art and appreciation

Description

A story in which the lives of a man named Lee Hyukjae and an artist named Lee Donghae collide.

 

 

Foreword

Genre: mystery, slice of life-ish, angst-ish, something rather plotless, i really don't know tbh

Status: complete

Characters: (mostly) hyukjae-centric, donghae, rest of super junior

Word count (to date): ~15500

Original prompt: "You don't remember me?" (big thanks to ma-jewelry, and for ma-jewelry <3)

 

a/n: there is another fic on this website called "7 days", with the exact same first chapter, but a whole different plotline that follows! i wrote the first chapter and showed it to my friend ma-jewelry who really liked it and was positiviely bursting with ideas, so, i told her to take the first chapter as a prompt and do her own spin on it :D

so this is just an interesting project in which we take a chapter prompt and head off on different tangents, see where our writer's creativity takes us, how different our stories turn out to be.

 

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Haehyuk2Winchesters
#1
Chapter 1: Ohh this really sounds interesting <3 will read this.
lavi018 #2
Chapter 5: Hey please don't delete the story and don't be sorry writing such a sweet, soothing piece of literature. It's nice 'slice of life' story where we get to know about a man when an extraordinary event happens to his life.
The main character of Hyukjae, as the story is from his POV so we get to know his character mainly, is so realistic. I mean its not like he is a monk type person that is why he's so kind and doesn't get angry but its just that he was in this period of time in his life where he was just alive and not living his life. He becomes a murder suspect but he was not afraid for his life which he points out when he was talking with Sungmin about how dying would not effect him. Then he meets Donghae who made him a suspect in the first place but does not even gets angry and was concerned about his friend.
Its not like he does not have emotions he shows concern for Eri, he feels bored, he feels sadness for dead people and their families. But all of this is just routine and nothing exciting which require him to think or link himself with. He is depressed, seeing a psychologist, taking sleeping pills, he likes to know about new people but is not interested as much.
But then changes slowly cones to his routine life when he meets Donghae. He start to like knowing about people, he was not a person who would have a favorite colour but says it being light blue of sky because thats what he felt.
His life doesn't dramatically changes after the whole incident is over but now he started living his life. He has the same routine, same friends but it changed his perception, he started appreciating his friends, started noticing the warmth of living people. After the incident his life became peaceful and tomorrow's became something to look forward to.
So its a different type of story something refreshing from all the other stories here. Keep up the good work and don't feel sorry if others don't like it, its still your work and you should be proud of it.
haesthetics
#3
Chapter 5: first of all no??? dont take this off omg i loved it so much!! where do i begin? i was looking through the eunhae tag and stumbled upon this lovely little gem :-) i really do agree that it is just a small slice of life, a little breather and honestly really refreshing to read. like.... omg let me gather my words.... you really convey how important it is to be forgiving and just a nice person!! anger really isn't a need! the fact that hyukjae can b so sweet and kind and help donghae out, someone he doesn't know, even if it is an inconvenience to him, is just <3 and the whole story that unfolds with them getting to know each other and then going their separate ways again.... it really just captures how in a single moment, you can understand so much about someone and how much something can impact you before live just moves on again! and if hyukjae was mad at donghae for what he did, or denied his request, he wouldn't hav ended up with this small memory. also i love how you portrayed hyukjae soooo much! someone with that profession who goes to counselling once a month... really has such a heart of gold because he views life through such a positive lens without even realising it... honestly this has been like a lesson to me? and teaches that being nice can go such a long way, and your bad actions dont necessarily reflect your views or what you want to do or who you are capable of being. and also that you can influence someone so much by just being nice! and how grateful donghae is ... to give him a painting like that as a symbol of his new beginning doing what he truly loves, is just so unique and special <3 hav i been rambling? anyway i love this fic so much!!! it was such a journey to read and it was honestly therapeutic and i'm sure one day in the future i will get the urge to read this again bc i think its had such an impact omg... and how will i reread it if u delete it JUST SAYIN i loved it anyway hav a great day!! <3 :-)
AnnabelleRaen #4
Chapter 5: This makes me so happy. Please don't take it down, it deserves all the publicity of any best seller.
Although I may just be biased because it's Hyuk and Hae :)
Amaaya
#5
Chapter 5: Wow. I'm in awe. This was a beautiful lesson, much deeper than I thought it would be when I started reading. Good, helpfulness and forgiveness, I love the way you portrayed them through your characters. Depression, bad and crimes and just the greedy side of humans was well portrayed as well, but your characters are so realistic, with all the complexity that human nature holds, and that, I'm really awed by it. I like the evolution in hyukjae's character, how this odd story that could have brought him so many problems is also the one that helped him greatly. I'm not disappointed donghae left though, it was meant to happen, but his gift was meaningful (I love the fact that it is probably the only decoration he has up his walls) and I hope someday somehow they'd meet again maybe, so all those thank yous could be said in person.
Please don't take it down, this is a story I'd love to read again, it is beautiful and deserves its place here. Thank you for writing it!
Jwxdh1106
#6
Your writing is easy to read and understand and I can see your style in narration. It's honestly good, even when halfway the story mellowed. perhaps this genre isn't my preferred kind so I can't give a fair judgement, but don't be discouraged :)
mennie68
#7
Chapter 5: i love this thankyu for sharing here<3