#i love that you can tell his tatoos are fake by because his skin just doesn't catch the light the same way... lmao

[holly-mckenzie]

Jamari Johnson Williams as Hades in Act II of Hadestown

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Widomauk Prompt-Soulmate AU. A Soulmate's name is written on your wrist. Caleb and and Molly have Lucien and Bren on their respective wrists. After Everything's said and done they get their names tatooed on each other's other wrist.

Oh. Oh no. This is what death feels like. Caleb had that name that sprung from Cree's mouth printed onto the inside of Caleb's wrist. It would make sense then, that Trent Ikithon burned a line through the name, foring the name to move...right below the scar. This name really wanted itself known. Vulstruckers wind up killing their soulmates- damning themselves to a lifetime of constant pain, at least that's what the rumors said. 

Caleb wondered if Caleb should show Molly the name on his wrist. Would it make a difference, would it hurt Molly? Drive him away?

Molly wasn't Lucien. Lucien was dead. Lucien was buried and abandoned.

Caleb had seen Molly naked and the scars on his arm drove the name up his chest and over his sternum. 

The emotional pain that Caleb felt almost blinded him to the fact that it wasn't physical. Maybe those rumors were false. 

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Those rumors were true. Caleb felt the blow before Molly's skin broke under the glaive, right where the name was. Molly was gone and Caleb hurt. 

He hit one of the lowest of his personal lows when they were on the boat. 

Beau had found Caleb, not bloody enough to be in serious trouble but it was visible. 

Beau was surprised to see the bandages removed. Even more surprised to see the name so artfully scripted on his arm. 

Oh. She understood. 

"Caleb. Stop." Her voice was soft, understanding. 

Caleb looked up, his nails still buried in his skin, that damnable name sliding right below the wound, sitting in the position between his wrists and his forearm. 

"Lucien is dead. Molly is dead. Nott is going." Caleb whispered, his tears diluting the blood around him. "Get this name off me."

Beau guided Caleb's fingertips way from his arm. Blood rose to the edge of the wound but it wasn't gushing or spraying. 

"Caleb. We're here. You're not alone." Beau grabbed some linen off the bed and wrapped the arm. 

"In the late part of my lessons, we wouldn't kill traitors or what we thought- we killed their soulmates. Oh, how they screamed." Caleb's voice was cracked and raspy. Beau sat down next to Caleb and Caleb rested his head on Beau's shoulder. Caleb kept speaking. "We were trained to believe that that kind of pain was faked."

"Caleb." Beau shook her head. "You need to talk to Caduceus, about the blood." 

"I wonder if Molly would have wanted me if he knew." Caleb whispered. "He died not knowing." 

"Caleb, Molly didn't want to know." Beau sighed. "He didn't want to hope for someone that wasn't there. He did love  you, though. He didn't need an old name to declare that love for him." Beau rested her head on Caleb's. 

"Breathe." Beau whispered. "Just keep breathing." 

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Orly tattooed over many soulmate names. He knew how to help Caleb. How to keep it from moving. Caleb was thankful that he didn't mention the new scar on his wrist and his new snake tattoo wrapped around his hand and over the scars. Even what Trent left was masked. It matched Molly's. That was...better. 

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Essek found the Lucien name hidden in the art on his arm. He frowned at that. Didn't stop flirting. Caleb flirted back with a broken smile. It helped. The pain didn't go away but he could get up and smile. 

Until the pain went away. Like ice against a wound. No pain. No nothing. 

He still missed Molly but it didn't eat at him.

Things got easier. He defeated a false god. He could breathe. He didn't want to constantly cry anymore. It was starting to scare him. That dinner with Trent solidified it. He pulled the group apart to tell them everything. 

They hugged him and finally took a deep breath, the stress starting to fade.

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His pain is gone because the grave was empty.

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Lucien wore his Bren name almost poudly. It now rested in between his collarbones. Caleb didn't like this tiefling. This wasn't his… He missed Molly.

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Lucien was the last Tomb Taker left. He was weakened, a bloody mess. Caleb took a deep breath bracing for pain. Caleb wondered if he could handle that pain again. Caleb crumbled to his knees, looking down so he didn't have to face Lucien. Veth gently hugged Caleb, making soothing noises as Fjord  stepped towards Lucien. Yasha stood in front of Caleb, completely blocking his view of what Fjord was doing. 

It didn't stop the pain. There was no preparing himself for this. His soul burned against the cold. There was screaming. Caleb was numbed to it but Veth held Caleb closer. His throat was sore, leading Caleb to notice that he was the one screaming. He was tired. He needed to rest. He's felt this pain...twice now, any pain before Molly was brought to life blurring with his scars. Beau knelt down next to Caleb, grabbing both of his hands.

