Soulmate AU Story Ideas

silentpeaches:

Because I am complete trash for Soulmate AUs, I decided to try and make a post about them. Hope you guys like it!

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Soulmate AUs involving measurement

[ Time // Countdown ]

• Where for whatever reason, your clock is stuck/frozen/it’s
  not counting down anymore but it hasn’t reached 00:00:00:00 yet and you’re
  freaking out because this hasn’t happened to anyone before.

• Reverse one where the clock starts at 00:00:00:00 from the
  moment you’re born and stops counting the moment you meet your soulmate, so it’s
  like a reminder that “It took me 19 years, 11 months, 20 hours, and 13 seconds
  to meet you, you fuck, and you do it by spilling coffee on me, thanks, now my
  laptop’s broken—what, you’re buying me a new one? Okay.”

• Your soulmate clock is actually a countdown of how long your
  soulmate has left to live and holy shit you have to find your soulmate soon
  because your clock says you have three months left (for angst maybe).

• Alternate version of above where your clock is a countdown
  of how long you and your soulmate have left to find each other or else you both
  will die because the universe is sadistic af—and if you find your soulmate you
  get to live longer.

• Another alternate version of above where you and your soulmate’s clocks have each other’s life spans on it but you can give your time to your soulmate if you want to so they can live longer. Again, because the universe is sadistic af.

• The soulmate clock is actually something breakable and you
  accidentally break yours or vice versa.

• Alternate version of above where someone purposely breaks
  their soulmate clock so they can be with someone they fell in love with that
  isn’t their soulmate/they are strongly opposed to the whole soulmate idea and
  want to defy the system.

• Your clock is counting down too fast (as opposed to everyone
  else’s) and you have no idea what’s going on anymore.

• It’s been a busy week and after finally having some time to
  yourself, you just happened to look at your soulmate clock and see that it’s already
  at 00:00:00:00 and you don’t know when that happened because you don’t
  religiously check your clock either.

• Your soulmate clock is actually telling you what time it is
  where your soulmate is currently at (could include AM/PM/time zones or not, for
  example 3:46:31 MDT).

• I already wrote something similar to this but a countdown au where your soulmate has died and you two still happen to meet each other (one is a ghost, one is alive) and the other finds peace after the meeting.

[ Distance ]

• Where you actually have a compass instead of a clock, and it leads you to where your soulmate should be.

✖ Soulmate AUs involving colors

[ Eyes ]

• Reverse colors AU where you can see in color but once you
  meet/marry your soulmate your world turns black and white, this is how people
  can tell that married couples really love each other because they’re willing to
  give up a world of colors for their soulmate. If your soulmate dies you get to
  see color again.

• Between you and your soulmate, only one of you can see other
  colors and the other sees black and white. Like you can see all the other
  colors except black/white/grays, and the other one can only see in black/white/grays.
  If you two meet, you’ll get to see all the colors.

• You can see colors but realize that recently, with each
  passing day, your world of colors is becoming a little duller and you’re
  panicking because you don’t know what’s going on, or what it means, or if your
  soulmate is okay.

• You can see colors and your world turns black and white but
  it doesn’t necessarily have to mean your soulmate is dead. There can be other
  factors that will result in a black and white world like losing eyesight, but
  you don’t know that.

• You will be able to see the world in full color once you
  meet your soulmate but until then, you can only see the world in the eye color
  of your soulmate. However, you can alter the color your soulmate can see, for
  example, by wearing contact lenses. Like if you wear blue contact lenses, your soulmate
  sees the world in blue, purple makes them see the world in purple and etc. And
  you realize each day/week you get to see the world in a different color because
  your soulmate is being all cute and would want you to see every color there is
  and they probably have a huge collection of contact lenses by the time you both
  meet.

• Everyone is born color blind and their sights are fixed once
  they meet their soulmate, or your soulmate is blind and you have the choice to give them
  your sight, but it’s irreversible and if they die, they take your sight with
  them.

[ Hair ]

• If you dye your hair, your soulmate’s hair color changes as
  well and you swear the moment you see your soulmate you will choke them because
  you just woke up with your hair colored like a rainbow and it’s your first job
  interview at a prestigious company what the fuck. Oh, and your best friend just
  took a picture to post online and wait—what, how many likes is that?

• Like the above AU but you only get highlights for the dyed color
  of your soulmate’s hair. If your hair color returns to normal, it means your
  soulmate has returned to their natural hair color too.

• Related to the first two AUs—you decide to get revenge on
  your soulmate by dying your hair the most absurd color combination you can
  think of and the exchange goes back and forth until you meet each other. It can
  be that if you meet, you two can dye your hair without affecting the other
  anymore.

