🌟 2!
hmm it’s not one of my most popular pieces but i’ll talk about pieces next !
ba dum tss
i begun writing this in the high school library in my twelfth year i believe—we were reading the wars by findley (so canadian i know lol). it featured this non-linear type of story telling which gave us interview snippets about the main character’s life after he had passed. mixed media and non-linear storytelling blew. my. mind. to have a corner of the photograph and have to conjure the whole... i used the example of driving by a car crash. you see this wreckage for a split second before it’s in the rearview. you know something bad happened, but you don’t know the people like the people in the cars know it, and you don’t know how it happened... but something bad happened there.
my notes for this looked insane. so many motifs to keep track of. 3s, gold... if reading it was confusing, think about writing it, bro. ah, here’s a screencap:
a neat little side note is that kuroo picked up chie’s “pink sparkly pencil”. you can find it in his backpack and she kept mentioning how she couldn’t find it. just those little details, y’know? and speaking of, the songs were really only chosen bcs i liked them at the time haha. had to really stretch it to make it work.
i also spent ages trying to google translate a japanese university admission notice so that it’d be authentic that kuroo had gotten into a tokyo/japanese speaking university...... i speak and read no japanese and elementary chinese hanzi. that shit was hard. apologies if there were hiccups to any of my japanese readers. the english one R got was based off of my own lol. (go cougars!)
everybody’s dying to know what really happened. i think several years is enough for everybody to deliberate their own subjective answers, haha. the beauty of these kinds of open-ended endings is that there is no legitimate ending. it’s a multiverse! the point of it is that you’re the observer and you’ll never know the truth, no matter how much you dig, if you weren’t a part of it.
buttttt y’all were dying to know. as a refresher there were 4 routes of truth:
- kuroo could have cheated on R with yaeko jizaema (her first appearance in my fics!)
- R could have cheated on kuroo with kenma
- both could have cheated
- neither could have
2 years later i’ll tell you that nobody cheated. it was all a harmony of misunderstandings. shit tears you up if you don’t communicate. a relationship that can’t last through those hardships isn’t meant to... though i do feel bad that they’re all hurt. lesson learnt: talk about the hard stuff.
