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beginning.
okay. before i made this book, i'd been harbouring the idea of making a texting fanfic, preferably a minsung one. but it was then that i realized just how many minsung texting books were out there on wattpad. i could've just gone with that same idea, but i wanted to write something that was entertaining, something that stood out from the crowd.
and then, one morning, i randomly thought 'what if you could text your mental illness or insecurities?'. the idea just came to me, and that was when i realized i could make this into an actual story. in my opinion, no ship suited this concept more than minsung, and that is how text msg was formed.
(and tbh, if i could text my insecurities and negative thoughts and feelings, i would've cussed them out a long time ago. or block them lmao)
overview.
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so, as you all know by now, (the brown haired) jisung is minho's mental illness in 'human' form. he wasn't ever real, and only existed in minho's head.
when the book started, you could see him asking minho if minho knew him, to which minho responded to with 'i don't'. but since minho had been friends with the real jisung when they were children and had forgotten him as he grew up, his lost memories formed this entity known as 'han jisung', due to his schizophrenia that had been passed down to him from his father.
in the beginning, jisung acted acted nice to minho when minho hadn't really been all that comfortable with him. he thought jisung was creepy, and blocked him on numerous occassions, only for jisung to text him back like it was nothing. i wanted to link that with how mental illnesses (i.e depression) often times feel like strangers when they first appear, and how so many times, we try to block them out but all to no avail.
as the story progressed, 'jisung' grew stronger, and meaner, and minho only grew more and more dependant on him. whenever minho made a 'mistake', he'd mirror minho's insecurities right back at him by texting him rude messages and ruining his mood (like calling him a whore when he'd slept with changbin). he'd convince minho over and over that he 'loved him', and always got angry when minho spent time with people other than him.
