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Nonsense
@soulmateseptember
Summary: Written for Soultember 2023. Set before Httyd 1. A soulmate. Everyone has one, but not everyone is lucky enough to meet theirs. The only thing you have to lead you are your first spoken words. Despite growing up surrounded by a tightknit village, Hiccup feels alone. And as his First Spoken Words sound like nonsense to him, he fears his soulmate, too, will be as out of reach as the acceptance and love that he seeks from his father and his tribe.
Warning: /
Rating: General
Characters: Hiccup
Pairing: Hicctooth (platonic)
Words: 530
Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon
Prompt: First Words
Author’s Notes: My only prompt written for Soultember 2023.
Enjoy! :)
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Nonsense. The words sound like nonsense to him.
Ever since Hiccup figured out it were his soulmate’s first words to him that he could hear inside his head, he’s been trying to figure out what they’ve been saying.
Soulmates know they’ve found one another when the first words they speak directly to each other matches the ones they’ve been hearing in the backs of their minds for their entire lives. They’re literally referred to as; The First Spoken Words.
Unfortunately for Hiccup, he hasn’t been able to figure out what his mean. He’s tried to look into sagas, requested book after book from Trader Johann, talked with seafaring merchants that have come from far off places and dared to sail up to the Barbaric Archipelago despite the Dragon Scourge.
None of them have been able to tell him anything so far, not even the language he’s hearing.
In a bout of anger, he throws another book at the wall. It lands on his desk, causing some of his pencils and papers to fall to the ground. It makes quite a bit of noise in his quiet house, but he finds himself unable to care. He’s home alone, his dad has left on another quest to find the Dragon’s Nest.
Sitting on his bed, the 14-year-old, just shy of 15, pulls his blankets around himself. As if concealment will somehow hide him away from the world. As if it’ll somehow shield him from the apparent fact that he can’t even decipher his soulmate’s first words to him.
He doesn’t even know what language they’re spoken in. By now he knows English, French, Gaelic, Latin, bits and pieces of a few others… But none… none seem to match the things he’s been hearing for as long as he can remember.
The odd sounds that echo endlessly in his mind, begging to be solved. They’re just growls. Growls and what sounds like a screech. They make absolutely no sense to him. They sound so animalistic, he can’t hear a single word. He would almost think his soulmate a dragon if not for the fact that this was completely impossible.
Though how ironic would it be? The embarrassment of Berk’s soulmate, his soul’s life partner, can’t even be the right species. They can’t even be on the same side of a war that’s been going on for the past 300 years.
He feels so alone. In a tight knit village of only a little over a 100 people, there’s no where he truly belongs, no one who even wants to hold a normal conversation with him. Not unless it’s to talk about how he should change literally everything about himself before anyone would consider him worthy of “normal conversation.” No friends, his father is always as far away from him as he possibly can… In a place in which no one seems to want him, he thought he could at least have his soulmate with him.
Apparently, he thought wrong.
Still hiding away, wrapped in his blanket, he lies down. His heart aches as he’s plagued by his First Spoken Words, knowing he’s never going to find out who- or what- they belong to.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Darcy Lewis, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Jane Foster/Thor
Characters: Darcy Lewis, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Jane Foster (Marvel), Peggy Carter, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson (Marvel)
Additional Tags: WinterShock - Freeform, Alternate Universe – Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, perfectly ordinary time travel, Jetlag, Minor Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson (Marvel), Minor Clint Barton/Laura Barton, Minor Sharon Carter/Maria Hill
Series: Part 72 of Bingo Bonanza, Part 13 of Soul to Soul
Summary:
Darcy had never believed that soulmarks were the be-all and end-all of relationships, so when she met Ian Boothby she was delighted to find that he held similar views and allowed herself to quickly fall in love with him.
Going to Nepal (or is it Tibet?) for an isolated spiritual retreat where there was no chance of meeting their actual soulmates (they were both late December) really appealed to her.
Except—of course—Ian meets his soulmate and has a complete change of mind, leaving Darcy to find her way home at the busiest time of the year.
Bingo info under the cut
Title: Soulmate For The New Year
Chapter title: A Monastery Somewhere in Nepal (or possibly Tibet)
Squares/Prompts Filled:
Soultember, Fun Holidays
DLBHQ Mega Bingo Card: S5, Travel
Warm and Fluffy Bingo: O5, Soulmarks
Author: ibelieveinturtles
Fandom: MCU
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Darcy Lewis, Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter, Jane Foster/Thor
Rating: G
Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Soultember, No powers AU
Summary: Darcy had never believed that soulmarks were the be-all and end-all of relationships, so when she met Ian Boothby she was delighted to find that he held similar views and allowed herself to quickly fall in love with him.
Going to Nepal (or is it Tibet?) for an isolated spiritual retreat where there was no chance of meeting their actual soulmates (they were both late December) really appealed to her.
Except—of course—Ian meets his soulmate and has a complete change of mind, leaving Darcy to find her way home at the busiest time of the year.
Summary CH1: So here she was, miles and miles from any real sort of civilization, no cell service, hardly any cash, and the barest minimum of the local language. She'd been dumped. Abandoned. Left on her own. So, first things first—get off the mountain, call Jane, and get herself home.
A/N: Part 4/5 for this year of @soulmateseptember .
“What the hell even is that?”
“You see my point?”
Elle asks with a laugh, Emily’s soft fingers tracing over the soul freckles making her smile. Emily pulls away slowly then turns her wrist. A perfectly shaped gun sits in the freckles and Elle laughs a little.
“So I get a crown for Mommy’s Little Princess and you get something actually logical… great.”
“You still found me.”
“Yeah, thanks to JJ.”
Elle murmurs and leans a little closer, wrapping an arm around Emily’s waist.
“Not that I mind, I got my girl, that’s good enough for me.”
They’ve talked about it before, but as they watch JJ with Alex it’s all the clearer that they were truly blessed to have such a sweet and understanding friend who seemed to be gifted with the ability to make sense of people’s soul freckles.
A/N: Part 1/5 for this years @soulmateseptember . Gifs below made by my girl @notsosecretlyalesbian .
“Monet in Paris?”
Sylvia sounds unsure, stopping even as she looks at Alex. Her breathing is slightly husky, rough and Alex moves quickly to pull her closer, wrapping her arms tightly around Sylvia, her lips brushing the woman’s ear.
“Trust me Love… please?”
“W… why?”
“You need to be free again.”
Sylvia takes a breath, holding Alex tight until her breath evened out. She follows Alex in, her eyes seeking out the painting, then her breath hitches as Alex leads her into the final room. Her work, her original work, her studies of Monet, all of it is here.
“Alex…”
“You deserve to be celebrated.”
Alex sounds so sure that Sylvia doesn’t fight her, choosing instead to kiss the woman who had healed her fractured soul.
