[ SECRET POST #4695 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4695 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What was never explained to your satisfaction?

[(Anonymous)]

No, I thought about this, too.

Randall Munroe has done some worldbuilding math here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/9/

I don't really care about worldbuilding if it's a short fic, more about the meet cute and associated hijinks, but for stories that try to go "deeper", the soulmate concept tends not to work very well as a device. If you already know a person is your soulmate, all the tension that usually drives a romance is void. ("Do I love her? Does she love me back? Does she love someone else? Is she the right person for me? Can we work it out?"). I find a lot of authors tend to try and shoehorn those standard obstacles in anyway, and it's usually weak. But if you do some proper world building, new, original challenges to our heroes' happiness appear very quickly, and that makes a solid base for a story. One of the first soul mate fics I read, long before I knew it was a thing (and I think written before it became ubiquitous) did just that, and it had enough of an impact on me that I still remember the story more than ten years after reading it.