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RED CHEEK PUBERTY (볼빨간 사춘기) - 좋다고 말해

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                 𝐳𝐡𝐚𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐢 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬: 𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐

“ there once was a sun, shining so bright a lifetime of darkness couldn’t smother it’s light. he loved the world, hair as golden as the rays who blinded all who stopped to look. ”

head: his hair’s still dyed brown but it’ll be styled into curls for the night. i know they’re not on the picture, but for a reference, something like this. his hair’s going to be sprinkled with gold glitter, so beware the stray fairy dust flying around ! and, sticking to the stereotypes, he’s going to have a golden wreath crown to top all that extra off.

face: very angelic !! similar to the picture, he’s going to be wearing golden / peachy tones for his eyes, and shimmery at that of course !! also, if you couldn’t see where this was going by now, some glitter strewn around his cheeks ! and i couldn’t find a picture on a guy to add to the moodboard, but if you were curious he’s going to have some stars stuck to his cheeks similar to this !

attire: once again, we’re diving deep into cliches with the classic toga !! but, in honor of his desire to “Stay Gold”, he’ll also have a gold belt as shown in the picture. also shown to the left of that one is the sun necklace which he’ll be wearing over it, to further stand out as apollo, god of the sun. he’s got a gold watch to top the look off, too - but not gonna lie, that’s more to flex than anything. he’s not chronos, so really it’s just to know what time it is and have a shiny accessory lmao !!  he’ll also be wearing a ( surprise ! ) white cape, which he may or may nott take off if it starts getting in the way. will he be cold in this ? absolutely ! but will he look good ? absolutely.

feet: some simple gold sandals - do i have to tell you what color they are ? he’ll probably wear some spare tennis shoes on the way there, though, for the sake of his poor feat enduring the cold weather. 

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故事; my youth

𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐈, 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐀𝐒 a piece of home. they’d spent their childhood years together - laughing, teasing each other, and making memories. but now, a piece of home is leaving him, and he’s not exactly sure how to handle it. it’s summer of 2015, and chenglei’s just got the news that one of his favorite people to hang around is going to be moving to korea. korea? sure, it’s only a three-hour flight away, but he feels like he’s getting left millions of miles behind in hong kong.  

yet still, he can’t help but feel an enormous sense of pride. after all, his friend had been accepted into legacy to become a trainee. the last thing he ever wanted was to deter his friend from his dreams, or not give him the proper send off he deserved. so, deeming it the last hurrah of hong kong, the boy invited king to yet another of his family dinners. it had practically become tradition, with chenglei’s family being the more nurturing of the two, where he invited king over to give him the family atmosphere he missed out on. 

so he’s not surprised to find his friend at the door following the invitation, except this time he’s met with the bitersweet reality that it’s probably the last before his departure. greeting his friend with a smile that could almost pass as a grimace, he shoos himself away from the doorframe so the other can make his way in. “ are you ready for the best food of your entire life ? you know i had to go all out for the last time. ” well - more like have the chef go all out - but king didn’t have to know the food wasn’t his creation.

 “ i was trying to figure out how to make this dinner special, until i realized we’ll probably just end up sneaking the food upstairs to escape my family anyways. so i just made sure that the food was good - want to try it out ? ” gesturing to the table he grins, before leaning against the counter. once his family arrives lei knows it’ll be a whole other chaotic story, so he’s made sure to invite king over early enough to escape it. there’s a small silence before he finally speaks, clasping his hands together. “ so ... korea, huh ? i still can’t believe it. are you sad ? excited ? nervous ? ”

