SOULBONDS. people who break up with their bond and have massive social stigma thereafter, requiring support groups. soulbond-themed porn. viral videos of someone unexpectedly meeting their bond. platonic bonding being rare so that platonic bondmates are routinely mistaken for lovers. the thoughts of the greek philosophers on bonding (plato pro, aristotle anti-till he meets alexander the great). what did simone de beauvoir think? fans dreaming of bonding with their idol. one of them being right.
I basically have nothing to add to this except HEART EYES
*tags with #fic inspiration for later*
man I am weirdly into the support group one though! like, not just people who are ironically incompatible with their soulmate (oh god the words conscious uncoupling just came to mind, I hate you Gwyneth Paltrow) and maybe end up better off as friends, or better off on the other side of the country where they can't feel them anymore**. BUT ALSO thinking about the fact that not every person in the world is a winner, lbr, serial killers and pedophiles and domestic abusers have to get soulbonded to someone, and can you imagine the guilt that comes with being the soul mate of someone like that? what kind of person could they possibly be?
*okay BUT NOW I want a soul mate fic where a pair of soulmates find each other on a Seeker trip, or maybe just in college! and they get together and live together and fight together and make each other miserable, pretty much, and finally decide to fuck all those goddamn therapists and what their families keep telling them and break up because it isn't working, and maybe Person A coincidentally get a job offer on the other side of the country at just the right time? you can only feel the pangs from so far away, right, it'll hurt those first few weeks but then it will be gone! and then Person A calls up Person B a few years later, like, they want me to transfer back to NYC, is that... is that okay? and Person B shrugs because yeah, sure, they've got a girlfriend and a dog and its all good here, and the bond starts to creep in, little by little, now that they're next to each other. and part of my wants the story to end all platonically, just enjoying each other from a distance. and a part of me thinks that they get back together now, older and wiser and rebuilding what they broke to be that much stronger. IDK. SOUL BONDS!
