Fic: Roman Holiday [TVXQ RPS | AU]

[glitterburn]

Title: Roman Holiday
Fandom: TVXQ
Pairing: Changmin/Yunho
Rating: NC17
Summary: Yunho takes Changmin to Rome for his birthday-and discovers that Italian really is the language of love.
Notes: Fashion designers AU. Falls somewhere between Perfect Fit and For Fashion’s Sake. A knowing wink and tip of the hat to A Fish Called Wanda.

Roman Holiday
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[glitterburn]

The end of October seems like SO LONG AGO already. Then I remind myself that I started writing Sunflowers while C. was here and that feels like so long ago, too!

Dan Brown will never not be funny. Stupid man with his bragging rights about papal tours around the Vatican (possibly it was Pope Kyu, that would explain a lot) and he *still* manages to get it wrong in so many ways.

I like the thought that this one is more intimate. It was time to take them away from the big stage and see how they function off-screen, as it were. Changmin overseas is a different beast to Changmin in Korea; Yunho is the one who changes least, probably because he's always known who he is and Changmin changled himself in duty and familial expectation. But it takes us until Sunflowers to see that happy-go-lucky Yunho does have emotional needs, too, and they're no less deep than Changmin's; he just deals with it differently.

I'm glad that old phrasebook had so many gormless phrases and foodstuffs that I could nick. Although I recall the Spanish phrasebook being more hilarious. If only I knew the correct Italian for 'my postillion has been struck by lightning', that would surely have made an appearance.

after this trip, the sheer audacity and romanticism of the proposal feels like a natural step
Yes, it does. And it wasn't a conscious decision on my part that this should be such a bridging 'chapter', because tbh I did just want to write about them in Rome, but... well, these things grow legs, and what started out as an idea to write a PWP wherein Yunho gets off to Changmin speaking Italian, it ended up being far more romantic than I expected. But I'm glad it did, because of all my HoMins, these two are total fluffs and they deserve all the mush.