Just finished this and ohhh my gosh. The final chapter made me tear up and so did the side stories. This has so much that I loved with their beautiful relationship and how everything played out. I genuinely think this is such a well written and beautiful story. Like... the final chapter is so damn beautiful. The way the final words led into the title was so good, and the feeling of wishes that they hadn't realized they held becoming promises is so lovely. That Craig had said his wish before hadn't come true but he still enjoyed the act of making the cranes is so tied into their inability to promise forever but that they can promise until the very end. It's such a sweet sentiment for broken people. Even though that depression lingers and can't magically go away, it can be eased and healed through nurture <3 genuinely so lovely.
Dean letting Craig touch the houseplants was really beautiful when you realize his father was the one who gave him those. So even though it will die from being touched, he realizes that the small humane gift he was clinging to from his father was not even a droplet of water compared to the ocean of life that Craig can bring him. He doesn't need to cling to scraps of love because he has the entire world right there. He says it himself, "There's nobody else in this world but you."
"And if there is such a thing as an afterlife, I'm absolutely sure that you and I will belong in different places. And if that's the case... I would spend an eternity missing you." The artwork there is so beautiful and man, the fear of that painful eternity is so real.
Oh man, Craig putting the ring on Dean's finger and Dean viewing his hand that he'd always seen as a scarred and rotten reminder of his actions as something that is a promise :""") something that can cherish and hold his loved one instead of something he wanted to destroy so his hands could stop destroying </3 this is so fucking sweet.
And that eternity of missing him becoming the two of them standing in the field together god this was a gorgeous story
Just finished this and ohhh my gosh. The final chapter made me tear up and so did the side stories. This has so much that I loved with their beautiful relationship and how everything played out. I genuinely think this is such a well written and beautiful story.
Like... the final chapter is so damn beautiful. The way the final words led into the title was so good, and the feeling of wishes that they hadn't realized they held becoming promises is so lovely. That Craig had said his wish before hadn't come true but he still enjoyed the act of making the cranes is so tied into their inability to promise forever but that they can promise until the very end. It's such a sweet sentiment for broken people. Even though that depression lingers and can't magically go away, it can be eased and healed through nurture <3 genuinely so lovely.
Dean letting Craig touch the houseplants was really beautiful when you realize his father was the one who gave him those. So even though it will die from being touched, he realizes that the small humane gift he was clinging to from his father was not even a droplet of water compared to the ocean of life that Craig can bring him. He doesn't need to cling to scraps of love because he has the entire world right there. He says it himself, "There's nobody else in this world but you."
"And if there is such a thing as an afterlife, I'm absolutely sure that you and I will belong in different places. And if that's the case... I would spend an eternity missing you." The artwork there is so beautiful and man, the fear of that painful eternity is so real.
Oh man, Craig putting the ring on Dean's finger and Dean viewing his hand that he'd always seen as a scarred and rotten reminder of his actions as something that is a promise :""") something that can cherish and hold his loved one instead of something he wanted to destroy so his hands could stop destroying </3 this is so fucking sweet.
And that eternity of missing him becoming the two of them standing in the field together god this was a gorgeous story