Never_Ending_Procrastination

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more swap!grace (close up under the cut)

enough.

(more doodles under the cut)

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

Okay, so I got this idea from @breadroseart, specifically this post, and I'm just starting to write the first chapter now. Essentially, Simon, Grace, and Rocky are all soulmates (platonic), but all three of them have different soulmarkers that makes it very difficult for the three of them to realize they are soulmates at first.

Rocky has the soulmate au thing where the first time someone touches, they both get marks on the spots where they touch (because he's an Eridian these marks become crystalline and resonate a special frequency unique to their soulbond which is how they 'see' them). This, obviously, is tricky given their limitations, and it isn't until he has to rescue Grace and Simon from the fishing trip that this kicks in. Once his soulmark kicks in he's able to receive/reciprocate Grace and Simons' soulmarks. Before that, he's sort of out of the loop. Grace has the soulmate au thing where when someone sings the other person can hear it, with the bonus that when that happens he sees a red line connecting him to the other person. Usually this is a reciprocal thing, but Simon can't hear Grace when he sings, nor can he see the red line, so for the longest time Grace is all depresso espresso because his soulmate has just been giving him the cold shoulder his entire life.

Simon has the soulmate au thing where when someone writes on their skin it shows up on the other person. He's able to get Grace's random doodles, but just like Grace, he isn't able to send messages back so he's bitter with his soulmate for ages because wdym he's connected to this random asshole who writes entire paragraphs of chicken scratch algebra but won't respond to a 'how are you.'