Comment on Starting Over

  1. sadpinkchameleon Thu 25 Jul 2024 11:29PM UTC

    I was reading this last night at 1:30 am like "WAKE UP EVERYBODY PRESENT MOM POSTED ANOTHER ATSUSHI BANGER 🗣🗣"
    Anyway.
    There's so much I loved about this but I don't want to make this comment like 12000 words, so I'll just say that as usual, the way you write Atsushi's trauma is SO fucking good, the hard process of healing that isn't solved when people are just nice to him, the struggle with touch, all of it is so real. In the same vein, you always write Atsushi's relationships wonderfully; the way everyone has different relationships with Atsushi (really loved the Junichiro and manipulative Kenji ones, those r his besties fr) but they're all consistent in caring about him even when he doesn't know how to react.
    The explanation for why now was great and felt really natural both as a question that needed asking and as an in character and reasonable explanation.
    I've had food struggles before too (mostly for medical reasons) and this fic really resonated bc my friends checked in on me in the same way.
    Did I cry at the end? Maybe a little. Gr8 fic again, thanks for the food 💛🤌

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    1. Present_Mom Fri 26 Jul 2024 04:23AM UTC

      🥺🥺🥺🫶🫶🫶🫶
      (But also please try to get some rest? 😭😭😭)

      I'm so so so glad you like the way that I write Atsushi's trauma! I'm always trying to keep it true to canon, while also trying to keep it a little realistic (as realistic as BSD could be *looks at current manga chapters*)

      Atsushi is definitely the type to go "wdym? (: I'm perfectly fine (: nothing wrong to be seen here! (: (: (:" whenever it's about himself, because being different was being WRONG in the orphanage. A few kind words and a place to stay isn't going to fix that overnight.

      Atsushi's best friends are fr Jun'ichirō and Kenji, even if he hasn't realized it yet! I think he has some inkling now though~

      Atsushi was a lil miffed 🤭 having food forced down his throat and being taken care of now, it's definitely a weird feeling, so he could only grumble about TIMING, and Jun'ichirō answering seemed more real than Naomi

      Aww, I'm so glad you have good friends! 🫶🫶🫶

      I'm glad you enjoyed it so much!!! 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶

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