U-Kiss, Soohyun-focused - A Most Beautiful Ruby Red
Title: A Most Beautiful Ruby Red
Pairing: None, Soohyun-focused
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "Slow motion; see me let go." Soohyun is slipping, falling further into the abyss, and he's not sure he wants to fight it anymore.
Warnings: Subtle, subtle hints about contemplating suicide.
A/N: I wrote this around the time Soohyun was tweeting about being tired and ( Read more... )
i think the whole piece really carries off the idea that depression isn't being sad -- the definition of the word "depressed" is to lower or lessen in value, to make dull. to put down. and it's tossed around as being synonymous with "sad" so often, but it's not. being depressed is being tired, is realising you aren't getting anything out of what you're doing, is struggling and sprinting through life and not wanting to give yourself a moment to stop and breathe and think too hard about things because you don't think you'll like what you'll find, or maybe you won't recognise it anymore; it's this dissonance between real life and what you feel, not matching up, not being enough, being disconnected from everyone and everything around you and not knowing if you care about it anymore
and this does such a great job of depicting that. i think i've probably only seen a couple other fics that do it as well as this one does (and i have read a lot of fanfiction, ok, i think i said it before, but i've been in and out of fandom/kfandom since i was like fourteen or fifteen.)
and the end. in the end, he's just so tired, and he can hear them but he's past caring and it is so downright frightening that he doesn't drag himself back for them -- for them, always for them, not for himself, which is so in character and makes it all so much more sad to read
and that this is the one and only selfish act -- closing his eyes and giving up -- is so heartbreaking to me. because like you wrote, he's the centre, and they need him -- if he takes a break, he's hurting them, and he'd put all of that before himself. and he'd never say it because he's just not that guy; it's private, like you said. he doesn't do it for attention.
the whole thing embodies his emotions so well, and it doesn't need any kind of surface narrative to explain what's happening to him. he's the focus, and i like that.
and this -- i don't know, this hits really close to home. i think this is my favourite of the things you've written.
this may be the closest to coherent that i've been on any of your fics \o/ i think maybe i also repeated myself from the first comment, but i feel the need to reiterate all of this because i really like it and you should know that!
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like, as much as i don't really believe in the martyr image anymore (at least so far as i don't believe it's all coming from him) it still really is what he would do/think, i guess. like, he wants to do the best he can for them, maybe he thinks that's his job bc of being leader, but he's a human too and i believe if he got a chance to just, idk, take a break for himself that he would.
sorry this isn't as long of a response but ty ;___; i'm glad you liked it
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but like even if it wasn't intentional, if you can make someone feel something with your writing, then that's good, right? that seems to me to be what all writers are actually aiming for, anyway -- to have someone read their work and have some sort of emotional response (good or bad) and take something personal away from it
so hooray for you
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