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soulmate! woozi

howdy! i’m back. has it really been a year and 8 months? time flies. i did promise i’d finish this series someday

for those new, i’d like to note that the series is semi-interconnected and though each installment can be read alone, i like to think the experience is richer if you’ve read through the whole thing. links can be found in series order under the gif if you’re into that <3 fair warning though i started this series in 2018 and the one for seungkwan is the first writing i ever posted to this blog

reader x woozi ; fluff ; words : 2k

synopsis: in a shocking twist of fate, the climax isn’t meeting your soulmate--it’s meeting their band.

soulmark: the song in your head is the song your soulmate is singing.

Seungkwan || The8/Minghao || Hoshi/Soonyoung || Junhui || Jeonghan || Joshua || Mingyu || Vernon || S.coups/Seungcheol || Wonwoo || Woozi/Jihoon || DK/Seokmin || main masterlist

you grew up with Music

like, there was nary a time there WASN’T something playing, either in your ears or in your house

you sang your little heart out in the car and in school and on the way home and even in grocery stores, it was a THING

everyone who knew you agreed that your soulmark was going to be musical of some kind, there’d been bets on that since you turned six

sure enough, shortly after you turned ten, you started hearing music in your head from songs you’d never heard

the Universe, it seemed, just got you

it took a bit of back and forth to hash out the specifics, but eventually you nailed down the precise mark: singing

from there, it was pretty easy to have full conversations with your soulmate, provided that you could find the proper lyrics to convey the thoughts

(you learned about a lot of weirdly specific songs in the pursuit; who knew there was a whole song about a pirate who dreamed of singing on broadway? trick question, you did)

it was actually kind of fun, trying to find songs to convey the words you were thinking--if a bit annoying when you couldn’t find them

maybe that was why you were a little surprised when eventually you started hearing music that was mostly unproduced, one boy’s steady voice accompanied by a lone guitar

looking up the lyrics you were hearing produced no results, so either your soulmate was even better at finding oddly specific songs than you were, or they were writing their own

(damn, dude, they’re out here making you look bad over here smh)

you felt uniquely privileged at hearing your soulmate grow as a lyricist, and you did your best to follow his tracks, building your own arsenal of musical talents in the process

you were determined to become the world’s most feared and beloved set of songwriters and by jove the way your soulmate was going, you would succeed

he told you when he became an idol, parroting that pirate song back at you (although it took a bit for you to parse out that he wasn’t going to broadway specifically)

that was EXCITING AS HELL, especially considering the laws of the Universe meant that exchanging names or identifying details was impossible (even when you tried both finding and writing a song that included your name in it, it didn’t make it through, damn you Universe)

suddenly, looking up the lyrics to one of his songs could very possibly, VERY SOON, yield real results that you could realistically follow up on, if everything went to plan

and everything did, to NOBODY’S surprise (except maybe his, despite your repeated assurances that you’re the best! around! nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!)

(an unforeseen drawback to the idol life was the fact that he was now singing the same songs a lot of times, and both of you had to listen to it ad nauseum, but at least the songs were good)

you googled the lyrics you were hearing and immediately discovered his band (and also the reason why he’d been singing ‘dancing queen’ when talking about his idol life)

from there, it was actually pretty clear who he was: lee jihoon, producer, singer, songwriter, dancer, handsome, etc. and though you weren’t anywhere near each other, geographically, you could finally establish internet contact and send him memes, instead of trying to describe two bros chilling in a hot tub using the screaming cowboy song

it took a combination of time, concentrated effort, a twitter account with a picture of his face, a video of one of your own original songs, a display name referencing a buccaneer singing on broadway, and SINGING NOTHING BUT THAT SONG FOR WEEKS to finally exchange phone numbers, but you got there and you never had to do it again thank GOD

there wasn’t any real rush to meet in person, for you two

you’d been doing ‘long distance’ since you were ten years old after all

you facetimed whenever your schedules lined up, texted when they didn’t, shot memes back and forth and sent clips of whatever instrumentals you happened to be working on, since they didn’t go through the soulmark connection unless there happened to be lyrics

you didn’t realize he hadn’t told the members he’d already found his soulmate until seungkwan found his during one of their tours

all the members gushed about how it was ‘the first of many’ in interviews and you’d figured it was for publicity’s sake, up until you saw the look on your soulmate’s face

like a mixture of smug and chagrin

you texted him like soooo do the members know you found your soulmate?

no, he said, they’ve been teasing seungkwan about his soulmate being a fan of the band since predebut, thought i’d save us the trouble

and that was absolutely fair enough, even if you also thought it would be hilarious

very quickly after seungkwan, other soulmates began to pop up through their world tours--tours that were becoming more and more common with each passing month, considering how many soulmates had leapt out of the ground at off-continent concerts

they were also taking themselves very close to your location, which lead the both of you to seriously discussing meeting up irl for the first time (although, of course, that came with a whole HOST of issues; namely, it was practically expected by this point that a seventeen member being out in public meant finding a soulmate, considering vernon’s experience in the coffee shop and s.coups hauling ass across an entire city)

though, you hadn’t actually spoken to jihoon’s members straight up yet, although you’d heard a lot about and from them, through a combination of conversations with him and online interviews

maybe it was time?

