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⌈ Secret Post #4332 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like soulmate fic if it's a pairing I ship because of COURSE they belong together, but the general concept is kind of depressing. What if you never meet your soulmate or they die before you could have met? At what point do you say "Fuck it" and try to start a relationship with someone you know is not your soulmate? What if you meet your soulmate but then they die fairly soon after? Any relationship you could possibly have after that will be lesser and you will KNOW it.

Soulmates means you only get one shot at real love.

[(Anonymous)]

To me, those things don't need to be worried about because soulmates are magic anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

To me, I've always seen it as being that soul mates are just the person who could be the 'best' match, not your only match, and not the only one that can make you happy and fulfilled.

[(Anonymous)]

But if someone is "best," that means everyone else is "not best" and you will always know that, no matter how happy they make you. It's much better not to have a definitive, pre-ordained "best" because that puts all possible relationships on equal footing (in terms of potential - obviously they don't all have an equal chance of working out). Whoever you're with could be the best. If you break up or they die, then the next person could either be the best or be of equal best-ness.

[(Anonymous)]

Except that it doesn't have to be that way. Authors can worldbuild soulmate AUs however they want so bad outcomes are guaranteed not to happen. Some AUs I've read have the potential for more than one soulmate. And you're not going to find an AU where the pairing didn't find each other unless it's a subversion of the trope.

And if we're talking real-life, then people can certainly have more than one profoundly deeply relationship in their lives. Soulmates don't have to mean only one shot at love.

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Ayrt

It's not a concern in real life because, fortunately, soulmates aren't real. That's why you get multiple shots at love because there's no one person you were meant to be with above all others.

[(Anonymous)]

The same can be true in fic. There is nothing about the soulmate trope that means there can't be another shot at love.

[(Anonymous)]

You can write anything in any which way to dodge a complaint about a trope, that doesn't mean everyone has to find the trope enjoyable on the whole. Most soulmate fic I see is "Everyone gets one soulmate and grows up wondering when they will meet that one specific person" and it's always a happy ending because it's about shipping.

[(Anonymous)]

I once read a quote somewhere that went along the lines of:

"oh, I believe in soulmates. It's just that mine died long before I was ever born."

Its stuck with me hard ever since and I go through moments where that's terrible depressing and then other where its terribly reassuring