"Jester, Caduceus- where-?" Caleb asked. His voice was raspy.

Beau sighed. "They're handling things. Here take this." 

Beau handed Caleb a foggy liquid. He took it and downed it in one shot. His drowsiness grew. He smiled. Oh. Ok. This was…

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Caleb woke up pain free. He was confused for a moment. Then he heard voices. 

"Well there he is. I was beginning to worry." The familiar lightly accented voice said, just slightly to the side of eyeshot. 

"Molly. MOLLY!" Caleb smiled and whipped his head towards the tiefling. 

The tiefling was pale, exhausted but still in one piece, the Bren name now resting at the base of his neck. Caleb had tears in his eyes. 

"Molly." Caleb pulled Molly into a hug. He cried. Molly cried. Beau, who was sitting next to them, cried. 

"Beau told me everything. You are so strong. You can relax now." Molly purred. "It's over." 

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Molly was recovering in a chair next to Caleb as Orly did his work. The tattoos were made from emerald, making it stand out against the other tattoos. 

When Orly was done he took a step back and sighed. 

On the back of Caleb's non tattooed arm and the back of Molly's hand, laid the true names of their soulmates.

Mollymauk had 'Caleb Widogast'. 

Caleb had 'Mollymauk Tealeaf'.

[sassysweetcollegegirls]

I’ll Love you No Matter What pt2

Allura’s room wasn’t to far from Shiro’s and Keith was hidden pretty well in the huge hood of Shiro’s sweater. He couldn’t seem to get past the feeling of the things on his chest. With every step they jiggled and it annoyed him.

“Shiro are boobs always this bouncy?” He asked his honey sweet voice was dripping with annoyance. That bothered him to, since when did HIS voice become honey sweet.

Shiro stopped for a second to look at him and then he shook his head,” if you have questions about Boobs or girl stuff, your going to have have to ask Allura or Pidge.” He mumbled and Keith saw the red on his face.

“PIDGE IS FLAT AS A BOARD.” Keith hissed as they reached Allura’s room.

“She is still a girl regardless of the size of her breast Keith.” Shiro reminded him as he knocked politely on Alluras door,” One I expect you to treat with respect.”

Keith rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. The action was harder to accomplish with breast as he had to tuck his arms carefully under the two orbs and pretend they weren’t there.

Allura came to the door wrapped in a blue robe rubbing her eyes sleepily. “Shiro it’s 4am what’s going- Who is that?” Her eyes immediately drew to Keith who still had his arms crossed and was hiding in the hoodie.

“Allura we have a bit of a situation... Can we come in?” Shiro asks looking down the hall quickly ,” Also it would be good if you called Coran.”

“Shiro you can’t bring CONSORTS onto this ship you are a Paladin of Voltron! You can’t go sticking things in any weary traveler you find!” Allura looks panicked as she leads them into her room which is beautiful and larger than any Keith has been in including Shiro’s. She has a wide window that shows the floating outside of the ship and Keith approaches it with wide eyes.

“She’s not a consort Allura first of all. I like dick. Secondly that would be way to gross in this situation.” Shiro shakes his finger in her face he’s the only one allowed to be slightly combative to Allura in any manner.

“THEN WHAT IN ALL THE NAME OF LIONS IS GOING ON?!” Allura shouts and Keith takes off the hoodie and turns around and in the voice that belongs to him but really isn’t his he responds.

“My Name is Keith Kogane. I am Paladin of the Red Lion and I have boobs.” He looks at Shiro who has his hands over his face as Allura is standing mouth open almost appalled as he has lifted the tank top to show Allura the two fleshy orbs on his chest.

“Shiro please tell me she is joking.” Allura pleads rushing forward and pulling the tank top down and wrapping Keith in Shiro’s sweater again.

“Afraid not Princess. Keith I told you not to do that. “ Shiro groans

Keith mimicks Shiro carefully and then shifts away from Allura.

“And we’re one hundred percent sure this is Keith?” Allura is begining to pick at his clothes and look at him ,”did it take the umm?”

Keith rolls his eyes and drops his pants leaving his ass bare to the window for all of space to see,” I lost my penis to.”

“Can you not just flash people like this.” Shiro tries to wave his hand in front of his face blindly still attempting to give Keith modesty.

“Shiro is right Keith granted you and I now share a gender. Shiro is still male and generally we want to make sure that we have some modesty around them.” Allura says as Keith carefully pulls his pants up his point made

“THANK YOU PRINCESS!” Shiro uncovers his eyes and sighs.

“ I am still concerned on how this has come to be. Is this a normal human thing?” Allura asks innocently and Shiro has to stop to pinch the bridge of his nose and count to fifteen

“Just tell me Coran is on his way in.”

