#ronverse stuff

[zimisnotdrifting]

Assorted PJSK doodles except they're based on an rp which is why tsukasa and saki appear to be folder people (yes it's related to the ronverse thing I mention every so often)

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Ron fnf will not be in the tags BC NO ONE IN THESE IS RON

[insociometry]

"Some of the guys would honestly probably get off on jacking off on her thighs or something while she ignores them too so there’s always that as an option" ron!hyunjin would be so willing to do this 🛐🛐🛐🛐

(Referencing this ask!)

NSFW, vaguely post-RON/future fic, ~2k words

You’re lying on the couch on your phone when a shadow falls over you. You ignore it, at first; the summer heat is making you sleepy and lazy, and your boys come to check on you near-constantly as they come in and out, lingering and watching you without any participation needed on your part until something clicks in their alpha brains and they leave you be, satisfied.

This doesn’t seem to be that kind of interaction, though. “Hi bunny,” a voice murmurs sweetly, couch cushion deflating with added weight, “I missed you.”

When your eyes flick up, you find Hyunjin, as expected: kneeling between your legs still in his outside clothes, jeans hanging low on his hips and t-shirt sleeves pushed up to his shoulders. His hands hover loosely over your knees, but when you look at him, they lower, thumbs rubbing loose, light circles into your thighs.

His blockers are wearing off, a smoky, urgent tinge of arousal coloring his scent. When you take a cursory peek, you find a telltale bulge in his jeans.

“Hi, Jinnie,” you say back, smiling at the bashful tinge to his grin, the way he bites his lip cutely. “How was your day?”

“Good,” he murmurs, maintaining eye contact even as he bends down, pressing a chaste kiss to the inside of your knee that nonetheless makes your pulse flutter. “Need you.”

As he speaks, his eyes flick down your body — nearly bare, only covered with Jeongin’s t-shirt and a pair of panties, unwilling to dress further in the heat. The house has air conditioning but you like letting the temperature stay a little high when you’re home mostly alone, and even with this level of proximity, you warm fast from his body suspended above you.

It’s obvious what’s on his mind, especially as his big hands take to kneading at your thighs, moving steadily down. He subtly spreads your legs in the process, kissing your knee again, then just a little higher, then again, lowering himself each time. At this rate, he’ll be on his elbows in no time — and he knows it, too, eyes already laser-focused on your panties, pierced tongue swiping quick over his lip.

He’s so sexy, and you consider him thoughtfully. Minho fucked you to exhaustion this morning before his later schedule, and you’re still feeling a little shaky in the legs, but—

Then your phone buzzes, and he loses your attention, just like that. Automatically, as you start to read your new text, you bend your leg to pull it closer to yourself, knocking off Hyunjin’s hand in the process.

He pauses, cocking his head to the side, voice soft. “No?”

You hum, reaching out to pat his arm soothingly. “Sorry, Jinnie,” you say, still looking at your phone, “I’m kind of busy.”

It’s not really a no; you all have your own ways to communicate varying levels of disinterest. But it does mean you’re not about to have a full-on romp on the couch. Hyunjin lets you go, sitting back on his knees, thinking.

“Can I just,” he breathes, and when you look up, you find him just as hard, his scent just as pressing, biting his pretty lip and looking at you with big, pleading eyes. As you watch, he hooks his thumb in his waistband, fingers hovering over the bulge in his jeans. “I won’t bother you, but can I…?”

His eyes flick again down your bare legs. You hum, watching him: his pretty face, the elegant line of his nose, the way his bangs are just long enough to fall into his face again. As you watch, he takes a break from the baby-doll eyes to blow a lock away — which makes you laugh, which makes him laugh, beaming at you crescent-eyed like he isn’t asking to jack off over you.

“If you want,” you shrug, continuing to grin as your eyes drag slow down his body. He shivers at even that much attention, hands clenching into fists on his thighs.

Then you flop over, almost kicking him in the process, and return to your phone. There’s a second’s pause before Hyunjin adjusts with the change, hovering above your knees.

You really do go back to your text conversation, so you’re not paying much attention to the sounds behind you: a zipper and a quiet exhale, the sound of spit and then a wet slide. You’re aware of it, in a vague kind of way — but you’re more focused on looking up noodle restaurants with Mikyung. You think Hyunjin would pout to death if he knew — but then, you guess he does. He’s just so desperate to get off that he doesn’t care.

Some time passes — enough that it startles you when Hyunjin’s hand lands on your thighs again. “Sorry,” he mumbles when you jump, pulling away — but you just shake your head, peeking over your shoulder at him.

“It’s okay,” you say, taking the opportunity to check him out again — oversized shirt bunched up under his arms to get it out of the way, muscular chest and abdomen exposed, jeans unzipped and underwear pulled down, his pretty cock clutched in his fist. It’s red and weeping, and when you lick your lips without thinking, it twitches, more pre-cum dripping pearly down his knuckles.

Then you turn back around and wiggle your butt. “You can touch a little,” you say absently, returning to your screen. “Just not too much, okay?”

“Okay,” he murmurs, leaning down to press a kiss to your tailbone over your shirt before slowly, gently pushing it up. “Thank you.”

You lift to help him bunch it under your waist, exposing your lower back and panties. It’s kind of nice; it’s getting hot quickly with Hyunjin’s body above you and his hand on your skin, settling firm on the small of your back as though to hold you down the way he sometimes does when he fucks you. You arch your back in response as an absentminded, instinctual response. Hyunjin gives you one last kiss — to your shoulder, this time — before returning to his previous spot hovering above your knees.

It’s a little harder to pay absolutely no attention this time, because now that he has permission, Hyunjin is touching you: not excessively, and not even overtly sexually, just the occasional brush of fingers along your thigh, or a hot palm settling above the back of your knee. Still, texts keep coming, so Hyunjin and his lovely hands and lovely cock occupy only a back corner of your mind, even as his pre-cum drips onto your skin, even as little sounds fall from his lips.

