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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })More than Love at First Sight, more than simply two Soulmates destined to be together, the Red String of Fate is some perceptible clue that identifies your destined One True Love. The trope namer is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese legend called yīnyuán hóngxiàn or the Red String of Fate. Frequently found in Japanese works, where it's referred to as akai ito or unmei no akai ito, the concept is that two people who are destined to be together are attached by an invisible red string by the gods. In Chinese mythos, it's around both parties' ankles, while in Japanese, it's bound from a male's thumb to a female's pinky finger (though it's become more common to show both parties attached at the pinky). The Red String of Fate need not be a literal red string. It could be a timer counting down to alert you at the exact moment that you meet the perfect person for you. It could even be an unusually meaningful birthmark showing your destined’s name in their own handwriting. Whether magic or Magitek, whether you’re born with it or have to have it installed, whether it actively pulls you together or serves only as a passive identifier, the match it suggests for you is your True Love Because Destiny Says So. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Warning: Choking Hazard. May be related to the Pinky Swear. Usually involved in Reincarnation Romance. See also Fate Drives Us Together and Forgotten First Meeting. Compare Love Before First Sight and Mindlink Mates. Soulmate AU Fics use a form of this. Examples: |
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The webcomic named, appropriately, Red String. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Madoka giving her red hair ribbons to Homura before Ascending to a Higher Plane of Existence can be considered a reference to this trope. After Madoka's disappearance, her hair ribbons are the only thing Homura has left of her and the only trace that she ever existed. note Interestingly, the ribbons are a sign of both familial love and romantic love. They were originally a gift from Madoka's mother, and after Madoka's human self is erased, Homura tries to give them back. Junko refuses them because, after all, she can't remember she even had a daughter. In the third movie, Homura's suppression of Madoka's divinity is symbolized by her seizing Madoka and tying the ribbons back into her hair. She then declares, in an explicit rejection of their love, that someday she and Madoka will be enemies. |
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In Penny Dreadful, the protagonists eventually figure out that an ancient prophecy referring to Lucifer and Dracula's nefarious plans for Vanessa includes a figure destined to protect her from them, Lupus Dei (Latin for "wolf of god"). Her main love interest in the series, Ethan, turns out to be a Werewolf. In the very first episode of the series, the two also do a tarot card reading together and he picks The Lovers card. | |
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Gepetto from the Shadow Hearts series uses this literally as his ultimate weapon. It's acquired after his sidequest, where it's revealed that his dead daughter's soul lies within his puppet, saving him from a demon. The string manifests as their filial love; Her devotion to her father, and his to his daughter (For reference, he attacks with the puppet, and puppet strings are the weapons, adding attack power and the like) | |
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In the manga's 139.5 omake of Alice Academy, the hands of baby Mikan and Natsume are seen as connected by a (likely red) string. | |
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Detective Conan: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper concludes with Ran selecting which color wire on a bomb to cut; the bomber had designed the bomb to go off if the red wire were cut, having overheard that red was her favorite color, but Ran couldn't bring herself to cut it, seeing it as the red string of fate between her and Shinichi. | |
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Eto in Tokyo Ghoul is mainly nude wrapped in bandages. In a volume 5 cover Eto wraps her bandages around Kaneki's neck, and they're initially colored red. | |
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Ranma ½: In one episode, Shampoo attempts to use a literal magical red string to bind Ranma to her romantically. Another variation occurs in a late manga story revolving around the Tanabata, where Ranma and Akane will supposedly be destined to marry if two leaves with their names on them remain intact and bound together, but they will never be if either one is destroyed. Cue Ranma having to go through hell, including Tatewaki Kuno suddenly coming out of nowhere with a steel-bladed katana, to ensure that the leaves aren't destroyed or tied to the leaves of other people. In the song "November Rain" from one of the albums (which is basically an angsty subversion of the Umbrella of Togetherness trope), the lyrics strongly imply that Ranma and Akane are bound together by the Red String of Fate, even though it is currently, as Ranma puts it, "loose." |
