Soulmark AUs!

[melannen]

Talk to me about Soulmate marks! Love them? Hate them? Like them okay in small quantities? Only want a very particular version that you want to expostulate on? Want to like them, except for that one thing that bothers you?

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Soulmark AUs?

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Love them!
15 (15.2%)

Hate them!
15 (15.2%)

Like them, in moderation.
24 (24.2%)

Like them but only when done in very particular ways -
43 (43.4%)

Wish I could like them but there's these aspects that bother me -
13 (13.1%)

Dislike them, in moderation.
6 (6.1%)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
14 (14.1%)

Wish other kinds of soulmate fic were still more common.
13 (13.1%)

At least they started to dilute the torrent of A/B/O soulmate fic?
21 (21.2%)

Am confused by them.
1 (1.0%)

In theory dislike them please ignore all these stories I've come up with
6 (6.1%)

What's your favorite variant on the trope - timers? names? first words? scars? Something else?

What do you wish got done better, differently, or more often? How do you like to see the tropes subverted?

Where do you define the edges of soulmark fic vs. other kinds of soulmate fic?

Any recommendations?

Any fic bunnies you want to share?

Comments

[melannen]

I have heard about the Captain America/Red Skull soulmates one before and never dared read it because that's the kind of thing that's gotta be either amazing or awful no middle ground.

The Red String of Fate is another one where I get too tangles up the the practicalities. How does it interact with the material world? Can you just follow it home, like Theseus in the labyrinth? What happens if it gets tangled??