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** In one story arc, Daniel and Vala put on bracelets that create a link between them, so that to be any more than a few feet away from each other can cause them extreme physical discomfort and eventually death.
* ''[[Star Trek]]''
** The same thing happened to Picard and Dr. Crusher on ''[[Star Trek: The
** The Trill and their symbionts in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' Verse: they share knowledge, and Trills can live just fine without a symbiote, but if a symbiote implanted in a Trill is removed the process invariably proves to be fatal to the host.
** ''[[Star Trek]]'' seems to love this one. The Bynars are a race of cyborgs who always live and work in pairs and can't function alone.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** Some races in ''D&D'' have their [[Life Force]] linked to an item, plant or place, mostly nature spirits or descendants of some such, with direct inspiration from folklore or mythology. Nereids carry a shawl that contains their soul, and someone seizing it and threatening to destroy it can control the creature. Dryads and Hamadryads are linked to a single tree in the forest. Bamboo and River Spirit Folks, from the ''Oriental Adventures'', are synchronized with a specific bamboo grove or river, respectively. Damaging a linked tree or place will weaken or wound those spirits, and destroying it will kill them.
** 4th Edition actually has an entire race built on this—the Dvati, a species consisting completely of identical twins, with "souls that burn so brightly one body is not enough to contain them". They don't share damage exactly, but are played as one character (with their HP divided in half between two bodies) and have some limitations on what both can do in one round. If one Dvati twin dies, the other takes unhealable ability damage from the shock and loss of the other half of their soul until either they die too or the other twin is [[Back
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