It’s taking him a little longer than usual today, made evident by the impatient huff he lets out. Still, his voice when he speaks to you is perfectly sweet and wheedling. “Bunny,” he asks, desperate, nearly shy, “can you talk to me about what you’re up to?”

You glance at him over your shoulder — the sweat on his brow, the pout on his lip, his bangs still falling into his eyes. “It’s really boring,” you say, eyes already straying back to your screen. “Not sexy at all.”

“Everything you say is sexy,” he objects, and you can hear the pout so clearly, even though you aren’t looking at it anymore.

It makes you giggle. “Well, Mikyung wants to hang out soon,” you say absently, “and she has a whole list of places she’s been looking at, so I’ve been looking them up…”

Your voice trails off as a new message comes in. Hyunjin prompts you just a few seconds later, needy and breathless. “Do any look good?”

“They all look good,” you mumble, typing your next message in. “That’s the problem.”

Hyunjin whines at your inattention, but when you continue looking at your phone, he settles down. His hands wander more, though: grabbing at you instead of just touching, taking handfuls of your thighs, kneading at your skin. When he wanders high enough, you jerk — hips jolting up, thighs pressing together. He takes a breath — and at that same moment, you realize, suddenly, that you’re turned on.

It makes sense, you think as you ignore the wandering hands with red cheeks and a bitten lip. A very handsome man that you happen to be in love with is kneeling above you touching you and jerking off. Anyone would be turned on, you decide.

Still, it’s — distracting. Hyunjin never quite goes beyond your ‘not too much’ instruction, but he definitely grows increasingly bold as the scent of your arousal blooms in the air: thumb tucking between your thighs, increasingly high, fingers digging possessively into the flesh, even slipping his fingers under the bottom edge of your panties or grabbing at your ass.

And as a result, it’s harder and harder to focus on your messages. You eventually give in and tell Mikyung your replies might be sporadic, pushing your hips up and back into Hyunjin’s touch. Hyunjin swallows, his scent thick in your throat, hand pushing so high up your leg that it just barely brushes the gusset of your panties.

You gasp, and Hyunjin does, too. “Bunny,” Hyunjin says, raspy and nearly begging, “bunny, can I—”

His hand hovers over your panties, and when you don’t object, he presses his knuckle shallowly into your entrance through the fabric, wet with your slick. You gasp again, head dropping, forehead pressing into the couch — and Hyunjin moans before pulling your underwear to one side and sinking his thumb inside you.

You swallow your moan as best you’re able — but Hyunjin hears it anyway; of course he does. He laughs, breathless and almost disbelieving, the sound of him touching himself growing louder and wetter.

“What about your friend, pretty girl?” he breathes, a teasing, dominant edge creeping over the obedient taffy-pull of him. “I thought you were busy.”

Twisting to glare at him over your shoulder, you say, just as breathless, “And I thought you weren’t going to bother me.”

His thumb crooks inside you like a hook, knocking any thought from your head. His giggle is high and silly, but his voice is dark.

“Is that what I’m doing?” he asks. “Bothering you?”

This time, you don’t bother replying, shakily picking up your phone and unlocking it with the determination that only pure brattiness can supply. Hyunjin laughs again and pulls out of you obligingly, hand leaving you entirely for the first time in a while — only for you to immediately hear the sound of him sticking his thumb in his mouth, sucking on it around a loud, shameless moan.

You’re suitably more distracted for the short period of time it takes for Hyunjin to come, made somehow worse by the fact that he isn’t touching you at all anymore. Instead, you can tell just by the sound that he’s using both hands on himself, and you picture it, because you’ve seen it so many times before: one attending to the head and the other stroking the shaft, wet with his own pre-cum, flushed and thick and pretty. You can picture his expression, the way his brow furrows and his head tosses back, exposing the long line of his neck, his vulnerable throat and bitable Adam’s apple. And you can smell him hurtling towards his peak, especially when you open your mouth to taste it behind your fangs: musky and thick and smoky over that distinct rosy scent, increasingly hot and urgent, making your heartbeat stutter and slick drip down your thighs.

When you’re touching him, you can get Hyunjin so loud it feels like it should be shaking the walls. This time, when it’s just him, he’s quiet; you don’t even realize what that long, drawn out whimper signifies until you feel the hot spill of his come on your thighs.

It’s so much — and it’s always so much, but it surprises you every time, dripping down your skin, pooling where your twitching thighs are pressed tight together. Hyunjin doesn’t even give you the chance to catch your breath before he’s dipping his fingers into his own mess, rubbing it into your skin until you’re absolutely drenched in his scent.

“Mine,” he sighs dreamily, still in that post-orgasm high as he strokes himself a few more times to come down.

And you have a smart reply ready on your tongue — but before you have to chance to actually say it, Hyunjin is yanking your hips up and your panties down, uncaring of the way it makes his still-hot come drip down your legs on its inevitable descent to the cushions below.

“Are you still busy?” he asks, face so close to your now bare pussy that you can feel his breath hot on your skin.

Your pride holds out for about five seconds before you throw your phone to the other side of the couch.

[insociometry]

Hello darling Inso, I’m sorry to hear the cookies came out a little salty 🥺 I’m personally a better cook than I am a baker.

For my ask… what’s RON!Skz and mc’s comfort meal?

As far as meme suggestions, I hc Chan as sending silly motivational quote memes and visual puns?

Aww, we're the same then! 💛 It's okay, salty cookies happen 😆

Ohhhh comfort food! Mostly stuff you ate at home as a kid then, right? 🤔 Hm hmm hmmm....

