Line #1 FanFic/AnterogradeTomorrow


1	-> ''"Do you ever think that you can’t remember because there is nothing to remember? If you do the exact same thing every single day of the week, every week of the month, all twelve months of the year, doesn’t memory lose purpose? What do you think will happen if you begin breaking the routine?"''
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3	Anterograde Tomorrow is an [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] [[RealPersonFic RPF]] fanfiction in the [[KoreanPopMusic EXO]] fandom. The plot revolves around D.O, an anterograde amnesiac who falls in love with Kai, a dying writer who wants to write a book about him. [[TearJerker This is no comedy, though.]] The story is written using the members' real names rather than their stage names, but for the sake of clarity we'll use their stage names here. For reference: Jongin=Kai, Kyungsoo=D.O.
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5	The fic is by [[http://changvasion.livejournal.com changdictator]] and can be found on Website/LiveJournal [[http://changdictator.livejournal.com/3484.html here]].
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7	!!Anterograde Tomorrow contains examples of:
8	* AlternateUniverseFic - D.O is a toy factory worker with anterograde amnesia and Kai is a dancer-turned-writer [[spoiler:with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease.]]
9	* AmnesiacLover - Most of the plot revolves around this.
10	* ArcWords - "Hot. The weather. It's hot."
11	* BookEnds - "See you tomorrow, hyung! Don't forget!" Also the scene in the elevator after D.O returns from the bar.
12	* TheCameo - Quite a few. Sehun is Kai's editor, [[FirstLove Luhan]] is Kai's ex-boyfriend who is now dating Sehun, Kris is a model, Tao is a waiter in the bar where D.O sings, Xiumin sings with D.O, Baekhyun is D.O's dead best friend.
13	* CreatureOfHabit - D.O, by necessity. He wouldn't be able to remember any changes he makes to his routine, so he sticks to it.
14	* TheCynic - Kai (although falling in love considerably improves his outlook).
15	-->'''Kai:''' I’m going to be dead in three years, maybe two. Probably less. But you know, people won’t love me when I’m dead. That’s a fact. People might pity me. Worship me. Say that I was a genius mind, revel in the great performance art that was my life. And what do I do with all that? Can I sell it? Can I have a future and a white-washed house and argue about what plants to put in the front yard with their fucking assembly-line pity?
16	* DarkAndTroubledPast - Let's see: D.O gained anterograde amnesia in a car crash[[spoiler: that also killed his best friend]]. Kai was an aspiring dancer who was brutally crushed under the pressure, then discovered that [[spoiler: he had an incurable lung disease.]]
17	* DownerEnding - Oh god. So much. Not only does [[spoiler:Kai die]], but D.O forgets everything the next day. And then Kai's editor, [[TheCameo Sehun]] shows up with the book Kai wrote about him...
18	* DiabolusExMachina - [[spoiler: Kai gets pneumonia on top of his lung disease.]]
19	* DontYouDarePityMe - Kai returns a stuffed toy that D.O leaves for him on his doorstep with the note, ''"Pity's pretty fucking expensive for someone who can't care."''
20	* FirstLove - Luhan for Kai.
21	* [[spoiler: FromBadToWorse - See YourDaysAreNumbered below.]]
22	* HopeSpot - D.O remembers Kai smoking on the balcony and there's a moment when he thinks that maybe he'll get his memory back and [[spoiler: Kai might live. Neither happens]].
23	* IronicEcho - The sticky note saying, 'See you tomorrow, hyung! Don't forget!" Originally it's already sad, but after [[spoiler: Kai's death,]] it's so much worse.
24	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Kai. He is a [[JerkAss jerkass]] to D.O at first. But it's really all because he's jealous of [[WideEyedIdealist D.O's idealism]] and once he realises this, he is nicer.
25	* LaserGuidedAmnesia - TruthInTelevision. D.O has anterograde amnesia and his memory resets to the time of the accident which caused it at the beginning of each day.
26	* MoneyToThrowAway - Kai uses a fan to blow hundred-thousand won bills out of the window of his Seoul penthouse.
27	* MorningRoutine - D.O wakes up in his room. He has the feeling he's forgotten something. Then he reads all the sticky notes pasted around his room.
28	* [[spoiler: PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd - D.O and Kai talk about Christmas, their birthdays and making kimchi together while Kai is in hospital. Kai only makes it to their 'anniversary' (the day between their birthdays).]]
29	* PosthumousCharacter - Baekhyun, who was killed in the accident that gave D.O his anterograde amnesia.
30	* SecretlyDying - Zigzagged. Kai tells D.O during one of their first meetings but D.O forgets by virtue of his amnesia. It happens several more times until D.O finds out himself. And then forgets.
31	* ShipTease - Tao/Kris, Luhan/Sehun and Luhan/Kai are all mentioned.
32	* SlashFic - Yeah. Kind of a given. Complete with smut scenes.
33	* UmbrellaOfTogetherness - Kai and D.O walk back to D.O's apartment under the same umbrella.
34	* WatchingTheSunset - Invoked in a poignant conversation about remembering tomorrows rather than yesterdays.
35	-->'''Kai:''' I remember that the water is going to be ablaze with light. The sun will be setting, all violet and red into the clouds. But it’ll be quiet, mostly just the sound of water and wind, and your voice.
36	* WideEyedIdealist - D.O. As Kai says, " He was everything sad, but he was so happy chasing after impossible dreams...He was an amnesiac forced to abandon himself at the end of each day and who refused to comply. [[{{Determinator}} Someone who struggled against the overwhelming odds of loss,]] for a dead-end."
37	* YouAreNotAlone - D.O to Kai. Kai believes that when he dies, he will be forgotten. D.O tries to reassure him that he won't. Doesn't really work because of D.O's anterograde amnesia.
38	* YoungerThanTheyLook - Invoked with Kai. Granted, he's a smoker.

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