The Tower (Jessica/Heechul)

[warmboys]

The Tower
Jessica/Heechul, implied others
466 words
PG-13
An exercise in cheering up.

Comments

[emberberry]

He holds her around the waist. His arms go around and around and he can touch past his own elbows. Second best, she thinks. He holds her until he is holding himself.

this is so beautiful to me. sad, lonely, yet beautiful. I liked the whole piece, but this part really stood out to me. &hearts

[warmboys]

Thanks <3 I'm glad it wasn't too depressing!

[starlitbright]

An exercise in cheering up. - i do not understand your note.

i really liked your dialogue, though, this really gets to me:

“At least you were born beautiful,” she says.

“You are now.”

ouch. i know it's not meant to hurt, or maybe it is? but it's got a lot of truth in the words and the characters themselves in those words -- jessica's envy at heechul but also her acceptance of him, like, i understand how cruel you can be but i kind of need it? which is why heechul retaliates and it's in his character to be kind of mean and truthful, but also reassuring? idk. i just liked all of this :(

[warmboys]

I was trying to cheer myself up. But within the context of the story, I guess, he's giving her reasons to not kill herself.

Glad you liked it :)

[freakymod]

I like it.
I like the difficult relationship they have, with all of its layers and nuances - Heechul/Jessica isn't really a relationship I've thought about much before, and the sheer amount of food for thought in this makes me simultaneously very happy inside and utterly overwhelmed at the number of things to think about. The way they're attracted to each other's coldness, and the same warmth they derive from each other, everything.
...I have too many things to say and not the words to say them. But anyway, I like it a lot ♥

[warmboys]

Yeah, exactly! I think of their relationship as kind of symbiotic, each providing the other what they lack individually. ♥ thanks so much for reading :)

[onespringday]

Those cuts uncut themselves. The car uncrashes. The boy ungoes.

this.

[warmboys]

:(

yeah

[aphoriste]

i just want to say that you're probably the only author whose works aside from YS are stuff that i would read just because it was written by you.

When you realize the sad thought you’re thinking has been thought many times over by someone even sadder, your leg is suddenly whole again. Those cuts uncut themselves. The car uncrashes. The boy ungoes.

and this one hits close to home:

“If you leave now, I’ll never tell you,” he threatens.

I’ll never forgive you. I’ll never let you go. I you, we are.

T---T you're amazing, you know that?

[warmboys]

dude I am so honored ♥ I was trying to write myself out of a not-so-great state and it's going to become one of those things that I'm afraid to read again lest it remind me of how I felt at the time. kind of like when you said you could relate to Seohyun? but anyway--what a compliment ;__; thanks Ashley ♥