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Mindlink Mates

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Mindlink Mates	comment	This is a romantic trope where lovers share not just their lives and beds, but actually their consciousness. Most often they're from an already telepathic race, but this telepathy goes even further; maybe they're always aware of the other, not just when communicating but always; or they understand each other better than anyone else; or they actually feel exactly like the other, or something like that. Sometimes successful reproduction is tied to it. Sometimes the sanity of one, usually the male, or both partners depends on the mindlink. Often the link is not unsoliticious. It goes both ways, so if something bad happens to one of them... It's doubtful whether real humans could take this for a half an hour, but anyway, it's often presented as superior to a normal relationship, more fulfilling or close or "true". It can also be taken as a "metaphor". This is a subtrope of Fantastic Romance. Also see: Mental Affair.
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Mindlink Mates / int_10ddd3d5	comment	In the Twilight Princess fanfic "Til the Sun Grows Cold and the Stars Grow Old," Link and Princess Zelda have met in dreams since they were very small children, which is part and parcel of their targeted reincarnation love affair of many lifetimes. Its true significance comes at a point when Link thinks Zelda might be dead, and the fact that he can't find her in his dreams only seems to prove it.
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Mindlink Mates / int_114401d2	comment	In Pretty Little Liars, Paige and Emily have stated on separate occasions that they 'have a connection', have several parallels in their stories, their coming-out ones are especially very similar, when Emily cheated on Paige, it was Paige who rationalized and figured out what happened and why before Emily herself even did and Emily seemed to agree, they both knew and understood each other when nobody else did, and gave each other the benefit of the doubt when needed and both complement each other perfectly. In season five, Paige was so in-tune with Emily that she was able to discern when she wanted her back and made the first move and kissed Emily and beat her to the punch so she wouldn't have to apologize and beg her to return, and even though they break up before the series ends, their breakup continues to illustrate that they have a complete understanding of one another, and ultimately breaking up is their final Act of True Love:
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Mindlink Mates / int_1331990c	comment	A trait of at least magical girls with soulbonds in The Soulmate Timeline, different from usual magical girl telepathy as it operates on a 'separate' channel from regular Magical Girl telepathy and appears to have a wider range. They also share emotions and dreams between Soulmates, which is both good and bad: it makes it a lot easier for Homura to get things done because her Soulmates can tell her good intentions but it also means that her secrets and bad moods can also be transmitted and cause distress.
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Mindlink Mates / int_13679a09	comment	Ward: The "Kiss/Kill Effect" can result in this: when multiple people all trigger their superpowers at the same time, their minds become linked and they begin to share dreams and memories. It's also believed that personality traits can "bleed over" between members of a cluster. It's noted that members of a cluster will often form very strong emotional links to each other as a result, and romances are not uncommon in such situations, hence the "Kiss". The flipside, the "Kill" part of the name, comes from the fact that the "strong emotional links" formed are not always positive, which just as frequently leads to homicidal tendencies between members of a cluster. And some people get both Kiss and Kill for another one of their cluster...
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Mindlink Mates / int_1682583	comment	This routinely occurs in the Universal Century between powerful Newtypes, and never ends well. In Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Kamille Bidan and Four Murasame fall into love because of their emergent Newtype abilities, but Four is simply too insane from her Cyber-Newtype conversion to enter into a functional relationship, and she dies in his arms later. From the same series, meanwhile, Paptimus Scirocco intentionally manipulates Newtype women to his side through his mental power, but doesn't reciprocate their affections and only uses the situation to manipulate them.
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Mindlink Mates / int_18a11921	comment	In Hidamari Sketch Honeycomb's Episode 3, Hiro and Sae are shown to be able to communicate like this. Their mental conversation appears on the screen accompanied by beeps.
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Mindlink Mates / int_19437fdf	comment	The Fey in the Tairen Soul series bond this way. As the breeding of girl children depends on the mindlink and the probability of one forming between any two given individuals is low, there always is a serious skew in the sex distribution. This is "compensated" by the men killing themselves after so many centuries if they don't form a mindlink. It should also be noted that truemates cannot share thoughts (without using magic, anyway) until their bond is complete, which can take some time. This rule conveniently allows for romantic tension between the truemated-but-not-fully-bonded-yet protagonists.
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Mindlink Mates / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	In the Digimon fanfiction series, A Sticky Situation, the Renamon line apparently form these types of bonds.
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Mindlink Mates / int_1af0b0d	comment	Rachel Summers provides a siblings example. She created a psi-bond with Cable shortly after his birth. It is unknown if that link still exists, however.
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Mindlink Mates / int_2250e67e	comment	Trip Tucker and T'Pol in Star Trek: Enterprise have a psychic bond and are in love (largely due to T'Pol's damaged emotional control from drug abuse). Their first hint is when they find themselves sharing the same daydream, despite being on different starships.
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Mindlink Mates / int_22fa3400	comment	In Empowered, Sistah Spooky and Mindf██k were these once. It's really the only way that Mindf██k can have good sex.
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Mindlink Mates / int_247422c7	comment	Treecat mates, in the Honor Harrington series, since the species as a whole is telempathic. Later in the books, it's revealed that Honor herself has one of these with Hamish Alexander, whom she later marries, though the link is empathic in nature, not telepathic. She comes by it honestly: her mother Allison and father Alfred also have an empathic bond.
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Mindlink Mates / int_2723c601	comment	Very prominent in the "Dangerverse" between Remus and Danger.
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Mindlink Mates / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe: Oliva and John Scott have this even after he's dead via the sensory deprivation tank. Later in the series, Peter and Olivia develop an odd (and especially impressive) variation of this which, par for course with the series, defies the very laws of time and space with unclear moral consequences: After he writes himself out of the time-line and then reappears in the present, his presence and her unique abilities and brain chemistry bring forth her memories from the original timeline (including them falling in love). Unfortunately, this eventually completely replaces her memories of the new timeline, effectively killing that version of Olivia in favor of the One True Pairing favored/required by The Multiverse.