Chan: chocolate chip cookies

Lino: miyukguk/seaweed stew

Changbin: samgyetang/chicken ginseng soup

Hyunjin: classic-mode kimbap

Han: hotteok/sweet pancake

Felix: hobak buchim/zucchini pancakes and rice with seaweed flakes

Seungmin: kimchi jjigae

I.N: gaeran bap/egg rice

MC: doenjang jjigae/fermented soybean stew

AWWWW yes 100% I can see Chan with silly motivational quote memes! Thank you for the suggestion my dear 🫶💛💛

[zimisnotdrifting]

Assorted ron-related things

[insociometry]

hi hi inso!!! i’m back again for another fluff(ish? idrk if this qualifies as fluff or not but oh well) ask!

if RON!skz could get a pet/another pet, would they and if so what pets would they choose? like would members like chan or mimo get another pet to be with them as opposed to their other pets who live with their other family??

also! just now thinking about this as i type all this out(again sorry for the yap, trust me i am trying not to ramble too much 😭), are pets as common as they are irl in RON with the a/b/o dynamics? is there a certain different vibe with pets because of these dynamics? idk just kinda popped into my skull meat 🤷🏻

anyways, much much love, can’t wait for next thursday, and as always i hope you are staying happy and healthy!!🤍🤍

Please do ramble! I love to hear it! 🫶

Wait this is so cute 🥺 Questions about clothes and animals — I am spoiled tonight… 💛

A/B/O stuff in humans has no effect on animals! So pet culture and everything is the same 😊 They pick up on our pheromones IRL anyway; I kind of imagine in RONverse we’re the same degree of slightly smelly (neutral)

I’ve thought about this sooooo much because I want them to get pets one day and honestly I want MC to get a pet (she’s never had one!!) but Binnie… 🥺 Pet allergies… Also realistically I don’t know if their schedules are good for taking care of and maintaining a relationship with animals. Maybe one day?

I’ve contemplated 1) a pet without fur/dander allergens at all, like reptiles!, or 2) just a very hypoallergenic dog or cat?? I’ve only ever had animals from the side of the road so I don’t really know how this works. However in Korea buying your pet is much more the norm so maybe that would be what most of the guys would expect anyway? 🤔

Who I think has a marked enthusiasm for what (yes, I had notes on this 😭):

Just dogs: Hyunjin Dogs and cats: Chan, Han, Felix Dogs, cats, and other miscellaneous creatures: Lino, MC Kind of ambivalent: Seungmin, I.N Ehhhhh: Binnie

Thank you for your ask!!! 🫶💛💛

[insociometry]

The latest Chan-pter has got me barking and howling in bed, SO good!

I think you get every member spot on with my interpretation of how they’d be (get out of my brain! No don’t actually pls it’s a wonderful coincidence).

Just a little request if/when you have time/energy/desire to write something, members who would be most up for some kind of primal/creepy/kidnapping/chase and pursuit role plays?

(If you don’t want to answer this or don’t have the time dw at all! 🩷)

(This post talks a LOT about consensual non-consent! In detail!)

Chan-pter HAHAHAHA I’m so glad you liked it, thank you!!! 🥰🥰

Noooo I can’t leave your brain!! Where else will I source my characterization!!!!!

Wait wait wait wait this is so fun— Okay wait I should link to previous posts before I get too excited! In this post I mention that basically everyone is into primal play by nature of this universe; and in this post, on question 4 “Are there rituals or ceremonies connected to or associated with bonding?”, I talk about mating runs as a form of edgeplay — based on a traditional in-universe mating event, but effectively transformed into kind of a cnc-leaning chase/pursuit kink event in the modern day.

I don’t necessarily think everyone in RONverse ever would be down for a mating run level chase/pursuit scene (like from our NPC cast, Soohyun probably wouldn’t go for it). However, all of our boys would 😊 Double thumbs up from everyone for primal + chase/pursuit scenes!

But OOHHHH creepy scenes, kidnapping scenes, fearplay turned up to eleven — yes yes yes okay I am so into this, let me think (can you tell this ask is going straight from my noggin to my keyboard). I think for these we would need an overwhelming enthusiasm for relatively extreme fearplay, roleplay, AND edgeplay, which leads me to………. (….drum roll……….🥁🥁🥁)

Lino and Han! Three cheers for the perverts (complimentary) of the day!!! 🥳

(🛑We’re talking about relatively extreme kink below! If you don’t like consensual non-consent and other edgeplay, turn back now!! I mean it, for real!!! Seriously!!!!!!🛑)

Runner ups/guys who I think check most but not all of the boxes:

Hyunjin: less into extreme fearplay; really enthusiastic about the concept but there is a threshold of how genuinely scared you can seem before he gets sad, even if he's pretty sure you're still into it. Depends a lot on his mood that day. More likely to roleplay like, a vampire creeping into your window and ravishing you

Seungmin: has trouble committing to the roleplay element and also prone to pretty bad dom drop, so this kind of thing is a big commitment. Maybe easier with another dominating party?

I.N: scary good at it but he's mostly doing it for you; likes it, but doesn't have the blind, feral enthusiasm of minsung in this area

Some more thoughts on this topic; I’m doing more kidnapping for Lino and more creepy for Han 🫶

Lino (cnc, abduction play, car sex, bondage, playfighting, spitting):

