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Guys, I crave a really long, well written ANGSTY love triangle fic between Yuji, Nobara, and Megumi it's not even FUNNY. Here's my little dabble at it. I might make a full fic :3
Not proofread!!!
Trios never work
“Why are you so cold to me, Meg..? I just want to talk to you.” Nobara whispers in a cracking voice.
Megumi feels anger swirl in his gut. He hates how she's making herself out to be the victim when she's the one torturing him. Dragging him around for whatever sick and twisted reason. She has Yuji wrapped around her finger, and she wants to rub it all in his face.
“You just want me to listen.” he snapped, not phased by the sad look in her eyes.
Her mouth gaped open, and she looked like a fish gasping out of water. Her throat squeezed tight, making getting words out so much more difficult.
“No..no that's not what I want, Meg I-”
“Stop calling me that for fucks sake Nobara!” He cut her off.
“You trying to include me in this fucked up trio makes me sick, everytime i hear that dumb nickname I want to rip my ears off!”
His teeth bared as he yelled furiously at her. He took a deep breath, rolling his shoulders as he backed up. His voice lowered now as he continued to speak. “You are so insufferable. If you don't realize that, you really are stupid.”
Her lips trembled, fat tears streaming down her face as she stared at him with wide eyes. Eyes full of confusion and hurt. She was hurt he felt that way, and she would rather die than make him feel that way.
“Meg-gumi I'm so sorry. Did you feel left out? Unwanted? I don't understand, I really tried to include you,” she sniffled.
He scoffed, his curled lips full of irritation.
“You really just don't get it, That's the problem, Nobara.”
Her brows furrowed, and she looked completely lost. That ticked him off.
“You try to include me when you and Yuji are already all over each other. I'm not needed, and yet you still want me around. Does that not seem cruel to you?” He asked with a tilt of his head.
Her heart stopped. Her lips formed a deep frown as she began to shake her head slowly. Her eyes squeezed shut as tears forced their way out from behind her lids.
“No that's not what.. I would never… Megumi, I like you! I like you, that's why I always—” she bit her lip, looking down as the tears blurred and warped her vision, “—that's why I always tried to involve you..”
Usually, when she says something she's been longing to, it feels like a weight was lifted. This time, though, she felt the weight multiply. It clung to her like a curse, something dreadful. The air was just as heavy. She could barely breathe. Her lungs wouldn't open up all the way, even though she just opened herself up to him.
He stared at her with angry brows but shocked eyes. He never considered this. He always thought she liked Yuji and didn't care about him. Was he really that oblivious? He didn't notice it when she'd always beg to do his makeup when she'd drag him to try desserts, to go anywhere with her. All the memories suddenly rushed into his head, wracking around in a painful manner. He squeezed his nose bridge as the skin between his brows crinkled.
He didn't know what to say, how to go about this.
“I'm…I'm sorry.” He ran his fingers through his hair, revealing more of his face.
“I imagine I don't seem so desirable now.” He whispered.
Nobara blinked away a few more tears. She sniffled before smiling.
“No, you can't sway me that easily.” She said, trying to lighten the mood.
This just made the pang of guilt in Megumi's chest grow. It was like the feeling itself had tendrils and was digging deeper inside him.
“Nobara. I'm sorry, but I can't forge false feelings.”
She bit the inside of her cheek so hard just so she wouldn't cry. She nodded with a smile.
“No, I understand. Don't worry about it.” She assured him.
He hesitantly nodded.
“Sorry for making things awkward between us,” she muttered.
“Don't be sorry.”
She smiled weakly before walking off.
hey so i’ve never written a story before, but me and my friend wanted to write a made up story ab her, her ex bf, and a guy in his friend group that’s in love with him.
the plan for the story is Luis (the friend) is madly obsessed and in love with Matthew (the bf (now ex)). however, Matt is still dating Gabi (my friend) so Luis’ hate for her just keeps growing. the story is gonna be mostly in his pov with the occasional Gabi or Matt. he’s just gonna be slowly going crazy over their relationship and start trying to break them up. eventually, they do break up (bc of something Luis said or the irl reason, we r still thinking) which Luis is VERY happy about. BUT!! Matthew doesn’t want Luis. That’s were the story ends (we might do a sequel lol) pure angst, no happy ending for anyone.
this story is COMPLETELY made up, but yes we will be sending the whole friend group the final story dw 😌
anyway, I was just coming on here to ask for tips on writing and if anyone would be interested in reading it lol
k thanks love ya ❤️
Jean : Do you mind if I slyly mention to Logan that we're poly now?
Scott : Do not do that.
Jean : You won’t even notice!
Logan, entering the room : Jeany, you wanted to see me?
Jean : Scott and I are starting an open relationship, we want to add someone to our relationship!
Scott very embarrassed : JEAN!
Logan :
Logan visibly lost : ...Okay?
Charles enjoying the show :
Love Triangles & Tropes
I have to talk about love triangles for a moment and it is all Light on Me’s fault.
Most BLs don’t employ true love triangles. Instead they throw in a faen fatal as a plot device who is obviously not a real threat to the main couple for various reasons:
They’re an underdeveloped character with little back story.
They’re the wrong gender.