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Mindlink Mates / int_2a1de40c	comment	This is where the titular "bond" in Their Bond comes from. Zelda and Impa have a special connection where they can talk to one another without verbal words and can share images with one another using their minds.
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Mindlink Mates / int_2b12db8e	comment	Tales of the Bounty Hunters: Dengar has aspects of this in his relationship with Manaroo, as her people use a device which lets them share emotions. It's standard among her people, and helps to recover some of his lost emotions from sharing hers.
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Mindlink Mates / int_2cad7105	comment	Makoto Mizuhara does this with Ifurita at the end of the El-Hazard: The Magnificent World OAV. He's capable of synching with El Hazard technology, and she's a battle-gynoid.
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Mindlink Mates / int_2eafc5ca	comment	In the Snapped offshoot of Team 8, this is implied—Naruto is killed, but manages to hook his consciousness onto that of the Kyuubi as it leaves his body for Itachi's, and then when this kills Itachi both enter and inhabit Hinata (who is still young enough, unlike Itachi, for her chakra coils to stretch enough to survive the Kyuubi's chakra). Later it is stated that Hinata "always has very interesting dreams".
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Mindlink Mates / int_307b8ff6	comment	In Total Drama Comeback, Ezekiel and Heather have complimentary dreams about each other. In this case, is not explicitly supernatural, it just sort of marks their growing feelings and Character Development.
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Mindlink Mates / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto Chapter 677, during the series' climactic battle against the Big Bad Ensemble, Naruto and Hinata become this. As Madara finally enacts his Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, every living creature on the planet is caught in the illusion, except for Team 7, who are protected by Sasuke's Susanoo. The last person shown is Hinata, who mentally calls out to Naruto in despair. The very next panel shows Naruto suddenly looking very alarmed and eager to jump right out of the safe zone, which Sasuke wisely stops him from doing so.
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Mindlink Mates / int_32a13bf2	comment	In the Griffin And Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence trilogy, the titular characters have a version of this, seeing each other's paintings and eventually building a very long distance relationship.
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Mindlink Mates / int_33dd1d90	comment	A variation on this is created between Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. In the process of healing Alyx from a mortal wound, the vortigaunts weave Gordon's "life essence" with Alyx's. This is similar to the "preservation of sanity" variant—here, it is implied that the link is critical to reviving Alyx physically. And nothing suggests that the link couldn't work in reverse.
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Mindlink Mates / int_34d40d0e	comment	A central theme in Upstream Color: the two main characters become a romantic couple after being hypnotized with a substance that opens up empathic links with other people. They become so attuned to each other that they start confusing each other's memories for their own. They are also linked to a mated pair of pigs, which have been implanted with the same substance used on them. The human couple occasionally get feelings they don't understand as a result of things happening to the pigs.
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Mindlink Mates / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Spoofed in the rather infamous Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Handbanana". Handbanana mindlinks with Carl and immediately makes creepy threats about coming for him in the night. Then he rapes him. Repeatedly.
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Mindlink Mates / int_35760d42	comment	Jane Eyre plays with this idea but doesn't quite commit to it. Not only are Jane and Mr. Rochester incredibly attuned to each other's thoughts and feelings, but it is his voice "calling" on her for help from miles away that finally persuades her to return to him at the end of the novel. Even Jane thinks it might just be a coincidence; they do spend quite a bit of time thinking about each other. Alternatively, since she was praying for guidance about her love life at the time, perhaps it was divine intervention.
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Mindlink Mates / int_35e05f2a	comment	Generally the focus of the RWBY fic Linked in Life and Love. Mate's Marks are a normal part of Faunus mating and are formed by essentially implanting a piece of one's aura in another. They allow emotion sharing as well as a general feeling of the location of a Faunus' partner(s). They also allow something referred to as "instinct sharing" where one partner can send an action or series of actions to another. In rare cases the mixing of auras creates what is known as an Affinity, which is a kind of "second Semblance." In Team RWBY's case, this ends up being Semblance sharing, essentially allowing all four girls to use each others' Semblances.
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Mindlink Mates / int_35fdf2ed	comment	Ashura and Yasha in RG Veda. Thanks to their swords, Shurato and Yamato, being connected, they share a special psychic link, but it only started to manifest after Shuratou was stored into Ashura, effectively making Ashura a part of the sword in someway. This was useful to found Yasha in the ice fortress when Aizen-myoh kidnapped him and to know that Yasha was in danger when Rasetsu returned.
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Mindlink Mates / int_36c89d24	comment	Hannibal has a downplayed, non-magical version aided by Will's empathy and the exceptional intimacy between Will and Hannibal. While Hannibal and Will don't actually share a consciousness, they understand each other so deeply that they're able to reproduce the other faithfully in their respective Mind Palaces, making it "as if" the other were actually interacting with them. For example, Will uses this to have an effective conversation with his Mind Palace version of Hannibal in "Secondo" that helps him better understand the real Hannibal's childhood, and Hannibal points out that he and Will share certain chambers in the palace and he found a 'victorious' version of Will there in "Digestivo". This is also played with in the discarded season 3 stinger, where the viewer is left to wonder if Hannibal and Will are truly in the Norman Chapel, or if perhaps they're now metaphorically together in their shared Mind Palace.
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Mindlink Mates / int_3823caa4	comment	Trapped on Draconica: "We're twins; united in body and soul." Presumably Erowin being Ben's twin serves as an 'anchor' which allows her to stick around and help after Mordak kills her.
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Mindlink Mates / int_39020c06	comment	Amelia (TanaNari) features this between a lesbian and a straight girl. It doesn't influence her sexuality, just romance, which causes issues. Largely Played for Drama, with several characters questioning how much the link is influencing their personalities and catastrophic changes when it's removed. In the finale, the world is restructured to feature hundreds of Mindlink Mates.
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Mindlink Mates / int_39bd654e	comment	In The Redemption of Althalus, all of the main characters eventually develop a non-romantic version of this, but the couples end up with special, private links.
