Title: A Letter to Oh Sehun

Authors: NoonaYoung and MollieHenson

Status: Completed

Tags: Angst, Original Character, Heartbreaking Love

Link: http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/1195525/a-letter-to-oh-sehun-angst-originalcharacter-ohsehun-heartbreakinglove

Personal Opinion

I, for one, appreciate letters - they request sincerity and a glint of insanity. You would expect that the fore mentioned letter would be a love one - who could have guessed differently? "A Letter to Oh Sehun" - the title itself leaves a lingering trail of enigma. Why "A Letter"? Have there been many others? Was this the first one, was it the sole one? Why this particular one, why this particular person?

The story intrigues me. It was a letter - true to its sense. It was heartbreaking and raw, as anything written to an old love. Maybe it's about love, too, but mostly about suffering and sacrifice. The author of the letter says it all without any fear, writes it all black on white, pours it all - from the moment he met her until the moment he didn't wish to see her again, from the moment he salvaged her until the moment he abandoned her. The experiences are traumatic - for her, for anyone, at that point, but somehow, it's a silent letter of a survivor. The main character is strong, she doesn't write it as an apology, she doesn't write it for an explanation, but mostly as an ending of a chapter in her life. She writes to the man she had loved, but also to the man she had fallen out of love. She end with wishes of happiness, not with bitter regret. She has found her path despite it all. She wishes for him to find the same.

There are some beautifully crafted scenes, I don't know if they were intended to be so - the reference to the three rooms of doom, as I call them, depicting the society's vices. The three days the woman spends in each room were almost biblical in a sense, gathering strength to move to the other one. The prayers she makes to a higher divinity are also heartbreaking, wishing to be able to endure such misery and atrocities, just for the sake of a dear one.

Oh Sehun remains a mysterious character - we don't know whether he loved her or not, whether he regrets the choices he had made, whether he's an angel or a demon and sometimes, as a reader, you doubt yourself from the lack of information.

I enjoyed the story, it was something else, or maybe I read too much into some things - that's for the author to decide. The only thing I have to say is that the wording and grammar could be improved, but that could be arranged.