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#12 - For fourcoldpaws, from your mixup partner!

Jul 23, 2014 20:29

Title: anticlimax
For: fourcoldpaws
Pairing/Focus: CNU/Gongchan/Baro
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2500
Summary: The world does not end with a bang.
Notes/Warnings: implied death

( For fourcoldpaws, from your mixup partner! )

*cycle: summer 2014, pairing: cnu/baro/gongchan

Comments 4

fourcoldpaws July 24 2014, 20:57:53 UTC

WAILS. this is like five of my favorite things all rolled up in one and it's so lovely but it's also so SAD and i'm like rolling around in the bittersweetness of it all. i love the idea of them going out to see the world just when it's ending, simply because there's no reason to just sit around and wait. and also that they're heading up towards the continent, though they might not make it very far across it. it's nice how the reasons behind the apocalypse and the ways in which it happens are so vague, and that it is drawn out. you described those parts very nicely ;; and also how you can see the signs of it even in the characters, in the coughing and the tiredness and the ashy faces, as if they're just gonna drop dead one day. and maybe that's what the world is doing as well, just suddenly dropping dead without much reason, only slower ( ... )

mon_cheiri July 27 2014, 14:49:05 UTC

jesus man if they all died together in the end I would have literally sat here and died myself lol

I liked the ending, it had that feel of like an untied thread still hanging there

and like just how they carry on and drive, it's also got that sinister 1 down 2 to go feel, you know?

although this is all entirely my personal opinion, I love open-ended endings

fourcoldpaws July 27 2014, 15:53:07 UTC

wait, are you saying that chanshik died??!! lol i didn't read it like that at all, but now that you say it it sort of makes sense.

ia i like the ending too, that it is open-ended (but also close-ended in a way, since it's so sinister hah) and that they just keep on driving. but now i can't help thinking what they did with chanshik? did they just throw him out? a part of me thinks they would have at least buried him or something but another part thinks they wouldn't. what's the point, right?

gosh you really made me see this in a different light lol ;;

mon_cheiri July 29 2014, 16:27:59 UTC

lol haha yeah, that's how I read it,

especially because in the last couple lines, they mention Chanshik's hand being cold,

which usually is a sign of death :(