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Mindlink Mates / int_3b34143f	comment	Frequently used in the Harry Potter fandom. Very prominent in the "Dangerverse" between Remus and Danger. Harry/Ginny is also a popular target—someone made a list, and it's long. In most soul bond fics, the bond is made when Harry rescues Ginny from the Chamber of Secrets. Since the canon event involved damage to Ginny's soul, it's an easy spot to diverge into an AU. The exact specifics vary from fic to fic, but it's not uncommon for Ginny to skip a year because she now has access to all of Harry's knowledge. And of course it's quite common for them to suddenly gain weird magical abilities as a result of the bond. The Amplitude, Frequency, and Resistance of the Soul Bond is a reconstruction of Harry/Ginny soul bond fics, and subverts most of the conventions of the genre. Harry and Ginny do not instantly fall in love because of the bond, their bond actually makes them do worse in class because they can't focus, and they gain no extra powers besides being able to talk to each other and see through each other's eyes. The "bonded pairs have to touch or they'll die" is specifically given a Take That!; Sirius warns them that they absolutely cannot have sex before they're seventeen, and everyone roundly mocks the idea of two teenagers being forced to touch (it turns out Sirius was lying about the magical consequences because he just didn't want them to have sex too young). The plot also takes a sharp turn when Voldemort finds out about the bond; Ginny is made Hogwarts champion instead of Harry because she's not as well-protected, but their bond means that Voldemort can steal the blood protection from her as well. It also turns out that Tom Riddle had a soul bond of his own. While he was always evil, he only went insane when his bonded mate died, and he wants to do the same to Harry to break him in front of the world. To list the number of Drarry creature fics that declare this is true of Veela and their mates would take the better part of a month. Also quite common in Harmony (Harry/Hermione) fics.
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Mindlink Mates / int_3d22c68b	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Judau Ashta is an absolute Chick Magnet, though his strongest relationship (with Elpeo Ple) is more of a brother-sister relationship (though Ple is unusually intense about it). Meanwhile, Haman Khan is attracted to him, but unable to handle her emotions properly, and Judau repeatedly rejects her.
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Mindlink Mates / int_3d90ba40	comment	The Awakening of a Magus features a non-romantic artificial variant, in the form of the Magus Circle. The number of people in it presents a considerable problem, because the vulnerabilities are there. When one of the Circle dies, everyone is depressed for a long time, while Harry goes catatonic for a while. After that, they start working on ways to take care of the obvious Achilles' Heel. It is mentioned then (and was earlier described in a Recursive Fanfiction) that when Darius the Magus died, the only living member of his Circle went mad and massacred the wizards he held responsible.
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Mindlink Mates / int_3e783a31	comment	Starting in season 2 of Sense8, Will and Riley engage in a sexual relationship with each other. Naturally, their psychic connection makes them this. At one point, Will has to take blocker pills to prevent Whispers from being able to visit him, and they acknowledge that kissing isn't as intense without their psychic connection. Kala and Wolfgang also fit this trope, although circumstances mean they don't get to meet in person until the Grand Finale. Their situation is also complicated by the fact that Kala is married to another man. Jonas and Angelica, the mother of the main characters' Cluster, also fell in love via their connection. Jonas describes loving someone within your Cluster as "the purest form of love".
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Mindlink Mates / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: The Chief of Police and the AI in his mobility rig (which needs a thorough neural link to work with him properly) have apparently grown into a relationship like this. He has called her "literally my better half" and implied through awkward silence that the relationship is not platonic.
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Mindlink Mates / int_4064e1e8	comment	Turns up in a couple of Tin Man fics, where it's handwaved as a means for an Ozian sorcerer/sorceress to focus and replenish their magic. The Lavender-eyed Queen and Ahamo (or, rarely Glitch) are usually depicted as having this kind of bond, but it also turns up in DG/Cain fics.
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Mindlink Mates / int_427e7c68	comment	Zero Sight: Mages can become a weft pair, which means they understand each other's emotions and thoughts, know where their partner is and transfer mana from one to another. The main couple of the series becomes one by accident. In-Universe the most famous pairs even have cards dedicated to them.
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Mindlink Mates / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural fandom took Cas' canonical telepathy, the "profound bond" comment, and the fact that Cas literally left a brand on Dean's body, and ran with it. Often, it's one-way (Cas can sense Dean, not the other way around), and for whatever reason Cas doesn't bring it up—at least until the events of the given story.
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Mindlink Mates / int_49ff762	comment	Also a fair amount in Torchwood fics, mostly for Jack/Ianto and usually including Ianto having some sort of super-empathic powers. There is a very marginal justification for this in that Jack explicitly has psychic training from his time with the Time Agency, with even powerful telepaths unable to read his mind, and Ianto is implied to have undergone something similar (but far less sophisticated) at Torchwood One. However, Jack's abilities are canonically totally defensive and Ianto's, if he had any, would have extended to the ability to spot Psychic Paper.
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Mindlink Mates / int_4d10f63a	comment	In Metamor City telepaths temporarily fuse consciousnesses when they have sex, then afterwards they try to sort out which memories are whose and piece themselves together. People without telepathy can't do the last part so all but the weakest teeps are rather limited in their choice of partners.
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Mindlink Mates / int_4f46b380	comment	X-Men: First Class: The fic Charlotte Francine Xavier, has this develop between Erik and Fem!Charles.
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Mindlink Mates / int_5131cb43	comment	Lisanne Norman's Sholan Alliance Series has a large number of Leska pairs that fill this. It doesn't work very well for some pairs.
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Mindlink Mates / int_526d4c5c	comment	The male protagonist of Knights of the Old Republic has this with Bastila, if you decide to pursue the romance. The PC in the second has a non-romantic version with Kreia, and a straight example with Visas.
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Mindlink Mates / int_53a10f4c	comment	The Twilight Zone (2019): In "Meet In The Middle", Phil abruptly forms a telepathic connection with a woman named Annie. Over time, they fall in love, with Phil eventually going to meet her. However, it turns out she's been manipulating him.
