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songxuexiao soulmates where xxc dies before he's met the others but songxue find each other, but they always have this feeling that Something is missing
i like to think this world has soulmate scientists/medical professionals who diagnose them with a case of a splintered bond so they know that they're missing someone—but they'll never find him
the name is very apt bc missing their third is like having a splinter that never comes out. sometimes they forget it's there, but all it takes is one wrong move and it snags: whenever they say 'i love you', whenever they feel like there's too much empty space between them
also extra pain from @dead_keyboard https://twitter.com/dead_keyboard/status/1267472320932843526?s=20
i do like the idea of soulmates as being a symbiosis of sorts so missing one part of them throws the balance off and it's like having a chronic illness: they'll never be free of it, they can only learn to manage the pain
but having dreams and getting these fragments of feelings about their third gives them some amount of clues about who it might have been. the intersection that causes them pain every time they pass by it is where they start looking.