• If your soulmate dyes their hair your fingernails turn into
  that color (like nail polish?) and you’re hoping your soulmate isn’t bald by
  the time you meet because it’s the fifth time the past two months that your
  nails have changed colors.

• If your soulmate dyes their hair, your eyes turn into that
  color and you wish your soulmate wouldn’t change it again because you really like
  this shade in your eyes.

✖ Soulmate AUs involving any kind of

body mark

[ Tattoos ]

• You and your soulmate have identical tattoos on your wrist
  about the date when you’ll meet each other. Place and time can be included (as
  opposed to the countdown AUs).

• Like the countdown AU, an alternate version where it’s your soulmate’s date of death that’s tattooed on your skin.

• Where a tattoo isn’t set from the moment you’re born and whatever
  tattoos your soulmate gets, you get it too and it’s all cool because you kind
  of like the designs, except you also feel the pain of getting a tattoo and that
  sucks because you’re kind of in the middle of an exam right now and it’s
  getting harder to concentrate on your work.

• You remove your tattoo because you hate the idea of someone
  dictating who you can be with for the rest of your life and the person who’s
  removing it happens to be your soulmate and they’re torn between letting you
  know and just not bringing it up because you kind of went there because you
  didn’t want a soulmate and vice versa.

• Your tattoo is only half
  complete and it completes itself the moment you find your soulmate, like if you had half a heart, you’d get a full
  heart on your skin.

• You’re not sure if the other half of your tattoo should end
  with this person’s words, or that one’s—wait, I think it might end with the
  phrase of that other person too. It’s just a very open-ended sentence…

• You don’t have a name tattoo on your wrist, meaning you
  probably don’t have a soulmate but you didn’t want your friends to tease you
  about it so you had a tattoo made on your wrist about some name you picked at
  random because your friend said she wanted to see it soon. And then somehow
  there’s a person claiming to be your soulmate and they’re kind of cute and sweet so you
  don’t know what to do.

• Because the universe is sadistic af, it only gave you the
  first letter of your soulmate’s name.

• Your tattoo is like a mood ring, it changes its color depending on what your soulmate is feeling at the moment and you’re not sure exactly what rainbow means.

[ Scars ]

• The only way for your scars to disappear is when your soulmate kisses them goodbye.

[ Others ]

• Whatever mark you get on your skin your soulmate gets it too
  so one day, you just kind of just get a
  sharpie and start writing on your skin. You definitely didn’t expect to get a reply, but you did. Now it’s five in the morning and you’re just about covered in ink and this will be a pain to wash off later.

• Imagine the above point but like, your soulmate maybe falls off a bike and you write on your arm what happened, and your soulmate replies to reassure you everything’s okay. Yes, you always carry a non-permanent marker to write on your skin at all times.

• You accidentally fell down the stairs and broke a leg, oh,
  and fate must love you because it seems your soulmate also broke the other leg (or something else) and whatever happens to the other, you feel it too

  (no actual injury but you
  feel the same amount of pain)

  so now you’re in the
  hospital and you happen to meet your soulmate in the waiting area.

• Wait, imagine the above point but way into the future and you’re about to give birth and your soulmate must be cursing you and rolling on the floor by the operating table or the waiting area screaming murder and punching walls while crying. Also periods, yes periods. Okay, I’ll shut up now.

• You can choose to take the pain of your soulmate away. Like if they’re sick or even if they just have a paper cut, you can choose to transfer the pain/sickness to yourself instead and they’ll heal. You can only do it once you meet them though, since what happens to them doesn’t happen to you, unless you transfer it to yourself.

• Like above but what if the pain becomes two times or more worse. Imagine someone afraid of pain, and the other soulmate shouldering everything or maybe you can half the pain your soulmate feels if you can’t handle taking everything on your own.

• Alternate version of above two points where you can also transfer your pain to your soulmate. Imagine the payback you can do.

✖ Soulmate AUs involving reincarnation

• There wasn’t a soulmate system in place before, now it’s
  about a thousand and more years later, and—wait, aren’t you the person that killed
  me in that back alley?

• Where you’re reborn with the
  memories of your soulmate and you can only get your past memories if you meet
  each other again in this lifetime.

• You somehow find a diary/journal of your old self and read
  through the contents of how you met your soulmate centuries ago.

• Your soulmate was an artist of centuries ago, and currently,
  you’re an art student at university (or not but you’re taking an arts class).
  Then one day for a field trip, you go to a far-away museum and you just find yourself staring at what was your reflection, wearing different
  clothes to fit the timeline but it was definitely a split-image of you, on one of the framed displays.

