1.) About a month ago I first read your fic 'thought you knew (you were in this song)' on AO3 and I just want to take a quick, honest moment to tell you something that I'm sure you hear quite frequently - your writing style, the structure and your ability to provoke emotions and thoughts through your choice of words really is a talent. I've been revisiting TYK frequently - it left an impression on me that no other story (not just fic) has ever managed to do. The way you summarise life, love...
2.) and loss is beautiful, tragic, and true. A personal note, if you don't mind me sharing, is that I completely sympathise with Jeongguk and Taehyung as characters. Several years ago I lost a man who I loved very much - the kicker is that he was not supposed to die when he did, much like Jeongguk at the very end of TKY. We knew it would happen one day, and we’d had years to slowly prepare. But, just like you wrote, things changed very quickly under our own feet and suddenly, all he had...
3.) ...less than a day. My reason for telling this is because you have managed to depict the anguish that comes with loss, and impending loss, and (in the extras you wrote) life after loss better than anyone else whose works I’ve read in the past few years – and that is saying something. Although I understand that everything else outside of what you wrote is strictly canon, I can’t help but have a few questions for you, to see if you have any thoughts about them; did Taehyung move on...
hi, sorry it took me so long to respond to this!! i thought you meant to send more messages since part 3 didn’t seem like a full question, so i was waiting, but i guess either it is fully formed or tumblr ate it :’(
i was (and still am) incredibly touched reading your messages. thank you so, so, so much for reading and liking my fic, and for sharing your own experience with me. i’m so sorry for your loss and that it had to happen to you, i hope you’re doing well now. and i’m comforted to hear that you think i did justice to something so hard to write about!
to answer what i’m guessing is the question: the way i imagine it, taehyung never romantically moved on from jeongguk in terms of finding another partner, but that’s just because of the mechanics of the universe i created for that fic – soulmates are real, and you never truly get to be romantically connected to anyone else on the same level as you did with your soulmate. so taehyung never truly was able to love anyone else the way he loved jeongguk, and being himself, never truly wanted to try that anyway bc he also wouldn’t have wanted to keep anyone from their true soulmate
he does, however, move on in other ways. he leads a fulfilling life. does a lot of good. helps a lot of people. is kind. raises a lot of dogs and a few children very well and shares a great life with his family and friends. succeeds at following his dreams. the way i see it, thinking he’s going to die + subsequently losing jeongguk shapes taehyung to really put his energy into these things? it kind of wisens him up and he has the strength to carry on from it (in a way that, for the characters of my fic, i actually don’t think fic!jeongguk would have been able to do). he never truly is able to find anyone that can fill the space jeongguk left empty, but he is still able to enrich all the other spaces he still has full!
i’m not sure if there were any more questions you’d meant to ask, but these are all the messages i received in my inbox! i hope the answer helped, and thank you for sending in these messages 💓
