Chapter Text
All across Teyvat, there is a strange yet wonderful phenomenon. That being, everyone has a soulmate. A complete other half of yourself. Someone to match your personality, your likes and dislikes. To support and love you regardless of anything. A soulmate that is connected to you not just through the heart but by your very soul.
The only downside is the pain.
Being able to feel every ounce of pain your soulmate feels is incredibly hard on someone. Especially when you hardly know who they are unless you've managed to already find them.
How might someone find their soulmate you ask? But of course that would be the soulmark. A distinct marking that each pairing shares. An exact match of symbols.
They could be your worst enemy but if they share your mark, the bond will surely muddle your point of view and slowly you’ll begin to like them. You can’t hate your soulmate. It's cosmically impossible. Fate refuses to let you reject your soulmate.
However, if one dies from the pairing, the mark fades away, never to be seen again. And you feel empty. Incomplete. Broken. Nobody wishes that on anyone. It’s the cruelest thing anyone can ever go through.
The small plus side of soulmates would have to be the soul link. The telepathic bond a match shares, being able to communicate in ones head to their soulmate regardless of distance.
But theres always stipulations. Like you only get access to your soul link when fate deems it the right opportunity. And it can even go dormant once it’s been activated, yet nobody knows the reason behind it, unless you sustain an injury directly to your soulmark. That’s the only time anyone knows why the link goes dormant. Of course it comes back but the pause is quite startling.
People either love or hate soulmates.
But fate never plays around.
And that’s how we begin this story.
In the Nation of Wisdom, Sumeru.