Cooking anon is moved! Both by this part and by passerbyanon recalling his/her experience. I did a year of group therapy (for social anxiety - payed by the uni!) but I never had an experience as complicated and long as yours. I imagine that the chaos can do nothing but worsen any problem you may have. Sorry again for failing at reading comprehension.
Back to the fill (I feel like I'm ignoring the poor author!anon, but I love you, really!): I knew this part was going to be painful, and I knew Gilbert would have come off as kind of an ass, but it was still really powerful. Especially because you decided to not sugar-coat it, since you went with the idea of the two of them being estranged in the first place. And Gilbert's violent grief is made even worse by how Ludwig is simply unable to understand it. Really, I couldn't tell who's more trapped, if Gilbert in his wheelchair and his pain or Ludwig in the walls he built to preserve his mental order and his absolute inability to express his feelings.
It's just so sad. The only thing that keeps me from bawling is the fact I know things will get better, if slowly and painfully.
Re: Ricette d'amore [5d/13]
Back to the fill (I feel like I'm ignoring the poor author!anon, but I love you, really!): I knew this part was going to be painful, and I knew Gilbert would have come off as kind of an ass, but it was still really powerful. Especially because you decided to not sugar-coat it, since you went with the idea of the two of them being estranged in the first place. And Gilbert's violent grief is made even worse by how Ludwig is simply unable to understand it. Really, I couldn't tell who's more trapped, if Gilbert in his wheelchair and his pain or Ludwig in the walls he built to preserve his mental order and his absolute inability to express his feelings.
It's just so sad. The only thing that keeps me from bawling is the fact I know things will get better, if slowly and painfully.