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Mindlink Mates / int_53ebf3bb	comment	The Liaden Universe calls this "lifemating". It's stated to be extremely rare in Liaden society, yet somehow it seems to happen to just about every main character in the series (though some of them have to wait decades to find their lifemate); it's vaguely suggested that it has something to do with the telepathic tree they take care of.
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Mindlink Mates / int_5694548d	comment	In The Sharing Knife series, Lakewalker marriage essentially involves becoming a limited form of this—no mind reading, but they can tell if the spouse is alive, and one character can tell the general direction her husband is in.
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Mindlink Mates / int_578be4e1	comment	In The Irregular at Magic High School, Tatsuya and Miyuki have a low-level example because part of her magic is devoted to suppressing his. When Miyuki dies, as in the Reminscence arc, Tatsuya knows she's gone because the suppression is.
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Mindlink Mates / int_58b600de	comment	Ingrey and Ijada in World of the Five Gods' The Hallowed Hunt share an empathic-level bond created by Horseriver to keep control of Ingrey as part of his plan. His breaking it when he starts the final step of the plan sends Ijada and four companions chasing after them.
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Mindlink Mates / int_5a0e633d	comment	In Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Guinevere does not share her fated lover Lancelot's telepathy, but she is strongly precognitive, which enables her to finish his sentences and deeply understand his personality before even meeting him (because she's seen almost everything he will do and say over the course of his life). When they first meet, Lancelot even thinks Guinevere is reading his mind because she can predict his thought and behavior patterns so perfectly.
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Mindlink Mates / int_5c19d291	comment	Coagula and Robotman in the Rachel Pollack run of Doom Patrol.
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Mindlink Mates / int_5c897f4a	comment	Kevyn in Schlock Mercenary while bantering with his sister made a dirty joke about her cyborg husband and a ship's AI.
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Mindlink Mates / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Downplayed in Soul Eater where partners can combine their souls using Soul Resonance. With the exception of Maka's parents and possibly Stein and Marie, at one point in time, none of the teams are actually dating. One of the more blatant examples of Ship Tease from the series, however, happens when Maka visits Soul's soul, has a moment of She Cleans Up Nicely, and the two dance. Soul is also able to read Maka's thoughts.
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Mindlink Mates / int_629cd094	comment	The epilogue text in Dragon Age: Origins suggests that the male Warden and Morrigan may be able to sense each others' emotions/thoughts to some limited degree, due the pair of enchanted rings that they both wear.
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Mindlink Mates / int_630755ab	comment	The Marat in the Codex Alera form telepathic bonds with totem animals. In the first book, Furies of Calderon, a Marat girl named Kitai accidentally forms such a bond with the main character, Tavi. The two become a couple as the series progresses and display some aspects of this trope, such as being able to sense one another's presence and moods. It also means that when Tavi begins to develop furycrafting, Kitai develops it as well.
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Mindlink Mates / int_631805af	comment	Meryl and Johnny show signs of this near the end of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, as they shot enemies only the other one could have seen and shove new magazines into guns held in their direction without looking at it. Which is even more interesting as the SOP-system was supposed to do exactly that, but Johnny never managed to work with the rest of the team, as he lacked SOP. Once the system is shut down and Meryl has to act on her "real" instincts, they work together amazingly.
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Mindlink Mates / int_6370c97a	comment	Jaguar Paw and Seven from Apocalypto. When Jaguar Paw has a minor Heroic BSoD, Seven (who is trapped in a cave of sorts) physically shows the distress he is experiencing and reminds him to "come back" to her. When Blunted wishes Jaguar Paw to "journey well", Jaguar Paw responds with "I can't go now".
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Mindlink Mates / int_6500e1de	comment	It's not the same in Jedi Apprentice, but it is noted that a good early sign that the Master-Padawan bond is working as it should is for both parties to sometimes think the same thing in unison. Notably, this doesn't mean either can read the other's mind, though they may become close enough to know what the other is thinking.
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Mindlink Mates / int_65af8e08	comment	Thousand Shinji: As they develop Psychic Powers, Shinji and Asuka become this. When they fought Leliel, their minds virtually became one.
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Mindlink Mates / int_668020b	comment	This is a tradition of The Eternals, when they get married. Sersi, defying traditions chose the Black Knight (a human, instead of an eternal) as her "Gann Josin", and got the link. But Dane was not asked if he wanted the link, and certainly did not.
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Mindlink Mates / int_691be369	comment	Played with on The X-Files between Mulder and Scully, though oddly (given the paranormal premise of the show) never truly explored. The most overt of this implied "link" is the fact that they dream of each other while the other is abducted; Mulder dreams of Scully being tortured in season two, while Scully does the same in season 8. In fact, this becomes so regular that Scully panics when she stops having the dreams, for fear that Mulder's death might be the reason.
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Mindlink Mates / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	This concept is explored deeply in the Haikyuu!!/Pacific Rim crossover fanfiction But for Me, There is a Storm, where the Drift, or psychic connection between pilots, is a big part of all relationships between copilots.
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Mindlink Mates / int_6c6b89db	comment	Downplayed in Supergirl story Demon Spawn. There was not telepathy involved per se, exactly, but Supergirl and Geoff's minds were bonded somehow, and that bond gave strength to Supergirl to break free when a villain was taking over her body.
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Mindlink Mates / int_6e1d5f36	comment	In Farscape, Zhaan's species can do this with each other as part of their spiritual/psychic bag of tricks. It's eventually revealed that the crime which got Zhaan imprisoned by the Peacekeepers was using this link to kill her lover, an important political leader who was going to start a bloody coup d'etat (by hiring the Peacekeepers to take over their planet). The psychic backlash from this basically drove her insane, but she used her years in solitary confinement to achieve a measure of inner peace through meditation. When she's forced to do this again, the level-headed pacifist undergoes an abrupt personality shift for several episodes, becoming violent and short-tempered until she can find a way to recenter herself.
