The Sunbeam Flaring in Your Body
the sunbeam flaring in your body | zayn/niall | pg | 1,567 | they fit together, he and Niall, and he thinks he likes that best of all, the quiet moments they sneak and stack up stretched out on cold hotel beds, Niall's fingers wrapped round his wrist. | unbeta'd, but read over by britt and a handful of other wonderful people. any mistakes within
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it's just, the way you write him is so... internal, which really works. the sparse dialogue and the slow cadence of even very important, emotional things just fits because that's how (i think) zayn is, he's very internal, stuck in his own head a lot of the time. this doesn't mean he's a robot or inattentive or oblivious, he just speaks about a tenth of what he feels and thinks and just -
both this and the fic that killed me (lol) capture that so well and just give this boy such complexity without turning him into some weird "perfect" caricature of a teenage boy, if that makes sense? he feels things but he isn't always melodramatic - and like, you gave him comparing niall the fucking SUN of all things such a lovely spin, a movement away from what i feel is the ever-present melodrama in this fandom. it didn't feel contrived, is what i'm trying to say. it felt so real and nice and lovely and true.
i just want to swim in your writing ok that's all i wanted to say
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your zayn feelings are so beautiful to me, and your existence is so beautiful and ah! i don't even know what to say because i'm clutching my face and grinning at my laptop screen <33333333
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