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* One episode of ''Literature/KinosJourney'' touched upon this concept, [[DeconstructedTrope with less than desirable results.]]

* In ''Manga/PsychicAcademy'', 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 LoveHotel 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. [[spoiler: He eventually does choose Mew over Orina--but only just before she dies]].

* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Coagula and Robotman in the Rachel Pollack run.

* This concept is explored deeply in the ''Haikyuu!!''/''Film/PacificRim'' crossover fanfiction ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2074782/chapters/4512390 But for Me, There is a Storm,]]'' where the Drift, or psychic connection between pilots, is a big part of all relationships between copilots.
* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7380995/1/Charlotte-Francine-Xavier Charlotte Francine Xavier,]]'' has this develop between Erik and Fem!Charles.

* Generally the focus of the WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} fic ''Fanfic/LinkedInLifeAndLove''. 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." [[spoiler: In Team RWBY's case, this ends up being [[PowerCopying Semblance sharing]], essentially allowing all four girls to use each others' Semblances.]]

* In the ''Fanfic/SignverseAU'', Star and Marco's bond from the Blood Moon grants them the ability to telepathically communicate, feel each other's emotions, and even [[FreakyFridayFlip switch]] or [[SharingABody share]] bodies.

* Amusingly done (and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]) in Chapter 7 of oneshot collection ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37213816/chapters/92846803 Tale of Two Stars]]'', where [[Literature/TheZodiacSeries Aquarius]] responds to everything Ophiuchus says ''before he even talks''.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' fanfic "[[FanFic/TilTheSunGrowsCold 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 [[spoiler:Link thinks Zelda might be dead, and the fact that he can't find her in his dreams only seems to prove it]].

* In the Literature/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 Creator/MercedesLackey's Literature/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 later 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''.

* Wizards in the Literature/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]].

** On the not technically a lifebond side, characters with PsychicPowers can often mentally connect and enjoy each others' company ''without'' uprooting their lives in the same way as lifebonded couples, able to allow the connection to wax and wane. Tarma and Kethry after becoming [[SwornBrother sworn siblings]] have a minor empathic connection. If they're separated and Kethry gets in trouble, Tarma knows. Kethry, as a mage, has slightly more awareness of their bond and can feel Tarma's loneliness and grief as well as her own when they're in bed together, and can try to relieve it.

** One particularly dramatic case goes a long way towards showing that a lifebond is not necessarily all that desirable, and also supports Stefen's theory: In ''Brightly Burning'', Lavan Firestarter's lifebonded is [[spoiler: his ''Companion'']]. It's noted within the book how screwed up the relationship is and that it means that Lavan ([[LateArrivalSpoiler had he lived]]) would have been one giant mess of emotional issues, even for a Herald. It's only the extremely extenuating circumstances (Lavan is unable to control the full extent of his Gift, on his own, and [[spoiler:his Companion]] has to be 'bonded with him to provide the extra control) that prevent anyone from trying to undo things. When [[spoiler: his Companion dies at the end, he mentally collapses and unleashes fiery doom on the entire battle field, effectively ending the war and killing himself in the process.]] Lifebonding is far from an unambiguously good thing.

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".

* In Creator/MercedesLackey's Literature/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''.

*** A less dramatic example (which also illustrates how much of an OddlyCommonRarity lifebonds are in the early books in the series), Keren in ''Arrows of the Queen'' breaks down when her lifebonded partner Ylsa is killed, and is only saved from willing herself into death by the intervention of Sherrill, who is ''also'' lifebonded to Keren and would have, other characters speculate, formed a three-way lifebond with Keren and Ylsa if the situation had been recognized prior to Ylsa's death.

* Downplayed in Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} story ''Comicbook/DemonSpawn''. There was not telepathy involved per se, exactly, but Supergirl and [[TemporaryLoveInterest Geoff]]'s minds were bonded somehow, and that bond gave strength to Supergirl to break free when a villain was taking over her body.
-->'''Supergirl:''' It was someone entering my mind, letting his thoughts flow in with mine that allowed my will to live to ultimately win!
* Coagula and Robotman in the Rachel Pollack run of ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol''.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', Sistah Spooky and Mindf██k were these once. It's really the only way that Mindf██k can have good sex.
* This is a tradition of ComicBook/TheEternals, 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.
* Subverted in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril''. As part of a plan to escape from the PhantomZone, 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.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':

** Scott and his [[StrangledByTheRedString instant replacement interest]] [[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen Emma Frost]] have a version of this.
** ComicBook/RachelSummers provides a siblings example. She created a psi-bond with ComicBook/{{Cable}} shortly after his birth. It is unknown if that link still exists, however.

* {{Inverted}} in ''{{Literature/Twilight}},'' as [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Edward]] can read anybody's thoughts except for [[LoveInterest Bella]].

* A trait of at least [[/Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica magical girls]] [[SoulmateAUFic with soulbonds]] in ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'', 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.

* A trait of at least [[/Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica magical girls]] with [[SoulmateAUFic with soulbonds]] in ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'', 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. It also shares 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.