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hello hello !! sooo i’ve been extremely mia due to very stressful upcoming exams, therefore i’m on hiatus for a bit, but !! i took a peek at this event and it was way too cute not to mention !! ! i’m still getting to some messages and i’ll be posting a separate plot call for some other things tomorrow, but i wanted to go ahead and post a starter call for hell week today !! i’ve included some context for what he’ll be doing and opening threads for the events to one muse per day, but i will be accepting as many threads as people would like for the party !! so if any of these interests you please feel free to comment the day or message me and i’d be super happy to get something started with you very soon !! chenglei’s week goes as follows:

monday: oh god so .... he’s gonna be dressed up as groot....who in his mind counts as a valid superhero ?? which seemed extremely fun until he realizes he has to practice in a hot tree costume !! either tease him or sympathize w / him please !! ( @lgcwren ! )

tuesday: oh god, he’s just gonna be a mess !! he’s not going to be used to this many sweets at once, so he would love to just go crazy sugar rush mode with someone and try sneaking candy out by hiding it in their clothers !! ( open ! ) 

wednesday: he is so ... SO ... scared of everything ?? so catch him jumping and screaming and shuddering !! he’ll be genuinely spooked for a while since this is the first real scary prank, so either help him or laugh at him please !! ( open ! )

thursday: chenglei will be caught very offguard with the cream cannon !! but as for the party, he’s gonna be dumb and awkward, someone please help him to let loose and have a little fun during the night !! he’ll be a snail otherwise. ( open ! )

friday: oh my gosh this is allowing all chenglei’s hogwarts dreams to come true !! he just may tear up at his childhood wishes being granted !! but he’s a hufflepuff through and through, so he’d love some fellow hps to bond over being softies with or another house to debate on which is better ( though we all know the answer !! ) ( @lgcjaesun ! ) 

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@LGCENT just posted a photo!

Hi there!! It’s Chenglei here, and I just wanted to give tons of thanks for your support at the concert! Hearing your cheers of encouragement really made me feel so nice, and now I know what it’s like to have wonderful supporters! It made all the hard work worth it, and I’ll continue to work even harder. fighting! 💕

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the chameleon effect

well...this is different. no, more than different - this is weird. it shouldn’t be surprising, he supposes, seeing that one of the skills he prided himself most on aside from dancing was his ability to learn languages. but when he’d been asked to film a video speaking another language for fans it felt...odd. korean was still a challenge for him now, but to intensify his focus he’d taken to almost always using it in conversation in thought. now, he was reverting everything he'd practiced, speaking his native tongue once again. so, as soon as he greets the familiar “大家好”, he feels a strange sense of familiarity and nostalgia overtake him.  “我叫程雷! 我有���些好消息."

the opportunity presented itself with a lot of possibilities - english, mandarin, and cantonese had all been possibilities. but he was neither as confident in the others nor felt that others wouldn’t speak it for the cameras. there were only a few other idols he knew who could speak in his home language, so he knew that it’d be a chance to let more people from home in on the news. to chenglei, speaking cantonese is comforting, a big smile on his face as the words rapidly leave his lips. “今天我在韓國, 但我要請你進來看看我們在這兒幹什麼!” he’s visibly different, more confident now that he doesn’t have to think his words over carefully before speaking. it allows him to show is true personality, so, leaning in, he pretends to listen to something the viewers said. “什麼? 你真的沒聽說過?” a look of surprise comes over his face, feigning shock at the audience’s oblivion to the upcoming show.

“很快,我的Legacy家族將會在一個叫Future Dreams Project的演出中! 他們會努力出名的! 請支持我們. 我知道你會...對嗎?“ with a hopeful smile, the boy looks at the camera expectantly, then nods in satisfaction at the assumed answer. “我得走了,但是請看Future Dreams Project! 這會使我非常幸福. 再見!" a friendly wave is given to the camera before the video fades to black.

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hello friends !! my name is jada, and…i’m so excited to meet you all !! this is my absolute heart and soul zhao chenglei, one of the newest additions to the legacy family !! i am actually…so stoked to be here, this group looks so cool !! i look forward to meeting you all, but i’m going to jump straight into things ! chenglei / lei is 20, a dance fanatic, and a lovebug ! you can find his info as well as a few connection ideas below,  and his profile here !! the other pages are wip, but i’m sure we can figure something out from there !! oh, and don’t forget to like this if my boy’s caught your eye and you’d like to plot together !! 

