Arylie FF: I'm Happy Here With You

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I don't usually write long notes explaining the story or my POV because I do think it defeats the purpose of the storytelling. If I have to keep adding footnotes then I'm simply not doing a good enough job with the story, right? I'll make an exception this time - in my humble opinion, not putting the characters in tough situation just shows cowardice or incompetence of the author.

Life is tough, life is complex, and the foundation of a good story is keeping the situations & consequences as close to real as possible. It means risking making your characters unlikable, yes. It means not giving them hindsight, not making them omniscient, it means giving them enough freedom to be angry, wrong, frustrated, petty. Girna budi baat nehi hai, it just gives an opportunity to see if you can get up again.

Here, we've seen Aryan being strong when Imlie faltered, we've seen Imlie being strong when Aryan faltered. How'd we establish their love is strong enough to overcome a situation when they both falter, if we shy away from ever building the situation?

Are we this insensitive to expect a mother to be hundred percent politically correct, even in her own head, when her son is fighting for life? She hadn't even done anything except feeling anger towards Imlie, y'all are crying 'oh no flipped'. That's called punishing a thought crime - take a break from this sadistic story and read this light read called 1984 for details.

Or are we now thinking that a young girl fearing she might lose her man and coming up with every scenario where it's her fault is a shocking twist? Specially a girl with Imlie's past? Women are literally trained to be guilty of everything, doesn't mean it actually is her fault, or that she's being punished for this and that, for not confessing, for not marrying etc etc.

Or wait a minute, we should be naive enough to hope a self absorbed, self claimed righteous but actually immoral guy like Tripathi won't use the random loophole he found to his own benefit? Villains won't be villaing? Wow.

Mostly, who expected that a fanfiction written about ITV characters won't have drama? That's pretty much the first prerequisite. Lol.

Maybe it's my failure to express and explain what I meant properly. But imagine curating a 300k words story for more than a year, planning to take our favorite characters to as wholesome a happy ending as possible, and being called pathetic, sadist and worst than a producer who intentionally sabotaged them way before their time was done?

Is it a nice thing to say that I lived a privileged tragedy free life hence I derive pleasure from hurting fictional characters? What do you even know about me and my life? (And no, anon messages are not really anon if your writing style is too recognizable).

Some of you have really hurt me this time around (even though it's not the first time I got attacked for writing a free story on a free platform) and for the first time since I started it, I genuinely don't want to continue this. I'm not happy here anymore.

So here you go, this is the ending.

He gets better, she confesses and they live happily ever after.

Done. No complexity, no missteps, simple. No one makes any mistakes, no one says anything bad, no one hurts anyone, it's just rainbows and sunshine.

Happy?

PS. I'll still post the last two parts because some really cool people are cheering for it and they've sticked with it for a very long time. It would be unfair to them if I don't see it through finish line. Plus, I don't want to hurt their sentiments. I just need to get out of this funk. Ciao.