We've seen a fair number of awesome Matt/Frank prompts lately, but you know what I haven't seen yet? A soulmate AU prompt.
Give me all the cliches. People born with their soulmate's name or their first words to each other marked on their skin. Or people seeing in color only when they meet the one. Take your pick, or make up something new.
Give me Frank knowing all along that Matt is his other half (and feeling guilty because he wants him, but he's not Maria, and he still clings to her memory) and Matt being oblivious because he doesn't know/remember what his mark says after so long/doesn't even realize he has a mark because they're not that common and they show up later in life/he cannot see at all, so the seeing-in-color thing would be lost on him.
How would this affect their dynamics? I can see Frank pushing Matt away and being cold and distant because he doesn't want to grow close, even though it hurts to do so. Having someone that important in his life would only interfere with his job, and if anything happened to Matt... he can't go through something like that again.
It would explain why Matt feels so drawn to Frank, why it's so important to him to make him change and stop killing, and why he accepts him even though Frank refuses to stop. Poor avocado would not understand why he wants Frank so bad and why it hurts so much when Frank pushes him away.
Bonus points for a happy ending.
Extra bonus points for Foggy finding the mark one night as he's patching Matt up and feeling a bit dejected that his best friend never bothered to tell him about it.
F: 'Hey, you never told me you had a mark' M: 'Mark? What mark?' F: 'A soulmark' M: 'Are you kidding me? Where?' F: 'Right here' M: 'What does it say?' F: 'It says Francis Castiglione... any idea who that might be?' M: '... That son of a bitch.'
Matt/Frank - Soulmate AU
Give me all the cliches. People born with their soulmate's name or their first words to each other marked on their skin. Or people seeing in color only when they meet the one. Take your pick, or make up something new.
Give me Frank knowing all along that Matt is his other half (and feeling guilty because he wants him, but he's not Maria, and he still clings to her memory) and Matt being oblivious because he doesn't know/remember what his mark says after so long/doesn't even realize he has a mark because they're not that common and they show up later in life/he cannot see at all, so the seeing-in-color thing would be lost on him.
How would this affect their dynamics? I can see Frank pushing Matt away and being cold and distant because he doesn't want to grow close, even though it hurts to do so. Having someone that important in his life would only interfere with his job, and if anything happened to Matt... he can't go through something like that again.
It would explain why Matt feels so drawn to Frank, why it's so important to him to make him change and stop killing, and why he accepts him even though Frank refuses to stop. Poor avocado would not understand why he wants Frank so bad and why it hurts so much when Frank pushes him away.
Bonus points for a happy ending.
Extra bonus points for Foggy finding the mark one night as he's patching Matt up and feeling a bit dejected that his best friend never bothered to tell him about it.
F: 'Hey, you never told me you had a mark'
M: 'Mark? What mark?'
F: 'A soulmark'
M: 'Are you kidding me? Where?'
F: 'Right here'
M: 'What does it say?'
F: 'It says Francis Castiglione... any idea who that might be?'
M: '... That son of a bitch.'