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Bleach: In Bleach Fade To Black, Ichigo and Rukia's red spirit threads are linked to one another, allowing Ichigo to find Rukia when she went missing during the events of the movie. A flashback reveals that Urahara connected Isshin and Masaki together with a red spirit thread so that Isshin's influence would prevent her from Hollowfying. |
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The 2012 series Touch, in which a young boy appears to be able to sense patterns in the larger world through numbers, specifically calls out to the Chinese legend, though implies connections beyond just love (a person saving someone's life, a person having an object another person desires but wouldn't have met otherwise, etc.) | |
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Used literally in Gan Kon: the protagonist and his goddess girlfriend have a physical red string connecting them, which they use as a weapon against enemies. The stronger their relationship at the moment, the stronger the string becomes. | |
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Tears to Tiara's Honest John's Dealership Epona has a mysterious red string worth 99999 gold for sale at her shop. It turns out that she was using it as Schmuck Bait to get the Player Character to buy it, as it has a Love Potion effect on the people it attaches. Yes, it's that kind of game. | |
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Hyrule Warriors takes Ghirahim's mention of the red string and makes it a gameplay mechanic: his strong attack conjures a glowing red thread between himself and a nearby enemy, which powers up some of his moves when attacking the foe he's tied to. | |
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In Toradora!, the class' Professional Wrestling show for the School Festival (don't ask) involves them threatening to cut their Christmas Cake homeroom teacher's red string of fate to threaten the heroine. The teacher is naturally upset at witnessing this and tries to attack the play. The audience assumes it's All Part of the Show as the stage hands carry her off. | |
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This trope also shows up in straight form in a huge number of Miraculous Ladybug fics, using every imaginable variant from literal strings to timers to shared injuries. Marinette and Adrien are always soulmates, and usually so are Alya and Nino, and sometimes other combinations. | |
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In the Anime based fighting game Naruto: Narutimate Hero Accel 2, the character of Chiyo has an Ougi where her attack puppets (Mother and Father, which are actually modified exhumed corpses) are joined by a literal red string, which is then used to viciously lacerate the opponent. | |
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In Sound! Euphonium, Kumiko and Reina are connected by one in the season one ED. | |
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In Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester has this to say: "...it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land, come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly." | |
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Alluded to in the RWBY Fanfic Various Vytal Ventures features this during the nightmare sequence in 'Hide and Seek' but ultimately zig-zagged, as red strings bind Ruby to ALL of her friends. It is interesting to note, however, that her pinkies were linked to Weiss and Jaune, two of her most prominent potential Love Interests in the series. Word of God is that the author was indeed referencing the Japanese Myth with the imagery, but did not wish to commit to a particular pairing. | |
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In Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures, the 'Silver Thread' is something that wolpertings can actually perceive through smell, and it leads to their soulmate. Unfortunately for the protagonist, he's also hopelessly uninformed about relationships, and didn't even know that girls existed until he came to Wolperting, meaning it isn't all that much use. | |
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In L.J. Smith's Night World series, soulmates who are destined to be together often describe a silver thread connecting the two of them together. | |
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Used literally in Koi Cupid; red strings are seen connecting people together. If necessary, the strings can be cut with magic scissors. | |
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The concept is used for comedic effect in the Tenchi Muyo! series Tenchi in Tokyo, where Tenchi is connected by red strings to just about every major character. For the unlearned, that's around 7 strings total. There's a reason Marry Them All used to be named after him. | |
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At the end of Mobile Suit Gundam 00's first season, Graham Akre claims that he and protagonist Setsuna F. Seiei are connected by this — the fate to face each other in battle. Though he's a Westerner, Graham is a massive Japanese culture Otaku and would likely understand the reference. | |
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The opening of Potemayo has Mikan wearing a literal red string that supposedly attaches to Sunao, and she makes it clear during the series that she believes she and Sunao are "tied" to each other. | |
