#like idk what sigep looks like at other schools but everyone i knew from sigep at my undergrad was very normal and nice

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a second option for you! (whatever ship your heart desires)

(AU mash-up ask game)

Howdy! I did see your other ask, but Hell and grocery stores are quite possibly the same thing so I think I will return to that one at a later date. Also, thanks to @claireverlasting for being a sounding board!

Okayokayokay so

I've never done a soulmate AU before, so I have no idea what I'm doing, but for the purposes of this AU I'm doing matching marks (they usually relate to how people meet, but this is variable). Anyway.

As a kid, Spot was confused by the three Greek letters along the side of his forearm--what does ΣΦΕ even mean? Eventually, though, one of his elementary school teachers took pity on him and explained that those letters represent a fraternity. Spot didn't know what that was, but he thought maybe it meant he'd eventually be a member of that frat and meet someone through it--a girl at an event, perhaps.

Time goes on, and Spot realizes his soulmate will probably not be a girl. But more importantly, his older cousins go to college, and some of them join Greek life at the big state schools they attend and go through some major personality shifts. Others don't join Greek life and advise him to also not join Greek life, so when Spot starts college searching, he limits himself to schools that have limited-to-no Greek life on campus. He also spends a lot of time wondering how the heck his soulmate has anything to do with Greek life, because surely that means his soulmate is incredibly annoying.

Unfortunately for him, the one school he gets into that he actually likes happens to have some Greek life. It's not inescapable, but it's there. Spot checks the website before he leaves for school and sees that they do have a SigEp chapter, but he resolves to avoid it and heads off to school with a suitcase and a whole lot of concealer for his soulmark. As he goes through the semester, he refuses to join his newfound friends at frat parties and generally stays as far away as he can from the frat quad. He also never shares his soulmark with anyone, and when he's asked about it, he says he thinks there's more to relationships than what some stupid mark says.

During the spring semester, he signs up for a cross-listed math/classics class about different concepts of infinity, and he gradually gets to know his quick-witted blond classmate who asks a lot of questions. Their "study sessions" get longer and longer until one night Spot asks Race if he'd like to drop the pretense and just go on a date for real. Race says yes, of course, and they go to a café near campus that weekend.

"It's weird," Race says towards the end of their date, "I thought I knew for sure how I'd meet my soulmate, but I'm starting to hope I'm wrong."

Spot, trying very hard not to panic over the implication that Race is hoping they're soulmates, says, "How did you think you'd meet them?"

"Through my fraternity," Race says. He pulls up the leg of his shorts to reveal a ΣΦΕ soulmark that's exactly the same as Spot's.

"God fucking damn it," Spot says.