“Coran at your service! Though I will say it’s a bit early... what seems to be the DEAR WEBLUM! WHO BROUGHT A CONSORT ON TO THE SHIP?!?!” Coran is still in his royal silks and his hair is a disarray so when he arrives and says things like WEBLUM and Consort loudly Keith feels like he’s looking at someone who did drugs.

“I’m not a Consort! I’m Keith I just got fucking Boobs.” He opens the sweatshirt this time but he doesn’t lift up the shirt and Coran comes closer to inspect.

“How do we know this is the Red Paladin.” He asks picking at Keith’s clothes his hair and then eventually poking at one of the boobs experimentally.

“CORAN.” Shrio warns him the Dad Voice evident

“I am checking for the authenticity because if she is who she says she is then where is her penis?” Coran looks shamelessly in Keith’s shorts and Keith finally feels like someone is looking at this properly.

“Thank you! Finally someone whose not like ‘protect the boobs.’” Keith grumbled the voice like honey to smooth for his liking.

“Oh on the Contrary lad! I’m all for protecting the boobs. It’s just how did this occur?”

“I woke up like this. I was hoping you could tell me.”

Coran looked at him for another moment and then he stroked his mustache. “ I’d like to run a few scans and test to see what we can find. I’ll DNA test you as well. Then we’ll have to develop a plan from there. “

Keith didn’t like being a lab rat but the sooner they found out if he was fixable or if this was permenat the better.

***

Keith was waiting inside the pod completely naked (a new development ) as Allura ran a few scans of his body. They had already done a DNA test which had been 100% match to Keith. Shiro and Coran we’re outside playing blackjack until Keith put on a white robe that Allura found.

“Everything is normal.” Allura reported her head tilted and she looked at the scans “Coran can read these better though.”

Coran took the tablet and looked it over and then looked at Keith,” it seems you’ve completely switched genders overnight. Congratulations Lad.”

Keith wanted to cry. He had no idea what it meant to be a girl or even how to handle the body he was given it felt so fake almost Alien to him.

Shiro was the one who spoke up,” Is this permanent?”

“It’s hard to tell, part of our scanner is reading energy levels off this place on his neck. May I Keith?” Coran approached pointing to the spot on Keith’s neck where E’s symbol was tattooed.

Keith moved the hair carefully and held his neck out and Coran looked at the tatoo. “Lad when did you get an Altean spell tattooed on your skin?”

“It wasn’t a tatoo. I can’t get it to come off.” Keith hissed attempting to wipe it off. Of course the honey sweet voice of his had no bite and it just seemed pathetic when he said it.

“What on earth.” Allura said and she came to examine it. “Desire of thine heart.” She whispered.

“Keith where did this come from?” Coran asked tone serious and all of a sudden Keith felt self conscious about the woman in the woods calling herself E.

He looked to Shiro who nodded and then he recounted the tale of meeting E. How the ink had disappeared and then he’d woken this morning to it being back and how he had swapped genders and now he was here.

Keith rubbed his arms they were slender but they were still conditioned like Keith’s own muscles were. He looked at all the faces confused,” Can I go back please?”

He wanted back into his own skin. The one that Lance teased him about. He wanted to feel the scrape of his stubble when he forgot to shave which would be often, and the way the muscles in his shoulders seemed to ache when he got cold. This body just felt cold all over. It felt like it needed an extra layer and Keith wasn’t mad but he wanted to be able to wear his tank top and sweat and threaten to rub it all over Pidge if she didn’t move out of his way and something told him that this body wasn’t going to do that for him.

“Unfortunately until you’ve found what you truly desire you are stuck... though I don’t think I’ve ever seen the spell manifest this way before. And your sure she said her name was E?” Coran asked running his hand through his hair

“Yeah and she had white eyes and white hair.” Keith whispered looking at his hands.

“Do you know her?” Shiro asked and Keith looked to his brother wanting clarification for what was happening who had done this.

“Nope but I’ll do some digging. For now, Keith your going to have to survive. I’ll see if I can find a reversal, Altean spells are hard to solve though more like complicated riddles.” Coran tried soothing and Keith wanted him to clap him on the back like he normally would but Coran did no such thing because Keith was a girl now. Girls had to be handled differently.

***

Keith was standing in Allura’s room his arms crossed uncomfortably as she dug carefully through some of her drawers. 

“I know how difficult this must be for you.” She claimed as she held up a black article of clothing that Keith had no clue what she could possibly do with because it was was simply two strings and and a triangle. 

Keith rolled his eyes and leaned against the wall. Shiro’s hoodie had provided warmth and comfort and strangly this weird smell that Keith wanted to hide in. So he kept the hood pulled up. “ Really does your genatilia switch randomly?” he asked. He was still not used to the smooth honey voice that had somehow become his. His voice had been gravely and coarse but it was still attractive in it’s own way. This new voice was soft and smooth and it sounded like it was filled with want. 

