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About the universe - whenever your soul mate gets an injury the wound will show up on your skin, but you won't feel the pain of the injury. The mark will heal like it will be doing on the other person's skin, but if it scars you'll also get a scar (hence matching scars). Unlike in other alternate universes you won't know when you meet your soul mate but obviously if you saw their scars it'd be pretty obvious because you're used to seeing those scars on your body.

However the werewolves show the rules aren't set in stone.


Stiles was born with a long pink fiery red mark running from the top of his shoulder and round his back stopping at the bottom of his left side. The wound looked deep and nasty, probably going to leave a scar in the future. This told the Stilinski's two things. One Stiles' soulmate was older than him, enough so to be receiving such scars. And two they would probably be in a hospital somewhere with a very distinctive injury. The second gave them something to think about.

-It was common for people to match soul mates at a young age, if possible, so they could grow up with each other, or if they lived too far away at least save the hassle of the big search later on in the couples' lives.-

So when the Sheriff started a private investigation to see if there were any hospitals with patients that had a matching mark to his Son's he was met with support, not looked down upon for wasting police resources. And when he could find no such match in any of the nearby, and some not so nearby, hospitals people only offered kind words, such as "they may live a little far away" or "he's only a babe you'll have plenty of chance yet".

Never the less the Stilinski's still felt disheartened as the mark faded and disappeared altogether before the boy was even three weeks old. The doctors were surprised by the marks disappearance, for they had been sure it would scar. But perhaps it had been made long before Stiles was born, or it just wasn't as bad as they first thought, after all they hadn't been examining the real wound.

The only blemish on the baby was a small birthmark on his right hip, though weather it belonged to him or his soulmate no one knew.