UNDER HIS SPELL { taekook }

✧ BOOK NOTES ; ０１ ✧

✧ BOOK NOTES ; 01 ✧

just an extra little chapter for me to share info about the story with you guys, for all the plot nerds out there :]

hope you enjoy ~

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N O T E ０１;
WHY METAMORPHOSIS ?

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Metamorphosis (noun)
meta·mor·pho·sis | \ ˌme-tə-ˈmȯr-fə-səs \

1 . a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly.

    2 . a complete change of form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic or witchcraft.

    3 . any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.

    4 . a form resulting from any such change.

PART 1's named after the change in Jeongguk as a character that I envisioned for him. In the definition of 'Metamorphosis', the word implies a drastic internal change.

When you meet him as the reader he's an innocent and humble boy who had a good upbringing. He never did anything 'bad' or involved himself with shady people. As he's around Taehyung, you can slowly see himself starting to break away from that pure and untainted lifestyle, and it's through moments with Taehyung that he allows himself to take actions he wouldn't otherwise take, because he wouldn't think to do immoral things on his own. Throughout all this he feels like he's finally experiencing life, and now finds the world thrilling and unpredictable, in contrast to his previous dull every day life of being a good kid.

Taehyung is the trigger for the 'metamorphosis' he goes through. You could say before they met Jeongguk was a caterpillar, and by the end of PART 1 he's grown into the butterfly he needs to be to take on PART 2's events. Although he's new to this world, his previous uncorrupted life is one he can't go back to. He has to learn to live as a butterfly now, and remaining in the pristine caterpillar mindset will no longer help him survive.

I also like that in definition 2 of 'metamorphosis' it's described as a transformation by magic or witchcraft. And as you all know Jeongguk had been bewitched by Taehyung, completely falling ((book name drop alert)) under his spell.

So now that you know all that, I can't wait until you all reach the end of PART 2 so I can tell the meaning of that name as well :]

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N O T E ０２;
KIM NAMJOON ??

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I purposely saved Namjoonie's appearance for PART 2 :] heh

You'll meet him veryy soon.

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N O T E ０３;
BOOK LENGTH

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The book will have 3 parts;

PART 1: METAMORPHOSIS

PART 2: OF LOVE & WAR

PART 3: EXODUS

PART 3 will most likely be about ten chapters, just like PART 1, as I consider them the expanded prologue and epilogue to the story. PART 2 is therefore considered the main story. I'm predicting about twenty chapters for it, but that could always change.

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Thanks a bunch for reading up until this point, as well as bringing the book to 3k+ reads(!) Hope you guys enjoyed the extra little 'book notes' chapter. I'll be making these for parts 2-3 as well, later down the road.

I 💜 you.