I'm curious what soulmate au you'd come up with for your fave tma ship
see my fave tma ship is jongerry and their only canon interaction is after gerry has already died, as his soul is bound to the catalogue of the trapped dead (i like my soulmate aus set in canon oops)
au: any marks on your soulmate's skin (scars, tattoos) show up on your body, but in a shade close to your skin colour (less obvious, you should be able to decide if you want tattoos on your own)
Jonathan Sims has never thought about the marks on his skin; the scars his soulmate have are hard to make out unless he looks for them. He's always been more focused on his studies, and for a short time, Georgie.
It's not unusual for people to be in relationships before they meet their soulmate, or after. There's nothing to say that the connection has to be romantic.
Jon thinks about soulmates much the same way he does A Guest for Mr. Spider - that is to say, not at all.
Then days after he starts working in the Magnus Institute's research department, he sees eyes covering the joints on his hands. A closer look in a mirror tells him that the eyes are over every joint he has, and over his heart, making him wonder for the first time what the universe was thinking when they made the match.
The eyes are a minor inconvenience; he invests in some cover-up make-up for the ones on his face and takes to wearing gloves more often when the weather turns cold. Painting his nails black distracts from the multiple eyes on his fingers.
When his body gets covered in scars everywhere except the eyes and - he admits he's thankful for it- above his neck a couple of days before Christmas, he shrugs it off as a trick of the eye and strange circumstances. He has a fleeting thought about his soulmate's wellbeing, but he has taken on a lot of work in an attempt to forget about the holidays.
And then he find himself Head Archivist, and he's recording a statement about an incident that happened around when he got his scars, about a burn victim whose burns matches his.
He has a description and a name for his soulmate.
He could find them - him - if he wanted, but being Head Archivist and going through statements takes priority.
Gerard Keay continues to show up in statements, and Jon finds himself starting to grow fond of him. With everything else happening around him, it's good to know that his soulmate is aware of the same version of the world.
That he's not repeating what happened with Georgie.
And then he's travelling around the world trying to follow Gertrude's footsteps, and with hers, Gerards.
And then he finds reports that Gerard died from complications with brain cancer in 2014.
Jon has been looking for a dead man. He doesn't have time to mourn.
And then he's kidnapped by two hunters.
And then they hand him a book and direct him to a page, where he slowly reads the account of Gerard's death.
And then he's face to face with a ghost.
The only kindness Jon can give his soulmate is calling him Gerry, and burning a page.













