After all this time, "sex toy mafia" is still one of those things I associate with you the most, seeing "sex toys" listed in your likes made me smile real wide.
We don't really have fandom overlap at the moment but you mentioned soulmate AUs and that got the little gears in my brain turning. I love soulmate tropes best when they're subverted or otherwise presented in unexpected, unconventional ways. So I offer to you: some soulmate meta, complete with subversion.
Names on both of your wrists, one is your soulmate, the other your worst enemy; it isn't specified which one is which: I feel like this concept became super popular in fandom for a while and it's so tropey but I'm so fond of it. The ideal execution is clearly an enemies to lovers fic where the character is absolutely certain the person they've met between the two of them is their enemy but despite full knowledge of that and despite driving each other up a goddamn wall constantly, they just have this weird chaotic chemistry neither of them can deny.
Bonus points for ultimately snubbing their actual romantic soulmate despite clearly seeing how that person would be the healthier choice, if you want a little tragedy. Nicer bonus points for: happy polyamory endgame.
Everyone has weak powers, but when soulmates are together their powers are amplified: This one is also so tropey but I'm into it for the beautiful cinematic picture in my mind of the two characters fully realizing their feelings for each other right before the do-or-die climactic moment where they NEED to use their superpowers to save the day and the power erupting out of them like a supernova in a glorious win for the home team.
Everyone has powers; when you meet your soulmate you swap powers, permanently: I love this for the hilarious comedy of errors potential. You could hit such a nice coming-of-age note of meeting your ~true love~ and having everything you know change, because you've taken for granted having XYZ ability your whole life, you depend on it. And now you have this totally new ability you've never used before and the only person you can count on to get you through it — especially if it's a potentially dangerous ability — is this near-stranger you nevertheless have wicked chemistry with.
Bonus points for a little bit of "intense bonding through adversity." Extra bonus points for the superpowers not being THAT unique or granular and a case where things don't work out with the person's soulmate so they're forced to find someone else who still has the same type of ability as the one they've just received and who can help them learn to safely use it. Awkward platonic dependency and mentorship where the person helping you isn't the one you want, but in the moment they're the one you need and you need to trust them.
Soulmates share the same fingerprints: I want this one for some kind of crime fiction premise; the idea of being wrongly accused for a crime due to fingerprint evidence which was left by your soulmate and having to solve the (murder) crime before the police in order to meet your soulmate would be Super Fun. Bonus points for a situation where the character hits a crisis point where they've learned enough about the horrible things their supposed true love has done that they have to really examine whether this is someone they WANT to be with. Do they want to outmaneuver the police and meet their love? Or do they want to turn them in, for their own safety?
Or, alternatively, a situation where the amateur crime solver is SUPER into every aspect of what happened and where they basically fall in love with their soulmate THROUGH investigating the horrible things they've done. It's like a love letter written in violence, where each new terrible detail only endears them further to this awful person who is perfect for them.
As an entirely different spin in a similar vein to that, a situation where the soulmates have met and are together and in love and use the fact that they have the same fingerprints and are married to devise a plan to commit some sort of crime and get off the hook for it.
You hear whatever music your soulmate is listening to, and vice versa: I just super love the interpretation of this one where one character ABSOLUTELY LOATHES the music taste of their supposed true love and is forced to put up with it for yeeeeears before they ever meet. And it turns out they are incredibly compatible with the person! Just, oh my god, their music taste is so bad. So bad. No amount of exposure brainwashing will convince them otherwise, they love you but your music taste is SHIT.
Whenever you lose an item, be it something small and inconsequential or something dearly important to you, it ends up in your soulmate’s possession: This is another one that seems suuuuuuper fun for comedy of errors potential. I want either a situation where one half of the couple has a SUPER weird and niche profession or hobby, and they keep losing items related to their work/hobby which might not be alarming given proper context but as spontaneous gifts to their soulmate, are More Than A Little Worrying.
Or, the version where one half of the couple is suuuuuper forgetful and their soulmate is just slowly being buried beneath a terrifying hoard of their lost items. They are begging the universe to let them meet, not for the sake of love but just so they can give all of this stuff back and get it out of their house, they've had to dedicate an entire room to "my soulmate's shit" and it's growing Incredibly Full and spilling out into the rest of the house.
