[b1a4] sinking ships and subway stations

[halcyondusk]

Title: Sinking Ships and Subway Stations
Pairing: Gongchan/Sandeul
Rating: PG
Summary: Chanshik watches it all fall apart, and Junghwan helps him glue it back together.
Word Count: ~1,800
Warnings: There are mentions of violence against women.
Originally written for flytothetop's first challenge

Comments

[halcyondusk]

KELLEY OMG do you know how ridiculous you are ;AAAAAAAAAA; i'm going to cry at you and roll around in the comment and WAYLT?

I AM SUCH A DEPRESSING PERSON LMAO why do i put my babies through these things be it fictional or not ;~~; omg but a lot of it is stuff that older artists have gone through, like hyori with the plagiarism, kangin with the getting violent at a bar, kara/dbsk with the alternative contract thing and ;; aslkgjs;dfg.

i think i made chanshik passive and then lost to the extent that he can't figure out what to do, unlike junghwan who changes with the experience i guess LMAO JUNGHWAN IS SO NOT LIKE JUNGHWAN NOW IDK WHAT HAPPENED i added ten years to their age and ;A; figured chanshik would sit and wallow in his memories and cry (and i would go give him a hug eep :3) but junghwan would've matured somewhat NERPS.

I DO NOT DESERVE YOU GO AWAY ♥

[sai12]

I loved this. I loved it and hated it. And hated you for writing it but then loved you too for writing it. See, I'm really conflicted.

All I know is when I read this after the challenge went up I knew what had my vote! But anyway, it is heart breaking. Tho I'm glad there is a glimmer of hope at the end as Gongchan finds something else to go for.

[halcyondusk]

ahhhh! thank you for the lovely comment and vote ;~~; it is quite a depressing idea so i couldn't leave channie hopeless at the end could i? i'm glad you loved and hated it at the same time ♥

[scarredknees]

nggggh heart breaking how you made them break up, mostly because it's so realistic, especially looking at how idols are nowadays and the scandals that are appearing on the idol news sites and ugh i hate how well i can visualize those events because they can just...really happen. and i just wanted to hug all of them and pat them all on the back and say it's fine to make mistakes and just...ugh ouch :C beautiful, though. ♥

and for sandeul and gongchan to be the ones that didn't do anything that caused them to fall apart but were still affected and for them to be the central characters of your story...brilliant and painful and great. i love the hope gongchan feels after. bb deserves it. ♥

AS USUAL you are amazing etc etc hehe

[halcyondusk]

SOBS yeah i was just thinking about all the stuff, actual stuff that goes on in the industry, and then the possibility of it happening to a group i love ;AAAAA; how depressing guh but it's so very true that sometimes you don't even need to be directly involved to be embroiled in something (...actually, kind of like what's going on with the other members of block b atm ;;) HUGS THEM ALL.

thank you for reading (i am far from amazing though) ♥

[mekimigure]

I put off reading this simply because I don't usually read same gender/inter-band ships. They don't appeal to me, you could say?

But this is gorgeous, honestly.
I generally try not to think about my favourite groups falling apart/off the face of the planet but still, it's inevitable and the way you brought it up was just horribly beautiful. If that even makes any sense.
Personally, I've always thought that Chanshik has had it harder within B1A4, simply because he is labelled the cute one and doesn't get substantial singing lines (why do I fall for the visuals and dancers, why). Anyway, I don't think I'm really coherent now, so I'll stop.

I love your writing.

[halcyondusk]

oh wow, thanks for taking the time to read this even though inter-band doesn't appeal to you! i was just thinking about how real the possibility is (i mean, i highly doubt jinyoung would plagiarise, or dongwoo would get violent, or sunwoo would leave them, but all the same it's a possibility). yeah, chanshik definitely has it a bit harder than the others, but i think he's getting more comfortable and they love him so all good ♥

[kendii_1007]

everybody has said everything i wanted to say. nevertheless, lemme tell you that this has been a great read. and the reality you built around the characters.../le cries a river/

i have always been afraid that the groups i support will have to endure this kind of pressure: time. an idol group has everything BUT time. and maybe there are phases that it has to go through as well and which actually has one direction: disbandment. such is the reality. wow. why am i even thinking about disbandment when my b1a4 bbs have just started their careers. ;_;

the angst that enveloped the story was destructive and constructive to the central character. i love how you had sandeul implicitly point out gongchan's strengths. i think it would have not worked as effectively if he had to spell everything out to gongchan. oh, how my boys have grown imperfect but beautiful anyway (my baro, jinyoung. cnu /le cries again and le judging you right now for subjecting them to those horrible things ;__________;).

again, awesome, AWESOME work. congratulations.

[halcyondusk]

ahh thank you for taking the time to read this and leaving such a great comment ;~;

i tried to build the reality around them like i've seen happen to older groups. it's so true that once a group's gotten past that initial stage of debuting, all that's really there is 1) putting out music that the general public is favourable towards 2) avoiding scandals and 3) time, because time is what heals and sours relationships and eventually, all groups will have to disband, be it amicable or not ;A;

in a sense it was just gongchan there, stuck in the middle of it all, not at fault but also at the same with fault because he didn't do anything, just watched it fall apart passively. glerp /tl;dr

thank you again for reading ;~; ♥

[kendii_1007]

he prolly thought being the maknae limited his ability to act on "adult" situations. ugh. /sobs over and over

np~ will be stalking you, too, from now on. XD