerful the Canvas is feeling it, and the Painter would lose that ability to feel that emotion at the level that it was stolen. Short Example: If the Canvas takes a high level of panic but returns it at a low level then the Paint can not feel panic higher than that low level. They may feel lower than the low level.
Okay I don't have time right now to go into the whole world building such as the way people view each type, how Paint and Canvas react to one another, or if there are laws in place for certain aspects of the Fated Ones. I want to go more into these points but at a later date. Please, everyone! Help me by giving me your opinions and feedback. Drop some ideas in or give me constructive criticism. Please no bashing! I tried hard on this and thought some of you might like it! I will be posting links later to where I got my ideas incase anyone wanted to look into any of the other S/M AUs I listed.
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