#seriously tho I can imagine the 40k word version of this and it would be brilliant but it's not something I can write

[epersonae]

putting this on its own post now that I have had a decent night's sleep

two days ago I read a post wherein someone proposed a very different sort of soulmates AU. I immediately had shivers, and it felt terrifyingly real. For an hour or two, I rotated various sorts of soulmate world-building concepts, and then I realized that it needed as little world-building as possible, just all vibes.

I sat down with my laptop, and in an hour or so had jammed out the first ~1400 words, barely slept all night, and then wrote the rest yesterday, with a break for a walk, another to rewatch some bits of s2, and then to watch a completely unrelated video while @veeagainsttheday beta'd it.

Every fugitive hour leaves its mark (M, 4622 words)

There’s a mark. And if you have the mark, well, that means there’s someone out there that has it too. Not everybody has it, and there’s a lot of stories about what it means: particular gift, isn’t it, to know there has to be someone who is drawn to you, bound to you, you need them and they need you? But his mum had the mark, and his dad had the mark, and well. In which having a soulmate isn't necessarily a good thing, and the distinction between fate, grace, and love.

thank you anon for the genuinely brilliant idea; if you ever want to chat, asks and DMs are open, and if you ever write yours, I'll be the first to hype it up. (let me say that I have only gotten just amazing comments, so don't let the haters deter you!)