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quarticpolynomi

[infinite] the road that leads us there

Feb 12, 2012 16:38

Title: the road that leads us there
Rating: r
Word count: 8580
Summary: To fix their ailing relationship, Sunggyu and Woohyun rent a car and drive across the breadth of America.

( For Sunggyu and Woohyun, starting over has many meanings. )

Comments 30

x_doctess February 13 2012, 16:40:15 UTC

I came here looking for some Woogyu to cheer me up. I'm crying right now. This is the point where a relationship just keeps offering you the same things and you start to despise what used to make you happy, where love becomes hate and hate becomes sex and sex becomes love and vice versa and they all end up becoming the same thing, and all the what ifs start taking over your mind and you end up clinging to the memories of a feeling which you aren't sure is there anymore. Beautiful, but devastating ( ... )

quarticpolynomi February 14 2012, 04:55:02 UTC

thank you very much for this comment! i could not agree with you more. sometimes people are just not right for each other, but they stay together because it is easy and comfortable.

i think that woohyun might not entirely understand sunggyu, or, at least, he is drawn to the parts of sunggyu that grate against his own personality. it's akin to watching a trainwreck: enthralling, but simultaneously horrifying.

as i think i mentioned to someone else, this is a story that i have put quite a lot of myself into. it was very difficult to write. i am not very good at honestly expressing myself, and so writing a character who was simultaneously aware of the troubles in his relationship and recklessly (and desperately) repeating the cycle of mistakes was difficult.

ah, i feel far less anonymous admitting that. but thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. may you have a happy valentine's day.

bloodtaki2 February 13 2012, 16:59:49 UTC

Something things I wanted to say. It's beautiful and it hurts.

Woohyun stares the words until the display dims and the phones slips into standby. "Fuck," Woohyun murmurs hysterically, "I'm going to miss our comeback. And Sunggyu's going to take my lines."

This moment shattere my heart. You would usually expect something romantic or cheesy because happy endings shall prevail or whatever, but no, this is the sad heart-wrenching reality. A punch in the stomach.

Really... I wanted to requote my favourite parts and comment them but it hurts too much. I just can't find it in me to do it.

quarticpolynomi February 14 2012, 04:56:53 UTC

thank you very much. on the bright side, the ending is freeing. woohyun and sunggyu are no longer trapped in that loop (lemniscate) of misery. they're free to move on. the story can only end when that decision has been reached, the past fades away, and the destination becomes tangible. seoul is beneath their feet, but it is not the seoul that they left. it is the end and the beginning of something new.

have a happy valentine's day!

bloodtaki2 February 14 2012, 12:21:34 UTC

What a happy valentine's day. XD I'm going to watch Infinite's valentine video to cheer me up after reading this fic. ;__;

kawaiineyo February 14 2012, 03:19:37 UTC

this was... wow. i can't quite put into words how realistic this was and how much i could SEE it. it just came off the screen and the more it went on the more my heart broke. i see their relationship as complicated; give and take, but mostly take. so, what i'm trying to say is i always felt that woohyun would be the one left heartbroken in the end. this was beautiful, thanks so much for writing it!

quarticpolynomi February 14 2012, 04:57:15 UTC

thank you very much. this is very flattering. have a happy valentine's day!

sven2ity February 14 2012, 04:26:12 UTC

QUARTIIIIBOOOOOOOT
IT'S BEEN SO LONG
AND
WAYLT
MY TEARS ARE NEVER ENDING
NOTICE THE SADFACE MYUNGSOO ICON. SADFACE MYUNGSOO DOES NOT APPROVE.

something in me has painfully exploded into about a million jagged peices and, oh, i think it was just my heart. that's okay, i guess. who needs a heart anyway ;______;
i. i can't breathe.
asdfghjklasdfghjkl
coherency, why is it something i can't ever seem to grasp

oh my god i love how you characterized sunggyu in this. actually, i think i liked the developement more than the characterization. it was like, as the story progressed, i was learning faults and merits of sungyyu through woohyun's eyes. As a result, the lines between good and bad personality traits were heavily blurred with love and anger and so much emotion, i felt like i was fighting through the tangle just as much as woohyun was, trying to discern the genuine from the learned, the desired from the unwanted. and i. i never make any senes OTL ( ... )

quarticpolynomi February 14 2012, 05:03:11 UTC

goodness. your comment was both touching and incredibly funny. thank you for that. i truly enjoy reading your responses (as they are punctuated with odd, unrecognizable men)!

this took me a very long time to write, and much longer about with which to feel satisfied.

i think i liked the developement more than the characterization. it was like, as the story progressed, i was learning faults and merits of sungyyu through woohyun's eyes. i cannot explain how flattered i am by this assessment. this was exactly what i was trying to do. oh dear, i blushed! apparently this quartibot has been programmed to blush ( ... )

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anonymous February 23 2012, 08:05:30 UTC

thank you for your response. and perhaps while the worst part of this love story that can't have a happy end, the best part is that at the end they can start over with different people.

my best,
q