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Mindlink Mates / int_75622e41	comment	X-Men: While their marriage was still blissful, Jean Grey and Scott Summers had a form of this. Scott and his instant replacement interest Emma Frost have a version of this. Rachel Summers provides a siblings example. She created a psi-bond with Cable shortly after his birth. It is unknown if that link still exists, however. Of a sort between Rachel and Korvus — she absorbed the power of his Phoenix Blade and it led to a mental connection and them dating, as well as influencing her personality for the darker. In the end, Rachel recognized this and broke up with him, presumably breaking the link too (though her mother taking back the Phoenix fragment she absorbed might also have been behind it), though they remained on good terms.
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Mindlink Mates / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Ruby and Sapphire are very close, and spend most of their time fused, which they even refer to as a "relationship". The fusion is Garnet.
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Mindlink Mates / int_78ec49bd	comment	Wizards in the Young Wizards 'verse experience this if they end up romantically intimate with each other—a fact learned and demonstrated during A Wizard Abroad when Nita's crush on the Irish wizard Ronan turns into her first kiss. It's broken off when she sees more in his mind than she expected: Ronan is the new host for the One's Champion.
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Mindlink Mates / int_7988cb68	comment	For the Asari in Mass Effect, the only way for them to mate and reproduce is to link their neural network with another creature's. This has the added benefit of enabling them to mate with any species, regardless of gender.
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Mindlink Mates / int_7ab10627	comment	In Gene Roddenberry's novelisation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Kirk's mind calls to Spock from light-years away—this is what causes him to fail to achieve Kolinahr. Even with Spock's fluctuating-as-the-plot-demands telepathic abilities, that is really indicative of a mind-link. Slashers forevermore have had a field day with this, since the only mention we hear of person-to-person mindlinks without physical contact is in the context of the marriage bond.
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Mindlink Mates / int_7b039953	comment	Avatar provides a non-psychic example: Na'vi intimacy includes the physical connection of nervous systems via the partners' queues.
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Mindlink Mates / int_7fc78282	comment	Occurs fairly frequently in The Lord of the Rings fanfiction as well, especially with elves—but then there is some vague Canon evidence for telepathy.
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Mindlink Mates / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: In "Amok Time", Spock is revealed to have had a mindlink placed in him as part of an Arranged Marriage when he was a child. This mindlink is suspiciously easily overcome. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Troi and Riker were like this early on, talking to each other telepathically a lot. This was dropped or forgotten, later, though it was picked up again in the novels, especially Peter David's Imzadi. Much later, in the seventh season episode "Attached", Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher are mind-linked for an episode due to neural implants. During this time, they come to terms with their feelings for each other and decide to keep things professional (because of personal history and because Status Quo Is God).note "Decide to keep things professional" is a euphemistic way of putting it. Picard seems all set to resolve some things, but his hopes get Doctor Crushed. They get over themselves in the novels. The Series Finale does show that they did get together in the future, but later divorced. Trip Tucker and T'Pol in Star Trek: Enterprise have a psychic bond and are in love (largely due to T'Pol's damaged emotional control from drug abuse). Their first hint is when they find themselves sharing the same daydream, despite being on different starships.
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Mindlink Mates / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles had an unusual case, with three souls inhabiting one body (Coldstone), two of which were in love. They lamented being unable to feel physical things, but one can only imagine what it's like to not just be in each other's minds but be each other's minds... together. Made worse by the fact the third guy also loves the girl, hates the other guy, and everyone involved knows it.
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Mindlink Mates / int_846c5ba5	comment	The ancient marriage ceremony in Lords Among the Ashes establishes a soul bond between the two recipients so long as they have both reached at least Lord level of Aura mastery. Jaune and Cinder's soul-bond is so strong that it allows them to sense each other's emotions, bolster each other's Auras, and combine their Auras to form a dual Semblance, Ruin.
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Mindlink Mates / int_87e00d8e	comment	The Teen Titans (2003) fanfiction As the Dust Settles begins an entire series where this plays a huge plot point for Starfire and Robin. Be warned, the stories are rated for a reason.
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Mindlink Mates / int_88f11ba5	comment	Dreamless: Central conceit of the story. They can only block each other out when they're sleeping at the same time. Being in different timezones this can get a bit difficult to coordinate. They've shared consciousness since they were babies so they can speak multiple languages and get twice the experience.
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Mindlink Mates / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: Eric and Kasile's minds are linked together by Tasio which enables them to communicate telepathically. This leads to them becoming Like Brother and Sister with Eric's crush on her transforming into Big Brother Instinct.
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Mindlink Mates / int_8d025674	comment	In In Your Eyes, Dylan and Rebecca develop a romantic relationship through their psychic connection.
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Mindlink Mates / int_8d862a74	comment	Sion and Riesbyfe have this in Sion's good ending in Melty Blood: Actress Again. Explained in that Riesbyfe's entire existence is now a physical projection from the data inside Sion's head.
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Mindlink Mates / int_8df75aab	comment	The protagonists from Seo Kouji's oneshot Half & Half get linked this way by the local variant of Kami-sama as part of a life-extension deal in which they had to decide which one would die. This system was partly to keep them from trying to off one another and partly so that the one to die would have more miles under the metaphorical belt. There seems to be a feedback filter implied somewhere.
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Mindlink Mates / int_8e19a5a1	comment	Read the Fine Print (Evangelion): Because Shinji's soul is owned by Asuka and both are riding the same Eva, the border between their individual minds starts blurring until they're finishing each other's sentences and sharing sensory information.
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Mindlink Mates / int_8e1ecd7f	comment	The titular product in Made For Love is a pair of microchips that, when implanted in the brains of a couple, allow them to effectively share a consciousness. The "better version of a normal relationship" part of this trope is subverted, though; when the tech genius who developed the product tries to impose it on his wife in the hopes of bringing them closer, she flees his home in the middle of the night and tries her damndest to cut him off completely.
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Mindlink Mates / int_8f99cb4c	comment	American Dragon: Jake Long: Jake and Rose were dating in magic dreams for a time.
