Sure, save it for Tuesday if it speaks to you. I'm happy that you like my idea! :)
Specifically what I was thinking...
I've mentioned some of my volunteer work in some of my comments, and from that volunteering I know people who have survived various sorts of humanitarian troubles (and/or know other people who do). Most of these people also have different mother languages than I do, which in this soulmark 'verse would narrow things down.
Imagine someone's soulmark manifests in one of the local-to-disaster languages with some sort of hint - a reference to an address, a local landmark, or the type of disaster. person coming in for the relief effort could at least narrow their search down to a country or specific crisis, and maybe even to a specific city or relief hub. Conversely, the local soulmate would know to seek out potential helpers of XYZ language group or nationality and would be predisposed to trust at least that specific group of outsiders.
Oh, and for disasters - the kind of disasters I would think of are things like the earthquake in Haiti from 2010, the Taliban takeover, the earthquake in Turkey/Syria/Aleppo a couple of years back, the complete mayhem in the Haitian capital a few years ago.
You could also add things like the Ukranian war, the tsunami in Japan, any of several examples of capsizing boats of refugees.
I'm sure that some examples would have cropped up in WWII or the Holocaust, and that might actually be a more positive counterpoint to your other Holocaust-soulmark story.
If you don't like any of those disaster ideas or you want to tell a different story go for it. Or, it could even be a plot that is used more than once, with a couple of different plotlines.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-07-27 09:37 pm (UTC)Specifically what I was thinking...
I've mentioned some of my volunteer work in some of my comments, and from that volunteering I know people who have survived various sorts of humanitarian troubles (and/or know other people who do). Most of these people also have different mother languages than I do, which in this soulmark 'verse would narrow things down.
Imagine someone's soulmark manifests in one of the local-to-disaster languages with some sort of hint - a reference to an address, a local landmark, or the type of disaster. person coming in for the relief effort could at least narrow their search down to a country or specific crisis, and maybe even to a specific city or relief hub. Conversely, the local soulmate would know to seek out potential helpers of XYZ language group or nationality and would be predisposed to trust at least that specific group of outsiders.
Oh, and for disasters - the kind of disasters I would think of are things like the earthquake in Haiti from 2010, the Taliban takeover, the earthquake in Turkey/Syria/Aleppo a couple of years back, the complete mayhem in the Haitian capital a few years ago.
You could also add things like the Ukranian war, the tsunami in Japan, any of several examples of capsizing boats of refugees.
I'm sure that some examples would have cropped up in WWII or the Holocaust, and that might actually be a more positive counterpoint to your other Holocaust-soulmark story.
If you don't like any of those disaster ideas or you want to tell a different story go for it. Or, it could even be a plot that is used more than once, with a couple of different plotlines.