But I have not given as much thought to taking care of someone after they've had a tentacle down their throat and choking off their air, for example.
Oooooh. I had never thought of that too! There's also the possibility of the comfort being given by the tentacles, too - helping them out of The Swamp Of Sadness, or reaching the back of one's throat (or other orifices...) to apply soothing balm/ooze. So many new possibilities!
For "unexpected consequences of planned soulbonding", I can think or a few fanworks that has that - there's that one Arthur/Merlin fic where Merlin explicitly spells himself bound to Arthur so that he'll share in his injuries during a tournament, and, well, gets his share of the injuries. Later they discover that other sensations bleed through the bound and they have nice sensation play sex. I can hunt this particular story down for you, but mostly maybe you have an idea of the trope now? I think it'd also apply to things like Astolat's Chaos War fic, where Loki puts a binding collar on Thor but doesn't sort of "complete it", and then after learning that if the bindind is complete they could fight for each other/hear the other's thoughts/various things, Thor voluntarily finishes the binding - except now there's baggage that also goes with those new sharing powers, including a fierce desire to have tons of sex. It appears it might be a more common trope than we could think at first sight! XD
I love how simple and humble "hug" looks in that corner, surrounded by all those angsty things.
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Oooooh. I had never thought of that too! There's also the possibility of the comfort being given by the tentacles, too - helping them out of The Swamp Of Sadness, or reaching the back of one's throat (or other orifices...) to apply soothing balm/ooze. So many new possibilities!
For "unexpected consequences of planned soulbonding", I can think or a few fanworks that has that - there's that one Arthur/Merlin fic where Merlin explicitly spells himself bound to Arthur so that he'll share in his injuries during a tournament, and, well, gets his share of the injuries. Later they discover that other sensations bleed through the bound and they have nice sensation play sex. I can hunt this particular story down for you, but mostly maybe you have an idea of the trope now? I think it'd also apply to things like Astolat's Chaos War fic, where Loki puts a binding collar on Thor but doesn't sort of "complete it", and then after learning that if the bindind is complete they could fight for each other/hear the other's thoughts/various things, Thor voluntarily finishes the binding - except now there's baggage that also goes with those new sharing powers, including a fierce desire to have tons of sex. It appears it might be a more common trope than we could think at first sight! XD
I love how simple and humble "hug" looks in that corner, surrounded by all those angsty things.