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hello friends !! my name is jada, and...i’m so excited to meet you all !! this is my absolute heart and soul zhao chenglei, one of the newest additions to the legacy family !! i am actually...so stoked to be here, this group looks so cool !! i look forward to meeting you all, but i’m going to jump straight into things ! chenglei / lei is 20, a dance fanatic, and a lovebug ! you can find his info as well as a few connection ideas below,  and his profile here !! the other pages are wip, but i’m sure we can figure something out from there !! oh, and don’t forget to like this if my boy’s caught your eye and you’d like to plot together !! 

alright so !! he’s from hong kong, and born to a mom who was a model for a popular skincare company and a father who’s an anesthesiologist !!

his parents are quite ambitious & his name means “become great” since as their first child, they had high hopes !! he’s often called lei for short around friends.

his mom wanted him to follow in her footsteps so for the early part of his life she was obsessed with booking him baby modeling & acting gigs!! he was in a few commercials and an extra in some small shows, but didn’t gain much fame from it.

his family is originally from mainland china (which is why he’s pretty good at mandarin) but moved when he was born because they liked the atmosphere for him better ! also his mom started getting more opportunities to work there and rather than keep traveling when she had a newborn the whole family packed up and left !

to say the least he was raised pretty comfortably !!! his parents had a lot of influence in their respective fields and he lived well, always getting the things he asked for & such !

but honestly, he’s not the type of person that is obsessed money but that’s probably because he’s used to it? like ofc it’s nice to have, but he’d be perfectly fine living a normal life.

his parents don’t feel the same, they’re very invested in getting & keeping money, so they would always get mad bc he had a tendency of giving his friends things if they didn’t have it !!

he’s been really adamant on creating his own lifestyle recently though, so is trying to make his own name for himself & make his own money instead of relying on his parents forever.

he went to a private school in the city, which is where he learned english. it was widely spoken where he was anyways, but there were some exchange students who helped him too. 

also totally irrelevant headcanon but one of the students he became close with was australian & he traveled there in high school, so when he speaks english he’s a bit influenced by the accent !!

a dancing machine for real !! first got into dance 1t 5 when his mom thought it’d be cute for him to do ballet?? he hated it only because his friends made fun of him for it, but the more time he spent doing it the more he was kind of like...oh !! this is kinda nice !!

and then he fell in love with it, and to this day ballet remains his favorite type of dance. the older he got though he took more classes, and eventually joined a competitive dance team the city had !

he first got interested in kpop by a few friends in middle school, and that reflected onto his love for dancing! he began learning all the dances he could, and the more he saw them the more he felt he could turn his love for dance into a real dream.

long story short, his parents were v unhappy to hear he wanted to be in such a risky career, but after constant begging allowed him to audition! they promised thinking that he wouldn’t make it past first cuts, but when he did they were very shocked and kind of just in awe let him start training??

his first few months training were a huge struggle to face. right off the bat he could hardly speak korean, and it’s when reality really set in ?? as much as he said he wasn’t dependent on his wealth it was a big adjustment to go from his life in hong kong to living in dorms with other trainees. it was just...wild!!

not to mention chenglei can be an introvert when in situations he doesn’t know people in,  so he was probably really quiet at the beginning !!

but he definitely opens up once he becomes comfortable around others. he’s still on the quieter side, but definitely v sweet and even a little mischevious around the ones he’s close too !! so by now it can be assumed he’s this way around the trainees he encounters often.

but when he’s in work mode ?? totally different lei !!! he takes training very seriously, takes staff criticism hard, and just kind of beats himself up to work harder !! not the best method, but if one thing’s for sure it’s that he serious about improving and doesn’t put anything above that when it’s time to get serious.

