All delighted People completed All Delighted People AUTHOR: Elsewherewandering
LEAD: Eunhyuk (Super Junior)
GENRE; SETTING: angst, bromance; sci-fi
CHAPTERS: 11
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Reaching his breaking point in a job erasing people's unhappy memories forever, and trying to cope with his childhood friend's looming nuptials, Eunhyuk doesn't think his week could possibly get any worse.  Enter Lee Donghae – melancholic, spacey, and eager to remove seemingly trivial memories from his brain.  Eunhyuk isn't looking for a friend – or anyone, really – and he doesn't think that he'd care the least about someone out to give themselves brain damage.  But what starts out as a routine journey through Donghae's memories goes awry for everyone involved when Eunhyuk finds out why Donghae wants them gone – and when Donghae has second thoughts about deleting his memories of the past, and of Eunhyuk, forever.

thoughts PLOT: This is a short chaptered fic, but the world-building and atmosphere in it is absolutely great.  I wish there were more of it.  A jaded Eunhyuk performs memory wipes on all kinds of people for all sorts of things, avoids the company-mandated appointment with the psychiatrist like the plague (and Hyoyeon's upcoming wedding, too), and finally meets his challenge in Donghae, who wants to erase the memory of somebody incredibly close to him... and then changes his mind mid-surgery and everything goes mad.

There's a sort of dystopia-lite about this that I really, really enjoyed.  The whole facade of the company and the idea of the memory wipes being that the company employees are all happy and erasing the bad things from your life mean that you'll only ever be happy leaves a lingering unease, because it seems to be masking an even deeper-rooted unhappiness that pretending – or believing – that the world is sunshine and rainbows just can't get rid of.  It takes Donghae panicking