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#220: Our Hands Aren't Tied (But We Move as Though They Are)

Jan 06, 2017 17:44

Title: Our hands aren't tied (but we move as though they are)
Pairing(s): Jongin/Sehun
Rating: R
Length: 31,000
Warning(s): [Please click to open.]Alcohol and drug references
Summary: Jongin drinks too much, too often.
Author's Note: To my wonderful beta H - thank you for being so patient and friendly. And to A - thank you for figuratively holding my hand and literally ( Read more... )

round one, pairing: jongin/sehun, rating: r

Comments 10

spacerhyme January 7 2017, 01:05:10 UTC

Spot~

Wait! Im still reading this. Im a slow reader, give me 24hours! I can finish it orz

spacerhyme January 14 2017, 14:27:25 UTC

phew finally, i made it! thank you for choosing my prompt! im so touched just from a simple prompt, you turned it into this beautiful story. firstly, i love the whole atmosphere of this story, for me, this story is not too dark and not too light either. i love the way you wrote jongin in this story, at the beginning he is a mess, his problems and the way he lives his life, i can feel it and i feel bad for him. then, throughout this story, you wrote how he becoming better and his positive changes after he attend the AA meeting regularly. of course, this is possible because of his support system. his family, friends and sehun all try to help him whether direct or indirectly so that he become a better person. i believe to overcome the alcohol addiction is not an easy task, they need support, this cant be done alone and you showed it in this story. it really make this story more realistic. another thing is, i really like how you potrayed sehun and jongin relationship in here. the way sehun always there to help jongin step by step on his ( ... )

soybean_88 January 15 2017, 04:56:50 UTC

Thank you so much for the comment and the prompt! I remember that I found Kaifectionery randomly one night, and your prompt made me think more seriously about writing... so I committed to this story, and a fic fest for the first time ^_^. While writing I kept coming back to the prompt sweets 'long fic if possible' and as I needed to include more scenes and more characters to cover Jongin's winter-to-summer, it morphed into THIS! I am so glad you liked the plot and characterizations. I went through videos of several ballets before deciding on The Firebird as a background, and actually this guy and the Royal Ballet's version were so amazing so I decided... Let's have Jongin's company do the whole thing ( ... )

kaihun94 January 8 2017, 04:55:08 UTC

This is awesome ! I love the group therapy session the most ! I love how jongin had a little crush on ravi ( thats what I thought ), I love sehun character the most ! and Mrs. Kim ! She seems to be cold turns out she's not !

soybean_88 January 15 2017, 05:04:48 UTC

Jongin has a little crush on Ravi because I have a little crush on Eternity-era blue-haired Ravi.

You know... until you (and another commenter) pointed out that Mrs Kim is not-so-cold-and-heartless, I ACTUALLY DIDN'T NOTICE! I wrote her to be a kind of dismissive, self-centred parent, but somehow in writing her and her interactions with other characters, I gave her warmth??? I guess while writing this story for six months, I was so in Jongin's head that I couldn't see even my own characters objectively. I just wanted to write something that was believeable.

Thank you so much for your comment!

caterplina January 8 2017, 15:35:36 UTC

this is amazing!! i love this fic ( ... )

sunlit_snow January 9 2017, 02:20:28 UTC

Oh gosh I love this story. The pacing, the entire atmosphere. Jongin's internal battle with his monsters that he tried so hard to keep shut and away.

What astounds me the most, though, is your characterisation? Writing fic is always hard but I think it's especially difficult when you're incorporating something so... big into their lives. Something with massive ramifications on their everyday, their behaviour, their personality. Yet Jongin still... felt like Jongin. That's a real achievement and I think you've really managed to intertwine all your characters' non-canon characteristics into their real personalities incredibly well (e.g. Sehun's past experiences with his band, Chanyeol being a classical pianist slash PUNK ROCK DRUMMER). Just, incredible kudos for that ( ... )

this is just perfect! zaraaki January 10 2017, 01:41:27 UTC

the characters
the setting, the scene, pace and progressions...
everything just fits and just being explored, exploited and explained so beautifully....
i feel like i was standing right next to him and watching how jongin live his life....
its just perfect!

Thank you...for such a great fic~