listen i love soulmate au’s as much as the next guy, but what i love even more than “found” soulmate aus, are made soulmate aus. where the characters don’t necessarily fall in love because they feel like they have to because they’re soulmates, but because they are really, truly, soulmates, yknow?
anyways, here’s my take on a reddie soulmate au:
in a world where you can only see in black and white, and colour only appears once you meet your soulmate, richie tozier is just waiting for the day he’ll be able to see colour. he’s been waiting for it his entire life... but he’s starting to get impatient. he’s been around his parents his entire life, who have been able to see in colour ever since they met at 15. most of his friends are starting to meet their soulmates. by the time he reaches his junior year of college, it’s like everyone around him has met their soulmate.... except him.
richie’s even starting to convince himself that he’s never going to find a soulmate, that he’s just going to have to accept his life as it is.... until one day, while he’s walking across campus through a large crowd of people and he’s stopped all of a sudden by a splitting headache, and when he opens his eyes...
he can see in colour.
it’s beautiful, more so than he ever could have imagined, but as he’s taking it all in his happiness disappears just as quickly as it had come about. he looks around him at the bustling crowd of college students and realizes.... he doesn’t know who his soulmate is. it happened so fast, who was it that turned richie’s life around? there are so many people, none of them stopping or even seeming like something as big as being able to see in colour just happened to them. it’s with a great sadness and feeling of defeat that richie quickly realizes: he finally found out that he has a soulmate, but he has no idea who they are.
the whole thing gets richie pretty down. his friends try to cheer him up, to reassure him that he’ll meet them again soon, but out of all the students that go to his college, how on earth is richie supposed to find them? he was just starting to retreat back to feelings of defeat and giving up...
and that’s when he meets eddie kaspbrak.
richie was looking for a new roommate, and eddie, another student at the college, was the only person who responded to his ad. there is no time wasted as a friendship forms between the two- even when they’ve only known each other for a week it feels like they’ve been friends forever. richie finds himself feeling a sort of comfort around eddie that he’s never felt with anyone else before- he doesn’t know how to describe it. the bond between them grows so strong, richie pretty much forgets about the search for his mysterious soulmate. he feels as though he already has everything he needs.
until, one day, richie brings up the question he’s been curious about for a long time: he asks eddie if he’s met his soulmate. eddie tells him, “yes and no.” at richie’s confusion, eddie explains, “i can see in colour, so i’ve met my soulmate before. the only thing is... i don’t know who they are. you see, i was just walking across campus one day and it just hit me all of a sudden. colour. but there was so many people around me, i guess my soulmate just got lost in the crowd. i never found out who they were.”
the answer sends a shiver down richie’s spine. nervously, he shares his own story with eddie, and neither of them can quite believe it... mostly because it seems too good to be true. richie had been telling himself that he had only been imagining these “more than friends” feelings between him and eddie all this time, but could it be that... those feelings weren’t all just in his head after all?
they go a little deeper, and figure out that they both started seeing colour on the same day, at around the same time, at the same place. richie supposed thas no true way to tell for sure, no scientific test to prove that they were each other’s soulmates, but he was fairly certain that eddie had been his all along. not just because of the matching time and day of their colour sight, but because richie thinks that he always knew that he was in love with eddie. because of the way they had connected form the very first time they met, to the comfort richie always felt coming back home to the apartment and being greeted with eddie’s “welcome home!”, to the way he always felt his happiest when laughing alongside eddie before the idea of eddie being his soulmate was even a possibility, because he loved eddie, and eddie loved him back.
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Stobin Appreciation Week 2023 by @dailystobin!!!
Day 4 : songs/lyrics/poems 🤍
spongebob // The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket // A little life, Hanya Yanagihara // Ribs, Lorde // Normal People, Sally Rooney // Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel // Stuck with me, The Neighborhood // Just Kids, Patti Smith // (pic) Troy and Abed (quo.) Winnie the Pooh by @/catbandits // Ryan O’Connell // Written on the body, Jeanette Winterson // Trista Mateer // Smoke Signals, Phoebe Bridgers // Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson
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dream & george; falling in love
Dream: 'Have either of you talked about liking each other in the past?'
