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Post by Kevin Micklesen on Sept 7, 2022 10:31:11 GMT -5
Characters are born without the ability to see color until they hear their romantic soulmate laugh for the first time, at which point they can suddenly see in full color.
Notes: Those without a romantic soulmate have a mild form of color-blindness wherein they can distinguish most colors from birth but can't see them exactly the way that soulmates can.
The laugh does not have to be in response to something their soulmate does or says, they just have to laugh in the vicinity of the person.
Deaf and mute persons are not excluded from this phenomena.
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Post by Kevin Micklesen on Sept 7, 2022 10:32:17 GMT -5
It's a normal day when everything changes for Kevin and he doesn't even know it. How could he? At the young age of 4 he isn't exactly clued into the workings of the world entirely. Much less about the importance of soulmates and what they mean or how they come about.
All he knows is that Aunt Holly and Uncle Tyler are over for dinner and they brought with them the twins. Not to be confused with his twin brothers, Thomas and Shane, the twins are proper babies that he can't even tell apart. They're so linked in his mind that he often thinks of them as ElsieandChloe or ChloeandElsie depending on the day. They don't do much, still at the stage where they sleep most of the time they're anywhere unless they were crying because they were hungry or needed a diaper.
It was the boring stage of babies, quite frankly, and Kevin sort of missed when Aunt Holly and Uncle Tyler didn't have babies and instead just came over and would do things with him. Of course, he knew better than to say that to them because it might hurt their feelings. They really loved ElsieandChloe.
He was just about to tell Uncle Tyler about his day at pre-school (he was the one in the class who could count the highest) when something happened.
Shane was leaning over ElsieandChloe and making faces at them, as he'd learned to do very well lately when all of a sudden there was a burst of laughter out of one of the twins. Then the other followed, both sending high pictured giggles out into the room.
Very suddenly everything around Kevin changed. He couldn't explain it but it was different, everything looked different. Instead of the varying tones he was used to it was... much more.
Nothing that he had the words to explain because it was so much. It hurt his eyes even, the richness and brightness of everything around him and he couldn't get away from it either. The shirt that Shane was wearing was almost loud in a way it hadn't been before, Aunt Holly's nails were still dark but less dark than they'd seemed before, mostly shockingly was his mother's hair. Where it had been a comforting shade earlier it was now vivid, confusing eyesore that had him cringing away from her.
"Hey buddy, you okay?" his dad asked, frowning down at him in concern. He, at least, didn't look too different. Though his shirt was weird, the usual grays no longer familiar to him.
"My eyes hurt," he admitted, rubbing them lightly.
Every adult in the room froze, conversation dying out as they all looked over at him. Kevin inched closer to his dad's comforting outstretched arm, allowing it to wrap around him and rub his back lightly.
"What do you mean they hurt?" his dad asked curiously, though there was a tension in his voice that made Kevin shift slightly where he stood.
"They-" he huffed, searching for the words to describe everything happening to him. "Everything looks funny and it hurts my eyes."
There was a long pause where all the adults exchanged looks again before his dad pulled out his phone and then showed it to Kevin. "Kevin, bud, what do you see in this circle?"
On the screen there was a circle made up of dots which all looked funny like everything else but there was also the number 7 looking different than the other dots in the circle. "That's a seven," he said matter-of-factly.
"Okay damn," he heard Aunt Holly mutter, "Didn't expect this."
While the adults were focused on them one of the twins started crying and the other immediately followed - another reason why Kevin thought of them as ElsieandChloe, they almost always were in the same mood.
"Do you know which cried first?" his mom was asking.
"I think maybe Elsie but sometimes she cries when she can see that Chloe looks upset and then Chloe starts crying," Uncle Tyler answered. "Don't suppose that it matters now though. Time will tell."
"Dad?" Kevin asked, tugging lightly on his dad's shirt to bring his attention back toward him. "What happened to my eyes?"
"Well, they changed," his dad said slowly. "Everyone's do eventually. They changed so that you can see all the colors of the world and this is how everything will look from now on."
"Why?"
His dad exchanged a look with his mom.
"Because we aren't born seeing all the colors," she answered. "Everyone gets to see them at a different time. Yours came in now. Which is going to be lots of fun for you now when you color and do art class. You'll get used to all the colors sometime."
Kevin frowned, glancing around the room and scrunching his nose up. "I don't think I like it."
Aunt Holly laughed for some reason.
"That's okay," Dad said, rubbing his arm in a comforting manner. "You don't have to."
He could tell that there was something he wasn't being told but that didn't matter so much, right now he just wanted to close his eyes and stop being visually assaulted with all the new 'colors' that he could see.
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Post by Shane Micklesen on Sept 10, 2022 18:51:56 GMT -5
Shane was in disbelief when he and Thomas walked out the door of school after a 'special lesson'. The special lession was about soulmates and it turned out that he'd already met his because he could see in color. He'd been able to see the way that he did now for as long as he could remember which must have meant that he'd heard his soulmate laugh when he was still very young.
"This is a disaster, Thomas!" Shane exclaimed, throwing his hands up. "I'm very funny. I've made tons of people laugh before and we've been around lots of people. Mom and Dad have those pictures of us at Oceans of Fun when were were still small enough not to have to pay admission. How am I supposed to know who my soulmate is when I heard them laugh at an unknown age?"
"I also don't know who mine is either," Thomas pointed out.
Shane fixed his brother with an unimpressed look. "It's Emily. Obviously it's Emily! Be reasonable, Thomas. Some of us have a real mystery to solve!"
Thomas' cheeks turned a light pink. "We don't know that it's Emily," he argued.
Shane ignored him, unwilling to humor such nonsense. Besides, they were talking about Shane's very real and very pressing mystery soulmate. "So we need to come up with a plan to figure out who my soulmate is. And because you're my brother and my best friend you should help me."
"Didn't we just get told that the point of a soulmate is that we're going to find out who they are in time as we're meant to?" Thomas pointed out.
"Thomas!" Shane whined, throwing his hands up. "Are you going to help me or not?"
Thomas took in a deep breath and then in resignation spoke up. "If you wanted to try and narrow down the hundreds of people you've heard laugh in your life, probably start with people we know and start ruling out anyone who can't see color."
"Like with a list or something?" Shane's nose wrinkled in distaste.
"I don't think there's another way to do it," Thomas shrugged as they reached the bus.
Shane let out a groan. He hated lists but it was probably the best way to do things.
It was how he found himself at the kitchen table later that evening with a piece of paper in front of him as he wrote out the names of the different people they knew that could possibly be his soulmate because he'd have known them long before he could remember properly meeting them.
"What are ya doin' bud?" his mom asked, looking over his shoulder.
"Writing down all the people who could be my soulmate and then I'm going to ask if they can see color and I'll cross out the ones that can't!"
A smile pulled at his mom's lips but she simply pointed to Emily's name that was written and already crossed out. "You already asked Emily?"
"Emily is obviously Thomas' soulmate, Mom," he said, shaking his head.
She threw her head back and laughed. "Maybe so, kiddo. Maybe so."
"Wait... Mom, do you know who my soulmate is?" he looked at her suspiciously.
"Even if I did I wouldn't tell you," she said with a shrug.
"Mom!"
She ruffled his hair. "You'll find them when you're supposed to."
"Easy for you to say, you and dad didn't meet until you were old enough to know what happened to you," he huffed.
"Everyone's story is different. Now if you want to keep making your list I won't stop you though."
He turned back to his list and huffed as he started writing out the names of Aunt Roxie and Uncle Elijah's kids.
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