MASTER POST: This Soundless Guitar
Title: This Soundless Guitar
Author & Artist: clover71
Fandom: American Idol Season 7
Genre: Slash
Pairing: David Cook/ David Archuleta; David C./ OMC
Rating: NC-17
Word count: (approximately) 22,000 words
Description: Written for rpf_big_bang 2011
Warnings/Spoilers: (Highlight only if you don't mind spoilers. Some people might find this fic triggering so it's best to heed the warnings) Mentions of characters' death and homophobic violence, dealing with major depression, suicide attempt. This should be read through the character's eyes and with an open mind.
Summary: David is haunted by memories he couldn't chase away and constantly hears the voice of death calling.
Disclaimer:
1) Please note that this is purely fiction and none of the contents are real except for all or some of the characters used in this story.
2) Most characters used are real people but the details within do not purposely imply occurrences in real life; thus, anything here that concurs with real events may be completely coincidental.
3) This fiction is created based solely on the imagination of the author and for non-profitable purpose.
Author's Notes:
- I've been nursing this idea in my head for a year now and decided to finally write it. This is my entry for rpf_big_bang 2011.
- Thanks to my lovely friend, radcliffe_bass, for the cheerleading, hand-holding, initial beta and for putting up with my crazy stunts of coaxing her to join countless writing challenges.
- My amazing beta, random00b. Thank you for being wonderful and patient enough to beta at such short notice, and for being patient when I'm being an ass. You are awesome.
- Despite the fact that this fic had been beta'ed, please note that I rewrote most scenes post beta so if you spot any mistakes, they're all mine.
- Thanks so much to the rpf_big_bang mods, chosenfire28 and primreceded for the patience and understanding and congratulations for hosting yet another successful round of this challenge.
- A big thanks to my friends, Sheng and Ian (they don't have LJ), who both have been patient enough to answer my endless questions about the realistic and probable effects of the different ways to kill one's self (they thought I was suicidal at some point, LOL) from a nurse's perspective.
- I won't claim that I came up with this idea on my own. THIS MASTERPIECE by shukyou greatly inspires the concept of this story and the artwork and some of the scene ideas.
- I did extensive research on major depression and suicidal tendencies, even took down clinical terms, but then I realized that I was writing through a particular character's POV and the character has no medical or psych knowledge whatsoever, so I decided to write the story in a way the character would possibly narrate it. Some scenes may be off or unrealistic if seen through the eyes of someone with knowledge about psychological treatment. Again, the narration is based on the character's (the patient) view.
- Ryder Oak is a fictional mental health rehabilitation center that I created. If this exists in real life, that is just mainly a coincidence and it means I suck big time at doing research.
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* UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020: I am taking down this fic because I've re-written it as an original story and will submit for publishing (my pseud is March Crest).