For Lino I think a lot of it is the anticipation — it’s like an extension of teasing but more extreme? Like you talk about the fantasy, you outline what you like, you give a go ahead, and then you just… wait. And wait. And days pass, and you’re jumping at shadows and overthinking if you’re overly attached to the clothes you’re wearing and feeling your heartbeat speed every time someone drives by. And then you go home and Minho is just… normal. Coming home from work, eating dinner with you, teasing you when you stare, eyes curved, voice lilting — “Need something?” And maybe you start to think it isn’t actually going to happen any time soon; maybe he’s too busy, maybe there just isn’t the time. Maybe you start to relax. Maybe you stop jumping at shadows. Minho texts you one night asking you to check for a package; it isn’t outside the front door. He asks you to check the lobby; it isn’t there either. He asks you to check outside — and you go, unsuspecting if a little concerned, because your boyfriend never asks you to do stuff like this, not to go out alone and certainly not at night and certainly not in your pajamas. Not with how protective he is. There isn’t even a car to hear — you feel the hand first, wrapped tight around your upper arm, wrenching you background. Instinctively, you open your mouth to scream — only for the stranger’s other arm to wrap around your front, palm flat over your lips. “Screaming already?” a familiar voice asks, sweet and lilting and dangerous. “Save your voice, kitty. It won’t help you here.” And even as your heart tries to throw itself out of your chest and your knees go weak and the hair on the back of your neck stands on end — you all but collapse into Minho’s arms. You don’t actually want anyone to think he’s kidnapping you for real, so you wait to put up more of a fight until you’re in the car, protected by nighttime and tinted windows and the private parking garage. Then you do fight — viciously, kicking and elbowing as Minho laughs and ties you down. It kind of depends on the day if he gets you to a secondary location or not. You learn to make pretty good use of the car’s backseat, even though it pulls your shoulders painfully when he ties your wrists to the grab handles on the ceiling. When you snap your teeth, he just shoves his thumb between them with a slow hum. “If you thrash anymore, you might dislocate your shoulder,” he says, eyes curving over his plain black face mask with a simple, sadistic joy. “Do you think I’ll stop just because you hurt yourself?” You bite — not hard enough to seriously injure, but hard enough to sting. Minho just laughs, prying your jaw apart and spitting in your mouth. You spit it right back, but like this — back to the door, arms stretched straight above you and legs pinned under his knees — it just lands on your chest, bare where he’d cut your t-shirt open down the center. Minho hums again, smearing your own spit across your heaving chest. “Keep fighting,” he says sweetly. “I’ll break you in.” You knee him in the ribs; he ties your legs open.

Han (cnc; stalking, date-rape, and infidelity roleplay; bondage, salirophilia):

Hannie likes an easier, less risky scene of a home invasion — chasing you through the house, or creeping into your bedroom, watching you shower through a crack in the door. But I also think he’d go for more elaborate things: pretending to have met you online, meeting up at a bar, going to a hotel with him. He’s funny and charming and a little nervous: looking at you a little too long, hands fidgeting, not quite able to touch you like you aren’t about to hook up. Maybe you take the lead and maybe you tease him; and you don’t think anything of it when he excuses himself to the bathroom the moment you get to the room, figuring he just needs a second to calm down. Then his phone lights up on the nightstand, and you swear his lockscreen is a photo of you. A candid photo. One you don’t think you’ve ever seen before. The bathroom door opens before you can make sense of it, and by the time you look back, the phone screen is dark. You think: maybe it was nothing. You think that would be crazy, assuming it was a photo of you; you couldn’t even see your face. Jisung didn’t even know your name until you met up tonight; there’s no way he could have gotten a photo of you. Maybe you look like his ex. Don’t be weird. Still, when he meanders back towards you, you’re a little on edge. Maybe he knows that, because things take a quick turn after that. It’s like a switch has been flipped: suddenly, Jisung is a whirlwind, kissing you into the bed, not stopping when you say, “Wait.” You don’t know where he got the handcuffs; you didn’t even realize he had them until your wrists are behind your back. Jisung wants you scared and messy: ripping your clothes, smearing your lipstick, shoving a ring gag into your mouth just to watch saliva drip down your chin. He wants you to fight and exhaust yourself and he moans when you start crying, mascara running down your cheeks. “Hey angel,” he mumbles in your ear, petting your hair like he isn’t shoving your face down into a pillow; and you can smell yourself on his breath from when he’d made you come on his tongue over and over. “You know, I was curious about something.” At this point, you’re too exhausted to move, lying prone on your front, barely able to do more than whine when he finally, finally positions himself at your entrance. There’s an edge in Jisung’s voice, sharp and electric. “You like to meet up with strangers for sex,” he says. “Does your boyfriend know?” Even if you weren’t gagged, there’s no time to respond. Said boyfriend has no sooner finished speaking than he’s thrusting inside you in one mean stroke.

[insociometry]

Inso dear!! I hope you’re having a great day 💕

I was styling a friend’s outfit for an event earlier today and as I was threading a corset I got to thinking about RONverse (because all thoughts lead back to RON, apparently 🫣)

Can mc be convinced to join them at an event where she dresses up fancy? Like, an award ceremony or something?

What would she wear to something like that?

What would their reaction be? 👀

If this is too spoilery, I have an alternative question 🙋‍♀️

Is there a precedent for idols with soulmates in RONverse? If so, who? Or will we be meeting them?

Are there any other idols who are packmates that we will see in the RONverse, or is the RONpack the only pack that we’ll interact with? (Is this also a spoiler question? Probably 🥺)

PS: this ask is sent from my spot on the floor of a hotel room amongst a sea of ribbons, scrap fabric foam armor, and a safety pin poking me in the thigh 🫶🏽💕✨)

Chryssi my dear you’re giving me another excuse to talk about clothessss!!! 🫶🫶🫶💛💛💛💛💋💋

I don’t thiiiink this is too much of a spoiler given the happy ending and the fact that this is a hypothetical, so! I would love to see MC go somewhere fancy with them!! It would have to be far, far, far into the future though, even from my perspective, once 1) they’ve been public for a second, and 2) she’s more comfortable with the whole ‘being famous’ thing 😊 They would love to have her though (they love to show off) and she would probably love to go under it all (she’s their fan. and also likes to show off). Though if they mentioned her during an acceptance speech or something I think she would kill them 😭😭 Picturing the camera cutting to her astonished terrified little face, aww... Or at least she would mean-dom the hell out of the culprit(s) after. Inevitable to be honest. Canon event.

