Marks || YM

an explination

(Not an official chapter just a lot of background)

Hi, guys. While I was writing I was thinking that some of it could be a bit confusing for readers to follow so I'm going to clear things up a bit.

In this world, people have soul mates.

From a really young age everyone goes to school and learn about how it's possible to write on your skin and it shows up on someone else. Taehyung is actually majoring in soulmate studies. It's a type of science.

It's actually a pretty simple explanation.

Before your life was ever even a thought, your soul was attached to someone else's soul and what has been attached will always want to be attached again

Or at least that's the elementary school explanation.

In more scientific terms it has to deal with how when the universe was created your atoms were close together with your soulmates (SM for short) and atoms will always come back together (Authors note: this was not my original idea it has floated around the internet for a while).

The hardest thing that a person can ever do is stay away from your soul mate once you realize who it is. It has driven people insane before. It barely ever happens because of "the pull"

"The pull" is your soul wanting to be complete.

In elementary school terms, "the pull" is when you have a need for your soul mate. Once you realize who your soul mate is you start to feel "the pull". It gets even harder to be away from your soulmate when you are in a relationship with them because it basically means your souls become one. Hence the nickname 'other half'.

This is why Jimin's parents are still together. Although his dad is a shitty fuck he is Ms. Parks soul mate and if they were to ever be apart they would start to want each other like crazy and have mood swings (ex: depression/anger). But as soon as they see each other again it would go right back to him losing interest in her and she goes back to being alone.

There are things called bond's (they are a side effect of "the pull"). These are special things a soul mate pair can have. The most common one is the calming bond, the one Namjoon and Jin have. This bond means that no matter how anxious or worried you may be, being with your soul mate will calm you. There are some bond's that fade away once your soul mate dies. It's very rare to have a bond after your other half has died but there have been cases of it happening.

It's called the second love bond. This means that once you've found a person that you love wholeheartedly you start getting writing again and have to find your new other half. People that get the second love bond are viewed as people who have had a lot of pain in their life and the universe feels it has messed up.

The rarest bond someone could have is called the healing bond. It use to be a bond that was seen much more in the medieval days because people would often get hurt. The healing bond means if you are injured very badly, even on the brink of death, all you have to do is be with your soul mate and you are very likely to have a full recovery. Now, because of modern medicine are better hygiene, it is a bond that is now going extinct.

Once your soul mate dies you are left with what seems like a Crater where your heart should be. You stop feeling "the pull" but the chances of you ever finding love like you once had are next to impossible. There have been very few cases of people getting another soul mate and even then scientists aren't entirely sure how it happened. But aside from seeing your soul mate seriously injured, when your soul mate dies it's the worst pain you ever feel. From your heart to your brain. Physically and emotionally. Because if your soul mate dies a part of you dies too.