Prompt

In this world, on everyone’s eighteenth birthday, a heart paints itself on the dominant hand’s palm. The exact colors and designs of the heart matches no one else but the soulmate or soulmates of that particular person, and will not be visible to anyone other than that person until their soulmate(s) has been found. the soulmate or soulmates of that particular person. If one has multiple soulmates, his or her heart will be equally divided into different colors (halves, thirds, twelfths, etc.) The designated soulmate(s) will match the person’s true ideals, though often couples will never know what their true ideals actually are and will have issues.

When a pair of soulmates shake hands (heart-to-heart contact necessary,) the physical heart will jolt, and the skin will feel a pleasant electrical shock, and on the inside of the dominant arm’s wrist the name of the respective soulmate will appear in the soulmate’s handwriting.

If the soulmate dies, the heart will be edged in gray and the name of all soulmates will be revealed.

If the soulmate is terminal or dying (as in will inevitably die within a short amount of time,) the name of the dying soulmate will be revealed and all involved soulmates will feel a pull to the location of the dying soulmate, as well as the location and distance of the dying soulmate from his others.

Planned Pairings

Meanie
Jihan
Jihancheol
Junhao
Jicheol
Verkwan

Round 1 Table of Contents

Red, White, and Peach

Jisoo--Jihancheol

His heart was split in half: one half a brilliant red, the other half a bright white. This couldn’t be happening. He knew what that meant. Everyone knew what that meant. But how was he supposed to deal with two soulmates?

Wo ai ni, my ai

Jun--Junhao

Jun couldn’t tell whether or not he’d made the right decision to go to Korea or not. He loved the country so much, felt as much at home here as in China, made some strong connections, but the Chinese characters on his heart suggested otherwise.

Pretty U

Mingyu--Meanie

Mingyu couldn’t stop feeling this attraction to the lonely, pretty-boy bookworm. He couldn’t help it, even though he’s sure they don’t have that much in common. If he didn’t know any better he’d say Wonwoo was his soulmate, but then who’s the boy who’s always around him?

Name pending

Jihoon--Jicheol

Jihoon did not want to meet his soulmate this way. He hadn’t been really anticipating meeting his soulmate anyway, but meeting his soulmate by finally accepting his offer to help him up after a really embarrassing fall was probably really low on his list.

High five, soulmate

Vernon--Verkwan

It’s crazy to think that he never once touched his best friend’s palm with his own, but when he high fives Seungkwan after finally earning an A on his last test, the jolt rushes through his body like no other. Literally. Both of them fainted.

9580 kilometers from my love

Jeonghan--Jihan

Jeonghan had been looking forward to meeting his soulmate ever since he turned eighteen, admiring the beautiful calming blue of his heart. Things don’t go as planned, he realizes when he feels a dreadful tug at his heartstrings and watches in horror as a name engraves itself on his wrist: Hong Jisoo--9580 km, Los Angeles.

Notes

This story also has no priority over all my older stories, nor will it ever have top priority. I'll just update when inspiration strikes. The soulmate au is one of my favorite aus out there, and this au prompt (which I made up mostly independently, but if it looks similar to someone else's, I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional) came from Halsey's "Colors" which talks about how others influence someone's colors and also relationships, so... yeah.

You're welcome to borrow my prompt, just let me know and link your story back to mine!

Also, you're welcome to suggest any pairings you want to see, provided you give me a prompt to go with (like all the blurbs you see above)

I'm just publishing this now so that I can check any interest and maybe get some suggestions, but don't expect anything anytime soon.