to be left with memories of a burning home
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“Sometimes, it’s just… so hard. Being not-human.” She confesses quietly, for his ears only, as if Ms Chu and the others would come home earlier than promised. “I would never trade it for anything in the world, of course, but… sometimes, I just feel like being a Counter is all I have, and it’s not even mine. Not fully.”
(or, alternatively, the one where do ha-na wants to restart with park do-hwi.)
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She remembered waking up alone in bed, a woman with windswept curly hair barging into the crowded hospital room.
“Do Ha-na?” She said with a gentle smile on her face, something akin to pity stretching in her eyes. “Oh my, you’re so young.” Maybe she thinks Ha-na wouldn’t hear her, but she did, and it made her flush, body instinctively retreating back into the bed. “Ah, nevermind that. I’m Chu Mae-ok. Jang-mul already handled your paperwork, so we can go home now, if you’d like. I’ll cook food for you there—anything you want.”
Ms Chu was just so—so good. She made Ha-na feel at home, at ease, in both her own newly-living skin and in her new place of residence. She was like her mother in all but blood.
(or, alternatively, the one where do ha-na discovers what her powers are.)
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love, come in (the water is fine) by venusperia
Fandoms: 경이로운 소문 | The Uncanny Counter (TV)
09 Sep 2023
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Ha-na lets out a soft chuckle. Nothing is funny, but somehow, everything is. She breaks out into uncontrollable giggles, with pinpricks of tears just on the verge of falling. Her hand leaves his cheek and covers her face. “Sorry, I don’t know why I’m laughing.”
To her surprise, Mun laughs too. A little thing, not like the ones he shares with everyone else. “It’s okay. Me neither.”
For a while, they just are.
(or, alternatively, do ha-na pushing so mun's memories back into his head may have had some unintended consequences.)
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these desperate prayers of a cursed man by venusperia
Fandoms: 경이로운 소문 | The Uncanny Counter (TV)
08 Oct 2023
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She couldn’t save Ha-yeong from the fall of their parents, but she’ll be damned if she couldn’t save her from this.
The door breaks down, Ha-na is too out of it to panic. Hands clutch her arms and her ears ring.
Eyes unfocused, dilated pupils. She hears someone say while a light shines in her eyes. Too low, too masculine to be Ha-yeong. He says a name, and someone else spurs into action. Ha-yeong’s voice is far away now. They must’ve taken her somewhere else. That’s good.
Before she goes, she gets one last view of her savior, the man who saved Ha-yeong from Ha-na. He’ll be the last face she’ll ever see.
Ha-na cried in Wi-gen’s arms for what seemed like forever. Her words echoed in her head, at the cost of your own life, you saved that little girl. You saved your sister.
(or, alternatively, the one where do ha-yeong lives, and do ha-na becomes a counter four years after she falls into a coma.)
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There’s an easy smile on her lips when she places the phone back down and looks into Mun’s eyes once more. They’re radiant, as they perpetually are, but it’s a subdued kind of glow. Like he’s looking at her and realizing, finally, that she’s not something his mind made up in the midst of his own grief.
“I love you.” He says to her.
“I love you too.” She tells him.
(or, alternatively, the sequel to love, come in (the water is fine))
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Do Ha-na.
I’m in love with you. In every life. In every version of you. So long as your soul exists, mine will follow.
(or, alternatively, so mun and do ha-na find each other, all the time, always.)
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It’s a complicated thing to have a heart that beats. Or, no, maybe a better way to say it is that it’s complicated to have a heart that beats for someone. How do you deal with that? How can you make peace with the fact that your blood pumps, not because of human survival or some other rational bullshit, but because of something as devastatingly frail as love?
You don’t. Maybe that’s the answer. You just let love keep you alive, and force your veins to keep going when love proves to be an unstable methodology.
And then what? What happens thereafter?
Nothing. You deal. You won’t die, but fuck if it doesn’t feel like you are.
(or, alternatively, so mun gets a haircut while in greece, and things kind of spiral from there.)
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we weren't meant for each other and it's fine by venusperia
Fandoms: 경이로운 소문 | The Uncanny Counter (TV)
22 Oct 2023
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After all, how could I be in love with someone I was always insanely jealous of?
(or, alternatively, the tragic ballad of do ha-na and park do-hwi, as well as the pleasant reprise of them.)
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the subtle act of moving forward by venusperia
Fandoms: 경이로운 소문 | The Uncanny Counter (TV), 지금 우리 학교는 | All of Us Are Dead (TV)
02 Nov 2023
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“There are hundreds of kids in that school right now. Some of them are as young as eleven years old.” Gi-ran meets their eyes individually, leveling them with a gaze they can’t quite pinpoint. U-sik takes her clenched hand from the surface of the table and tries to comfort her. Gi-ran softens, somewhat. “Don’t let them down.”
Suddenly, the team felt like this was more personal for her than missions usually were.
So, with unwavering confidence, Mun says, “We won’t.”
(or, alternatively, evil spirits are steadily on the rise in the small, quiet town of hyosan.)
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