you know what soulmate aus need?
@krebkrebkreb and I came up with some fun ones, feel free to steal them for your own usage
so basically, in this bullshit universe, skin to skin contact with your soulmate has real and lasting side-effects. While you’re touching, you can get bits and pieces of the other person’s thoughts and feelings, the connection growing stronger the longer the contact lasts. When touching during sleep, you can share dreams! The effect lingers for a few minutes after contact ends. It’s pretty cool, right?
well it is until you spend more than a month without skin contact with your soulmate. Then shit starts to suck for you. ‘Lovesickness’ as its called, has four distinct phases;
phase 1 (roughly a month without physical contact)
‘skin hunger’; general longing for skin-to-skin contact
commonly mistaken for hangovers/beginning of a flu
phase 2 (roughly a week following symptoms of phase 1)
muscle and joint aches, primarily in the hands
tingling/itching sensation, also primarily in the hands, especially the palms
pain when making fists/flexing or curling fingers
phase 3 (roughly two weeks following symtpoms of phase 2
phase 4 (roughly one week following symptoms of phase 3)
general return to normal, if usually depressed
If at any point, you and your soulmate do skin-to-skin contact, this physical hell will end. The more advanced the phase, the longer the contact is needed for symptoms to clear up. Phase 1 takes a few minutes, phase 3 can take up to an hour of prolonged contact. Phase 4 is dubeous and reports vary from couple to couple, because at that point, you’re technically starting the entire cycle over.
You won’t have to worry about any of this crap if you never make skin-contact with your soulmate. If you do, even for a fleeting second, and then go a month without repeated contact, you’re in for some bullshit. Obviously, for some people the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, but for others, its a fucking hastle that could fucking derail your entire life.
would just be awful if it happened to your OTP, wouldn’t it?