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In episode 5 of Excel Saga, "The Interesting Giant Tower", Watanabe is surprised (and annoyed) to find his roommates applying for jobs at the same office building he's gone to, and Iwata quips "We must be joined together by the invisible red string of destiny!" Watanabe flips and hits him, declaring, "The red string is for boys and girls only!" In the same episode, Watanabe finds that Hyatt, his love interest, is at the same place selling refreshments. She gives him a drink for free, and as she walks away, Watanabe muses, "...the red string!" Sumiyoshi looks at the drink and remarks, "It's green." Spiritual Successor OVA Puni Puni Poemi parodies this with Poemi, who's attached to her friend Futaba. At that moment, Futaba and her sisters are being taken hostage by incredibly horny aliens, and as they get dragged away in a net, Poemi is forcibly dragged to them herself. Poemi then follows the red string tied to her finger to find her friend. |
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While not actually shown in the anime, one of the DVD covers for Happy Lesson has each one of the male lead's fingers tied with a red string and all the strings being connected to all his mothers' pinkies. He is not amused. | |
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Axis Powers Hetalia: Quite a few fanarts of America and Canada show a red string attached around their hands. Could be to represent their relationship which in real life is one of the closest and most productive international relationships in the world. Or it's to play up the Ho Yay. The red string of fate has also been referenced in quite a few fanworks that pair Japan with someone. It's most common in Japan/China fanworks, probably because of the concept's origins in China and the tendency for the pairing to be portrayed as a tragic one, but appears in some Japan/Taiwan and Japan/Greece fanworks too. This cute little oneshot. But it has more colors representing more types of relationships. |
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In an episode of Chou Kuse ni Narisou, a gay teacher who mistakenly develops a crush on Nagisa suggests to her that there's a Red String of Fate connecting them. Nagisa can actually see the string, and yells at the teacher to cut it out.... | |
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Somewhat averted in the Inuyasha fanfic, "Sever the Red Cord". In the story, Inuyasha chooses to be with Kikyo, rather than Kagome. Brokenhearted, Kagome returns to her era and becomes a shrine priestess. A few years later, Inuyasha appears, having lived out the centuries to her era. To Kagome's dismay, her soul is linked to Inuyasha's by the red string, due to her being Kikyo's reincarnation. Having no desire to be bound to the man who broke her heart, and refusing to be a replacement for Kikyo, Kagome unties the string from her finger, separating her soul from Inuyasha's forever. | |
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Homestuck: Trolls think this. However, since troll romance is not just one type, but 4, there could a red string, a pale string, a black string, or an ashen string. Near the end of Act 6, a sprite half-version of Dave kisses Jade. She awakens to a note by Dave attached to her finger by a red string, with the note "missed ya." She goes to Dave and tells him he's a good kisser. |
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Used in an official Higurashi art, for Mion and Shion◊ drawn by the Watangashi/Meakashi manga artist. Make what you will of this. | |
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In Haiyore! Nyarko-san, Nyarko claims that she and Mahiro are connected by the red tentacle of fate. Given that it's Nyarko saying it, the truth of this is ... questionable. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Index speculates that the reason why nearly any girl who meets Touma falls in love with him is that his Anti-Magic right hand, Imagine Breaker, negates the Red String of Fate for other people. | |
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Also in L.J. Smith's The Vampire Diaries, Elena remembers stories of "the souls of true lovers" being connected by "a silver string from heart to heart or a red cord from pinky to pinky", but it's the first one that she's able to find (and follow). Stefan and Elena are bound together by the silver cord from soul to soul, implying that they are destined soulmates. Continuing with L.J. Smith, in The Secret Circle, Adam and Cassie are bound together by a silver cord, like Stefan and Elena. |
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In Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar, Chiaia accidentally breaks Kenshi's necklace. When she can't repair the chain, she replaces it with a red cord that she wove herself, which he likes. When Lashara's Old Retainer tells her about an old custom about red strings symbolizing love, she gets really embarrassed and unsuccessfully tries to get the cord back. Later, she sees the necklace and finally realizes she has feelings for him. | |
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In Pokémon Adventures, it happened to Red and Yellow twice. Of course, said string (a Caterpie's String Shot and Yellow's fishing line) wasn't actually red...but yes, pinkies and shipping symbolism were still there. | |
