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1. now i'm covered in the colors, pulled apart at the seams by thisismetrying

   Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 May 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Beth Harmon/Benny Watts
   • Beth Harmon
   • Benny Watts
   • Alternate Universe - Soulmates
   • Alternate Universe
   • Soulmates
   • Color Blindness
   • Color soulmate
   • Idk what exactly this trope is called
   • but the soulmate trope where you can't see color until you meet your soulmate
   • mostly follows canon but with the color/soulmate aspect
   • and then goes a little beyond canon to post-Moscow
   • Slow Burn
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Drug Addiction

   Summary

   Beth can’t see color. But the chess board and the world that it contains is all black and white, so it doesn’t really bother her.

   Ironically, it is at a chess tournament that she starts to see color.

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   or the queen's gambit "you can't see colors until you meet your soulmate au" that no one asked for

   Series

   • Part 1 of we were wild and fluorescent, come home to my heart

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   39,654

   Chapters:

   14/16

   Comments:

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