I tend to picture MC in whites, off-whites, and earth tones in her daily wear, and whites, off-whites, and pinks in her formalwear — generally kind of dreamy and romantic and girly, can go sleek or princessy or anywhere in between, sometimes angelic almost bordering on bridal. I think silk and tulle and gauzy floaty stuff suits her but I like the thought of her in heavier materials too — velvets and beads and boning… 💛 The dark blue velvet dress I.N got her was actually fan service for ME hahahahaha. I LOVE corsets and corsetry but while MC would wear a corseted dress or waspie or something like a girdle I can’t really see her strapping into a full-on steel-boned corset or anything like that… 🤔 Sad (for me) (also maybe for some of the boys if they’re into that, because corsetry fetishes are alive and real)!

For visuals about whatever I’ve been blabbing about — screenshots from mostly Pinterest (no Pinterest I wasn’t just talking shit I swear)! And one I saved from Twitter recently 😆

The boys’ reaction would definitely depend on the look but I’m sure whatever it is they would just die HAHAHAHA. Unfortunately for them I don’t think MC would be up for blowing off steam last minute before the event, people worked too hard on her hair and makeup for that and she does NOT trust them not to leave hickeys

“Is there a precedent for idols with soulmates in RONverse?” There is! Soulmates are super rare, but it’s mentioned somewhere that a few idols or other celebrities in RONverse have met their soulmates and it tends to go over better than other news about romance or dating 😊 Obviously a lot of fans are just happy for their favorites if they’re in a happy relationship regardless of soulmate status, but soulmates are so rare and special that it kind of, like… implies a degree of permanence? Like your bias isn't going to get their heart broken; this is The One, literally. And even if a fan is disappointed that an idol is taken so to speak, it’s kind of inevitable they would be if they met their soulmate. Like obviously they’re going to be together and bond and stuff. There’s less judgement/outcry, maybe?

I’m sure some other idol groups are pack, especially since groups have really cultivated/promoted/marketed their friendships as part of the brand in recent generations! Not saying those bonds aren’t real, sorry, just like— I feel like most groups you hear about these days are friends outside of work!

BUT I don’t think we’ll meet other idols with soulmates or in packs mostly just because I am not very knowledgeable about idols 😅 I don’t stan anyone else… I have a very normie knowledge of kpop outside of SKZ…. Limitations of the author hahahahahaha

Any of you are welcome to headcanon groups you think would be pack (or idols you would want to have a soulmate? 👀) in the RON universe though 😊 If you tell me “this group are pack” I will probably just nod my head and agree with you 🫶

Foam armor and safety pins — is this a con I’m sensing? 😆 I hope you and your friend have fun! Stay cool and hydrated!!!

[insociometry]

I hope you feel better soon! I’m so sorry to hear you’re not feeling well 😭

I am tragically a romantic and therefore must ask, sweet Inso, who in Ron!SKZ is a good patient, and who is a nightmare when they’re sick?

No need to respond, I just like the mental image of nurse!mc and Ron!SKZ antics

Sending healing vibes! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

I like this trend of calling me sweet Inso 😆 Thank you! I’m at home resting up!! 🫶

Wait this is so cute… I ended up writing it not exclusively RONverse without really thinking, but now I’m thinking about the entire pack in RON being sick at once and how much of a nightmare that would be… 😭

No particular tags for this one! Just the usual sick stuff!

Chan can be stubborn at the best of times but he’s downright mulish when he’s sick; he could be out of his head delirious, running a fever, coughing his lungs out, and he would still have his laptop in bed every time you came to check on him. He’s too sick to actually do any work on it, so eventually you just learn to leave it be, letting him hold the laptop like a teddy bear. Sticky, sticky, sticky; he is clinging to you at all times, catching you in a bear hug or wrapping his arms around your waist while you’re sitting next to him, rubbing his face into your tummy and mumbling. He actually takes his medicine pretty well, though!

Lino is really blasé about the illness thing to the extent that you don’t realize how ill he is until you take his temperature. He’s surprisingly obedient in a lot of ways that he isn’t, really, when he’s not sick: he finishes the water you give him, and he eats well, and he doesn’t complain about his medicine. The only problem is that he will not stay in bed unless you’re there with him the whole time. He’s staring at you even more than usual, all day, refusing not to be in eyesight; you stroke his hair to get him to sleep, but when you get up just to change the laundry or grab a package, you turn around to find him in the closest doorway, watching you like you’d disappear if he took his eyes off you. Forbidden Lino velcro kitty-mode!

Changbin is a big baby when he’s sick. He doesn’t want to take his medicine, he doesn’t feel like eating, and no matter how you insist, he swears he isn’t tired. He is also, hilariously, the type to fall asleep the moment you have him on a soft surface, so the biggest obstacle with him is getting him to eat and drink enough. Upsides: you get to see him pout, like, so much. Downsides: it’s going to be several days of straight pouting, whilst you wrestle the strongest man you know into taking his goddamned medicine.

Hyunjin is a really easy patient! He wants to do a good job. He’ll stay in bed if you tell him to, and he’ll take whatever you give him without even looking at it; he asks for kiss bribes, but it’s so shy and hopeful that it doesn’t even feel like a bribe. He gets better quickly because he does whatever you tell him to, to the point that he actually wishes he could have had a couple more days of listening to you read to him while he dozes in bed, the lights dimmed low and warm food in his belly.

Han whines and complains, followed by surprising moments of docile, quiet obedience. He takes his medicine well and he’ll chug an entire bottle of water so fast he chokes if you tell him to, but he’s so sticky; he’s not only clinging to you like Chan is, but climbing onto your lap, rocking you in his arms, trying to kiss you… Oh my god does he try to kiss you. He will not stop hitting on you, and in his delirium, his pick up lines are only getting worse. From the way he keeps planting one on you, it’s practically guaranteed he’s going to be passing the bug to you before he gets better.

