[infinite] the road that leads us there

[quarticpolynomi]

Title: the road that leads us there
Rating: r
Word count: 8580
Summary: To fix their ailing relationship, Sunggyu and Woohyun rent a car and drive across the breadth of America.

Comments

[grapefruitade]

That ending was terribly painful. Terribly, terribly painful. I'm not sure I can compose myself enough to leave a lengthy, well-worded comment at the moment.

... But can I just say I absolutely adore how your characterized Sunggyu in this? Woohyun reminds me of the audience, in the sense that he's trying to figure out Sunggyu just as much as we are. It’s helped blunt the unrelenting edges of his ambition. This line, and pretty much every line that details Sunggyu's desire for bigger and better things makes me want to cry, because I can't help but find it truthful. Sunggyu's musical style just screams for something outside the K-pop industry and it's this that makes me think Infinite can't be another Shinhwa and that there eventually will be a limit to this supposed limitless group and - now I'm just rambling, eheheheh.

Just like a möbius strip, it doesn't matter how many times the situation seems to change: nothing is permanent. Everything eventually comes full-circle to the beginning again. Oh, and this line in particular was fantastic. Augh. The imagery you paint with figurative language is amazing. \(;u;)/

So, basically, yes. This was. Um. Wonderful. Ingenious. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful. I bow down to your amazing writing skills u__u

[quarticpolynomi]

thank you. and that is a very lovely point that you mention. i must again thank you for all of your insightful comments.

travelogues are usually narratives of self-discovery. i had hoped that a road spanning the breadth of the united states, a road that exists essentially in memory more than in actuality, would be an appropriate background for woohyun's moment of acceptance.

i like to think that while the ending isn't happy, it isn't actually sad. reifica wanted a story wherein two people realize that they aren't right for one another and the world doesn't end. love isn't everything. often it feels like it is, but it isn't. there's still the rest of the world!

have a happy valentine's day.