Strange

Description

"A freak of nature, stuck in reality."

Lee Junho was a happy child with a very active imagination. His favorite thing to do was play with the colorful smoke-like creatures he saw everywhere. Unfortunately no one else could see them no matter how hard the boy tried. He started drawing the wisps to show his parents and friends what they seemed to be missing. Everyone just put it off as Junho’s imagination. The wisps slowly disappeared as he got older and grew up, focusing on school, sports, and his future as an adult.

Junho forgot all about the colorful creatures until a mysterious boy came to town.



Another fic for the 2pm writing festival. This one is somewhat of an angsty one or two shot that popped into my head while I was writing the TaecKay story. It was inspired by "Strange" by Tokio Hotel and Kerli. (Anyone here an ALIEN at one point?)

The story goes live June 24.

Thanks to 2PM2PM2PM and YuYuan for mastering this great idea. Click the tag for more stories.

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Surprisingly someone nomiated this story for the World of Literature 2014 Fanfiction Award in the Best in Fantasy category. Click on the names for more information. And to whomever nominated me: I am deeply honored you thought so highly of this story. Thank you.

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Homiez
#1
Chapter 2: wao actually i kinda want to write story like this before i read this
anyway you wrote a very good and sweet fic. XD
MeiliBeth #2
Chapter 2: There is a poetic beauty in your writing of this story. So well done!
missterious
#3
Chapter 2: a gorgeous portrait of misfits (so deemed by society, anyway). even before i read it, i had the idea in my head about colors or visions that people see when they are synesthetic (synesthesia is a condition where someone's senses manifest in ways 'normal' people never experience, for example seeing sounds or tasting shapes). the condition is often found in artistic/creative people, so it sort of fits that junho starts seeing the wisps again after meeting the obviously creative and musical minjun.

i like how the wisps defend against taecyeon and send him off in a fury. what minjun said to taec in english in their last altercation was right on, even though you never reveal exactly what was said. (i'm interpreting it as something about taec being gay).

if i saw a man like minjun in the park like junho did, i'd be smitten too. i'm drawn to oddballs with an inner beauty that outshines whatever physical beauty they possess. minjun is obviously a very wise and observant kid, even though he doesn't involve himself with most people.
porotinkay
#4
Chapter 2: wow I am so in awe. beautifully written and so magical.
-Yuan-
#5
Chapter 1: I'm sorry, I'm just in the half of the first chapter. I started reading it today, but liek a billion of tasks had interupted me from reading. But I just had to but tin an already leafe a comment because I am totally in love with your writing style. Omg it so addicting to read, and the way you lined those word next o each other is just .. a lyterary this will be probably one of my favpirte stories of the 2pm fetsival. I mean I love them all and all are amazing. But I just somehow click with the way you used to write and sescribe things and I'm totally curious what will happen next and wha is going to happen and. Ahh just thank you very much and I'm supe rcurious what will be happening and luckily I still have to read some more kkk ♥
will enjoy it and give you feedback later on again <3
2PM2PM2PM
#6
Chapter 2: I seriously love this fiction, and I think it's just all kinds of perfect.

I don't know why, but I always assumed you were a grown up (like 25+), but now I realize I have absolutely no idea... but I want to say that if you are, you did an amazing job at writing a teenage world... it made me really remember how it felt being one (says the old woman lol)... Like you really managed to catch the feeling of it...
(And of course it's also ridiculously well done, even if you're still a teenager)...

And there were just so many things I loved about this story, and I really got the feeling it was based on something in your own life. Maybe it wasn't, but weather it was or not, there is a true ring to this story, some truth, and the reader can feel it...

It was so unique and I loved the way you described the wisps... and even more how you described how junho felt when the wisps were gone. Like how in a way, by taking the pills he was denying a part of himself and could not be fully whole.

Also, I've known some people that went on medication for depression, and other mental illnesses, and their description is a lot like this, at least it reminded me of that... So it works on so many levels...

The story speaks about the courage it takes to be true to oneself, and to accept parts of yourself that are maybe not the way society wants them to be... And it's a great reminder that having someone you can relate to you, accept all of you, is worth more than words can describe.

Maybe what junbros have will develop into something "gay", maybe not, in the end it doesn't really matter, what matter is that they found each other, and have someone to share their most intimate selves with.

So it was Amazing... And I'm absolutely in love with it.

Thank you so much for writing this ♥♥♥♥
Banana_Dreams
#7
Chapter 2: Woaaah~
This Story was sooo unique and interesting *-*

I really loved it and I thought it was really creative :3

Really really awesome :D
And your writing style is also damn gorgeous!
nannakr
#8
Chapter 2: Thank you for this adorably cute story that bordered on being sad and warm at the same time. I´m just grateful that you let the warmth win in the end ^^
GeminiDragon
#9
Chapter 2: Ah such a sad but cute story! It made me cry when Junho became depressed and distant. How cruel people can be it's a shame that people like those described here actually exist!I really enjoyed reading this story! Thank you for writing it!