They enter late in the narrative and/or have very little screen time.
They engage in no significant romance tropes with the lead.
With a faen fatal we all know that our two boys will end up together.
A love triangle is different.
In a love triangle the audience actually believes the second lead has a good chance of winning over the main character. The second lead is given back story, is the correct gender to be competition, and has significant screen time. And, of course, tropes are used to make the burgeoning romance believable.
Guess who is great on love triangles and even better at giving audiences bad cases of Second Lead Syndrome?
Why yes, that would be Korea.
When I posted about Korea’s history with BL, I talked about how strategic and clever they are with tropes. I think this is one of the reasons they are so good at believable love triangles.
But so far they haven’t given us a love triangle in BL… until NOW.
Light on Me is the Perfect Love Triangle
For the purposes of argument (and because of various elements like the lingering gaze, romance narrative conceits, focus of the camera lens etc) I am going to go with the following:
TaeKyung = our POV or main character (uke*)
ShinWoo = Lead (seme)
DaOn = Second Lead (seme)
* In addition to specializing in soft low heat BL, Korea likes a slow burn romance and a weak seme/uke dynamic. So we are going back to the original definition of uke: basically the character the others are pursuing and want to take care of.
Light on Me is using heavy hitting BL tropes to weight TaeKyung’s options fairly. Almost every time the director doles out one significant trope to SinWoo they will then give the same trope to DaOn or vise versa. It’s so smart and fun to watch I started keeping score.
Crash Into Me AKA Proximity Alert
(Camera then shows ShinWoo watching this, when it’s a trope he already got to have with TaeKyung.)
Messy Eater
(Camera then shows DaOn watching this, when it’s a trope he already got to have with TaeKyung.)
Meet Me In The Library
Head Touch
(Honestly I am Team ShinWoo solely based on this neck grab.)
Wound Tending
Light on Me is a master class in how to use tropes to manipulate audience sympathy so they can’t decide which pairing they prefer. Basically, this is how you infect fans with Second Lead Syndrome. It’s SO GOOD.
Also, did you notice how they spaced this flip-flopping out at first, but then it got closer together? Crash into me with seme 1 then not with seme 2 until a few episodes later. But as the series progresses and the tension increases, the same trope for one seme comes closer in time to the same trope for the other seme, until finally at the end of episode 8, both semes want to wound tend TaeKyung in the same scene! Which mean’s this show is also pacing its tropes to amp up love triangle tension.
This is clever enough to be mind boggling. I can’t even.
On the other hand, they will dole out specific tropes to each seme (that the other one doesn’t get to have). So ShinWoo got to tie the shoelaces. But DaOn loaned the umbrella. SinWoo gets to grab and physically demonstrate interest. DaOn gets to flirt and verbally indicate interest.
Partly this is because TaeKyung is on an enemies-to-lovers arc with SinWoo, but on a friends-to-lovers arc with DaOn (see True Beauty). But also it’s because the two semes are very different personalities.
Similarly the narrative parcels out TaeKyung’s responses accordingly.
So TaeKyung collar grab’s SinWoo. This is a trope that is always uke to seme in an agro relationship, because when an uke acts aggressively you know something is going down. It’s commonly used to give uke agency for the first kiss (see We Best Love). TaeKyung also rescues ShinWoo from bullies and gets hurt in the process, another aggressive move with relation to this particular seme and more common in enemies to lovers (see PeteKao in the Kiss series).
Since DaOn is on a friends to lovers track, TaeKyung is a lot softer with him.
In fact TaeKyung keeps trying to take care of DaOn, and even performs some seme acts of service (even though he’s the uke character), which is Korea being unbelievably clever with their love triangle. I mean how can we not root for them as a couple?
Look, I’ve seen the seatbelt trope a million times but only PeteKao have ever flipped it so far as I can recall, and that’s just because Pete keeps getting beaten tf up. This is the kind of proprietary behavior (see also buckling on a safety helmet) only performed by seme on uke.
Also TaeKyung took care of DaOn when he was sick, remotely, but still he used the umbrella to tell DaOn who was doing it. This is playing with the idea of mutual responsibility and partnership which is very unusual in BL, and makes me like them as a couple all the more because they act on an equal footing. Mutual care is adorable. (See Oxygen for more of this kind of exchange.)
The interesting thing about DaOn as a second lead is that we know more about his back story than we do our mains. We know he is a neglected child, a people pleaser, and the ultimate caregiver. We watch him fall in love with TaeKyung because TaeKyung is the first person to give DaOn care back. Of course he wants to hold onto that. Also it makes DaOn very very VERY sympathetic to watchers.
It got bad enough in episode 8 that I begin to wonder, despite all the many narrative clues, if DaOn actually might win TaeKyung in the end.
See what I mean?
Second Lead Syndrome!
I know this has been a praise post, but flipping heck do I hate a love triangle. Because ARGH I want them both!
Bravo, Korea.
Don't mind the random edits
Star Fruit Lovers 4! finally got this done! now I will work on Pucca!
Can't wait to keep working on this! thank you guy's for waiting for so long and yes it will take me sometime to get pucca out but I will soon!
Here are the links for the first 3 pages! this to me longer then expected to get the links to looks like this not sure why but here we are!
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