George: *Scoffs*
Dream: ... Well—
George: *Giggles*
Dream: Well, none of the answers fit. But I'd say, like, we've talked about 'whether' ...
George: The weather?
Dream: Yeah.
Dream: The realisation that, once again, I met someone that's not going to be my friend, but something more. They were never meant to be my friend in the first place. I can't avoid it. If I'm going to fall in love, I'm going to fall in love. So this song is a cry to please be gentle, please don't make me even more paranoid.
Dream: I want that part of my life to be private, you know? Regardless of who that person is ... Once the cameras are off, once we're not doing anything, it's our time. It's me and you. There's no one else. No one else exists in the world, regardless of the fact that there's thirty-million people that are looming over.
Dream: Because I'm famous and because I have all this attention on me—when I'm in my normal life it's like, I want to put the people in my life in the spotlight and make sure they feel that way. But then there's lyrics like 'the celebrity in my bed' and 'close the curtains now you're all mine' ... It's about, you know, that special someone in your life, and how in my mind, because I feel so special, I want them to feel that same specialness. So, yeah, it's about relationships and how I want that person to feel special like I do.
dream @/dreamwastaken: .@/GeorgeNotFound you've had such a big impact on my life I don't even know where to start. helping me code my videos sometimes, helping with random ideas within videos, encouraging me and always being the light in the room to make things even just a little bit brighter. you took a chance on me out of university, making thumbnails and coding for scraps because we wanted to make it big and I’m proud to say that we did it and I’ll have an appreciation for you for the rest of my life because of your friendship, kindness, and love you’ve shown me. love you man. idc if you’re never serious or if we joke around a lot, you have a place in my heart and I’m looking forward to finally meeting you and taking our next step in content creation and friendship. LOVE U
Dream: 'Spotlight' is a song I wrote about making that special someone in my life feel as special as they truly are ... I want to be there to support them through the ups and downs, and make them feel like they have a million fans screaming cheering them on, even if it's just my voice echoing a million times. They are the most important person in the world and the only one in that spotlight of love and admiration, and I want them to know that.
a lot of my future is your future
Head Over Heels / Broken, Tears for Fears | Dream and George retake 'Am I In Love With My Bestfriend' Quiz, DNF Discord Podcast | Head Over Heels / Broken, Tears for Fears | Dream Team House Cooking Stream, Awesamdude VOD | The Diaries of Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka | Paranoid, Dream | to whoever wants to hear – lyric booklet, Dream | Franz Kafka Letter, Franz Kafka | Red Doc>, Anne Carson | Photograph of Dream and George during the Foodbeast's Panel at Twitchcon San Diego, @/itsjusttai_ | Dream Team Christmas – Baking Cookies, Sapnap VOD | Paranoid, Dream | Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince, Taylor Swift | Dream's Snapchats of George, @/dream | Paris, Taylor Swift | Dream breaks down his new EP track by track, Associated Press | long story short, Taylor Swift | Dream and George on set: Everest – Dream & Yung Gravy BEHIND THE SCENES, Dream Music | Dream breaks down his new EP track by track, Associated Press | Spotlight, Dream | Technoblade Charity Stream George's POV, GeorgeNotFound VOD | Dream and George during Foodbeast's Kitchen League Battle Royale at Twitchcon San Diego, Twitch VOD | October Passed Me By, girl in red | Waiting for a Star to Fall, Boy Meets Girl | Dream Team Christmas – Gingerbread Houses, GeorgeNotFound VOD | dream Tweet, @/dreamwastaken | Dream Team Christmas – Baking Cookies, Sapnap VOD | "George napping and the sun is literally beaming him square in the face" – Photograph and Tweet, @/dreamwastaken | Paranoid, Dream | Dream and George on set: Everest – Dream & Yung Gravy BEHIND THE SCENES, Dream Music | to whoever wants to hear – lyric booklet, Dream | Dream Team House Cooking Stream, Awesamdude VOD | SOMEONE MADE A DISSTRACK ABOUT ME???, GeorgeNotFound VOD | Paranoid, Dream |
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Dustin: If you die, I'll die!
Steve: *moved to tears*
Robin: ... Aww, you're both precious but so, so unwell.
Also Robin: *will definitely jump off a cliff if that's what Steve's gonna do because they're a package deal now and Death just has to accept it*
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