Tag: I wanna try this

bluandorange:

sonickitty:

bluandorange:

you know what soulmate aus need? 

more shitty consequences

@krebkrebkreb and I came up with some fun ones, feel free to steal them for your own usage

so basically, in this bullshit universe, skin to skin contact with your soulmate has real and lasting side-effects. While you’re touching, you can get bits and pieces of the other person’s thoughts and feelings, the connection growing stronger the longer the contact lasts. When touching during sleep, you can share dreams! The effect lingers for a few minutes after contact ends. It’s pretty cool, right?

well it is until you spend more than a month without skin contact with your soulmate. Then shit starts to suck for you. ‘Lovesickness’ as its called, has four distinct phases;

phase 1 (roughly a month without physical contact)

  • mild headaches
  • fatigue
  • heavy limbs
  • light sensitivity
  • ‘skin hunger’; general longing for skin-to-skin contact
  • commonly mistaken for hangovers/beginning of a flu

phase 2 (roughly a week following symptoms of phase 1)

  • muscle and joint aches, primarily in the hands
  • tingling/itching sensation, also primarily in the hands, especially the palms
  • pain when making fists/flexing or curling fingers
  • dry mouth

phase 3 (roughly two weeks following symtpoms of phase 2

  • tunnel vision
  • extreme hot/cold flashes
  • fainting
  • nausea/virtigo

phase 4 (roughly one week following symptoms of phase 3)

  • general return to normal, if usually depressed
  • overall numb feeling
  • emotional malaise
  • lingering skin hunger

If at any point, you and your soulmate do skin-to-skin contact, this physical hell will end. The more advanced the phase, the longer the contact is needed for symptoms to clear up. Phase 1 takes a few minutes, phase 3 can take up to an hour of prolonged contact. Phase 4 is dubeous and reports vary from couple to couple, because at that point, you’re technically starting the entire cycle over.

You won’t have to worry about any of this crap if you never make skin-contact with your soulmate. If you do, even for a fleeting second, and then go a month without repeated contact, you’re in for some bullshit. Obviously, for some people the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, but for others, its a fucking hastle that could fucking derail your entire life. 

would just be awful if it happened to your OTP, wouldn’t it?

My favorite part of this is “even for a fleeting second.” The Missed Connections section of Craigslist would be full of “hey if you’re the guy that brushed my hand as we passed in the crosswalk at Franklin and Park last Friday and now you have a flu, either you have really potent germs or we’re soulmates.”

and then there’s that motherfucker in your school who is convinced, every goddamn time they get sick, that they’ve found their soulmate

like, no Gerald, your immune system just fucking sucks