Reincarnation Romance: Difference between revisions

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And maybe he was my wife..."''|'''India Arie,''' "The Truth"}}

 

** Considering he used the word "ai", which is effectively the strongest word the Japanese use for love, yeah, that's what he meant. It's also what Echo used for Amon and no one argues that she loves him.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'': Seto and Kisara were reincarnated as Kaiba and... the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. [[Love Hurts|This complicates things...]]

* The plot of ''[[Oyayubihime Infinity]]''.

* Spoofed in [[RIN-NE]], as all bets are off as to what you're going to reincarnate into. A centuries dead soldier, unable to go on, haunts the girl whom he believes to be his reincarnated love {{spoiler|and it turns out she was actually a turtle in her past life}}. His love actually reincarnated into a {{spoiler|male gym leader}}. The soldier has no problem crossing over after that revelation.

* Tom Holt's ''You Don't Have To Be Evil To Work Here, But It Helps'' features a spin on this in which ''every'' reincarnation ends up with [[Star-Crossed Lovers]].

* [[Spider Robinson]] used this in a short story about what happens when you combine reincarnation with cryogenics (with some [[Wife Husbandry]] mixed in).

* This applies to almost everyone in ''Memory'' by Linda Nagata. Each person is bound to one and only one person, who they must track down again and again after each death and reincarnation. When members of such relationships meet up, the physical attraction is so strong that they're forced to love each other--which isn't a good thing if one's a [[Complete Monster]]. {{spoiler|For complicated reasons, the main character has two partners, one of them an imperfect match. Her brother, who had no past lives and will apparently never reincarnate, probably doesn't have any partner, and the same goes for anyone whose partner is [[Deader Than Dead]].}}

* In the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'', {{spoiler|Stefan}} turns out to be the reincarnation of {{spoiler|Tylendel}}. He died tragically when both he and his lover Vanyel Ashkevron were in their teens, then successfully courts the semi-legendary Herald-Mage Vanyel [[May-December Romance|when the latter is around forty]]. They are finally united permanently, {{spoiler|[[Together in Death|as ghosts]]}}.