Ante Mortem
Description
Time is a luxury and we only know how precious it is when we lose it.
It's the same for Jonghyun, Minjung, Kibum and Taemin who are all staring Death in the eyes, wishing they had more time.
In a world where you're doomed from birth and where your numbers are written on your wrist lies legends of a mysterious creature that watches over Earth and makes sure it never stops.
Foreword
Ohoy.
Ante Mortem is a long-term project of mine. I cannot tell you a time-line, though, even if I wish to. I just hope you can look behind the long-term and will follow me nonetheless.
This story is inspired by some wild brainstorming I did and I'm still pretty surprised I came up with it, to be honest. Anyway, this is just rambling.
Ante Mortem is latin and means before death and it holds an importance to the storyline so see if you can guess what exactly is supposed to happen before death.
Do read the warnings because they are there for a reason. If you have unpleasant memories with homo- or transphobia, please consider reading this story again.
You might have noticed that there are a few pairings crossing as well such as Minjung and Kibum having two different partners. Just roll with that. It's going to be fine.
Short explanation on the universe:
Every person is born with a number on their wrist. This number is called the hour count and it counts down the hours before a person's death.
An hour count can be affected by different things such as accidents, bad decisions, good decisions and so on. It can go from 400.000 to 0 in a heartbeat, however, it cannot exceed the number it was at birth.
A child with an hour count of 35.040 hours (= 4 years) will die when they're 4 no matter what the parents do to alter the hour count. (The child can die before their 4th year as well but they cannot turn older than 4).
Legends in this universe speaks of a creature, the personification of Time, that can alter hour counts and grant a person more life.
Anyway, I hope you'll follow. Please do comment if you read. They mean everything to me. ^-^
// Kim Minji
THE AVERAGE LIFE IS 700.000 HOURS
ante mortem
written by kim minji
characters
* Lee Jinki
* Kim jonghyun
* kim kibum
* choi minjung
* lee taemin
pairings
* minkey
* jongkey
* 2min
genre
* fantasy
* angst
* romance
warnings
* terminal illness
* homophobia
* Transphobia
* Crimes
contains
* genderbended characters
* polyamorous relationships
* trans characters
* Non-binary characters
* Genderneutral pronouns
copyright belongs to missminew and this story must not be redistributed or translated without my permission.
credits
* Shin-oppa / poster
* style-ran (color house) / former poster
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