1. yes it was always gna be a sad ending i had thought of the ending before i had even come up w their names sorry 😭 if it made u sad then i wrote it right
2. in case it wasn't obvious lmao, i deliberately wrote marlo so that he'd notice little things about faye, but so he doesn't rly notice things with any of the other characters he interacts w (unless it's obvious). so it's only w faye that he does that. even from the beginning when their relationship first started developing, because i think stuff like that is so cute🥲
3. the Good and Bad contrast between faye and marlo was completely unintentional at first. when i was writing faye's chapter the capital "g" was a typo that i didn't notice until i reread it, but i just kept it in bc i feel like it was more of an emphasis? (english student cmon 💪) and it made sense that she has to capitalise the g because as a character she really fixates on whether or not each day is a "good day", and then this in turn feeds into her self-harming. i then was like lemme capitalise marlo's "bad" to contrast w faye's "good" as i said, also bc again as a character he feels like all the negative emotions and thoughts he experiences are very overwhelming (someone give me an A* pls)
4. yes i speak abt them like they're real ppl 😭but i did rly try to humanise them as much as possible writing it and i was proper thinking like hmm what are their opinions on different things, what would they say/do in a certain situation etc
5. bc boys are fucking dumb and oblivious sometimes (no offence😭) jonah and marlo didn't realise that becca and emily were being fake nice and actually mean towards faye at the start. this literally happens so many times irl lol like i feel like w girls like becca and emily, only other girls can tell when they're actually bitchy. like boys can't rly tell that well bc they're not girls? if that makes sense. bc it isn't completely obvious . girls can still compliment and be nice to other girls without it being genuine.
6. i'm so sorry if any of it was cringe i was like trying so hard to make it as cringeless as possible LMAO. like esp w faye and marlo's interactions i kept thinking hmm what's smt cute they can do that won't make me vomit to write it
7. said this to a couple ppl already but if marlo was a real person id wife him so fast. like the way i imagine him in my head is so fucking foine. like physically, i literally wrote him as my type lmao like the tall, dark hair, brown eyes, nice arms and then yea basically perfect personality too what more could u want🤭🤭literally giggling and swinging my feet when i was writing him interacting w faye bc that's how i'd want a man to act like w me yk?
8. said this already but i tried so hard to make faye not similar to me. when i first starting writing it i struggled so much w not making her too similar to me but i couldn't make her completely different bc like i understand her as a character? like a lot of the stuff i wrote for her i was like omds this is so me🤞🤞even w marlo too actually. bc i just feel like it's easier to write a character if u can relate to them somehow. so again shes not meant to be me😭
9. marlo calling faye "pretty" mostly instead of like "hot" or yk whatever was bc that's literally my fav compliment idk i just love it sm
10. yes the comparison that marlo makes sometimes with faye to the sun/sunshine was deliberate tehe. not only bc sunshine is beautiful but bc it's warm too, and that's how he views faye
anyways i hope u enjoyed it!! i have an idea for another story so i will be working on that
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First Light
Romance"I love you. I feel as though we were never strangers, you and I, not even for a moment." - Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Mathilde Trampedach c. April 1876 Have you ever felt a weird sense of familiarity with someone you just met? As if you...
