#everytime I read soulmate mark/thread/w/e aus I end up wondering

[auncyen]

Soulmate world except two people without marks decide they're going to fake being each other's soulmates with fake tattoos and what starts out as wacky shenanigans to reassure their families they can settle down and be happy ends up with them delving too far into the lore to make sure they get the act right and slowly piecing together, to their horror, that the whole soulmate system is a scheme of their people's gods to make the population boom before an upcoming war.

#everytime I read soulmate mark/thread/w/e aus I end up wondering #'how does this actually make sense?' #especially when canon has very visible examples of unhappy relationships #so yeah. what if it's just a cosmic scam. #quick settle down and make/adopt babies