Partners and bonds (soulmate, partner, collab, team)

A bond is a public link between two Vaults profiles. It shows up as a small heart shaped pill right next to your name on your profile, with the display name of the person you're bonded with. Anyone who visits your page can click the pill and jump straight to their profile.

There are four kinds of bonds: Soulmate, Partner, Collab and Team. Each kind is separate. You can have one Soulmate and one Partner and one Collab and one Team at the same time, but only one of each.

Open vaults.lol/dashboard/partners. Type the username of the Vaults account you want to bond with, pick the kind (Soulmate, Partner, Collab, Team) and optionally add a short note. Only one of you needs to send the request, the other one accepts.

The recipient sees your request in their Inbox at vaults.lol/dashboard/inbox with an Accept and a Decline button. If they Accept, the bond is live and the pill appears on both profiles instantly. If they Decline, you cannot send them the same kind of bond again.

Both people need a Vaults account. Sending a request to a username that does not exist on Vaults will fail with 'user not found'. Bonds are free on every tier, there is no Lifetime or Supporter requirement to send, accept, receive or display a bond.

You can only be in one Soulmate bond at a time. Same for Partner, Collab and Team. If you're already someone's Soulmate you cannot send or accept another Soulmate request, you have to break the current one first.

This is enforced server side, not just in the UI. It cannot be glitched by clicking fast or opening two tabs.

Either person can end a bond, at any time, without asking the other. Open vaults.lol/dashboard/partners, find the bond, hit Break bond. It is gone for both sides immediately, the pill disappears from both profiles, and either of you is free to bond with someone else.

There is no confirmation dance and no cooldown before you can send a new request.

When someone visits vaults.lol/yourname, they see a small heart pill next to your name with your partner's display name. Clicking the pill opens a popup with a direct hyperlink to your partner's profile at vaults.lol/theirname. The pill glows with a soft color matching the kind of bond (Soulmate is pink, Partner is red, Collab is purple, Team is blue).

The pill uses your partner's display name, not their username. If they change their display name, the pill updates.

If your bonded partner deletes their Vaults account, the bond is automatically removed for you too. You are not stuck bonded to a dead account, the pill disappears from your profile, and you can send or accept a new bond immediately.

The same happens to pending requests. If someone deletes their account while a request is in flight, the request is cleaned up automatically.

If you decline someone's request, they cannot send you the same kind of bond again. This is enforced server side. You will not get spammed with the same Soulmate request over and over from the same user after you have said no once.

Different kinds are separate. If you decline a Team request, that user can still send you a Soulmate request later.