Through Fields of Wild Flowers
Summary: Youāve lived a life full of adventure and excitement, youāve met interesting people, and youāve fought them too. This is the story of how you found your soulmates and the journey to find your perfect match.
Prompt:Ā People have flower buds that grow from their head that slowly grow the closer you get to meeting your soulmate. Most people have more than one type of flower that grows, each species signifying a different soulmate. They grow at different rates and only bloom when you touch your soulmate for the first time. When youāve met all of your soulmates, you have a flower crown that stays vivacious and flourishing until you die.
A/N: This is my submission for @sorryimacrapwriterāās writing challenge (two months late, Iām sorry.) Itās absolutely the longest one-shot Iāve ever written, weighing in at 52 pages and 27.3k words. Iām not gonna lie, Iām super in love this fic. Iāve poured my soul into it, and I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do.
Page Dividers by @carryonmyswansongā
Pairing(s): Avengers&Reader, Scott LangxReader, Stucky
Word Count: 27.3k
Warnings: None
I vividly remember my first bloom. I was fourteen. Her name was Kara. We met in art class and immediately became best friends. The little pink carnations that sprouted overnight just solidified her place in my life and we both squealed when we saw each other the next morning. Of course, we got teased initially. No one finds their soulmate at fourteen, and girls definitely didnāt have soulmates that were also girls. That just simply wasnāt what was done. We shrank from the abuse, but our flowers never withered. We never grew apart. We were best friends. Forever bonded. We were soulmates.
We were taught about soulmates from a young age. Adults talked about the bonds between humans and the flower crowns that sprouted and bloomed when we met our mates. When our souls met and the ties of fate seemed to finally solidify. Soulmates were played up to be these important romantic connections, and itās clear that no one ever thought about the possibility of platonic soulmates. The concept was pretty openly ridiculed. I just thought that the fuller crowns were more beautiful. That those people were lucky to have so many people important to them in their lives to care about and love.
Most of our parents only had one or two blooms in their crowns and they very rarely told us who they got them from, brushing us off when we asked, saying something about not remembering. Most kids gave up after they were yelled at for pressing the issue one too many times. After that, they wouldnāt really look for answers on their own. Now that Iām older, I think our parents were scared to admit that their blooms werenāt from their spouse. The shame surrounding such a thing has never been something that I understood. My parents had always been very upfront with me about their relationship. None of their soulmates had ever been romantic connections and they didnāt see the point of chasing after that connection when they had already found happiness together. Looking back now, I realize that I was lucky to have had the education I did.
As I got older, I never really found myself obsessing over finding my soulmates. I graduated from high school and moved on to college. I watched as everyone around me filled out their crowns and rushed into relationships. I never understood it. Everyone wound up heartbroken and slumped in their seats the next day.
I met Scott Lang my junior year of college. Somehow we wound up on the roof of the student apartment building when someoneās party got out of hand. We both wanted to escape. At that time I still only had my little pink carnations and Scott had a spray of clover haloing his head.
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I have no wordsā¦ This was an incredibly well written fic that Iāll probably think about and read over and over agin. It is such an eloquent story that tugs at your heart strings.Ā The concept of platonic soulmates isnāt talked enough, but itās such a beautiful concept.Ā
I loved the fact that Scott and the reader were thought of as platonic soulmates at first because it really sets the story up. The pace, the characterizations, the overall plot?! ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! Itās amazing how you so beautifully wrote this story. It doesnāt feel as long as the word count is because of how well the story flows. I also loved that little parts of the MCU timeline was included.Ā
The ending was so bittersweet. Mostly because of the fact that I didnāt want this story to end. So thank you for writing such an amazingly heartwarming story and sharing it with us.Ā