• Alternate version of the above where your soulmate still was an
  artist of centuries ago but you were there too, and you both were able to meet again in this lifetime. You don’t remember anything but you’d be at the museum, looking at the picture that looks like you with curiosity until your soulmate (who remembers everything) comes by and asks you what you think of the painting.

• You’re
  sent to an insane asylum because everyone is convinced you’ve lost your hold on
  reality since you’re the only one that remembers everything from your past
  life. Also, that new doctor is your soulmate.

• Your soulmate from the past life is not your soulmate in this life.

• You become a writer and your series of novels become extremely popular, but what they don’t know is that you’re retelling your previous life where certain circumstances made it so you and your soulmate did not end up together but your soulmate promises to be with you the next lifetime. At a book signing you open the book cover of a fan’s copy to see something written on the front page: “I’m sorry I took so long.”

• You don’t remember anything from your previous life but your
  soulmate does—your first meeting under the tree with the broken swing in summer,
  the way you smiled when you met each other again at the start of the school year,
  your eyes that were filled with such mirth and depth and beauty, even the way
  your hands fit together like missing piece of a puzzle—everything, even the
  gasps for air, the coarse little pleas, the way you stared with a look of
  betrayal until your bright eyes became nothing but a dull sheet of color at the
  hands encasing your neck in a vice grip.

• You keep going to this place, and you always notice another person here too. Neither of you know that this is the place where the both of you had died/first met in the past life.

✖ Soulmate AUs involving dreams

• Kind of a reincarnation AU where you’re losing the
  distinction between reality and dreams because when you’re asleep, you actually
  relive your past life, and you’re not sure if you’d much rather stay in the
  past or in the present anymore.

• If you’re on separate time zones, when you sleep, you see
  the world in the eyes of your soulmate at present time. You see the world
  through your soulmate’s eyes, what they’re eating, who they’re talking to, the
  contents of the essay paper they’re trying to finish, but if they look into a mirror/reflective
  surface/picture, the image is blurred so you don’t really have a clue what they
  look like.

• You see your soulmate in the eyes of their friend instead.

• Imagine that soulmates just have this ability to dream
  together/meet each other in your dreams regardless of whether or not you two
  meet in real life. Your dreams could then be like a real-life video game, for example, you
  two could be in a zombie-apocalypse type of dream and you both would try your
  best to help each other out. If one gets bitten/dies you wake up and your
  soulmate is there to tell you everything is alright or tease you how you couldn’t
  shoot fast enough

  and
  then you’d both go back to sleep and maybe start round two.

• Just like the above point, imagine how you and your soulmate
  could pretty much be with each other even after you’d both gone to your
  separate homes/shared bed.

• Your soulmate is dead and the only way you two can see each
  other again is in your dreams and everyday your soulmate tries to make sure you
  know they love you and will always be there for you the moment you close your
  eyes and retire for the night.

✖ Other Soulmate AUs

• You and your soulmate can communicate with thoughts and your
  soulmate happens to be a math major and you really need help with this test
  right now.

• On some days, whatever your soulmate thinks of is something you
  can hear in your mind and your soulmate is currently reading really hardcore smut
  fics and you’re trying so hard not to mess up this class presentation which
  shoulders half your mark for the semester.

• You get to share the same talents as your soulmate and you probably hit the jackpot because it’s the first time you’ve ever touched this instrument but you’re quite the professional at it, what? Shredding? I don’t know what that is but—oh… hey okay, I just did it I think.

• The Red String of Fate exists, and only some people have the
  ability to see the strings, and these people can actually cut strings and knot
  other people’s strings in to alter the soulmate laws. Your best friend’s
  wedding is tomorrow and they know you can see the string. They ask you to help
  them defy the laws of the universe and help them be with the person they love
  even though they know that’s not their soulmate. You know they love each other
  so much so you help them, even though the person your best friend’s marrying/your
  best friend is your soulmate.

• How about like the colors AU except it can be your voice or your hearing instead that comes and goes when your soulmate dies. Imagine how your soulmate’s voice is the first and the last thing you’ll ever hear.

So I decided to just make a post of all the ideas I’ve thought of so far for each theme! I tried to think of things I haven’t read before but I’m pretty sure with tons of people out there, some of these are sure to exist already. I was also planning to write more but maybe next time, my heart hurts already from typing these ;////;)’

I hope you guys like it though

and please feel free to add on to this or make these into stories please I’ll love you forever and tag me please I’d love to read them.

++ justfandomwritings is queen of Soulmate AUs, and I’d like to dedicate this to her because she’s amazing and so much more

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