Or, the version where one half of the couple loses something vitally important to them; their soulmate receives it and realizes that it is possibly life-or-death important that they return this thing to their soulmate as soon as possible. They then set out on a frantic quest to find their soulmate before it's too late, aided only by whatever miscellaneous collection of other lost items they had previously received from their soulmate.
It is impossible to lie to your destined soulmate: Let's be honest I just want to see the most tragic interpretation of this one. Half of a couple who have been together for years and deeply love each other, or who just fell incredibly fast and hard into an intense love as soon as they met, forced to tell their love something they know will absolutely destroy them because they are geass-bound not to lie. Bonus points for, the one with this dark knowledge begging their love not to ask them these questions, please, you know that once asked, they cannot refuse. Please don't make them hurt you. It's tearing them up inside.
Only your soulmate can kill you: This is incredibly tropey but I'm so weak to the version where this isn't a feature of EVERY soulmate bond in the universe. I want the version where one half of the soulmate couple is some kind of immortal being who's been looking for their love for centuries and they're so tired, they want to be with this person but they also want to end their existence. Please give me the terrible and bittersweet premise where this immortal being slowly prepares their true love for life without them, then begins the process of convincing their love that the kindest thing they can do is kill the immortal soulmate. Because if the mortal one dies first, they will be dooming their love to live for an eternity without them, for long enough to go absolutely mad from it, without even bringing love into the picture.
If their soulmate truly loves them, they will kill them and live their life as truly and fully as possible after that.
Annnnnnd that is my fun TL;DR of soulmate meta, hopefully! It's fun!! I think even if we don't have fandom overlap at the moment we do have some overlap in our general taste so I offer to you this heap of dead birds. (Oh fuck I just actually looked at it as a comment and I think this is longer than what I've been aiming for writing people fic, holy shit.)
Meta: Soulmate AUs
After all this time, "sex toy mafia" is still one of those things I associate with you the most, seeing "sex toys" listed in your likes made me smile real wide.
We don't really have fandom overlap at the moment but you mentioned soulmate AUs and that got the little gears in my brain turning. I love soulmate tropes best when they're subverted or otherwise presented in unexpected, unconventional ways. So I offer to you: some soulmate meta, complete with subversion.
Bonus points for ultimately snubbing their actual romantic soulmate despite clearly seeing how that person would be the healthier choice, if you want a little tragedy. Nicer bonus points for: happy polyamory endgame.
Bonus points for a little bit of "intense bonding through adversity." Extra bonus points for the superpowers not being THAT unique or granular and a case where things don't work out with the person's soulmate so they're forced to find someone else who still has the same type of ability as the one they've just received and who can help them learn to safely use it. Awkward platonic dependency and mentorship where the person helping you isn't the one you want, but in the moment they're the one you need and you need to trust them.
Or, alternatively, a situation where the amateur crime solver is SUPER into every aspect of what happened and where they basically fall in love with their soulmate THROUGH investigating the horrible things they've done. It's like a love letter written in violence, where each new terrible detail only endears them further to this awful person who is perfect for them.
As an entirely different spin in a similar vein to that, a situation where the soulmates have met and are together and in love and use the fact that they have the same fingerprints and are married to devise a plan to commit some sort of crime and get off the hook for it.
Or, the version where one half of the couple is suuuuuper forgetful and their soulmate is just slowly being buried beneath a terrifying hoard of their lost items. They are begging the universe to let them meet, not for the sake of love but just so they can give all of this stuff back and get it out of their house, they've had to dedicate an entire room to "my soulmate's shit" and it's growing Incredibly Full and spilling out into the rest of the house.
Or, the version where one half of the couple loses something vitally important to them; their soulmate receives it and realizes that it is possibly life-or-death important that they return this thing to their soulmate as soon as possible. They then set out on a frantic quest to find their soulmate before it's too late, aided only by whatever miscellaneous collection of other lost items they had previously received from their soulmate.
If their soulmate truly loves them, they will kill them and live their life as truly and fully as possible after that.
Annnnnnd that is my fun TL;DR of soulmate meta, hopefully! It's fun!! I think even if we don't have fandom overlap at the moment we do have some overlap in our general taste so I offer to you this heap of dead birds. (Oh fuck I just actually looked at it as a comment and I think this is longer than what I've been aiming for writing people fic, holy shit.)