This was the beginning of a Soulmate AU I started about a year and a half ago. I didn't get much further than this and I'm not sure if I will. I'm still interested, but I've got very few ideas for this.

Soulmates were incredibly rare.

Only one in every few thousand babies were born with the defining words on their bodies.

That's why whenever a newborn was found to bear these marks, it was usually an incredibly big deal.

The hospital staff were always excited to see an actual soulmate, and a lot were proud for having brought one into the world. Sometimes news outlets would be brought in, especially if it was the child of celebrities. But most of the time, the parents wouldn't allow it.

Soulmates were special and the words were generally private. Besides, since newborns couldn't fully appreciate what was so special about the words they were born with, it was usually the parents' job to get excited.

Soulmates meant guaranteed happiness and those who had found theirs were always some of the happiest people on the planet. That's not to say that non-mated couples couldn't be just as happy, they definitely were, but soulmates had that added bonus of being literally born to be together.

No one understood the science behind soulmates; how they came to be, why some were born with the first words their soulmate would say to them imprinted on their skin and others weren't. But one thing was for certain; if you found the person who had matching words to correlate to your first conversation and you held onto them, you found utter joy in their very existence.

Of course, like all natural things in the world, soulmates didn't come with a guidebook, therefore everything everyone knew about them was speculation based on centuries of evidence. It was pretty solid, but there were still people who saw it as a waste of time. Some said it was just a coincidence, some said there wasn't anything special about them and that the idea of being happier with your soulmate, only came from the idea of soulmates themselves, a placebo effect, basically.

There were some who admired and envied soulmates; they got to know for certain who was right for them and were guaranteed by some unseen force since birth that they would find that person.

But there were also some who pitied them. Being a soulmate meant they were bound to one person and if they lost that person, they would never find another. Non-soulmates were not bound by such rules and could find that everlasting happiness in more than one person.

For Maddie and Jack Fenton, on the day their son was born, they felt confusion.

Excitement and joy were first, without a doubt. But once they actually looked at the words for what they were, they became confused. Because they couldn't read what it said.

It was not uncommon for soul marks to be written in a different language to the one they spoke. Whatever language the soulmate said their words in was echoed on the skin, so in the case of baby Daniel, everyone had first assumed his words were a language they didn't know. But once things had calmed down and the parents were able to try and figure it out, they realised they didn't recognise the figures.

They tried searching for answers on the internet, looking at thousands of different languages, but none of them matched the words on their baby's left arm.

After a while, the parents admitted defeat. The joy they once felt was now hollow as the sad truth sunk in.

Their son had a soulmate, but no one could read his words.

And there we have it. It was meant to be Pitch Pearl (obviously, it's my favourite) and his words were in Ghost Speak which no humans knew of. The only other ideas I had for this were that Danny would grow up bitter about his soulmark, thinking it was a fluke and he doesn't actually have one, until he finds out about Ghost Speak and becomes determined to know what it says. That's it, that's all I have.

I am finally finished! Honestly, I don't know what compelled me to think doing a month of prompts after barely writing anything for two years was a good idea. It was incredibly stressful, especially towards the end, but I'm glad I did it. I had no idea I could write so much until I did this and I'm proud of myself for doing it. I definitely won't be writing this much on a regular basis, but I do have a lot more motivation to write now and I've got my eye on a few things I've started and fleshed out here.

Thank you to everyone who read, followed, favourited and reviewed this. I really appreciate all of it, so thank you. Especially to uh... lena smith? I just checked my reviews so I could get your name right and apparently you're Dp-Marvel94? Since when? I'm so confused now! Well, whatever your name is, thank you for the near constant reviews. Honestly, I suck at reviews and rarely give them because I just don't know what to say, so having someone review on almost every chapter is an honour I don't think I deserve.

Thank you all and I hope to see you soon with whatever I end up writing next.