Finding Eden [contest fic] 2/2

[orionsroad]

Title: Finding Eden
Rating: PG-13
Form: 2/2
Genre: Drama, angstish?
Summary: Yunho wakes up in a world very different to his own, and has to question everything he's ever known.

Part 1

Comments

[pinkelatta]

Liked this, liked how it ended too.

I guess it's all about choices eh. How he finally realised he had to let go of the other side is somewhat beyond me though.

Was it meant to send him a message about something, though? Did it say something about his family? Was there a message for Yunho to understand?

And finding Eden... it suggests a better state. Oddly enough, the better state is reality? Thought-provoking.

[orionsroad]

It was basically his realisation that he there was nothing he wanted to live for in the white-room world (reality). His family were the only familiar things to him, and he realised he was probably hurting them more by being awake. In the DBSK world, he had everything that made him happy. So he made the choice, even if maybe by our standards of 'you should face reality' - it was the wrong one.

And actually, the Eden wasn't reality - it was his delusional world. Eden is the ideal place, the place where you are most happy. One would think that would ultimately mean reality where things are tangible and real, vs a place that is 'happy', but you know it's all fake. However Yunho made a choice to take the later. Real or unreal, it was where he was happy.

[joongielover]

Just wow, this made me speechless. But I do wonder which world is the real one; although, I think they both are, and Yunho had to choose one. And he chose Jaejoong's world, or something XD. I'm guessing the worlds is the twist? *_*
Yunho and his personality, his mind - how he thinks - just whoa.
This was amazing <3.

[orionsroad]

You're welcome to interpret it anyway you like...! But, the idea I had when writing it was that reality is the mental institute. He made a concious decision to give up reality in favour of what made him happy. Which was the twist... logically, you would assume that people would chose reality over make-believe, but he didn't. I guess the other twist was meant to be that at the end there, with his mother crying over him, you see that the mental institute is the real world, and he's gone back into his dreams.

Thanks for reading - I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

[drivingmyself]

HMM. Are you going to let us decide which world was the real one? I'd say it was the world with JaeJoong, because there Yunho's dreams existed and that world felt warmer and real. Yunho didn't have anything that would have tied him to the mental hospital world. This was very well written.

[orionsroad]

Well, the end bit with his mother and Yunho's body was meant to show that the mental institute world was actually the real one. Yunho gave it up though, deciding his happiness in the DBSK world was worth more then 'reality', even if that happiness was just a figment of his imagination. The DBSK world was warmer because Yunho made it up - it was everything he wanted it to be. Reality is sometimes cold and stark and in this instance, Yunho didn't want to live with that after having lived with such warmth.

I hope that sort of explains some of it for you! Thanks for reading~!

[drivingmyself]

Yes, thank you. My English is limited, since it's not my first language, so I don't always get little hints that native speakers get ^O^. It was nice from you to explain it to me ♥.

[314159]

....... *___* I'm going to pretend that the world where U-Know Yunho exists with TVXQ is the real world, even though I'm almost positive that's the exact opposite of what's really happening. ;___; *clings*

[orionsroad]

Uhm! I shall not say anything that would shatter your er, pretense then. ^^; hehehe. *pets you*

[zhe01]

Whoa. I enjoyed reading it so much... o.o

It pulled me right into it! :)

[orionsroad]

I'm glad you found it so engaging - and enjoyed reading it! :D Thank you~!