you know all those fucking magical soulmate aus where thereās a mark on your body (usually your wrist) that clues you into your soulmate? whether itās their first word or their name or their hair color or whatever. ANY of those AUs, take your pick.
just imagine. IMAGINE. imagine it with micheoff. imagine the first TWELVE YEARS of geoffās life. everyone around him being BORN with their marks, or getting their mark so early in their lives that they canāt even remember a time without it.
geoff bonding in fourth or fifth grade with other kids who donāt have a mark yet. and then slowlyā¦ they each get theirs. and geoff tries to be excited for them. but the older they get, the meaner kids are about him not having a soul mate mark. by the time heās in sixth grade, the party line on geoff is that heās so goddamn unlovable that a soulmate for him doesnāt exist and never will.Ā
and geoff just being sad and world-weary at ELEVEN because this stupid magical soul mate system has fucking fucked him over and all he wants is to be a kid and not worry about who heās going to love when heās an adult but itās the topic of conversation for everyone around him and goddamn it he just doesnāt wanna be a freak anymore.
and then during the summer after he turns twelve, he wakes up one morning WITH A MARK. and heās so relieved and so happy and he doesnāt even think about the fact that the mark indicates that thereās another person out there with hisĀ markāheās just so relieved that heās not an outcast and finally heās going to stride into the first day of the seventh grade and show off his mark and prove to everybody that heās not unlovable and heās just like everybody else.Ā
and then when he shows up on the first day and rolls up his sleeve to show everybody his brand new mark, the first thing out of their mouths isĀ āHAH geoffās soul mate is a BABYā and geoff is internally screaming just likeĀ āholy shit theyāre right, fuck, my soul mate is like a month old, what the fuck kind of fucking system is this, god i cannot goddamn wināĀ
geoff in high school realizing that heās not legally or morally gonna be able to fuck his soul mateāeven if he meets themāuntil heās GODDAMN THIRTY YEARS OLD.Ā
and so fifteen year old geoff is likeĀ āyou know what? fuck it. fuck the soul mate system. my soul mate has been fucking me over my whole life and i hope i never even meet themāĀ
and as soon as heās old enough, he starts getting tattooed because he doesnāt even want to acknowledge the mark system, fuck this stupid thing that defines him, fuck this stupid mark thatās been messing up his life, heād rather be covered in ink than even acknowledge the stupid thing. and his whole worldview and view of love is colored by this fucking mark and how it has fucked him over as a kid and how arbitrary and stupid it is.Ā
and while his peers are going on these epic journies to find their soul mates, he just goes where he wants and doesnāt pay attention to the mark and does what he wants and sneers at the fucking wedding announcements and facebook posts about finding true loveāand itās a HUGE part of society since the vast majority of people have marks, itās just built into what you doāso the older he gets, the weirder it is that he doesnāt have a soul mate and heās not looking for one, and he just keeps cutting all ties and moving every year, heās so mad, heās furious about this whole unfair stupid system.Ā
and then when heās in his late thirties, some kid shows up on his doorstep with suitcases, scowling at him when he opens the door, likeĀ āYOU ARE THE MOST ENORMOUS FUCKING ASSHOLE ON EARTH, YOU TATTOOED HIPSTER PIECE OF SHITā and geoff just likeĀ āsorry, do i knowĀ you?ā and michael (because of course itās michael) frowning and rolling up his sleeve and shoving hisĀ mark in geoffās face likeĀ āYEAH IāM YOUR SOULMATE YOU FUCKING DEADBEAT, DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW HARD YOU MADE IT TO FIND YOU?ā
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