#and I promise I do love your idea. I just am not shouty rn

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Hi darling it's been a bit

I have soulmate au stuff rotating in my brain

What about a universe where soulmates are a rare and uncommon thing and there are three kinds

Familial, platonic and Romantic

Steve is super unusual, not only does he have a soulmark he has not one, not two but 3 one of each kind

Robin of course is his platonic (duh they say so themselves)(they have matching ice cream scoops they end up finding out when they both are puking their guts out in a mall bathroom and Steve's shirt slides up as he drags himself under the stall )

His familial is Dustin or maybe max depends on what relationship dynamics you want to describe (or maybe they're matching marks and all 3 of them have the same symbol I feel like the nailbat would be good for that because that's when Steve met and first protected them both then steve pulls the bat from his trunk and swings and they both grab their upperarms where a nail bat wraps around their bicep)

And finally eddie

His romantic soulmate the d20 that sits on his ring finger that they both cover with rings because it's not socially acceptable to show soulmarks unless you like cannot avoid it and it's on your face

How I'm picturing in this au is that there a record of soulmates or something because that's definitely something that kids would be figuring out and somehow somone stumbles upon the fact that Steve Harrington has 3 (all while missing the fact that eddie munson and Robin buckley both have soulmates as well (maybe even multiple themselves))

It would be interesting if it was based on bonds with people

It's more of a promise that this person will have an important bond with you so its not always good because if there is going to be a war more kids end up with soulmarks because trauma bonds people

Somone figures out that something happened to these kids because they have so many soul bonds intertwined between all of them

I don't know could be interesting especially like starting with will

Like

'Joyce byers loved her sons both of them so it was to her great joy that both of them had soulmates, people who they would have strong bonds with people who's lives their would forever be entwined in. But she also knew what so many bonds usually ment, she had seen the men who went to war with bonds they hadnt yet found and come back bonded but broken from trauma. So Joyce byers feared what was going to come to Hawkins to tie these kids together so strongly. Joyce wouldn't relize till years after will disappeared to the upside-down and had returned that her son was the catalyst to bring all these people together, at least in the begining'

Something like that

I don't know I have many thought on this what do you think

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Hello anon how are you?

I personally think this is a lovely idea and you’ve got so many threads running through it that it could be as multilayered as you want it to be! The variety and diversity of what a souls mate can be in your au suggests the potential and I think that if you are enjoying it then you should for sure write it!

There’s so many dynamics you could have interacting and seeing relationships shift. I love that Steve has three and that trauma bonds people. That the party potentially all bonds to each other, the angst of is some bond with some and not others. Idk man I think you got something really interesting here!