#clingyduo soulmates by choice my beloved however

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I'm having too many thoughts of fucking soulmates aus now so have some little tidbits for a potential fic or smth I may write. This is dsmp based I'm sorry.

Soulmates take a while to form, and the bond is only truly established during moments of large emotional impact with your soulmate, whether it's stressful and traumatic or an extremely happy moment. Before then, the bond isn't final and therefore any effects such as intertwined lives doesn't get taken into account until the marks show up. Soulmates also don't form until people are around 16.

Soul marks! They show up when the bond is finally established, and tend to be something mutually significant. It can be a scar, a birthmark or even like a tattoo.

Soulmate bonds can break in certain circumstances, such as an event that may make them feel severely disconnected from their soulmate/others.

Lives are intertwined, if one dies, then the other also dies.

List of people I think would be soulmates:

Wilbur and Quackity, they realised during the burger van arc.

Sapnap and Karl.

George doesn't have a soulmate for reasons (XD wanted George so he was made off-limits)

Tubbo and Ranboo, obviously. The bond doesn't sever with Ranboo's death.

Techno and Phil. It's not romantic or a qpr, they're just destined besties and that's okay.

Ponk and Sam, but after the whole mess their bond was severed. Neither have picked up a new soulmate bond yet.

Ant and Velvet.

Skeppy and Bad, though their bond became severed after the eggpire shit.

Lazarbeam and Vikkstar, their bond was established during the revive book experiment stuff. Platonic or not, your decision.

Niki and Puffy have a sort of strained bond, however they still remain soulmates. Niki and Jack are self-declared platonic soulmates, destined besties if you will.

Purpled and Fundy are platonic soulmates, becoming so bonding over the whole betrayal from Las Nevadas thing.

Schlatt and Quackity were soulmates, though during Manberg it faded until it severed during the red festival.

On the line of faded bonds: Eret and Wilbur (platonic), who's bond was severed during the final control room.

Eret and Foolish become platonic soulmates when Foolish comes to the smp.

Tommy and Tubbo are unofficial platonic soulmates, with Ranboo being pulled into the mix when his and Tubbo's bond is established. They're besties for life and have little marks for each other they all redo. Tubbo still refreshes his mark for Tommy. Tommy keeps both of his.

I feel like these wouldn't have soulmates:

Slimecicle due to his species not having soulmates.

Punz simply because they have no interest in soulmates.

Jack doesn't have an 'official' soulmate but he has an unofficial soulmate.

Connor is too busy being sonic.

And, of course, the last ones I've got some modicum of an idea for: Tommy and Dream, platonic soulmates. Dream specifically fostered that type of bond during exile to keep Tommy linked to him, so he wouldn't be killed during the final disc confrontation.

To expand on discduo, here's some fun tidbits about them:

Their bond is established during the beach party, as that is when Tommy accepts Dream is truly his only friend and the only one to care for him. It's one established due to extreme stress and desperation, and due to the unhealthy obsession on Dream's part.

During exile, Dream purposefully damaged the area Tommy originally kept his mark for Tubbo, punishing him if he tried to fix it or redo it. Tommy eventually stopped doing it all-together.

Little sidenote: Techno was the one who encouraged him to redo it after exile, despite thinking that nobody in L'Manberg wanted Tommy, because he values the importance of soulmates despite everything.

The only reason Dream went with them during the disc confrontation was because Tommy threatened to die otherwise, which would reveal their bond and Dream wanted that secret for fucked up evil reasons. Except, their bond doesn't have their lives intrinsically intertwined, only their mortality (so if Tommy is mortal, Dream is, and if Tommy is immortal, Dream is immortal too).

Their bond hasn't broken despite the prison and such, as revival caused it to become a permanent bond due to Dream being the one to revive him. Tommy tries his best to cover the mark.

Anyways that's my fucked up evil lil soulmate au, just some good old discduo shit going on. Feel free to give more fucked up evil ideas.