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In The Last: Naruto the Movie, Hinata has always wanted to give a homemade scarf to Naruto since they were children, after he protected her from a trio of bullies while he was wearing a red scarf. Even though the bullies ripped the scarf, Naruto told her to keep it, and she's cherished it ever since. She eventually gives him the red one that he wears in the poster of the movie, as a Call-Back and Meaningful Echo to his mother's soulmate story. In the second act of the movie, he sets aside Kushina's green scarf in favor of Hinata's red one as part of his Character Development, symbolizing his decision to finally let go of his painful past and look to a happier future, with Hinata by his side. | |
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In the Avengers fic "But Loving Him is Red", Steve and Tony wake up after a fight to find themselves connected by a piece of magic red string. Later, they find out it signfies the fact that they're soulmates. | |
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Wedding Peach: Played with. Momoko knits a muffler as a present to Yanagiba and Imagine Spots them wearing it together. In the next frame a thread leads offscreen, and reveals that Yosuke somehow invaded the Imagine Spot and is also wearing it, much to her displeasure. | |
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Kannazuki no Miko's opening features the two heroines tied by a red string. It appears in the show itself in the form of Himeko's bloodied bandage which twirl around the arms of both females as the gods take Chikane away in the last episode. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. In an interesting bit of Foe Yay during their second battle, Ghirahim appears again to tell Link that the reason they keep bumping into each other is because they are bound by a red thread of fate; in the Japanese script, he is talking about this exact trope. He also gets behind Link, invading his personal space again, and whispers in his ear. He tells Link to come to him after licking his lips and says they're bound by that red thread of fate, that they're destined to fight. He also says that the thread of fate will be soaked crimson with Link's blood. Hyrule Warriors takes Ghirahim's mention of the red string and makes it a gameplay mechanic: his strong attack conjures a glowing red thread between himself and a nearby enemy, which powers up some of his moves when attacking the foe he's tied to. |
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Ghosts of Evangelion: Invoked by Asuka after her mother said she and Shinji played together when they were babies and their mothers thought they seemed incredibly cute together. | |
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Incarnations of Immortality: In On a Pale Horse, Zane is offered a Lovestone, a magic stone which will lead him to his true love. He borrows the stone and follows its glow. The good news is he finds her. The bad news the proprietor of the store bought the encounter, in exchange for the Wealthstone, so HE gets the lovely and extremely wealthy girl. The results of this encounter start the main plot. | |
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Mamotte Shugogetten has an episode with mystic threads that bind the fingers of the first two people to pick it up. Although they don't behave much like the threads of the legend, the reference is clear, as the first one to be used is red. | |
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In the Full Metal Panic! manga, Gauron implies that this is what fatefully keeps bringing him and Sousuke together. Sousuke does not react well to the suggestion. | |
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In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the long-dead Apis shifters served as Gaia's matchmakers. One power of theirs let them see the red threads that bound people with a common destiny - though they couldn't tell whether it would be good or bad. | |
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Journey to Chaos: Eric states that there is one of these between his teammates, Tiza and Nolien. After acquiring an Enlightenment Superpower during Looming Shadow, he says "I can see it! The connection is red and strong and" Tiza shoved a biscuit into his mouth to cut off the rest. She doesn't want to acknowledge their UST. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil has the Blood Moon, which raises once every 667 years. Also referred to as "the moon of lovers", any couples caught under its light once the moon reaches its peak have their souls eternally bonded. When Star and Marco were linked by the Blood Moon, it granted them a keen awareness of when the other is in grave danger. In Marco's case, it also gave him the ability to freely use Star's wand without threat of moral corruption. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. In an interesting bit of Foe Yay during their second battle, Ghirahim appears again to tell Link that the reason they keep bumping into each other is because they are bound by a red thread of fate; in the Japanese script, he is talking about this exact trope. He also gets behind Link, invading his personal space again, and whispers in his ear. He tells Link to come to him after licking his lips and says they're bound by that red thread of fate, that they're destined to fight. He also says that the thread of fate will be soaked crimson with Link's blood. | |
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Referenced in DC Comics Bombshells, with Batwoman likening the red string of fate to the red stitching on the baseballs she uses. This turns out to be foreshadowing, as at the end of the series, she marries Maggie Sawyer, a girl she met back when they played together on the same baseball team. | |