you didn’t come to a decision before the tour date you had tickets for, so you ended up quietly meeting in an empty and conveniently unlocked conference room in their hotel

as it turned out, your mark qualified as a ‘vague mark’, throwing sparks at first touch

the way you discovered this was through an unenviable ACCIDENT, in the midst of a wonderful conversation

he’d brought his guitar down, and you were both looking over a chord progression jotted down in a phone note, recording as you brainstormed, and you’d leaned forward over his shoulder to get a better look, and happened to lean your torso against his

fucking FIREWORKS

naturally this scared the SHIT out of both of you, considering it threw heatless embers WAY TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT that crackled like a motherfucker and looked like actual fire

it didn’t set off the fire alarm or set anything on legit fire (though it singed his hair and your sleeve), so no harm no foul, but hell if that wasn’t going to be a sound you heard in your dreams for the next six months (and god dammit but you liked that shirt)

“at least it wasn’t in public” he said, when the last spark winked out, and you had to agree there

that would be an Event, to be sure

of course, the best thing to come out of it was that you’d happened to record the moment, and now had audio of your mark sparks

(both of you, in your infinite wisdom, wrote and mixed songs sampling the sound within a startlingly short time; jihoon’s song for you became your text tone, and yours his ‘take a break’ alarm)

of course, with soulmates popping up left and right, the members seemed to take more of an interest in jihoon’s mark

considering he was among the final four, there was a lot of speculation among the fanbase on what his mark was or would be, especially after the soulmark speculation twitter account turned out to be joshua’s soulmate and had stopped posting about seventeen’s soulmarks entirely

the members already knew what his mark was, and they knew he was regularly in contact with you, they just assumed he didn’t know who you were and vice versa

jihoon kept you up to date with sneaky voice recordings of them speculating what you would think when you realized he’d written the song you kept hearing

bets seemed to range between “proud as hell” and “pissed as hell”

it was hilarious listening to them theorize and speculate themselves into circles over it, especially considering you’d been present for the brainstorming process of most of the songs they’d released

that did mean, however, that the eventual reveal had to be GOOD, like REAL good

jihoon had managed to keep finding his soulmate a secret from all twelve members of seventeen for multiple multiple years and even AFTER most of the band had found their own

THIS WAS IN NO WAY AN OPPORTUNITY THAT COULD BE WASTED

you brainstormed a good few ideas before finally settling on a plan

“GOOD” as it turned out, could also mean simple

so, when jihoon and crew swung back through your exact city on tour, you put the plan in action, and that plan goes like this:

1. you go to the concert

2. seventeen performs their concert

3. seventeen returns backstage at the end of their concert

4. seventeen jokes about one of the final members finding their soulmate

5. jihoon doesn’t interact, simply leaving the room

6. jihoon goes to the side entrance, where you’re waiting

7. you return to the room

7.5 whoops, you didn’t expect anyone to be wandering the halls though you probably should have considering step 5 of the plan implies Hard Feelings, and here’s seokmin chasing him down to apologize for taking the jokes too far

7.5.5 seokmin goes completely slack-jawed

“IS THIS YOUR SOULMATE?” he shrieks at an ear rending volume with far too much energy for someone who just finished a full concert

even with a roundabout path that sort of response leads perfectly into step 9:

“yeah” jihoon says

with all the efficiency of an emergency warning system the siren shriek sends seventeen SPRINTING down the hallway towards you, and the clamor of excitement is better than you could have hoped for

they’re already asking questions, “are you a carat?” “were you at the concert?” “did anyone notice him playing to one side of the stage?” “how long have you known?”

and you laugh and he laughs and you say, “we’ve known since predebut”

“WE?”

with the ruckus that sets off, you can’t believe they just finished a concert, how do they have the energy for this?

they threaten to tease jihoon forever for not telling them, they curse the heavens for keeping this from them (“not the Universe” you tell them; it’s not a minghao situation, pure skill was all that was used to hide it from them), they demand the details, the whys, the hows

and you oblige, of course, and you don’t stop grinning because jihoon was right, them winding themselves up over everything is way funnier than winding them up yourself

after that, it doesn’t take long to slot into the dynamic

you and jihoon stick to the long distance you’ve got going on; there’s things you’d like to finish where you’re at and it’s worked for so many years already, what’s the rush?

the only real differences are the new group chats clogging your phone and the fact that your facetime conversations get crashed more often, since now anything jihoon does on his phone is apparently “immediately suspect”

you don’t mind much, since it’s not like they do it EVERY time, and they quit after the shock finally wears off

in the end, the dust settles, and you’re beyond content

after all, you only stood to gain here; you’ve always had your soulmate and that night only sealed the deal

if you were being sappy, you’d say his melody and yours formed a duet without trying

really though, you just liked working with him, be it bouncing around lyrics or tunes or the best way to reveal the longest lie-by-omission prank known to band-kind

look out world, here comes the most feared and powerful songwriting pair on the planet (they never even saw it coming)

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