omg this fic...i had to stop halfway to let it linger a bit more because jin fic is pretty rare and I LOVE HIM INTENSELY so jin fic with great characterization is a gift meant to be treasured
and the point is i like what you did with him here! i like that his voice is very practical, which is something i associate with jin. he's aware of his shortcomings and where he stands. and i really like that you went a bit into his acting backstory, where he came from. and your j-hope is good too. i think when looking at j-hope when he's not, you know, on it could be easy to be kind of overwrought or angsty about it, but the way you presented his insecurities feels very natural and realistic.
echoing what the commenter above me said, i think this is a great companion to their scenes in AHL, you provide some of the emotional context for their scenes and i feel like i could look at any of these scenes as outtakes from their lives, it fits them well.
oblig quotes:
It’s late and Hoseok’s eyes are droopy, the skin under them puffy and coloured with exertion, and they look at Seokjin like there could not possibly be a worse time to be asking this. He wants to be convincing, since he’s all Hoseok’s got for this evaluation, even if he’s nothing to the dancer yet. In Seokjin’s heart, he is still an actor, but he can’t really say who he’s trying to fool now. i feel like i need to apologize to jin about how stoked i was on j-hope's frustration with him in this fic but I LOVE IT glare at him some more!!!
Nice doesn't get him recognition. Nice doesn't help him improve in the areas he's lacking. Nice is a cover-up for the constant ripple of muscles responding falsely to repetitions in a routine he should know by now. Nice is being the injured ligament for which the body learns to compensate—the weak link in Hoseok's otherwise flawless structure. I LOVE THIS METAPHOR i love this description of jin (again i feel like i should apologize to jin himself)
He’s still careful. He has to remind himself other people are fragile, sometimes, even people who do not look it. !!!!
thank you for writing this pairing, you have my eternal gratitude ♥
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and the point is i like what you did with him here! i like that his voice is very practical, which is something i associate with jin. he's aware of his shortcomings and where he stands. and i really like that you went a bit into his acting backstory, where he came from. and your j-hope is good too. i think when looking at j-hope when he's not, you know, on it could be easy to be kind of overwrought or angsty about it, but the way you presented his insecurities feels very natural and realistic.
echoing what the commenter above me said, i think this is a great companion to their scenes in AHL, you provide some of the emotional context for their scenes and i feel like i could look at any of these scenes as outtakes from their lives, it fits them well.
oblig quotes:
It’s late and Hoseok’s eyes are droopy, the skin under them puffy and coloured with exertion, and they look at Seokjin like there could not possibly be a worse time to be asking this. He wants to be convincing, since he’s all Hoseok’s got for this evaluation, even if he’s nothing to the dancer yet. In Seokjin’s heart, he is still an actor, but he can’t really say who he’s trying to fool now. i feel like i need to apologize to jin about how stoked i was on j-hope's frustration with him in this fic but I LOVE IT glare at him some more!!!
Nice doesn't get him recognition. Nice doesn't help him improve in the areas he's lacking. Nice is a cover-up for the constant ripple of muscles responding falsely to repetitions in a routine he should know by now. Nice is being the injured ligament for which the body learns to compensate—the weak link in Hoseok's otherwise flawless structure. I LOVE THIS METAPHOR i love this description of jin (again i feel like i should apologize to jin himself)
He’s still careful. He has to remind himself other people are fragile, sometimes, even people who do not look it. !!!!
thank you for writing this pairing, you have my eternal gratitude ♥