Voglia di equilibrio

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Author: ANONYMOUS
Prompt #: 53
Title:Voglia di equilibrio
Word Counts:14K
Side Pairing(s):None
Rating:PG-13
Warning(s): implied sex scene, not written
Disclaimer: The celebrities' names/images are merely borrowed and do not represent who the celebrities are in real life. No offense is intended towards them, their families or friends. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. No money is being made from this fictional work. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: In order to escape Seoul and his life, Baekhyun buys on impulse a ticket to Italy. He doesn’t know what to expect from a country he doesn’t know. He has to face the language barrier, his fears and the loneliness. Yet, on his first day, he meets Chanyeol, a busker playing the guitar in the streets of Rome, who soon becomes his tour guide. Baekhyun discovers Italy thanks to Chanyeol, but struggles to forget what happened in Seoul.
Author's Note: Thanks to the mods for being awesome. Thanks to J, S and C(even if you're not in this fandom), you've listened to me whine and have also helped a lot. OP, I fail at comedy, but at least you get to see Italy through Baekhyun and Chanyeol’s eyes. I hope you enjoy that. I was gonna make a playlist, but I couldn´t. The name’s taken from Estate by Negramaro, so I suggest listening to the full album while reading, Mentre Tutto Scorre

(Voglia di equilibrio)

Comments

[eterninitys.livejournal.com]

Hello :)

First of all, I'd like to thank you for writing this beautiful piece of writing. It's so great you have no idea how much I love roadtrip!AU ;A; And to think that the scenes are set in Italy is just xDDDDDD Your style of describing is A++++. It's incredible. It's like I really get to see how Italy looks like by only reading this ;; You must have visited all these places a lot of times considering the fact that you explained every single detail abt the places very carefully (OR ARE YOU FROM THERE OMG). I learned a lot about Italy just by reading this and you even mentioned so many places in Italy and now I'm dying to go there one day hdskfhdk I rly want to see the Fontana di Trevi, Piazza di Spagna (I keep thinking of pizzas when I read this word I'm sorry :( and other Piazzas), VENICE!!!!! (omg I've heard a lot of great stuff from this place alone) and a lot of other places that you've mentioned in the fic! AND LOOK AT ALL THEM FOOD XDDDDDDDDDDDD This is so amazing I just want to reread everything and cry thinking that it might take me years to finally visit these beautiful places :<

Anyways, this story is so so so realistic in a good way. The problems they both are facing are understandable. I mean, they were not exaggeratedly written like most of the fics I've read. Busker!Chanyeol is always hot :((((((((((((( AND HE EVEN SPEAKS SIMPLE ITALIAN OHGODS. IMAGINE. CHANYEOL. SAYS. GRAZIE. IM BYE.

I like the scene where Chanyeol is disappointed in Baekhyun when the latter kept playing with his phone when he is supposed to focus on his vacation and enjoy. I get that this trip is a memorable moment for Chanyeol and he doesn't want anything else to ruin the mood especially stuff at work. And also, how his expression changes when he notices that Baekhyun hates zucchinis. They are all reasonable and I like that ;A; This story is not stressing me out (lol) and I appreciate everything that you've written!

THE ENDING THO. ;A; Why do you do this to my poor hearteu //shakes your shoulders I NEED MORE// I want to know what happens to Chanyeol. ;A; Does he miss Baekhyun? Is he still in love with Baekhyun? ;;;;;;;; These are the questions that make me worry otl but I'm sure it's a happy ending. I just didn't expect it to end that way OTL ok please ignore me. Nevertheless, it's still one of the best fics I've read so far here so fdfhgd

I actually have so many things to say about this fic but I have a very limited amount of vocabs and I can't express well enough how much I love this fic ;A; I just hope I made sense. Thank you for this fic, and I hope to read more from you when the reveals are up! ^-^ Grazie!

[caterplina.livejournal.com]

First of all, you have no idea how happy this comment made me. thank you so much! I even saw you with your friend spazzing about it on twitter, loving busker!chanyeol hahaha

i am so happy you enjoyed this trip around italy (it's one of my favourite countries). I'm not italian, but i've been there many times and i have studied italian. I love the country and the culture. So I focused the fic on that, i wanted people to see the country the way I saw it. So it really makes me happy to see that you want to travel there. there are many other gorgeous cities i didn't add here but are worth visiting.

I wanted to make their problems realistic and thank you for pointing it out :)

as for the ending lol i felt that everything was already said. they know they like each other and when they go back to korea, it was all a matter of who would take the first step and talk first, baekhyun did :)

Again, I'm very thankful for this comment. I read it at night in my bed and i couldn't stop smiling :D

[eterninitys.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for replying! Ahh, I get it now. It's understandable that it has an open ending :) its just that I'm not the type of a person who prefers open endings so forgive me hahaha. And also, I'm glad that this made you smile! ^^ I hope you'll write more Chanbaek! The shipdom needs more talented writers like you ^^