Citations:soulmark

Noun: "(fandom slang) a mark on a person's body identifying their soulmate(s)"

 * 2011, Angela Corbett, Eternal Starling, unnumbered page:
 * “Unfortunately, it's not defective. Though most people's soulmarks only recognize one other soul, yours seems to recognize two.”
 * 2017, Kinga Kowalska, "Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Romantic Love in Soulmate AU Fanfiction", in The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice (eds. Anna Malinowska & Michael Gratzke), unnumbered page:
 * The changes to Darcy's soulmark correspond with her soulmate's state of mind.
 * 2018, Malin Brus, "'I Don't Think We've Been Formally Introduced?": Re-contextualising a Literary Model for First Meetings through Adaptation Theory and Fan Fiction", dissertation submitted to the University of Gothenburg, page 21:
 * In the fan fiction adaptation, Someone_aka_me uses the same lines to forge a connection between Alec and Magnus, both figuratively (putting both characters in the same scene and having them react to and impact each other) and literally (this particular piece of fan fiction introduces an alternative plotline in which Magnus’s words activate a soulbond between them, as they match a pre-existing soulmark imprinted on Alec’s skin).

Noun: "(fantasy) a mark or monument representing a past life"

 * 2015, M. G. Buehrlen, The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare, unnumbered page:
 * The soulmark next to Porter catches my eye. Which life did that one represent? Had I been rich? Poor? Had I lived in the rain forests of Brazil? In a medieval city in Morocco? On the streets of Brooklyn?