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Mindlink Mates / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In the Star Trek: Lower Decks fanfic Two of Two, Mariner and Boimler are assimilated by the Borg, and while they are freed from the greater collective, Dr. T'Ana is unable to sever a separate neural link between just the two of them without fatally damaging their brains. This results in Mariner and Boimler being able to hear each other's thoughts, feel each other's pain, share memories, and even see everything the other person sees.
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Mindlink Mates / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time series has the "Warder bond" between the Sword and Sorcerer Warder and Aes Sedai. Many of the bonded are not lovers, but Green Aes Sedai who only take one Warder are usually married to them. Of the major characters: Rand and his harem, Nynaeve and Lan as soon as there's a second to spare, and, as of The Gathering Storm, Gareth Byrne and Siuan.Towers Of Midnight adds Egwene and Gawyn. Note that this also includes one-way compulsory magic, so the romantic aspects are often downplayed. Rand's harem finds out the hard way that their jury-rigged version of the bond isn't one-way, especially during moments of strong emotion; to make it worse, one of the harem has a female Warder separately, of her own, who finds out that she can feel much more than she wants to. She ends up getting severely drunk to block out the effect. (Which may also have been a measure of giving her own back, as they'd earlier learned that drunkenness can also travel up the Warder bond.) Married Asha'man do something quite similar to the "Warder bond" with their wives, specifically because of this trope, but completely without the compulsion. As one put it, it's just really reassuring to know that your wife is okay. And the Asha'man Androl ends up bonding a Red Ajah Aes Sedai who had just bonded him more or less against his will. They end up becoming rather close by more than just necessity after that.
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Mindlink Mates / int_94de2754	comment	Hell's Gate by David Weber features a world of psychics and a world of mages in a war. On the psychic side called Sharona, about 1/4 of the population has a form of psychic talent, ranging from telepathy to being able to teleport small objects. There are two types of psychic bonds shown. Married couples get a bond allowing a form of telepathy between them, even when only one is a Voice able to do true telepathy. (It's also shown to be extremely useful when one is a Voice, a telepath specializing in distance communication and perfect recall of memories, and the other has a power such as mapping where they can terrain map anything with in 5 miles.) The second type of bonding is a form of recognition. Much like a bond such as in ElfQuest, but the bond is implied to be one and only soulmates. This is stated to be the source of most of the great romantic and tragic literature of Sharona, due to recognition ignoring if one of the soul mates is already married. This type shows up prominently in the sequel, Hell Hath No Fury. Characters who have never met before encounter one another and instantly begin behaving as if they've been together (happily) for years. There's little comment made about it.
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Mindlink Mates / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: In "Amok Time", Spock is revealed to have had a mindlink placed in him as part of an Arranged Marriage when he was a child. This mindlink is suspiciously easily overcome.
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Mindlink Mates / int_9ffb41a9	comment	Galerians has elements of this for Rion and Lilia, due to each one having one half of the virus program in their heads. Rion and Lilia can telepathically communicate, and Lilia feels pain when Rion is hurt. Whether or not it's romantic is somewhat debatable, but they are, at the least, very close best friends.
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Mindlink Mates / int_a9a83b90	comment	In X-Men 1970, Jean Grey creates a telepathic mind-link between Scott Summers and herself after their wedding.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ab886c3a	comment	Endless: Riley starts to share parts of Chris's mind after they connect when he's a ghost, for instance taking up his food and music tastes.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ace263fa	comment	Rye and Sonia develop one of these fairly early on in the Deltora Quest's Three Doors trilogy. Late in the second book, they are able to reach out to Rye's brother Sholto using this method when they cannot risk calling to him.
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Mindlink Mates / int_aef6c6f9	comment	One episode of Kino's Journey touched upon this concept, with less than desirable results.
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Mindlink Mates / int_b2cac7f5	comment	Sasuke and Sakura seem to be this in Naru-Hina Chronicles: At the end of Chapter 2, Sakura is shedding tears at her home, thinking about Sasuke who still hasn't returned to Konoha. The next few panels show Sasuke having some "weird feeling", giving the impression that he sensed her reaction. In Chapter 75, while fighting the bandaged man, Sasuke can hear Sakura saying his name even though she's too far away for him to hear her.
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Mindlink Mates / int_b40e88da	comment	In the Service provides a rare negative portrayal. Wolkenritter in skin-to-skin contact are no longer individuals in a meaningful sense. They find this both frightening and unpleasant, and consequently inter-Wolkenritter romances don't work.
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Mindlink Mates / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In this Invader Zim story, I think I'm in love with Zim, has its own interesting explanation for how this works between Zim and Dib. It's later Played for Drama/Deconstructed when Zim is killed.
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Mindlink Mates / int_b7d8c4e3	comment	In Psychic Academy, Ai and Mew form a mental link due to their auras being 100% compatible. This causes considerable awkwardness due to the fact that Ai is dating Orina, Mew's roommate and Ai's childhood friend (The most extreme point being an evening at a Love Hotel being ruined because Ai realizes that Mew is in danger). The psychic who is able to measure aura compatibility does make a point of mentioning that aura compatibility is not the same thing as personal compatibility, citing two classmates whose auras are only 30% compatible but are utterly smitten with each other as an example. He eventually does choose Mew over Orina—but only just before she dies.
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Mindlink Mates / int_b907b0db	comment	In the Signverse AU, Star and Marco's bond from the Blood Moon grants them the ability to telepathically communicate, feel each other's emotions, and even switch or share bodies.
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Mindlink Mates / int_b9821fa9	comment	The first incident of dreamfasting between Jen and Kira in The Dark Crystal was unintentional, though it certainly helped along their fast friendship. Since The Dark Crystal was directed at kids, actual romance was only implied.
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Mindlink Mates / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Early promotional material for Danny Phantom hinted at a "psychic connection" that Danny was supposed to share with Sam "She Is Not My Girlfriend" Manson. This was dropped in the series proper.
