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* Sion and Riesbyfe have this in Sion's good ending in ''[[Videogame/MeltyBlood]]: Actress Again''. Explained in that Riesbyfe's entire existence is now a physical projection from the data inside Sion's head.

* Turns up in a couple of ''Series/TinMan'' fics, where it's {{handwave}}d 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 this Troper has seen it also turn up in DG/Cain fics.

* ''Mostly'' subverted in ''Manga/SoulEater'', where partners can combine their souls using Soul Resonance. With the exception of Maka's parents and possibly [[spoiler: Stein and Marie, at one point in time]], none of the teams are actually dating. One of the more blatant examples of ShipTease from the series, however, happens when Maka visits Soul's soul, has a moment of SheCleansUpNicely, and the two dance. Soul's also able to read her thoughts.

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* Creator/CSLewis in ''A Grief Observed'' said that once or twice during his bereavement he felt as if Joy was trying to comfort him from beyond the grave. That is of course the sort of thing a grieving person might do, but it is also about as close to a RealLife example as you might find.
* On the other hand, cybernetics researcher Kevin Warwick (of putting a chip into his arm that ''[[{{Technopath}} remote-controls]] [[{{Badass}} electric circuits]]'' fame) [[http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/implants/Neural%20implants%20with%20internet%20connectivity%20between%20two%20humans%20-%20Thought%20communication%20and%20control%20-%20a%20first%20step%20using%20radiotelegraphy%20-%202004%20-%20awesome.pdf conducted an experiment]] in which he and his wife got wireless transceivers patched into the nerves of their arms. It's not clear how much they were able to communicate with each other, and it may have been {{empath}}ic at best. Pretty good going for real life, though.
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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series has the "Warder bond" between the SwordAndSorcerer 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'', [[spoiler:Gareth Byrne and Siuan]].''Towers Of Midnight'' adds [[spoiler: Egwene and Gawyn]]. Note that this also includes one-way compulsory magic, so the romantic aspects are often downplayed.

* In MercedesLackey's ''HeraldsOfValdemar'' universe, this is called a lifebond. [[OddlyCommonRarity Overused in her earlier books given its supposed rarity]], but less frequent later in the series, and characters in several different books discuss or illustrate the potential negative aspects of such a bond. In ''Winds of Fury,'' Stefen speculates that in many cases lifebonds occur between someone who is extraordinarily powerful but emotionally unstable and someone who is [[LivingEmotionalCrutch much more mentally grounded]]; he proves his point by being able to describe with great accuracy the lifebonded partner of [[TheEmpath Herald Talia]] without ever having met the man, purely based on his encounter with Talia's out-of-control Empathy back in ''Arrow's Flight''.

* As the quote above indicates, it happened to [[StarWars Luke Skywalker]] and [[ExpandedUniverse Mara Jade]] - though this connection only happens when they both choose to reach out for it, which they don't until a good ten years after they meet and become friends, and they spend most of their time less thoroughly entangled. In ''[[OutboundFlight Survivor's Quest]]'' Mara explicitly points out that they can't use this connection to talk in words, but they use it in fighting to be a kind of single two-bodied entity that strikes with total precision.
** Also between a male PlayerCharacter and Bastila Shan in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.

* ''Literature/HellsGate'' by DavidWeber 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.)

* Lisanne Norman's SholanAlliance Series has a large number of Leska pairs that fill this. It doesn't work very well for some pairs, though.
* RobinHobb's ''[[Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings Farseer]]'' trilogy has two subversions: Kettle (Kestrel) describes having this type of bond with her lover, before discovering him to be sharing the same kind of bond with her twin sister, Gull. Similarly, the Fool seems to experience an unrequited version through his feelings for Fitz.
* GeorgeRRMartin's short story "A Song For Lya", dealt heavily with this idea. [[spoiler: It didn't end well.]]
* In ''BeyondTheGlass'' by Antonia White, the main character has this with the man she falls in love with after the failure of her first marriage. And then the intensity of their relationship is a contributing factor to her going insane...
* The Patryn can invoke this in ''TheDeathGateCycle'' as part of their marriage ritual.

