oh my god???????? the way this starts out dark and gets darker, the pervasiveness of the atmosphere... it's so good you're SO good. the steady progression of terror, until wonwoo is kissing seungcheol with his "dead lips" and and for one moment Seungcheol knows that his skin is going to rip, the meat of his throat torn away, hot blood on a cold night — jesus CHRIST.
and then “What I did. To you.” Guilt bubbles up, sick and hot in Seungcheol’s gut. A secret he’s told no one but the bathroom tiles he used to press his face against. Fear and time have flayed the memories. Sometimes Seungcheol thinks it was nothing more than a kiss. A few touches, some presses. Other times he dreams himself holding Wonwoo down. Wonwoo stiff-faced with fear. Wonwoo would always do whatever Seungcheol had told him to do. this entire paragraph made me want to crawl out of my own skin oh my god it's SO unpleasant, the ambiguity about what actually happened -- whether seungcheol really did something wrong back then or if his anxiety has twisted it into something it wasn't. that combined with the other mentions of seungcheol's childhood really made something cold settle in my gut as i read, the mundanity of his horrible memories combined with the supernatural terror of whatever wonwoo is. i think the best way to write something really chilling and horrifying is to leave as much unspoken as stated, and you did SUCH a good job with that here. you're always so good at characters and mood and this was definitely a solid example of that. thank you so much for sharing this with us!!!
Re: [FILL] out of the woods
and then “What I did. To you.” Guilt bubbles up, sick and hot in Seungcheol’s gut. A secret he’s told no one but the bathroom tiles he used to press his face against. Fear and time have flayed the memories. Sometimes Seungcheol thinks it was nothing more than a kiss. A few touches, some presses. Other times he dreams himself holding Wonwoo down. Wonwoo stiff-faced with fear. Wonwoo would always do whatever Seungcheol had told him to do. this entire paragraph made me want to crawl out of my own skin oh my god it's SO unpleasant, the ambiguity about what actually happened -- whether seungcheol really did something wrong back then or if his anxiety has twisted it into something it wasn't. that combined with the other mentions of seungcheol's childhood really made something cold settle in my gut as i read, the mundanity of his horrible memories combined with the supernatural terror of whatever wonwoo is. i think the best way to write something really chilling and horrifying is to leave as much unspoken as stated, and you did SUCH a good job with that here. you're always so good at characters and mood and this was definitely a solid example of that. thank you so much for sharing this with us!!!