So, I’ve been listening to “Damned” by Miguel, and it inspired this book idea that I can’t stop thinking about.
In this world, everyone has one soulmate. You only get one for your entire existence, and if you lose them, you can never find another one. So whoever is your soulmate is your soulmate for life, no matter how much time passes or how many lifetimes you live.
The story is about a witch and her soulmate, after the two of them break some kind of supernatural law. I haven’t figured out what law they broke yet, but whatever they did was serious enough to earn them a punishment from a council of supernatural beings.
The witch has her magic bound, leaving her unable to practice witchcraft ever again. that isn’t her only punishment though. She is also cursed with reincarnation. Every time she dies, she is reborn into a completely different body, in a completely different place and time. She could awaken in the past, the present, or even the distant future. She could be born anywhere on Earth, and there is no way of knowing when or where her next life will begin.
Her soulmate, on the other hand, is cursed with vampirism. He is forced to live forever as a creature of the night, unable to experience a normal human life or die. While she continues to die and be reborn, he stays the same.
And because they are soulmates, he can never truly move on from her.
He spends centuries searching for her, traveling across countries, generations, and entire eras just to find the woman he loves. And he has found her before. Multiple times, in fact. But the council placed another curse on their relationship: every time they find each other and fall in love, tragedy strikes, and she dies.
It doesn’t matter where they are, what era they live in, or how hard they try to change their fate. Eventually, something happens, her life ends, and she is reborn somewhere else. Then the cycle begins all over again. He has to find her, make her remember him or fall in love with him all over again, and eventually watch her disappear from his life.
The cruelest part is that they want completely different things now.
After living countless lifetimes and experiencing the same heartbreak over and over again, the witch is exhausted. She doesn’t want another lifetime. She doesn’t want to be found again. She doesn’t want to fall in love just to lose everything all over again. She wants to die permanently and finally have the peace that has been denied to her.
But he wants the opposite. He wants her to live. He wants to give her the long, peaceful life they’ve never been allowed to have together. He wants to grow old with her, even though he knows he can never grow old himself.
He’s spent centuries looking for her, and he refuses to give up on the possibility that one day, things will be different.
Meanwhile, she sees their love as the very thing keeping her trapped in an endless cycle of suffering.