Felix is a surprise nightmare patient! He doesn’t have an attitude problem, he just will not stay in bed — and unlike Lino, he isn’t just following you around. He wants to go! He has stuff to do, he says! You explain to him that his schedule has been canceled, but it’s in one ear and out the other; he’s sliding on mismatched socks, dropping his toothbrush in the sink, grabbing your phone instead of his as he tries to get out the door. You end up having to tie him to the bed — in a very unsexy way — until he falls asleep, and just hope he’ll be more obedient upon waking*. (*He isn’t.)

Seungmin is really matter-of-fact about being sick in a way that makes you think, at first, that he’s keeping his head through this fever — until it becomes obvious that he thinks, for whatever reason, that you are the one who’s sick. He doesn’t even just think it; he’s certain. He insists! He argues. He’s the sick one, and he’ll eat what you give him, pills and all — but he’s also following you around, trying to get you to go back to bed, offering to draw you a bath, asking if you’ve been to the doctor yet. It’s cute, but a little exhausting, and you end up having to let him hold you to get him to sleep, even though he’s all gross and sweaty and keeps making weird snorfling sounds in your ear.

I.N is soooo stubborn. Sooooooooooo stubborn. He acts like a little kid and you have to fight him for every individual thing — and he will argue, too! He pouts, he complains, he digs his heels in, he refuses; you crush his medicine into ice cream and give it to him like he’s a baby, and he makes the most dramatic face you have ever seen the whole time he eats it. Every moment of this illness is laced with the stubbornness of a toddler who’s just been unceremoniously woken from a nap. It’s exhausting — and after he gets better, he still insists he was a perfect angel of a patient!

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Darling Inso I hope you’re having a good day!

I was thinking about the nesting scene while doing a reread of chapter one today and I got to thinking.

You’ve established that MC is not very in touch with her omega instincts.

It’s clear there are some in the pack who are a bit more primal than others (Hyunjin vs Binnie, for instance), and that being primal in this world is kind of a default.

Is someone’s likelihood to be more or less primal related to how in-touch they are with their a/b/o instinct? Are the instincts their own entity, like in some a/b/o stories?

Are the two unrelated?

If mc were to be more in touch with her instincts, would we see her be more primal?

I hope this makes sense? 🫣

I guess I’m just curious about instincts the way they relate to people’s behavior in the RONverse?

“Are the instincts their own entity” Is this the ‘her omega’ stuff?? I had never heard of the concept before I started posting this story!!! It’s fascinating and I have so many questions about it!! Oh, but no, none of that here 😊

Ohhh this is a fun and complicated question… I know I’ve posted these before, but just to review before I blab, here are my preexisting notes on instincts:

People aren’t ruled by instincts, but the instincts are there

Tend to be most intense during: first presentation (around age 12-16); early to mid twenties, when adults would traditionally be settling into packs; periods of hormonal fluctuation (heats, ruts, pregnancy, etc); and highly emotional moments

Alpha tendencies: protectiveness, possessiveness, jealousy, competitiveness, devotion. Active-types and busy bodies, pushy and intense. Strong desire to help; take it really personally when things go wrong. Fixers and fussers. Kind of like a guard dog that keeps bringing you sticks and will bite if someone comes at you too quickly. Instinctively submissive to omegas and wary of unfamiliar alphas.

Beta tendencies: social submissiveness, emotional meddling, curiosity, keeping the peace. Level-headed and personable. Instinctual needs are less strong than alphas or omegas but still present; sometimes betas undersell what/how much they need from other people. Good friends and partners, but martyrs; don’t tend to communicate well. Focus more on others’ issues than their own; also fixers, but in different ways. Instinctively submissive to omegas.

Omega tendencies: social dominance, possessiveness, emotional intelligence, control. Less likely to meddle, but strong desire to keep; instincts are like a dragon with a hoard, whether that’s re: nest, items, space, mates, pack, whatever. Tendency toward hard boundaries but also respecting boundaries; respectful and not pushy. Sometimes distant. Entering an omega’s space without an invitation is a bad idea. Loving, but bossy.

So to actually answer your question: I guess for me, primal behavior is an active thing, like it’s something you do; versus instincts are just something you have 🤔 Discussion of instincts is complicated and divisive with IRL humans (evolutionary psychology rearing its head in the background again…) but for our purposes in RON you can kind of think of them like animal instincts! Like you can train a border collie but it’s always going to try to herd young children like corralling sheep, and get zoomies, and sometimes its prey drive might get activated in disastrous ways — that’s kind of what alphas are like. Except with humans! So they have a bit more self-control than a dog, theoretically 😆 Some people lean into their instincts a little too much, some people really restrict themselves, and most people fall somewhere in between.

Tangent but this kind of relates to what I've said before about the effects of modernization in RONverse; as people live closer together and are less and less likely to form packs, it becomes harder and harder to do all the things your alpha/beta/omega hindbrain wants you to do! For example if your omega boyfriend has to go to work with a minor cold, you can’t force him to stay home or follow him around all day growling at nothing just because your alpha brain is barking at you. If two coworkers you don’t know well are arguing over direction on a project, you can’t force them to sit down and work it out then and there no matter what just because your little beta heart demands it to be so.

It was probably a little simpler in the past, when most people were in packs, and mostly interacting longterm with either their own packmates or members of another established pack; instincts are kind of built to maintain the harmony of a pack. But nowadays there’s like, all of these overlapping social circles outside of packs (like multiple different friend groups, coworkers, college roommates, neighbors you’re friendly with, that girl you met on Tinder, etc) so there’s a lot of conflict between even one individual’s instincts inside their own head. Most people you have a relationship with don't fall neatly into 'packmate' or 'definitely not packmate', whether you're in a pack or not; it's all a little blurry. Add in how other people sort them in their own brains and it only gets more complicated. Here’s an example I gave previously:

Heavily scenting people can be considered rude. Most commonly done by and affects alphas; can mess with other alpha’s instincts. Example: you’re Soohyun (alpha), and you heavily scent your girlfriend (beta), who you lizard-brain think of as mate/pack. She goes to work and interacts with her coworker (alpha) who lizard-brain thinks of her as THEIR pack, and doesn’t know you. Conscious brain “this is silly, don’t get upset” vs lizard brain “who’s this other alpha. where did they come from”

So I guess in this example, wanting to scent your girlfriend heavily all the time is your instinct, but actually doing it is primal behavior 😊 Omegas liking to collect things is instinct, nesting is behavior. Want versus action! Stuff like that!