and performing lei !! also very different. he’s definitely a worrier all the moments leading up to performance, but becomes some confident dancing machine when he gets on stage ! he doesn’t worry about looking too weird, just focuses on delivering a powerful performance. very different than his usual self !

he’s currently in his 2nd year as a university student, and it is h-a-r-d !! since he practically goes straight from school to practice, he’s burnt out 80% of the time and lives off of coffee and a prayer.

oh in terms of languages !! he speaks cantonese as his native tongue, learned mandarin through talking with his family in the mainland,  learned english through school, and is still actively learning korean ! he’s only completely fluent in cantonese, but learns korean the most out of all of them on a day-to-day basis.

he’s a little creative boy !! lovesloves to draw and paint and you can always catch him doodling things that went on during the day if he’s bored !!

also plays piano, which he was kind of forced into by his parents lmao ?? but it’s always a plus when he mentions it and it’s fun to play.

he’s quite a softy?? especially for a guy, he’s very affectionate, v loyal, and always looking out for his friends in any way he can ! it probably comes from his dad always being off at work, and his mom ( who is the more nurturing of the two ) being the most present, so he took after her and is very caring & sweet !

i’m not gonna lie...he’s a little bit of an eboy ?? let the sighs of shame arise lmao !! but honestly he’s like if an eboy & art hoe had a baby, but who’s also soft ?? the chaos !

he’s also a bilie eilish supremacist ?? don’t know how that happened since i don’t even stan her that much myslf ?? but like....if you couldn’t tell from his audition video he loves her & will cover each and every of her videos

he’s a baby pan !! he hasn’t really “come out” officially to his friends per se, but has vaguely expressed interest for something outside of a relationship with just girls ! he’s terrified to tell his parents & if he ever will...who knows !! but he’ll become more comfortable with his sexuality soon enough, at least.

his end goal, well semi-end goal, is to become a choreographer !! he wants to be an idol / dancer above all things, but he knows that career won’t last forever so he hopes when he gets out of it to help others achieve their dreams !! he’s very strong on the belief that what’s given to you must be paid back, so he wants to show his appreciation for his eventual debut by helping others reach theirs, too !! 

i think i’ve talked waaaay too much already, so...let’s move onto some quick plot ideas !! i promise i’ll have a legitimate plots page soon. xx

maybe some awkardness ? maybe lei thought he was helping this muse out by giving them presents & money, but they took it a different way as him flaunting his money or treating them like a charity case ? i think it could be interesting !

another foreigner ?? the classic helping each other out duo, but i think it could be really important for the both of them considering they’re still trainees navigating a new country together !

a senior he really admires ? even though they’re all trainees, lei treats those more experienced than him with lots of respect, so he’d probably do everything he could to learn from & get on their good side ! maybe a cute friendship could develop out of it !

on the flip side, someone younger / he’s senior to he can baby ! he’s kind of used to being babied around, but he tends to become a lot more protective & caring over those under him ! please give him someone to spoil & instill confidence in pls thanks

sibling-like friends ?? i need someone he can just be silly with, ruffle a few feathers with, and even have the occasional dispute, but in the end they’ve gotten really close and no one can mess with one without the other ready for a fight !

maybe lei’s got a boy / nb crush he wasn’t expecting ?? he’s a softie so i think it’d be adorable for him to have a little crush on someone, requited or not !

university students rise !! give my boy someone else to share his pain with and complain about how it’s impossible to get good grades and have good evaluations !!

little competition !! he’s mainly a dancer, though he also sings, so i think it’d be fun to have someone he competes with & is often compared to ! maybe they’re actually really close and help each other, maybe they’re true rivals trying to bring each other down !

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“You had a sensitive nervous system. You had an enhanced reaction to reality. You were very affectionate. You appreciated things. You appreciated them more than other people. You practically went into trances of rapture. You wanted the world to be better than it was.”

— Margaret Atwood, from Moral Disorder and Other Stories; “The Headless Horseman,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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