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Mindlink Mates / int_bed3f0a	comment	Iriana and Mille have this in Ilivais X. It's due to both of them having similar Drive Cores, which contain an empathic maintenance and observation function, but in their case it's very strong. However, it only works in full when either one is in the Ilivais or they're both in close proximity, though it is shown they can detect a general emotional state from afar. They also have an internal compass that lets them find one another, though that's from a makeshift blood transfusion that uses both Mille and Iriana's regenerative abilities to have those blood cells be drawn to the other.
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Mindlink Mates / int_c0f0713c	comment	Shatter the Sky: Maren is mentally linked with the girlfriend Kaia, it turns out, experiences flashes of things she goes through. It appears to be one way though. The same thing happens with her and Sev too.
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Mindlink Mates / int_c2667dad	comment	Duncton Wood has this occurring between Rebbecca and Bracken. Despite this they don't actually mate until very late in the book because something horrible keeps getting in the way.
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Mindlink Mates / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic, A Growing Fire In My Heart, Ember explains to Spike that in dragon culture, the bonding ritual used when two dragons become life mates (essentially the dragon equivalent of marriage) links their souls. They can feel what their mate feels, and in some cases if the bond is strong enough they can hear what the other thinks. This is also why dragon culture follows Together in Death, because when one life mate dies the bond shatters and to the surviving mate it feels like they also slowly begin to die without it. It is seen as a mercy to die a painless death and join their loved one than to live without them while feeling half dead already.
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Mindlink Mates / int_c43df4d8	comment	In Doctor Who, for a long time, it has been hinted that the Doctor and TARDIS are mentally linked, to the extent that the TARDIS's translation circuits depend on the Doctor's health. Similarly, there's a Running Gag that there seems to be some kind of Cargo Ship going on; the Doctor calls his time machine "dear" and "sexy", and even companions joke about how he strokes her console. It's all but confirmed in an episode in which the TARDIS is forced into a human body, and the two characters spend nearly the entire episode flirting, having sexual tension, or tearful heartwarming moments. The name of the episode: "The Doctor's Wife".
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Mindlink Mates / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm plays with this in the sequel between Harry and Carol thanks to an accidental permanent Psychic Link. Unlike most examples, unless one or both is trying to use it, the link mostly just extends to a tangential awareness that the other is around and what they're feeling. Even still, the possibility that the link is affecting one or both of them is discussed. Since Harry is a devout believer in Mind over Manners and one of the most powerful psychics ever to live, he is terrified of (in his mind) accidentally committing an unforgivable crime. However, Carol points out that the very fact that he's asking that question goes some way to suggesting otherwise, which he eventually concedes. The immediate romance is also subverted - while the UST sparks fly all the stronger, they still don't get together until chapter 46, largely because of their remaining issues.
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Mindlink Mates / int_c829f544	comment	In the Firebird Trilogy, telepathic Pair Bonding creates a link between the couple, allowing them to always sense each others' emotions when in proximity, and leaving a feeling of emptiness when separated. When the bond is broken, the surviving spouse goes into bereavement shock and can take years to regain a semblance of normalcy.
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Mindlink Mates / int_cd899ed6	comment	Kala and Wolfgang also fit this trope, although circumstances mean they don't get to meet in person until the Grand Finale. Their situation is also complicated by the fact that Kala is married to another man.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: After Vegeta's self-destruction to stop Majin Buu, his wife Bulma is shown to sense his death long before it was actually confirmed to her.
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Mindlink Mates / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Subverted in Superman storyline The Great Phantom Peril. As part of a plan to escape from the Phantom Zone, Faora Hu-Ul uses her telepathic powers to pose as the deceased wife of a lonely widower called Jackson Porter. Mr. Porter misses his wife so badly that Faora is able to create a psychic link between them which is strong enough to allow inter-dimensional communication.
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Mindlink Mates / int_d30c3a6	comment	Surrogate of Zero: In this fic Asuka died by childbirth, but her soul is connected to Shinji and both share a mind-link.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ded5b908	comment	Troll wedding ceremonies in Malediction Trilogy involve drinking a magic potion that makes the couple feel what the other partner feels at all times. As a result, when one married troll dies, the shock is so severe that the other usually commits suicide soon after.
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Mindlink Mates / int_dfe1eef5	comment	In the Anita Blake series, this meets either Love Dodecahedron or Polyamory, but either way, it is complex. To take the relationship tree the story revolves around: Jean-Claude took Anita as his human servant and Richard as his animal to call, making a connection between all three of them. Anita, being a necromancer and animator, picked up some of the vampire power, and so now has Damian, her vampire to call, and a number of animals to call, because she keeps picking up various wereanimals that she might be able to turn into—but really doesn't want to. And until the first change, a person can keep picking up new wereanimals, so this probably isn't going to stop any time soon. And breaking the link between vampire and servant is severely damaging to both parties, but if the human dies that means the vampire is hurt and maybe goes insane, and if the vampire dies an unshielded human will die or go insane.
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Mindlink Mates / int_e75c6d45	comment	According to Kin in Goblins, the closest Yuan-Ti come to what humans would call "Love" is "True-Seeing": when two Yuan-ti grow especially close, they can sense one another's feelings and pain as though they were their own. Minmax starts to think that he and Kin might be True-seeing one another, but she doesn't believe him... until she sees his hand is bleeding and remembers experiencing an unexplained jolt of pain in her own hand.
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Mindlink Mates / int_e7e37776	comment	The Horseshoe Nail series for Firefly had River accidentally pulling one of these with Jayne. Neither were amused when they found what had happened.