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This becomes a plot-point in Mahou Sensei Negima!'s summer OVA when Yue (an Inept Mage at the time) uses this on Nodoka and Negi, creating a physical red string tying the two together by their pinkies for a day. | |
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A Red String appears in a flashback of Juri's recollections of her time spent with Shiori and an unnamed male character in Revolutionary Girl Utena. | |
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Parodied in Yuria 100 Shiki. The titular Sexbot fantasizes about one of these on her finger . . . connecting to Shunsuke's crotch. (The narration remarks that all of her fantasies end up there eventually.) | |
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In the first ending theme of the anime adaptation of Kekkaishi there is a line which roughly translates to "there is a red string which connects two people", in apparent reference to Yoshimori's feelings for Tokine. | |
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The Pokémon games have a red ball of string as an item (called "Destiny Knot" in the English version). Appropriately, if the monster holding this item becomes infatuated, the foe that it "loves" will be infatuated as well. | |
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The red string of fate has a much darker purpose in Hell Girl, where each client of Enma Ai seals the contract with her by untying a red string. This sends the object of their vengeance to hell — and damns the client to go there too, after death. So it's still a destiny bond, but a very different kind... | |
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In Kimagure Orange Road, as Yukari sings Like a salvia flower onstage she takes a long red ribbon and playfully wraps a part of it around Madoka, throwing the other extreme to Kyouske. Here is the video Even before that, there is the infamous red straw hat that Madoka gives Kasuga in the very first episode. |
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In FlashForward (2009), three characters (Bryce, Keiko, and Olivia) see themselves in love with someone they haven't met yet in their flash forwards leading to two of them (Bryce and Keiko) on a quest to find each other and a third to doing everything she can to avoid her apparently-fated love interest. The recurring question of fate versus free will is never really resolved and it is heavily suggested that Olivia avoiding her match with Lloyd might actually doom the entire world. | |
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In Nana, Reira writes a song about her seedy relationship with Shin by describing it as taking the red string off someone's finger. | |
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In the manga Wish, when the main character Shuichiro confesses to his adoptive mother that he loves her, she tells him that she is not the one meant for him and that he needs to find the person on the other end of the string on his finger. | |
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In Your Name, the girl wears a red string as a hair ribbon and the boy wears a red string bracelet. It's actually the same string. | |
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In Nabari no Ou, Miharu is shown with a red string on his finger after erasing Yoite. | |
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In The Miko's Words and the Witch's Incantations, Letty ties an invisible, magical thread to both her pinky and Tsumugi's so they won't get separated. Naturally, it's red, and Tsumugi cheerfully mentions its Japanese significance to Letty and how it probably makes them lovers. | |
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In Kamen Rider: The First, a partially-suicidal Haruhiko runs away from the hospital to a field where he can grieve alone, only to realize that a red string had somehow caught on his clothes. Behind him walks up Miyoko, his love interest, and the string was a thread from the red sweater she was wearing which had caught and began unraveling as he ran. She directly quotes the concept, and he proceeds to hug her for all he's worth. Unfortunately, since they were both terminally ill, things don't turn out very well. | |
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Done literally in Mysterious Girlfriend X in the non-manga OVA story. | |
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In TiMER, Magitek timers installed on the wrist by a friendly Mega-Corp countdown to the day you’ll meet your True Love and beep when you finally set eyes on each other. Angst Alert: you could get your timer and find out you have decades to wait until you’ll meet Mr or Ms Right or it could remain blank because your True Love is a Luddite without a timer of their own. | |
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To the Stars: Homura leaves one of Madoka's ribbons with her fellow magical girls, who consider it a religious relic and place it in the Church of Hope. The protagonist, a distant relative of Madoka, has a plot-relevant vision upon touching it. | |
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In Ilivais X, Iriana created a Blood Oath bond with Mille, making the string out of each other’s blood in a kind of haphazard transfusion. Since every cell of Iriana is designed to return to her, this essentially means Mille will always innately know where she is and be drawn to that location. | |
