Soulmates AU prompt: andromaquynh and 39?
@salzundhonig oh dear I took a while to get to this one, you changed blogs in-between xD but it fit to the fortnight prompt today, so I finally made myself write it!
anyhow, here goes...
Prompt: 'You and your soulmate share the same talents. What one learns, the other can also do.'
Oh man, I love that idea! Especially for the immortals, I mean they just have So Many skills that they could share... And after living together for a while, Andy & Quynh would definitely use it to their advantage with always one focusing on eg the language of a country they're travelling to and another learning a new fighting style... Also for post-canon Quynh, it would help her a lot to still have her aka Andromache's skillset instead of losing a lot through the time she spent drowning...
Oh man, there are so many ideas and I can't even decide what to write a ficlet about xD this AU deserves a proper fanfic, & if sb wants to do just that incorporating my ideas, feel free, just credit me/this post & let me know so I can read ittttt <3
How would this kind of skill sharing work though? Bc I was just thinking, it would be pretty damn weird if a newborn Quynh could talk in however many languages Andy speaks xD but then I'm thinking that that would bever problematic not just in that case but for normal mortals with even just 1+year age differences, too... So I'd say that when there's an age difference, a child gains more and more of their older soulmates skills growing up, and the skills line up completely once they're 18-20 or something. For the older person, they'd just gain whatever additional skills their soulmate slowly learns, so when Quynh's like one, Andy would be able to somewhat understand and only slightly speak Vietnamese.... and sixteen-year-old Quynh would impress/terrify everyone by knowing several martial arts better than her teachers, speaking the languages of many foreign merchants and being able to sneak up to everybody! xD
I'm also interested in Andy's perspective: first she might have thought she can't have a soulmate bc she's immortal, or maybe she thinks she could have had one and would have never noticed bc didn't notice added skills....
Okk I'm drifting off, let's actually write something!
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the fic got... long-ish xD at the very least more than a quick drabble for tumblr, so I'm posting to ao3! Hope you'll like it :)
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