DAY 8: zugunruhe winter

[lovemixmod]

Title: zugunruhe winter
Written by: portaldice
Pairing: Kai/Sehun
Rating: PG
Warnings: Character 'death'
Summary: Jongin dances and dances until he’s sick of it, and Sehun is the seasonal wind that offers him five chances at direction. They blow the fourth one, but at least the snow's still pretty.
A/N: Also a semi AU where Exo debuts with only the six

Comments

[hipployta]

EXO as OT6 eh?

Supernatural affection but oh so cute

[portaldice]

Aw, thank you c:

[anonymous]

(why doesn't this have more comments...!) ok sooo i have to admit i was a little apprehensive about reading this because of the pairing and "character death" warning but this story caught me 100% offguard. from the moment we recognize what sehun is to jongin's first wish ARGH that paragraph murdered me :( and then the way jongin grows up and i felt like sehun watching it happen... sob this whole fic was read with bated breath. i love the scene where sehun finally shows himself and then the UST in the scene that followed. also the way you describe setting? it's so subtle and you don't need to tell us everything for us to get it. for instance, [...] seated on the toilet seat cover. i was like "ok so that's where they are" lol.

there were several lines in addition to SO MANY OTHER THINGS ABOUT THIS FIC that really got me including Suddenly, Sehun's chest aches, and he wonders if this is how people know it's sadness. and Sehun almost forgets that he'll probably turn into steam. Very, very warm, like milk before bed i really really

[anonymous]

also i had to look up "zugunruhe" and "estivate" haha... nice to know you can learn new words from reading fic too orz

[portaldice]

i put the 'death' in quotes since i wasn't sure if jongin's final wish could be considered dying, but now i'm just thinking maybe that was an unnecessary worry lol. i'm glad you think the setting description's are okay, since i worry about the amount of detail a lot, haha ;u; and often i had to remind myself about that balance between jongin and kai because he's still so young, but the korean entertainment industry seems to make people change - basically i had a lot of worries about this fic lol, so i'm really happy you think it turned out alright c:

thank you for your very lovely comment! <3

[portaldice]

oh, thank you very much!
i... hope it made more sense than it didn't, haha x)

[amoleggere]

this is beautiful ♥ i don't have anything more to say tbh.. this is beautiful and i'm tearing up ;~;

[portaldice]

thank you~ ;w; i'm glad you liked it!

[portaldice]

haha, well, i couldn't end it with them separated, since it wouldn't be much of a happy valentine's day fic that way. x) i'm happy you found jongin's character somewhat relatable - we all have our wishes, it just so happens jongin has chances to have them granted storybook-style. c:

and thank you for remixing! ;u; it was a very lovely remix ahhh, i loved how all the subtle changes led up to the incredibly heartbreaking ending b t w that really hurt me ;; (and the fixed grammar errors... oops, sorry about that, haha ;u;) the idea of jongin being the warm wind that parallels sehun, never really being able to meet for long either, generated really beautiful imagery ;w;

thank you for reading and commenting, i'm glad you liked it <3