* Katherine Kurtz's {{Deryni}} novels use this trope in nearly every book.
* Happens to quite a few couples in the Literature/SagaOfRecluce
* Wizards in the ''YoungWizards'' '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: [[spoiler:Ronan is the new host for the One's Champion]].

* ''DunctonWood'' has this occurring between Rebbecca and Bracken. Despite this they don't actually mate until very late in the book because [[CrapsackWorld something horrible keeps getting in the way.]]
* In the ''[[GriffinAndSabineAnExtraordinaryCorrespondence Griffin and Sabine]]'' trilogy, the titular characters have a version of this, seeing each other's paintings and eventually building a very long distance relationship.

* In the ''AnitaBlake'' series, this meets either LoveDodecahedron 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.

* In ''TheSharingKnife'' 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.

* In AndreNorton's ''[[Literature/{{Warlock}} Ordeal in Otherwhere]]'', Charis and Shann develop a PsychicLink, though they have to take care to keep it from overwhelming them. That it led to marriage becomes clear in ''Forerunner Foray'', when their son recounts how the Wyverns trained him because of it.

* Makoto Mizuhara does this with Ifurita at the end of the ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' [=OAV=]. He's capable of {{synch|ronization}}ing with El Hazard technology, and she's a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots battle-gynoid.]]

* Kevyn in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' while bantering with his sister made [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-05-07 a dirty joke about her cyborg husband and AI]].

* The Literature/LiadenUniverse calls this "lifemating". It's stated to be extremely rare in Liaden society, yet somehow it seems to happen to [[OddlyCommonRarity just about every main character]] in the series (though some of them have to wait decades to find their lifemate); it's vaguely suggested it has something to do with the [[WorldTree telepathic tree]] take care of.

* The Literature/LiadenUniverse calls this "lifemating". It's stated to be extremely rare in Liaden society, yet somehow it seems to happen to [[OddlyCommonRarity just about every main character]] in the series (though some of them have to wait decades to find their lifemate).

* Played with on ''Series/{{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.
* In Series/HowIMetYourMother, Marshall and Lily have been shown to have done this on occasion.

* Trip Tucker and T'Pol on ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a psychic bond and were in love (largely due to T'Pol's damaged emotional control from drug abuse). There first hint is when they find themselves sharing the same daydream, despite being on different starships.

* Trip Tucker and T'Pol on ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a psychic bond and were in love (largely due to T'Pol's damaged emotional control from drug abuse.

* For the Asari in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'', 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.

* Katherine Kurtz's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryni_novels Deryni novels]] use this trope in nearly every book.

* ''Duncton Wood'' has this occurring between Rebbecca and Bracken. Despite this they don't actually mate until very late in the book because [[CrapsackWorld something horrible keeps getting in the way.]]
* In the Griffin and Sabine trilogy, the titular characters have a version of this, seeing each other's paintings and eventually building a very long distance relationship.

* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconic''a: "We're twins; united in body and soul." [[spoiler: 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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* The ''TeenTitans'' fanfiction [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3427267/1/As_the_dust_settles 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.

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series has the "Warder bond" between the SwordAndSorcerer Aes Sedai and Warder. 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'', [[spoiler:Gareth Byrne and Siuan]].''Towers Of Midnight'' adds [[spoiler: Egwene and Gawyn]]. Note that this also includes one-way compulsory magic, so the romantic aspects are often downplayed.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': [[spoiler: After Vegeta's [[RedemptionEqualsDeath self-destruction to stop Majin Buu]], his wife Bulma is shown to sense his death before having it confirmed.]]

* Parodied in ''Manga/AngelDensetsu''. Sana believes she's a danger because [[FaceOfAThug Ki]][[AllLovingHero ta]][[NiceGuy no]] is near to her, so she calls her brother in her mind. We get a close-up of her brother's face who seems to feel something. He doesn't, he just play video games. Then, Sana repeats this with her mother and later her father. Both times are the same scenario as the first.

* Van and Hitomi in TheVisionOfEscaflowne

* The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series has a non-romantic version with the werewolves. Those in the same pack can hear each other's thoughts when they're in wolf form.