Oh this is an awesome question thank you for asking!!! I don’t think I’ve talked about this much recently and oh man I love to talk this is going to be an essay. But I started writing no attachments over three years ago, and at the time I was trying to process my feelings of being socially isolated, especially because of my autism and struggles with mental health. Jisung’s character was a vessel for me to process those feelings specifically, and well. I processed it. I don’t relate to him very much anymore. The ways he’s overcoming those struggles are different than the way I have overcome them, his autism presents differently, he leads with a very different attitude than I do, and these days we just don’t have much in common hahaha. I’m extremely confident, I make friends everywhere I go, and I really do not struggle to understand people at all.

However. I am Minho, Minho is me. It is impossible for me to ever grow out of relating to Minho. I chose to write from Jisung’s perspective because I needed distance from my own. I didn’t hold a lot of compassion for myself and my circumstances, just as Jisung does not hold a lot of compassion for Minho and his circumstances (as of now), and struggles to understand why Minho is putting himself in this position. I started to write no attachments right as I was deciding to choose my own life instead of the one I was told I would need to have, and I wanted to write something that reflected that process. Two people negotiating what they will do with less than ideal circumstances, just as I was negotiating with myself.

But anyway I am SO back my life is going suppperrrrr well these days so now no attachments Minho’s life will get to reflect that too. i couldn’t really picture a happy ending for him where he feels actually free & loved unconditionally & seen, because jisung most certainly does not see him or love him unconditionally (yet). I couldn’t take on that perspective because I kind of found the idea of it impossible. like how can someone truly unconditionally love Minho (me) with all of his (my) quirks and crazy circumstances. But anyway I picked up a ********** gym bro boyfriend whose favorite flowers are daisies and he makes me feel very loved & seen so we’re so up. Everyone say thank you ockleibibf. I did kind of put him through some stuff to get here. You can imagine what it was

Thank you sooo much for asking!!!