Illuminations

[room9093]

Illuminations
For: quiescentme
Rating: PG
Length: ~1685 words
Summary: Lu Han meets Kyungsoo and reads too much French poetry.
Warning(s): none
Author's Note: Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet who had a fairly destructive relationship with French poet Paul Verlaine. References are mostly from Rimbaud's famous poem Le dormeur du val. The title is taken from an

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[quiescentme]

i wasn't sure how long it'd take me to finish this comment so i spotted just...you know, in case. Anyway

Oh wow, i definitely had to go back and look at what my prompts were LOL but i thiiiiink i know which one it was. /sweats/ but after my first read, i was just awed by how poetic (clearly, as it was centered around french poetry, which i have veeery little knowledge in) and just pretty it was. it's short and sweet, references to the poetry thrown in but done so that i didn't lose track of what was happening or getting that whats going on??? feeling. i thought it was done quite nicely and i really liked reading it...once...twice...thrice.

i thought it was amusing how luhan had his quirk of talking to the arthur statue; that made me giggle. his diary entries were a nice addition, looking into luhan's head and how ~pretty~ his words are (i can't think of the actual word i want to use. it's not pretty but iasdi i cant remember it orz) anD THEIR FIRST DATE. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE CONTINUING ONESSS EIOADAIOIDDA /lies down and thinks about french films. and their...uni...queness...

the seconds around me froze, crystallizing, and I saw them shatter in a million pieces on the ground i reAD THIS LINE OVER AND OVER CAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS SO PRETTY

Arthur was a pretty cool person, even if his life hadn't been exactly great. o h. ok.

Life is made of first times. i just really like luhans diary entries ok

a lovely story to read overall and i learned something new~ thank you for this piece!

[bluedreaming]

Orz thank you (ㅠ_ㅠ) I'm really sorry it was so short - it kind of felt done? Like anything else would have had to have been a sequel? And I hope it was okay for the prompt - it was a kind of open prompt so I went in the direction of poetry...also the journal entries kind of like the voice over. I didn't translate some teensy bits of French but I kind of thought...I made references to the meaning afterwards so deux trous rouges is the two symbolic bullet holes in Lu Han's chest....I hope it wasn't too bothersome (ㅠ_ㅠ)

Yes orz Lu Han was kind of in his own head (not like pragmatic Kyungsoo) and THAT MOVIE (I was chuckling to myself because it's such a movie-lover's movie and TERRIBLE for a first date -> nc-17 rating and angst and weirdness and everything) I kind of want to see their relationship continue

Thanks for reading my poor attempt and I hope we can maybe be friends?