Wow I’ve talked a lot already, let me try to hurry this up!!!!!!

So MC is on the far side of restricting her instincts because of a mix of societal factors (being an unattached omega opens you to a lot of attention and potential danger, so she doesn’t want to seem like an omega) and personal reasons (her mom hated omegas and MC has a lot of deep-seated shame she doesn’t want to examine, so she doesn’t want to feel like an omega). She essentially keeps herself on a tight leash all the time.

Hypothetically, as MC grows to love and accept herself more, she’ll probably accept her instincts and subsequently act accordingly, at least in certain situations. So — yeah, I do think primal behavior would increase, especially in private! The two are technically separate but I think the restriction of both in MC’s place kind of comes from the same place.

For the guys, I think it’s less about being in touch with your instincts or not and more just about how you choose to behave and what your social role is, especially in your pack. So for example, Chan acknowledges somewhere that he gets to act out his alpha instincts a lot, because he’s the pack leader; that’s kind of like, the maximum amount of alpha you can be. He also acknowledges that the younger batch can’t as much, since they’re acting from under him; the innate busy-body activeness of alphas is kind of meddled and managed.

Here are some silly categories I sorted them into as we finish this up based on stuff I mentioned above:

Guard dog: Chan, Lino, Hyunjin, Seungmin, I.N

Border collie: Lino, Changbin, Han, Felix

Forces their sick omega to stay home: Chan, Lino, Felix, Seungmin

Follows their sick omega around growling at nothing: Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, I.N

(Lino has the ambiguous honor of being both guard dog and border collie 🫶)

And then there’s primal behavior explicitly in a sexual context, which we’ve brushed on a little bit! Or I guess we've talked more about primal kink which is maybe a little different (maybe...???). But that’s a whole other thing and I’ve talked enough for now I think 😆

Anyway, thanks for the question! Sorry if I got off-topic hahahaha, did this make sense??? I hope it made sense!!!

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SKZ/FMC fic: "Ready or Not"

Summary:

Amidst growing pains, secondary-gender conflicts, and an ongoing world-tour, all-alpha pack of idols Stray Kids is fighting to keep the peace within their ranks when they have a chance encounter with the perfect solution — their shared soulmate, an omega. You. Honestly, you’re just trying to survive. The mysterious guys blowing up your phone lately are the least of your concerns.

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A/B/O, polyamory, soulmates, slow burn, mutual pining, miscommunication, jealousy, chatting & messaging, PTSD & mental health issues, eventual smut

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Hi Inso, me 🌎 again! Your newest drabble made me curious, is there religion in this world? Are RONpack and Mc religious? I was also thinking, is there misogyny? You mention tradition sometimes, how traditional are RONpack and Mc? Also will we get to see Hannie’s song for Mc? Thanks! ☺️ - 🌎 anon

Hi there! 😊 Thanks as always for your questions!

(Discussion of the topics above below the cut!)

There is religion! I actually didn’t change either religion as a whole or the boys’ specific religious affiliations, so they should roughly match up to what we know of their IRL counterparts:

Hyunjin, Felix, I.N, Han (not confirmed I think but I've seen him cross himself 🤷): Catholic

Chan: raised Christian of some kind, probably Protestant

Changbin: raised Christian of some kind but really into fortune telling…? (not strictly religious, but like kinda. idk)

Seungmin: a mystery~~

Lino: not religious

I think it is worth keeping in mind the kind of complicated overlapping nature of religion in Korea; very few people are strictly one exact thing with little influence from other religions the way they might be in other places (maybe…?). And also that considering yourself non-religious while still practicing native Korean religion is pretty common? It’s complicated! Generally I kind of write Seungmin as having Buddhist influence and Lino, Changbin, and Seungmin as having musok influence, but that’s just for fun for me; enrichment in my enclosure. And I mean generally Catholics and some other Christians also do elements of musok to be real. Anyway anyway!

I don't think MC is actively religious or was necessarily raised with religion! Though she would have had the normal cultural religious influences (like broader American Christianity and also the various religious influences present in typical kr diaspora communities). But to be honest I kind of don't think she thinks about it a ton 🤷 She wouldn’t have even grown up doing ancestor worship because of her family circumstances

Anyway all that doesn’t matter a ton to be honest because I don’t really write about religion in RON! I know I literally just wrote something where Han thinks about confession and going to hell, but it’s just a little too real of a universe for me to be completely comfy with writing about it explicitly and often. If you want to hear my more veiled AU thoughts about religion (in general and with SKZ) then you should wait for VNM hahahahaha

Ahhh misogyny… So the short answer is: yes!

But also, even though it's called secondary gender, alpha/beta/omega designation is much more the guiding social role than primary gender! So the existence of misogyny is kind of situational and bizarre. Kind of like with your homophobia question before, secondary genders don’t make these social issues go away; they just make them more varied and complicated. I honestly think beta women probably feel it the most relative to their male counterparts?

