What if love was a virus? And I'm not talking about in just figuratively, I'm referring to literally.
It gets much more worse if it's unrequited, forbidden, or just plain wrong.
There are 4 stages.
1 - your hands gets more clammy, and your heart beats faster than ever, all your blood rushes to your face, leaving you numb at times when you "blush".
2 - you experience "butterflies" in you stomach, shaking of legs, when in reality, your lower parts of the body are slowly twisting and destroying themselves inside out. It first comes to the ankles, the last being the stomach.
3 - when you have troubles breathing, and when your "nerves are fried", it means that the virus has reached your lungs. Slowly sucking up the oxygen, and draining it, your blood also goes down one by one, in much more serious cases, you can have a cardiac arrest becauae of this stage. Your nerves are fried because of the brain finally reacting to the virus, and trying to fend it off, to no avail .Numbness increases tenfold.
4 - there is no saving here now. The virus has finally reached the heart, sucking up all the oxygen in the blood, nd leaving to an inevitable death by a heart attack. Though, there are rare cases wherr they rise from the dead, the transformation being called "Risen" (plural: Risens).
When the world-wide government found this disease, They had launched the project called Red-String. It was an alliance of all the infected countries, joining their armies together to destroy all the Risens, and to help the infected and alive by researching the medicine.
They also launched the sub-project called SMP, or the Soulmate Progression. When you have turned the legal age, a wrist, that was given to you from the day of birth, will immediately signal you, and your soulmate on where exactly you would meet. Date, time, place, all of that stuff. It also acts like some sort of second nanny, but it depends, as you can code it.
It would be interesting to see, like a mix of the soulmate au, the hanahaki disease au, and the red string of fate au. But eh.
