Until We Meet Again

[murasakisun]

Have you ever cried reading a story?
No, I'm not talking about getting teary-eyed reading one. I'm talking about crying your eyes out, sobbing kinda crying.
Have you ever got so absorbed into it that your heart clenched whenever the character's heart did?
I have. Just happened a while ago.
I never thought a written work could ever make me cry or feel

Comments

[saturnial]

Wow. I didn't expect that to tug at my heart strings at all, but it did, a bit.

The difficulty of reading fanfic for a fresh fandom is that the whole premise, the whole idea of fanfic revolves around an understanding of pre-attachment to the characters, and to a certain extent the world, of our canon. (But mostly the characters - they are what MAKE fic for 99.9% of us, rather than the world or the plot or any other facet of the canon. Hence - AU's work brilliantly and are common, wheras OC's are shunned and disliked the majority of the time, no matter how well they are written.)

Because of this assumed pre-attachment to them, in fanfic, we're not given long to get to know the characters, get attached to them, because it's assumed that we already are. This is why we can write drabbles, and such short yet hugely emotionally invested fics. And why reading angst for a fandom that isn't your own will never have the same impact as someone who reads it correctly - someone who already loves and adores the characters. Which is sad.

But still, it tugged. Tugged hard. I'm not sure why, or how, or what it was about it, but- *sniffles*.

This is the first fic to make me cry in a long, long time. It's Shige/Kusano, from NEWS, although it's kinda OOC, a little bit, and the band doesn't really factor into it at all. It reads almost like original fic - the feel to it is very unlike the majority of Johnny's fanfic. It's strange. When I read it, it didn't just make me cry, it made me ache along with Kusano, feel sick and awful and heartbroken as everything got worse and worse and harder and harder and there didn't seem to be any resolution, any working out or understanding - it absolutely broke me. I cannot recommend it enough. :DDDD *pokes*

[murasakisun]

*nods* That's true. I'm too emotionally attached to HiroSuke. They are my OTP afterall. I used to only read HiroSuke until OT3 drew me in and I started reading whatever I found interesting.

And boy do I love and adore those two. X3

It's sad deshou? *sniffles* I cry even more listening to Days.

Uwa~ It sounds like a really good fic and something I'll cry a bucketload hence, I won't be reading it for now. Maybe next week? I'm not ready to cry so hard so soon. I cried so much, my eyes were so tired yesterday and I actually slept early. My eyes were too tired I couldn't even enjoy looking at the mags I bought yesterday. I told you about the sea shipment coming in right? April's Myojo and Popolo came in already too~ But rest assured, I'll read it. X3

Oh, and you asked me for a Kisumai pimp post right? A friend made one here.