I kind of have my own thoughts about how traditional the actual SKZ guys are that I won’t really get into, but for the purposes of RON — hmmmm. I don’t think any of them are actively super super traditional? In a universe like this it’s hard to say how much of it is alpha stuff and how much of it is something else 🤷 But I guess tradition here is kind of based more around secondary gender than anything else! Sorry I was still thinking about misogyny hahahaha

Ummmm… I guess the traditional alpha role is protect and provide, and the typical omega role is nurture and maintain… I think most of them do want to follow the general idea of what makes a good alpha to be honest, but they try not to inflict the omega role on MC since she’s so obviously not comfortable with it. It’s hard because unlike with gender in our world, secondary gender roles in RONverse do have actual instincts and stuff to back them up? Evolutionary psychology in this world would go crazy. Not that people should follow those instincts 100%, but I also think there’s something to be said for DENYING yourself the thing that your body wants you to do; MC is guilty of this a lot and she suffers for it. I guess it just isn’t a very good analogue for IRL 🤔 Maybe it isn’t helpful for me to conflate the two... A/B/O is kind of a ‘rule of cool’ primal sexy thing to me but also kind of an excuse to talk about weird feelings about society so this is tough for me HAHAHAHA

Oh I’m getting carried away! Anyway I think a lot of the guys are ‘I want to take care of my girl but not control her’ types, except sometimes they get the evil urge to control her and have to stamp that down. Some of them would lowkey like a housewife, and some of them battle their demons when MC wears something revealing — stuff like that. All of them get the urge to bring her things like a dog playing fetch or a penguin building a shiny rock pile. Here’s my approximate most-to-least traditional (note: not necessarily an indicator of how much they battle their demons or get evil controlling urges; it’s more about what they kind of want deep down):

I.N > Chan > Seungmin > Felix > Han > Lino > Changbin > Hyunjin

MC is really nontraditional to the point where she overthinks a lot of stuff; I’m sure a lot of people who have dated guys can relate? She can feel weird about them doing too much or spending too much money on her (she also gets off on it, though. she’s complex), she feels weird about the concept of marriage or settling down, she eventually feels weird about the fact that she's in a in-universe traditional relationship model at all; she wants to be independent, even when she kind of doesn’t, and she feels guilty about it. In the future, MC thinks this whole long monologue about it (minus a few cuts for spoilers):

That besotted housewife fantasy from this morning pops back into your head unbidden: you picture yourself contributing, [...] making sure they eat well and sleep enough. Admittedly, you’re not all that interested in household chores, and even in your pampered sugar baby daydreams, you don’t exactly fantasize about doing laundry — but you would, if they wanted you to. You think you would. It twists some complicated feeling up inside you. You had a single mom, fiercely independent to her own strength and detriment; she didn’t want to lean on anybody, much less a man, and much less an alpha. She raised you to be the same, and you agreed with her; you still agree with her. You can’t depend on anyone — and anyway, you’re a modern woman. You don’t want to be some stereotypical little omega girl, sitting at home twirling her thumbs while her big strong alphas bring home the bacon. Even in the thick of your childish fantasies of what your life would look like one day, you’ve always operated under the assumption that you’d have a career, that you’d be burning the candle at both ends, that the only person you would need to survive would be you. You think about that conversation with Changbin, Hyunjin, and Jisung all those months ago, suddenly. ‘No one wants to work, right?’ you’d said. ‘I do,’ Changbin had said. ‘I’d do the same job as right now, too.’ You think about the possibility of working for fulfillment but not for a living, about choosing projects that interest you, about not being in the red for the first time in your life. You think about what it would say about you, to get those things not even by your own merit but because somebody handed them to you. It’s uncomfortable; it makes you feel weird. Obviously, this would never happen [...]. But if there wasn’t — would it be bad, to depend on them? Would it make you a bad omega? A bad woman? Worse, would it make you a quintessentially, traditionally, stereotypically good model of both of those things?

Inner turmoil! 🔥

We do see Hannie’s song, yeah! I mean I don’t write out the lyrics or anything, but that line I think you’re talking about is referencing a particular scene 🙆

Thanks for all the questions! I know the topics were a little serious, but I hope it was interesting to read 🫶💛

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inso!! grim reaper channie was so cute!! “baby, i’m dead” had me dead, and him being so serious about meeting the chickens because that’s her family!! falling to my knees, clutching my heart. there’s something so bittersweet about the lonely finding comfort in the lonely, i love it!!

sorry if you meant to leave it open to interpretation but i have a question about the ending? is mc uprooting the trees in attempt to move them closer to her house or so channie’s curse (?) gets to her ? as i’m typing this i’m realizing the tags implied their marriage so it’s probably more likely they move them closer than the far hills, but mc is incredibly chill about death so i still feel the pull to ask 😭

mildly related but i’m headcanoning that there’s a jealous spirit in my room rn because i had to retype this whole thing because my backspace key simply would not stop even when i legit dropped my phone (being delusional is so much more fun than technological failures)

Wowww you read so quickly!!!! Good job!!!!! 💫💫💫

MC is tearing up the trees! And maybe generously moving them farther from the house, but more realistically she might just let them rot there. She’s kind like… an AU version of our RONverse MC who is even weirder about death, and would totally be okay with trees rotting in the beautiful meadow where her mom is buried

Chan isn’t cursed! Sorry, I didn’t really explain jeoseung saja mythology hahaha, I wrote this in one sitting — Korean traditional mythology is prettyyyy serious about fate and people dying at the right time. So Chan only ushers people to death if they’re supposed to die then, even if it’s from something like accident or disease.

So being around him won’t make MC die sooner; she wonders about the fact that she can see him at all, but even if she were close to her time and that’s why they can touch and stuff (which it isn’t, but don’t worry about that yet), it wouldn’t be Chan’s fault! That’s just fate 😊

HOWEVER, I do think Chan wants her to have the silver and the orange trees so she can stab him/hide if her time comes and he’s compelled to take her away hahahaha. She hasn’t dealt with the knife yet but she WILL get rid of those trees while he’s not looking. Sorry Chan your new wife is pretty okay with the dying thing. She'd probably think you taking her to the underworld is like, really romantic

“headcanoning that there’s a jealous spirit in my room rn” That’s dokkaebi Lino! We’ll get to him next, so tell him to wait his turn please (jk jk. unless?)

I’m so glad you liked it; thanks for reading! This was a lot of fun to answer 🫶💛