[fic commentary] remember me
Dec. 4th, 2023 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestdaythe first line i wrote for this fic was: tell me, will they remember us?
this line didnt even make it to the final story but i think it encapsulates the vibes that i wanted from a fic like this. i first thought of this line because of a chapter of the children of the whales by abi umeda. its basically a manga about an exiled tribe with powers (cursed to die early bc of this) who begin to be hunted down by the order of the emperor that exiled them 90 yrs ago. the mc is the archivist of the mud whale in which they live on. in this chapter nothing of note happens and it had no bearing to the main plotline at all but it truly was everything to me. they meet a man climbing an endless tower in an attempt to reverse time to when his kingdom wasn't destroyed because he is the last person to know of his kingdom. the mc though tells him he'll remember and he does. The two pages im showing you now are from chapter 22 and the left one is page 38 and the right one is page 40.
LIKE???????? he's entrusting himself and his memory to a complete stranger, trusts that his story will be told, trusts that he, his kingdom, and everyone he has loved wont be forgotten.
anyways this was basically the reason i wanted to write this fic and the reason why i settled with a ghost exorcism story. Who else would desire so much to be remembered than someone forgotten?
a lot of this story is about memories all dahyun does and all her actions are focused on the ghost remembering how to be human. She offers them tea, gives them her warmth, talks to them, makes them remember for themselves first. dahyun uses her own memory to make the ghost remember who they are. i think sincerity is a big part of this. if dahyun isnt sincere, the ghost would not feel anything from dahyun's words and will just continue with mimicing without understanding the reason why or what it means. names are another important factor, and now that i think about it i should have made dahyun introduce herself asfhjakdf.
this was actually going to be quite a different fic at first. it was going to be a dahyo with differing philosophies on how to do the job with a dead tzuyu as the centre of it all. dahyun who was forced to take her life and now refuses to do it ever again vs jihyo who wasnt able to do it and vows to always be the person who can and will. i can potentially work with this in the future but for now dahyun lives her life helping out ghosts.
this line didnt even make it to the final story but i think it encapsulates the vibes that i wanted from a fic like this. i first thought of this line because of a chapter of the children of the whales by abi umeda. its basically a manga about an exiled tribe with powers (cursed to die early bc of this) who begin to be hunted down by the order of the emperor that exiled them 90 yrs ago. the mc is the archivist of the mud whale in which they live on. in this chapter nothing of note happens and it had no bearing to the main plotline at all but it truly was everything to me. they meet a man climbing an endless tower in an attempt to reverse time to when his kingdom wasn't destroyed because he is the last person to know of his kingdom. the mc though tells him he'll remember and he does. The two pages im showing you now are from chapter 22 and the left one is page 38 and the right one is page 40.
LIKE???????? he's entrusting himself and his memory to a complete stranger, trusts that his story will be told, trusts that he, his kingdom, and everyone he has loved wont be forgotten.
anyways this was basically the reason i wanted to write this fic and the reason why i settled with a ghost exorcism story. Who else would desire so much to be remembered than someone forgotten?
a lot of this story is about memories all dahyun does and all her actions are focused on the ghost remembering how to be human. She offers them tea, gives them her warmth, talks to them, makes them remember for themselves first. dahyun uses her own memory to make the ghost remember who they are. i think sincerity is a big part of this. if dahyun isnt sincere, the ghost would not feel anything from dahyun's words and will just continue with mimicing without understanding the reason why or what it means. names are another important factor, and now that i think about it i should have made dahyun introduce herself asfhjakdf.
this was actually going to be quite a different fic at first. it was going to be a dahyo with differing philosophies on how to do the job with a dead tzuyu as the centre of it all. dahyun who was forced to take her life and now refuses to do it ever again vs jihyo who wasnt able to do it and vows to always be the person who can and will. i can potentially work with this in the future but for now dahyun lives her life helping out ghosts.