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Mononoke contains a variation involving a red cloth between an unborn child and their parents. A much more traditional example appears in the OP, with a red string tied to the pinky finger. | |
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In Bleach Fade To Black, Ichigo and Rukia's red spirit threads are linked to one another, allowing Ichigo to find Rukia when she went missing during the events of the movie. | |
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Changeling: The Lost uses red bands in a person's aura as a signifier of a pledge. When people who've made a pledge are near each other, the bands are connected with red threads. The Crimson Weaver is the personification of the tale, except it's more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist who will use the red string to bring together whomever they consider to be soulmates, which may have no basis in reality and can end badly. |
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This is a running theme in the vocaloid fanfic Rotting Camellias. Miku visits a circus and meets with a fortune-teller who tells her that her red string is getting shorter. It makes a number of other appearances after this. | |
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In 7th Sea, when a Fate Witch sees red strands between people with her sorte magic, those represent conflict (Swords). Blue actually represents romance (Cups). | |
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In an episode of the "alien arc" of Sailor Moon R Usagi states to her love rival En/An/Ann (urgh, transliteration problems) alias Natsumi Ginga that she is connected to Mamoru by the red string of destiny. Which appears on screen, only to have Natsumi cut it. | |
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A Red String is used as an unseen force in Ai Yori Aoshi that binds Aoi and Kaoru together. It was part of the premise that their relationship is so unshakable that neither Kaoru's Harem nor Aoi's old fashioned and powerful family can pull them apart. It was featured in the opening sequence and referred to as Enishi (The bonds that tie) in a conversation between Aoi and Kaoru in the second season. Also, when Mayu first sees Kaoru again, she talks about them being bound by the red string of fate (she's been nursing a crush since their first meeting years earlier). Alas, The Masquerade prevents Kaoru from telling her his string is already tied. |
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In TeenWolf, Stiles ties a red string around Lydia's finger during Season 3, while the two happen to be investigating Japanese mythology. The two are also referred to as each other's "emotional tethers". Whether the show ends up playing the trope straight is up in the air though. | |
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Onegai My Melody states that beings from Mari Land and their destined human partners are connected by a rainbow-colored string. The King of Mari Land also talks about the traditional red string that connects himself and his wife. | |
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Space Patrol Luluco: In episode 7, Nova tells Luluco that they're connected by the red string of fate, and she finds that a glowing red string is tied to her finger, causing her to blush at the implication that their love is meant to be; Then she realizes that he is not the real Nova, but Kill ** Killian, who is using life fibers tied to his fingers to feed on the energy of the crowd of people who see him as the illusion of their heart's desire. |
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Toward the end of the Urusei Yatsura movie "Remember My Love", notorious lech Ataru is shown to have multiple red strings attached to every one of his fingers. It's implied that he might like to be faithful to Lum, but... | |
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A rare Western example appears in Snotgirl, where Charlene realizes she's in love with Lottie while wrapping her fingers around a red string on her investigation board. | |
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In The Secret of NIMH, in what may or may not be an intentional usage: when Mrs. Brisby first meets Jeremy, he is tangled in red string which he is retrieving to build a "love nest" for his future Ms. Right. The end of the film has Jeremy and his love interest flying and holding the two ends of the string. | |
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YuYu Hakusho: Kuwabara claimed that the way he found his love interest, Yukina, was simply by following the red string tied to their fingers. The anime provides a visual; in reality, he probably just sensed her spirit energy. | |
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Reversed in Noir, as Mireille (a Corsican) muses on the connection between herself and Kirika. | |
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In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the guest star of the week, Troi's arranged fiance, has been having dreams of a beautiful woman. When the Enterprise meets with a plague-infested ship, he finds the woman is there and has been having dreams of him, and created portraits of him. He decides to go with them to help them treat the plague. | |
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