Weaving Fireflies Out Of Apocalypse

Description

Myungsoo is a lot of things.

He is flesh, blood and bones.

He is a philosopher, born between the rain and the rivers.

He is a wanderer, in the slow canoes of turbulent life.

He is an artist, painting vague shadows with charcoal backdrops.

He is a dreamer, bits and pieces of memories and imagination.

He lives like there is no tomorrow.

But what if he starts to ache for a tomorrow he can’t have?

 

Myungsoo is not a lover, but he pretends to be one for Sungjong’s sake.

Foreword

On a less-trodden downtown alley which sees only a handful of customers a month, there is an abandoned mailbox. Here, you can send a letter to anyone, God, Santa, the living and the lost, the dead, and sometimes, if you're lucky, you might receive an answer.

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infiniterainbow #1
Chapter 9: I know this story has been about a year ago, but I just came across it while finding for other MyungJong stories to read, so I just want to share my thoughts on this..
Contrary to the others, I'm not as curious as to who Myungsoo really is because I believe that he is a real person and his love for Sungjong is real..
What I'm more curious about though is if Sungjong fulfilled his dying wish, and if yes, was it with Woohyun or Myungsoo? I know, I'm weird. Lol.
I think this story should also be tagged WooJong because there are WooJong feels all throughout the story. :)
Though Sungjong left at the end of the story, he is lucky because he experienced love. He felt what it was like to love and be loved. Even if it was only for a short time..
It would be nice to have a sequel where Woohyun and Myungsoo hangout and talk about Sungjong and their love for him. That would be lovely.

Out of all the stories I've read since I joined AFF, this would be one of the most memorable ones. One of the stories that touched my heart and that I will surely treasure.
You are now officially my favorite author, I love you!
natsuhime #2
Chapter 8: I think the next page is your explanation about some certain things but I didn't read it. I didn't want to. It doesn't matter, really, if Myungsoo is real or not or if Sungjong is crazy or not because when you're in love, things like these runs shallow. Every waking moment with the person you're in love with is a dream and reality. Every waking thought of him/her is all nonsense and rational. We don't really know much about this world or how it works. We don't know if we live in a reality or if all of these are just products of our beautiful minds.

But I know this much, this has been the most beautiful I read from AFF. I'm so glad I found the courage to read this (what with all the comments below). It reflects so much about what we humans thought we knew but really we never had a clue. But does it matter? Should it matter?

(I feel so sorry for Myungsoo and Woohyun though because the greatest grief one can experience is continuing to exist but has ceased to live.)

Thank you so much for making me feel a lot today.
Koyaka #3
This story is beautiful and magic and I love the fact that we don't really know who's Myungsoo. We can imagine who we want him to be, and I did~
It's really sad of course and I cried, but we need stories like that ♥
nicetwomeetyou #4
Chapter 9: Before I tell you which explanation I thought was most sensible, I just wanna say how lovely your style of writing is. I had to mentally prepare myself before reading this because of the comments I saw below. Your first chapter had drawn me in right away and I immediately felt my emotions building up just by reading Sungjong's letter (maybe I've been too invested into fandom lately for my own good). Anyways, I think the explanation that Myungsoo was simply another person would be the most fitting explanation. I think it was merely fate that Myungsoo found Sungjong's letter. After all, Myungsoo had no purpose in life before Sungjong and even when they met at the cafe, it didn't seem as if he had any recollections of Sungjong from the past (everything he knew about the dying boy was from those letters). And the way Woohyun interacted with Myungsoo makes me think that he's sincere and not just an employer-employee relationship (they were mere acquaintances with Sungjong being their only bridge). Myungsoo couldn't be a ghost as well since both Woohyun and Sungjong had seen him in flesh and he has an appartment to return to lol (the fact that he had not been sure about his early life was as I said, due to the fact that he didn't have a purpose). Maybe the person Sungjong remembered was not his childhood friend after all, but really L, who he had have a glimpse of and only memorized his eyes. Like all of my comments on your stories, it's incoherent but I really thank you for this wonderful story, it has definitely got me thinking :)
minsoph74 #5
Chapter 8: wonderful story~ it's beautiful and even though it was a bit sad, it made me feel good- I guess I just like bittersweet things. I'm a little nervous to read ch 9. I'm not sure I've found my own opinion of the whole myungsoo situation happening here hehe so I'll read it later after I've had time to process everything that went on. Either way wonderfully written and unique fic :)
LycheeJelly #6
Chapter 9: I'm going to go with explanation 9 haha. Like you said, there are many possible explanations, although they don't cover everything. Personally I thought 3 was the explanation.

I still have no idea what happened but I enjoyed pondering the possibilities. ^^
lemonboy #7
Chapter 9: Hiya...confusing..
mrsleesungjong #8
I love jongie. thank you for this.
starlight_elk #9
Chapter 9: Hi^^ it was a real pleasure to read everything and I do confess myungsoo was a very mystery till the end for me.

so here is what I believe.

myungsoo is a living person and it is a name coincidence with jongie lost friend.
Thinking of this unknown guy sungjong wrote his love letters and gave them to woohyun.
Because he loves sungjong so much he just did it not really expecting a reply so when he got it he didn't protest.

so why was l confused?
Myungsoo was a lonely person and he was bored and found no interest in anything before jongie. I believe it was not that he was so confuse about being a spirit but more like realizing that before sungjong he was not living just existing. So he asked his self was I really alive? However now the only thing that matter was sungjong so he didn't care because he could left that life behind.
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