#soulcest??

[coldemergency]

Harry: If I pit Tom and Voldemort against each other then I won’t have to worry about anything! I’ll be free! They will destroy each other

Diary Tom: Bold of you to assume I’m not self absorbed enough to make this into a twisted “enemies to lovers” plot line

[jash13]

thoughts about mindcest and soulcest. yes I will continue to call selfcest that. hm.

[anisaanisa]

🛳️

HELLO ANON 💓

🛳️ A fic that brought you aboard a new ship

In the Castle of the Jewel [KagKik] by @callmegri ☆

I hadn't thought about Kagome and Kikyo together during the Before Times (aka pre-multi-shipping). We got to talking, I read this, then I boarded the ship, and before I knew it the dock was a dot on the horizon and I was lost at sea because of this one fic. Still am! THANK YOU FOR THAT 🔥

Fic Recs (Ask Meme)

[sylkicest]

Ah yes, the Soulcest, my favorite dynamic 💚🗡

Not sure if this ask is referring to something more specific, but yes, absolutely! I'm going to guess that people more commonly refer to it in terms of 'twin flames' or 'soulmates' or whatever, but it's kind of the same thing right? (But you can see why soulcest would be a less popular term to use lol.)

Anyway, did you know that soulcest is (apparently) the ship name for Billy and Tommy, Wanda's kids? Small world.

[allshipsaregoodships]

Soulcest is a Good Ship!

[art by kaciart]

[dreamw0rms]

i read a really good fic with this ship a while back and i’ve wanted to draw them ever since

[icarose]

soulmates

500 words of messy angsty unrequited soulcest because there’s never enough of it floating around. would probably continue and rewrite this when I’m not swamped with acads lmao

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tommy can’t help the clench in his chest when he sees that face, so achingly, hatefully familiar yet wondrously foreign, staring straight at him and only him, for one heart-stopping moment.

his world freezes and it’s an alien feeling, because he isn’t running but the world is still. he isn’t running but everything around him is slowing down. it should feel impossible, it should terrify him and strike him down with panic and fear, but instead he just feels calm. billy’s here. everything is as it should be.

later he’ll wonder why he didn’t take the chance to run the moment they broke him out. or, more accurately, the moment he’s had his fill of looking at billy, immortalizing the way his face looks with dark hair and dark eyes in his mind, then sprinting off before any of them would notice. but he listens to kate and he fights alongside eli and they all come together to bring teddy back. it’s a hollow victory, standing to the side as billy throws his arms around him, around teddy- this otherworldly golden-haired prince of a boy who had loved and protected billy when he hadn’tdidn’tcouldn’t. Ididn’tkowyouwerewithmeinthisworldIfeltsoalone- with all his might.

and it’s not as if he expects to suddenly have a space in billy’s life, that the other boy would just drop everything to keep him by his side but- who is this boy? and he is just a boy, as green-skinned and super-powered as he may be. why does he get to hold billy and pull him close and lay a hand on his shoulder or his back so easily, so perfectly and casually intimate? what gives him the right to have what tommy never knew he wanted, what he never knew he’s been missing all his life?

he’s not entitled to anything from billy, he knows he’s not. not his time, not his concern, not his brown-eyed gaze nor his toothy smile. certainly not his home. not the open invitation to become part of his new- no real, loving, supportive and entirely deserved- family.

and the drs. kaplan tell him that if he’s billy’s brother, then that’s good enough for them. and tommy doesn’t cry but he thinks he kind of wants to because in this life, his own parents were never this kind, never this selfless. in this life, billy calls him brother and it hurts more than it should. I don’t know you, he wants to shout. I was supposed to be your mirror, I was supposed to be the one at your back, I was supposed to be the one who knew you more than anyone else did. why don’t I know youit’snotfairIwould’velookedforyouIwould’vefoundyou but he didn’t. and he doesn’t know this billy.

so he runs.

*

he meets another dark-haired boy and he’s got scars and he’s got lightning shooting out of his fingertips. it’s not blue like billy’s, not as hot and not as familiar. but he likes to think their mouthlipsthroatthighs would’ve tasted the same.

his sadness doesn’t stare out of windows like billy does. sometimes, when he feels it creeping in, he climbs up into rooftops and runs in place as fast as he can for what feels like hours but is probably just a couple of minutes until it’s gone again. 

there’s no misery tommy shepherd can’t outrun.

[neutronstarchild]

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship

Ship that is taboo

WOO! @viva-el-belt-libre this set of asks means I got to answer all the thingssss! Thank you! (and shout out to @superpixie42 for her TABOO! TABOO! TABOO! ask!)

Ship that is taboo: 💦

KagKik. Not because it's femslash (femslash is awesome!), but because you get to play with soulcest. Canon makes reincarnation sort of... I'm not sure? Like Kikyo and Kagome seem really different and there are not really any inherited memories, but... I do enjoy that ship, and technically Kagome is having some fun with her reincarnation soooooo...

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

Shippo and basically anyone? Sunrise kept trying to give us these Shippo love stories with random village girls and just... gross? Let Shippo make friends and be a kid. He's young and sassy and just lost his parents! He doesn't need to have a crush on every female girl that walks by! He deserves to be sneaking tapioca from inattentive village aunties!

From the Controversial Ships Game

[elisamaza]

holy shit i just remembered the kagkik ship is referred to as soulcest LMAO

[likeabxrdinflight]

so do people still write soulcest fanfic or

controversial opinion from 2004 but kikyo did nothing wrong, actually

[twin-azure-dragon-wave]

Good day for Soulcest shippers