“Well No, but some Altean’s decide to switch later in life.” Allura shut a drawer and then she turned to smile at Keith,” Some feel so uncomfortable with their bodies they just switch permanently. You have the opportunity to learn here Keith.” 

“Learn what?”

“What it’s like to be a woman. To be treated like a woman in battle, there are numerous lessons here Keith.” 

“What about all this Tatoo shit?” 

“OH. That too. I need you to strip for me please.” 

Keith looked down at Shiro’s sweater and then at Allura who stood in front of him holding a black what he thought to be a black bra and a pair of panties that were lacy and cute and that looked like they would be really soft. “ What are those?” 

“Well this is a pair of panties. They are super soft and comfortable.  And THIS little number is a Bra. That I hope will be big enough for you because you are quite a bit bigger than I am.” She held each article explaining as Keith undressed suddenly shy about what he was doing. He knew that the body he had now was different and he had been showy with it earlier but that had been because he felt like no one was taking it seriously. 

“Wait bra’s have different sizes?” He exclaimed

“Yes, Pidge wears AA’s and I wear C’s and this is a D” Allura claimed looking at the tags as she approached and handed Keith the panties. Keith put them on and he had to admit they were soft. Softer than any set of boxers he had ever worn. The thought made him blush. “Do you know how to put this on?” 

“Does it look like I know how to put this on?” Keith grumbled as Allura handed him the bra. His hair was flowing down his back and he was holding his breast in his arms. He shifted from foot to foot cold. 

“You truly are our red paladin.” Allura smiled,” Alright bend forward and let your breast go. Im going to bring the bra around your front and you slide your arms in the straps and I’ll clip it in the back. Alright? Ready?” 

“Do I have a choice?”

A hand goes to his back pushing him forward and he complies with the directions,” Not really.” 

Of course the feeling of his breast sitting in cups is different than of them being free. Keith thinks he likes them better free but the feeling of them contained is kind of relaxing to him. He isn’t worried about them bonking into his arms so much as he is and the band around his chest doesn't prevent him from breathing. “Are they always this bouncy?” he asks standing as he looks down at them. The flesh is still there just not so free to sway. 

“I’ve never thought of them that way but yes. You get used to it after a while. Now we will have to find you something appropriate to wear.”  Allura says starting to dig through all the dresses and things. 

“I draw a hard line there. I absolutely refuse to wear a dress.” 

“But Keith. You cannot expect to wander around in sweats and Shiro’s hoodie all Day.” 

“My clothes are just fine.” 

“NO. NO  and NO. They are not tailored to the phemonen physic.” Allura has a yellow thing in her hand and Keith is looking at it with fear. 

“Pidge wears boys clothes.” He challenges. 

“Pidge’s clothes fit her.”  Allura crosses her arms. She is not giving in. 

“No.” 

“Yes.” 

“I SAID NO.” 

“I said yes and there are no two ways about this. Or would you rather I toss you out in the hall in your undergarments?” Allura has taken Shiro’s hoodie and Keith’s sweatpants and she is holding them high above her head. 

“This is not a fair fight.”  Keith whines giving in as she stows the articles away. 

“ Now put this on. And I’ll brush your hair and We’ll be ready for breakfast!” Allura sang tossing Keith a short yellow floral dress that didn’t make sense but he pulled it on closing his eyes. He kept his knee’s together and gripped his wrist an sat in her chair. 

“Your going to pay for this I hope you realize.” He challenged. 

She smiled at him through her mirror and Keith’s own soft feminine face looked back grumpily ,” OH. I Know.” 

***

Keith stood outside the kitchen. He was picking at the the hem of his dress and looking at the toe of his boot. He knew that avoiding everyone wasn’t going to fix it and being afraid was natural but he wasn’t sure how everyone was going to take the whole ‘ I turned into a girl overnight and my voice is soft as honey and I have boobs now.’  

The dress Keith wore was cute he had to admit it was cute with a little scoop neck and short sleeves. If someone like Pidge wore it or Allura he was sure they would have trouble keeping their eyes to themselves.  Keith though. Keith just felt like a little imposter who was trying to hard. When Shiro stepped up next to him and gave him a once over he waited patiently. 

“ I should let Allura get ahold of Pidge.”  He said gently 

“ I tried using that as an excuse not to dress me like this and She said that Pidge’s clothes fit her. I feel naked Shiro. “ Keith grumbled the honey sweet sounded sticky instead of grumpy. 

“Well to late to back out now. Time for breakfast. Are you ready?” 

“No.”

“That’s the spirit.” Shiro smiled guiding Keith forward one hand on his lower back as the door to the kitchen popped open. Keith closed his eyes not entirely ready to face the reality of what was about to face him on the other side of the door.