veiled wonders (closed rp)
Soulmates. That’s what they were called. Each individual was predetermined to one even before their birth, whether they be much older than you or even younger, shorter or taller, cocky or kind. They were all different, and they couldn't be changed, not for any reason. They were the yin to your yang or vice versa, created to balance a person out. Some happened to show up earlier, some later, whenever in your life they were needed. The person you'd spoken to for years only to realize you two were meant to be? The explanation was plain and simple.
No person alive knew how they were generated. Some assumed it was coincidental, while more thought that the universe had something deeper to do with it, as if the reasons were rooted somewhere yonder the unknowns. It was impossible to find out. Science couldn't speak, either.
It wasn't impossible to find yours considering how easy it was told to be; you'd know if you were meant to be by the first greetings you exchange. If the two of you were each other's, your partner's words would engrave themselves into your mere skin in prominent, black ink, like bark markings on a tree. In any case, that wasn't to say it was easy. It could be anyone, from any part of the globe.
They came to you, not the other way around.
Few stupidly paid millions to find theirs, while for others a walk in the nearest park was all it took. They were naturally drawn to each other, and it seemed like everyone cared about searching for their significant others. The stories that were told, the glory and the benefits...
Frankly, Craig Tucker didn't care.
In fact, he was the only one in South Park -- the few in the world -- who couldn't care any less about it. By then his peers had already found theirs; Stan and Wendy, Clyde and Token, Kyle and, unfortunately for him, Cartman. There were few more others, but he and Kenny were one of the couple who remained alone.
Being nineteen, his parents hadn't approved of him playing as a lone wolf. They'd wanted him to look and settle down with -- hopefully -- a nice person. Too bad for them he hadn't been too interested. He currently had other things to ponder about other than finding someone he most likely wouldn't ever meet. There was a chance they were already dead, anyways. It didn't happen very often, but if your soulmate were to die, you could physically feel a piece of your heart shrivel up.
Or maybe he didn't have one, which rarely happened.
The teen had been sitting alone in the small coffee shop that day, typically minding his own business, face sporting a blank outlook, which wasn't anything new. He was in the middle of using his laptop to write something up, because hey, free wifi, something his parents had grounded him from. It wasn't like he drank any of that coffee stuff. Maybe sometimes, but it wasn't what he liked.
He wasn't expecting anything spontaneous at the moment. It would be a problem if he were. He was busy. He could keep his mind off it.