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Mindlink Mates / int_e89f120b	comment	Played straight with Lalah Sune and Amuro Ray from Mobile Suit Gundam. Both became attracted to each other because of their mind link connection, and were noted as the first of their kind to become Newtypes. Even after Lalah's death, Amuro was still strongly connected to her. It's also said Lalah was Amuro's first great love. This routinely occurs in the Universal Century between powerful Newtypes, and never ends well. In Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Kamille Bidan and Four Murasame fall into love because of their emergent Newtype abilities, but Four is simply too insane from her Cyber-Newtype conversion to enter into a functional relationship, and she dies in his arms later. From the same series, meanwhile, Paptimus Scirocco intentionally manipulates Newtype women to his side through his mental power, but doesn't reciprocate their affections and only uses the situation to manipulate them. In Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Judau Ashta is an absolute Chick Magnet, though his strongest relationship (with Elpeo Ple) is more of a brother-sister relationship (though Ple is unusually intense about it). Meanwhile, Haman Khan is attracted to him, but unable to handle her emotions properly, and Judau repeatedly rejects her. Char Aznable gets a section of his own, as his inability to relate to others causes much of the conflict in the various stories. When it came to Lalah Sune, he was almost as infatuated with her as Amuro was, and Lalah reciprocated, but that didn't stop him from subjecting her to horrific Mind Rape. Later in life, he was Haman Khan's first crush, but he completely failed to notice that, and combined with what Haman saw as his abandonment of his duties, broke Haman and turned her into the villainous commander of Neo-Zeon. Then Reccoa Londe attached herself to him, and they kissed at one point, but he never actually felt anything for her, and Reccoa's realization of this led to her Face–Heel Turn. Finally, in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, he's become no better than Scirocco, callously manipulating a thirteen-year-old girl into thinking he loves her and using her as a weapon.
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Mindlink Mates / int_eb0eeb16	comment	Ramses and Nefret Emerson, of the Amelia Peabody detective series, have a one-way link, whereby Nefret knows when Ramses is in imminent danger.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ecef066	comment	In Awaken the Stars, Rex and Euan eventually develop a mental connection as their relationship strengthens.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ef06b063	comment	A Crown of Stars: Asuka's Red Whirlwind is a two-seater vehicle with a control interface that allows telepathic communication between the two pilots. Shinji and Asuka find "interesting" uses for the telepathic mind-link.
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Mindlink Mates / int_f0a86c12	comment	In How I Met Your Mother, Marshall and Lily have been shown to have done this on occasion. As Heterosexual Life-Partners, Ted and Marshall (and Barney) do this on occasion as well. Robin and Lily aren't as good at it, at least not in early seasons. One notable instance included the entire group at the table in silent discussion about how to get Ted to bleach his hair blond and how hilarious it would look. Ted was also present and involved in the link, but thought they were all discussing whether to order nachos.
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Mindlink Mates / int_f163bd9f	comment	ElfQuest: Elves are telepathic, but they can form an even closer bond where they undergo "Recognition" of each others soul and body's capability to mate and a need to mate. This leads to the affected pair mating like bunnies, so possibly the body is involved as well as the soul. This can also happen even if the couple don't like each other, or one is already in a relationship, which can lead to awkwardness. Or more often, threesomes. The Elfquest Gatherums have specifically stated that Recoginition is strictly for reproduction; the series indicates those who Recognize and lifemate are far more likely to have more then one child — or any child — than a non-Recognized couple. The only exception to this rule are the Go-Backs, who don't need Recognition to make more babies since they've essentially discarded most kinds of elf "magic". Also, Skywise and Cutter recognized, even though they are both male, because they already shared a soul. Nightfall and Redlance aren't technically Recognized, but when Nightfall had to heal Redlance's mind by bonding with him she managed to merge their souls permanently.
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Mindlink Mates / int_f301fd1a	comment	In Sekirei, the titular aliens have an empathic bond with their destined partners, called Ashikabi. Beyond sensing the emotions of their partner, it's been shown that an Ashikabi can sense when their Sekirei is terminated in battle.
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Mindlink Mates / int_f5d65e29	comment	In Beauty and the Beast (1987), Vincent and Catherine can usually tell when the other is in trouble. When the mind-link breaks, it almost drives Vincent crazy.
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Mindlink Mates / int_f724b70d	comment	Aelita and Jérémie from Code Lyoko shared a mind link in the episode "Frontier".
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Mindlink Mates / int_f74b5f80	comment	In an early episode of Babylon 5, a telepath says that having sex with another telepath invokes this trope, comparing it to mirrors endlessly reflecting one another.
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Mindlink Mates / int_fa738078	comment	In Sailor Moon, Mamoru and Usagi can feel each other's pain and Mamoru knows when Usagi is in trouble—it's actually a plot point when he doesn't even know that he's rushing to her defense as he blacks out and becomes Tuxedo Mask. In the first anime there's also a one-episode character (Rhett Battler) who knows when Luna is in trouble, but it's mostly used as a humorous homage to Mamoru.
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Mindlink Mates / int_fb26bc2e	comment	Fanworks from The Sentinel often have some sort of empathic/telepathic link between Jim & Blair; there is a whole subgenre of 'bonding fics' that are almost-but-not-quite Slash.
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Mindlink Mates / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers had a hint of this between Shane and Niko. Niko was already a Psychic Action Girl, and could usually read the gents with ease. However, in the episode "Changeling," Shane was gravely wounded and had no way to communicate a "do not shoot" order to his team. In desperation, he used his implant and sent a telepathic message to her. The fact he was able to actively use telepathy during that one instance has led to a great deal of speculation on the part of fan writers.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ff8dd2b2	comment	The Wheel of Time (2021): Alanna is lovers with both her Warders. Like all Aes Sedai and Warders, the trio have the Bond, which lets them feel what the other does and be aware of their location. With one, Maksim, she mostly masks the Bond since they found it uncomfortable. He confirms this is not the case in bed though.
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Mindlink Mates / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Troi and Riker were like this early on, talking to each other telepathically a lot. This was dropped or forgotten, later, though it was picked up again in the novels, especially Peter David's Imzadi. Much later, in the seventh season episode "Attached", Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher are mind-linked for an episode due to neural implants. During this time, they come to terms with their feelings for each other and decide to keep things professional (because of personal history and because Status Quo Is God).note "Decide to keep things professional" is a euphemistic way of putting it. Picard seems all set to resolve some things, but his hopes get Doctor Crushed. They get over themselves in the novels. The Series Finale does show that they did get together in the future, but later divorced.
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