B^2 Soulmates rec list

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So I wrote my chocolate box letter on Jan. 4th requesting B^2 soulmates and not only did I get B^2 soulmates fanart out of the exchange, 4 soulmate AU fics have been posted since! Most of them are still incomplete, but I do enjoy how we all seemed to share one brain cell about this. :D


This was the lovely Red String of Fate art I received:

dance me to the end of love (0 words) by theatricalities
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts
Characters: Beth Harmon, Benny Watts
Additional Tags: Red String of Fate


Next, I loooove this Soulmarks AU fic. The format is just so original - it flipflops POV between Beth and Benny and sandwiched in between are small pieces of worldbuilding detail. Not finished yet, but it's shaping up to be a Rivals to Lovers too, which is another favorite trope. <3

pawn and knight (watch your words) (14247 words) by ShadowSpellchecker
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts
Characters: Beth Harmon, Benny Watts, Alice Harmon, William Shaibel, Jolene (The Queen's Gambit), Arthur Levertov, Hilton Wexler, Cleo (The Queen's Gambit), Alma Wheatley, Mike (The Queen's Gambit), Matt (The Queen's Gambit)
Additional Tags: Period-Typical Homophobia (discussed), Age difference (discussed), Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Consent Issues (discussed), Deconstruction, Unreliable Narrator, Updates Thursdays
Summary:

He is eight when the mark appears. He doesn't notice. His opponent does.

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Or: First-words soulmark AU. Benny is up for an Epic Chess Rivalry. Beth just wants to win it all.

Another Soulmarks AU. This one basically follows canon events.

White Queen, Black King (22081 words) by sadgaymermaids
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts, Beth Harmon & Jolene, Beth Harmon & Alma Wheatley, Beth Harmon & Benny Watts, Beth Harmon & William Shaibel, Vasily Borgov & Beth Harmon
Characters: Beth Harmon, Jolene (The Queen's Gambit), William Shaibel, Alma Wheatley, Mike (The Queen's Gambit), Matt (The Queen's Gambit), Harry Beltik, D. L. Townes, Benny Watts, Vasily Borgov
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Canon Compliant, Fluff and Angst, Beth's an idiot sometimes, To be fair so is Benny, Borgov spits straight wisdom, And literally everyone saw this coming, This is making it seem like they get together in the first chapter, they don't, Benny isn't even in the first chapter
Series: Part 1 of (Soul/Check)mates
Summary:

Beth has had her inevitable love of chess stamped on her chest for as long as she could remember. The only problem is trying to find the person it matches. Her black king.

(A soulmate au where everyone shares a mark with their soulmate.)

A sense8 soulmates AU from the same author:

(so hold both your hands in) the holes of my sweater (2195 words) by sadgaymermaids
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts, Beth Harmon & Benny Watts, Beth Harmon & Jolene, Beth Harmon & Jolene & Benny Watts
Characters: Beth Harmon, Benny Watts, Jolene (The Queen's Gambit), William Shaibel, Alma Wheatley, Matt (The Queen's Gambit), Mike (The Queen's Gambit), D. L. Townes, Vasily Borgov
Additional Tags: the whole gangs here, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, they can visit each other, like in sense8, Childhood Friends to Lovers, canon adjacent, it's gonna follow the same timeline and plot points of the show, but not really be true to canon
Series: Part 2 of (Soul/Check)mates
Summary:

A couple days later she is still thinking of the boy and she asks her mother about it.

“That was your soulmate.”

“My what?”

“Your soulmate, your other half, the person your soul is connected to." At Beth's confused look she explains. "Every time someone is born at the exact same moment somewhere else in the world someone else is born. These two souls are linked together, they are soulmates. These soulmates are connected, you always have a sense of the other, where they are what they’re feeling and sometimes you can even visit them. You get pulled into their world and can feel and see everything around them.”

“So that’s what happened to the boy, he visited me?”

“Yes.”

“Can I visit him?”

“Maybe if you try really hard. But be careful you don’t want to be stuck somewhere you don’t know with a stranger.”

“But he’s not a stranger, he's my soulmate.”

Seeing in color soulmate AU. This is such a lovely fic that follows canon events, and the worldbuilding around the idea of some people not being able to see color is subtle and interesting:

now i'm covered in the colors, pulled apart at the seams (19682 words) by thisismetrying
Chapters: 9/15
Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts
Characters: Beth Harmon, Benny Watts
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Alternate Universe, Canon Compliant, mostly - Freeform, Soulmates, Color Blindness, Color soulmate, Idk what exactly this trope is called, but the soulmate trope where you can't see color until you meet your soulmate, mostly follows canon but with the color/soulmate aspect, and then goes a little beyond canon to post-Moscow, Slow Burn, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Smut, Eventual Smut, Drug Addiction
Summary:

Beth can’t see color. But the chess board and the world that it contains is all black and white, so it doesn’t really bother her.

Ironically, it is at a chess tournament that she starts to see color.

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or the queen's gambit "you can't see colors until you meet your soulmate au" that no one asked for

So much cake! Just putting them all in one place for trope bingo. :D