No Place Like The Yellow Brick Road

[kocch]

Title: No Place Like The Yellow Brick Road
Medium(s) Used: matchstick
Pairing(s): Jinwoo and Seunghoon friendship
Rating: PG13
Length: 4K
Warnings: Mentions of death, war and injury
Summary: Jinwoo and Seunghoon grow up dreaming of a wide open universe - told backwards. (Firefly AU)

Author's Note:- Ahh yes it's one of those 'not romantic at all'

Comments

[kocch]

so, this was such a ride.
i really really really enjoy your writing! the whole fic is so well-written and flows so nicely.
but the topic you talk about it's really hard to digest, somehow, even if written nicely. it's just like a window open to the reality of war and how it affects the people living it; more than being a whole story, it's like the reader is allowed to see a little piece of Jinwoo's story, but that's enough. I loved how the fic goes back and forth between present and past, fleshing out Jinwoo and Seunghoon's friendship and how that's brought them where they are.
it all starts with fire and ends (to start again) with fire - in every scene it's there, from the fire of war to the fire of joy, and the smallest flame of a matchstick to light some cigarettes; it's always there, carrying on the story, carrying different meanings, depending on the situation. it's the very reason why Jinwoo and Seunghoon are friends, on a certain extent.
now, I loved to read the fic because even in the smallest action there was so much more, I can't even explain it. like even when you described how Jinwoo thought the planet wouldn't miss him, that implied a lot, for me - how he was just one of the many wounded soldiers in a war, how life would carry on, no matter if he died or lived, if he stayed or left. or how becoming a soldier was, for him, a way to see the galaxy, how that was the only meaning he had to reach such a big dream for a "poor" boy like him. every scene means so much, and i loved them all, i could say so much more... it just feels so real, you managed to describe war and its consequences so well (like when Seunghoon and Jinwoo signs that paper not expecting that war would hit them hard, that reality is different from what they expect)... it's just so true.
they were young "kids", but of course war has left big scars in them. and that's when i'm in doubt... i'm not sure if i grasped the final scene well? i guess different people can see different things... i reread it just to be sure because at first i thought they would go back to war and it just didn't make any sense, but then i thougth it might be living itself a war?
Seunghoon wanted to go home, but in that way Jinwoo's dream to go and see the Galaxy would end like that... and he doesn't want that. I read the finale as something positive? I'm not entirely sure this is what you meant, but I see like everything was just preparation for a bigger journey, for "life" itself, for living and exploring, for a much bigger fire.
Oh this is rather optimistic, despite everything.
Anyway I really enjoyed this and I'm glad you wrote this fic *_* kudos!