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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
"What is grief, if not love persevering?"
"You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath"
Calling all readers, lovers of poetry and music, screen and stage. Quote collecters and lyric hoarders, unleash your archive. Each prompt must contain a quote - you can combine them, add commentary, link to articles, and more. Steal from a literary classic, or WeVerse drama. Have fun!
Examples
Minghao + Ocean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
Ocean Vuong - night sky with exit wounds
Hoshi/Anyone; "Beauty is terror"
Thinking about these two quotes together and the idea of on/off-stage personas:
"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful we tremble before it. And what could be more terrifying or beautiful, to the Greeks to to our own, than to lose control completely?" - Donna Tartt, the Secret Histories
"I am calm in everyday life but when I put on my in-ear device and step on stage, I can feel the tension and hear the cheers getting louder as the music gets louder. When the staff tells me it's time to step on stage, I feel something boil inside me. I feel it steaming inside and I think I have to give a burst of something, spill what is inside me." - Hoshi in Hit the Road Ep. 04
Any ship; "It's been so many years"
Hello, hello there, is this Martha?
This is old Tom Frost
And I am calling long distance
Don't worry 'bout the cost.
'Cause it's been forty years or more
Now Martha please recall
Meet me out for coffee
Where we'll talk about it all.
Tom Watts - Martha
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Major Tags: grief, driving
Additional Tags: something you weren’t supposed to witness, the strongest person in your life at their most vulnerable
Do Not Wants: none
Prompt:
[FILL] may it rise to meet your feet
Major Tags: MCD!!!!!!!
Additional Tags: funerals, survivors guilt, implied suicidal ideation
Permission to remix: Please ask
***
The fact that it ends up the two of them is….well. Vernon doesn’t really have the words for it.
He and Seungcheol had been out on schedules at the same time without the others. The label wanted them to work on a song together. Typical.
Everyone else had been at the dorm. There was a wiring issue, the managers had told them later. Something installed incorrectly, left on for too long. Vernon isn’t sure. He can’t remember much besides the charred out skeleton of the dorm building. Hot and fast, was what a fireman said. It burned hot and fast.
*
The cloying smell of new leather seats makes Vernon sick. The car feels like it’s inching forward in traffic and Vernon’s seatbelt digs into his neck. Seungcheol sits next to him, fists clenched on his thighs and looking pale. He’s looked pale for the past week.
Vernon has no idea what he looks like. He’s avoided all the mirrors.
They put them up in a hotel, even though they both have their own apartments. It’s for their safety, or something, so paparazzi and journalists don’t camp outside and harass them. Their rooms have a door that conjoins them. Vernon can hear Seungcheol sobbing through it at night.
*
This is the fifth funeral of the week. The company floated the idea of a joint operation — eleven funerals seemed like too much, even more so considering everyone would be cremated. The idea of eleven urns all in a row with everyone’s families standing at the front at the same time felt a little too ridiculous.
Jeonghan was first. Then Soonyoung. Jihoon, Wonwoo. Today is Joshua. Tomorrow, Mingyu.
Seungcheol hasn’t looked anywhere except down at his feet or somewhere at the back of the room. Vernon isn’t sure he’s completely there, to be honest. He hasn’t looked a single person in the eye, just slightly bows his head as the next person comes up to bow to them.
That feels weird, too. Wrong. Were they family? It felt like it felt like it sometimes. All of the time.
Vernon grabs Seungcheol’s hand. He doesn’t let go.
*
“I’m sorry,” Seungcheol says in the car a few days later. It’s Seungkwan’s ceremony today, and Vernon feels disconnected from every single part of his body. It’s like he’s somewhere beside himself, floating, watching. But when he talks, his body makes the sound.
“For what?” he asks. Seungcheol squeezes his hand. Vernon isn’t sure when he grabbed it. He isn’t sure he ever let go.
“I should have — We should have come back when you wanted to.”
Vernon blinks, considers. He must mean the night of the fire. Seungkwan had messaged him about dinner, saying they were all ordering and didn’t they want to join? Seungcheol had been antsy, though, wanted to nail down a verse so Vernon told them to go on. His last message from Seungkwan is just “ok” and a heart emoji.
The car brakes. Vernon slams back into his body.
“Hyung,” he says, startled at how close his own voice sounds. “If we had gone back…”
Seungcheol won’t look at him.
“Do you think we could have saved them?” he asks. The thought is wretched, something Vernon hasn’t yet considered. Could they have done anything?
“No,” Seungcheol says, staring out the window. “Probably not.”
Vernon doesn’t ask what he means. He knows.
The car starts moving again.
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right from the get-go "it burned hot and fast" EXTREMELY vivid and fucked
vernon not knowing how to deal with any of it -- his own grief or seungcheol's -- felt super realistic and of course incredibly awful, the way he's like playing catch-up to seungcheol's feelings, kind of??? vernon isn't the kind of person to have an immediate emotional response and you translated that so well here.
seungcheol apologizing for not going back, knowing what that would have meant.... OOF. OOF OOF OOF. the way it took vernon a second to get it bc he doesn't have the same thought processes... ANOTHER HARD OOF. seungkwan's last message to vernon being "ok" and a heart.... wretched !
this was so brutal and difficult to read but executed so, so well. you're so good at this ♡
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