Under Noirwood | Vminkook ✓

Thank You

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Before I start my long and annoying final note, I'll get the gist across for those who want to skip it-

THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT THIS FAR, SUPPORTING ME, SUPPORTING THE NOIRWOOD LEGACY, SUPPORTING THE PRINCES, DEMONS, SOLDIERS, CHILDREN, ROYAL SCUM, STRANGE ANIMALS, AND LAME JOKES THAT THIS STORY INVOLVED! EVERY TIME YOU GUYS VIEW, LIKE, OR YELL AT THE CHARACTERS FOR BEING SO STUPID IN THE COMMENTS, IT MAKES MY DAY! I SEE ALL OF THEM AND APPRECIATE YOU WAY MORE THAN YOU THINK. EVEN THE SILENT READERS--THANK YOU FOR GIVING MY WORK A TRY. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND AM SO GRATEFUL THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU SUPPORT MY WILD IDEAS. <3

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Okay, now for the long note, for those readers that may or may not be completely and entirely pissed off at me for ending it like that.

If you didn't catch it, the second book ended the same way as the first book, with two people venturing to an area and finding a symbolic object that belonged to someone they loved.

Instead of Jimin's ring like the first book, it was Jungkook's beloved pocket watch (God, that thing made so many cameos) and the giver of the pocket watch was symbolic too, but I'll let you deduce who that might be on your own. ;)

As with most of my writing, I like to center my plots around motifs, themes, and objects as metaphors for real life. In the first book after Jimin died, I tried to nail down the themes that life is fleeting, people should live in the moment, and people should love unforgivably as themselves and not pretend to be someone they are not. The Three Bannermen was truly a test of love against confounding variables such as FUCKING JIHOON, the poisonous gas,

and the pocket watch that gave away Jungkook's position near the statue when it reflected off the sun.

Don't know why Jungkook likes that pocket watch so much. It killed Jimin in the first book, that stupid, villianous clock.

BUT--if Jimin hadn't died, then who knows if Rose and Lucio would come to be, or if Mr. Park would have been stopped, or if Taehyung would magically gain his hearing back.

So, in Under Noirwood, I decided to lean heavier on the idea of fate. Even though there were horrible things that Jimin did as a demon, or that Florian did when he was upset, it was all for a grander cause of the universe's invisible hand. (or the writer's hand lmao).

There are plenty of other themes and ideas woven throughout that I hoped to get across, like the ideas of acceptance, forgiveness, and blindfolds in the bedroom. LOL sorry I can't stop.

Maybe some of you noticed, but the last ten or so chapters of Noirwood I tried to include more comedy because rereading some of my other chapters I felt like I was giving a history lesson to my readers (y'know, the ones that Lucio and Jungkook love). 

But enough on the plot! I'll go onto a short memory of each character.

I say memory because I am not writing a third book (I know I could write a third book if I wanted--so don't encourage me to, because I need to stop thinking about Noirwood, hah).

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Mai-

Mother of Rose and Lucio...character that didn't receive too much development. Mai, however, is underrated, I think. She was handed the short end of the stick several times, her kids were taken away from her for protection; and essentially she was used. But! She forgave Jimin for the most part, when the truth about the crypt and Mr. Park came out. Even though Rose and Lucio might not call her mother, they still are close with her. They know she's their birth mother. Mai was a good mentor to them growing up, and, as we all know, she became the head stylist of Kim Taehyung's fucking designer shack business which I'm totally digging. Gay fashion king. Whoops.