#Mountain to No One

[thek1ngtalks]

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⭐ Director's Commentory⭐

Both MTN pls!

....and then you'll be forgiven for the long wait of chapter 3 <3

Thanks for the food!

WARNINGS: Spoilers for chp3 of MtN! And certified Yapping on my behalf.

Okay so for 🌧️:

Suho read somewhere, once, that Americans love to move. It's in their blood, the desire to drift. He has no clue what this means for him, now. 

If Americans crave change, then South Koreans crave stability. But where does Akatrina fall in all this? What happens to men split in half? He is a man of habit, he is a creature of eternity. He is doomed to change, dealing in all things finite and ending.

He doesn’t know how to live in a state of change. Parts of his mind forever spiraling in a singular moment. Yet he’s drawn to finding something that won’t shift when his feet land. He does not know how not to shake the platform. He’s struggling to find a stable ground but the floor is creaking, the walls are wailing. His rocking tips the scales.

There is an open sky above him, bleeding red with bubbling black clouds. The clouds hang heavy in the sky, faces screaming and cursing his existence.

There is a sky above him and no ground below.

So he falls,

⭐ Director's Commentory⭐

so i really want to talk about MtN's first scene with Aria and Oliver (the mother and son (corn demon))

Something about his mother was held in Aria’s unfamiliar eyes, in the slope of her nose, and in the gentle hand she cards through her son’s hair. Something about the way she cried, glass teardrops on delicate features, over her son’s feverish body that felt like pieces of his own mother preserved. Something about the way he knew her, in moments he can’t quite connect, like an outsider watching his own life recontextualized.  

I think this was one of the scenes I liked the most that chapter as well as the one scene i had to rewrite the most (my poor beta reader TT)

so essentially the setting is just "mom and son come to Hajin for help" but I really wanted to expand on Hajin's general wistful vibes and the pain he's been dealing with over his parents literally the entire novel

Aria isn't his mom. I didn't really want to just say "she looks exactly like his mom" even thought it kinda comes a cross that way? a little? but its moreso Hajin searching for any small similarities Aria might share with his mom, being nostalgic about what he is now missing

he is taking her bare features and actions and applying his own history on it. trying to grieve in the only way he's able to

Fundamentally, she is someone she knows and yet doesn't. He is watching his childhood through the lens of someone else's.

His mother has been fundamentally dead since the beginning. He will never see her again, never hug her or hold her hand or collect her ashes. he wishes he could though.

something about his mother. something about all mothers. in the gentleness of a brushing hand and the pain of worried tears.

Sorry, I have a Complex about my mother and projected, whoops.

Anyways, yeah, i just liked writing that scene even if it was probably needlessly vague and also too specific.

I HAVE EARNED FORGIVENESS!!! yippeee!

[thek1ngtalks]

i have to rewrite the entirety of chapter 3 of MtNo cuz i was rereading the tower of wish chapters and found a forgotten plot device and it threw my whole chapter outline off because I HAVE to use it. but now we have jin sahyuk and more introspection than intended so that's good, right?

[thek1ngtalks]

Lemme get down to business~~

So ur Mountain to No One has been consuming my mind on and off for like, a couple of months by now, so!!

Do u mind fanart?? It'll probs b posted on ao3 rather than tumblr. (Also left a comment there if u want a more in depth look at a reader losing their mind over fanfic)

!!!! Sorry I'm gonna go a little insane cuz of this ask but!!! Holy shit!!! I would 100% die if you made fanart but also please please do!!! Also your handle is just. So real.

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[thek1ngtalks]

Mountain to No One - Chapter 2

ITS OUT ITS OUT ITS OUT and its 14k words :D

It begins like this: Kim Hajin is stitching a bleeding forehead back together when his phone pings. In a scenario of crisis, he doesn't stop stitching for an impossible noise. But 10 minutes later, that same impossible noise. His throat squeezes with hope, his heart seems to scream 'finally'. It does not, truthfully, end there. But it feels like it when he opens the texts, searching for something that isn't there. It is a text, technically to him, but not for him. Still, still. Hajin presses his lips to his smartwatch, mouthing his words desperately. 'I will take what I can get.'

Or, a chapter in Hajin's POV. Past and present.