#debut or die keundal

[moondaeznuts]

I find it so cute that on 2023 April's fools day that we have the official Gunwoo novel art released (and in keundal's pov too) the fact that the manhwa showed Gunwoo sooner then the novel lol

EX rank idol data seller becomes a 7th grade civil servant

[amyunshader]

Keundal nightmarish street casting (Lookism x DoD 1/3)

just wild ideas for now.

Okay, so at the end of DoD (Debut or Die for the Muggles), Keundal get a job in the new idol managent departement in Orbit, and Moondae (don’t mind if I call him Monday) send him to try some street casting.

He’s looking for handsome, teens to young men, with dancing and singing potential. (Yeah, bet you see where this is going…)

• Keundal trying to recruit Daniel (big and/or little, depending on the timeline). Squeaks upon learning that he’s acquainted with DG, dejected that the talent must be already taken.

• Of course when he meets Daniel there’s Jay tagging along, and he’s great and handsome too! But… he doesn’t talk 🥲 hard to sing

• Keundal scouts Mary Kim — she will rub this into Vin Jin’s face for all eternity.

• Keundal opens the worm can that is Hostel, from trying to get Eli, to happily discovering Sally has great visuals and Warren has an incredibly built body, before realizing the shitshow they’re living into—unfortunately a no go for press scandals with caring for runaway teen to involvement in street violence, without even mentioning Yenna…

• Keundal passing by Big Deal street, ignorantly sees Jake laughing with friends. He’s internally conflicted to scout him (what are those scars? Must be an accident, right? He kinda have a gangster vibe, but so do Raebin, right? He looks like he have a nice, outgoing personality, he can’t be a bad person right?) But then random street bullies happen, and Keundal watch the tattooed, Boss of Big Deal Jake Kim lead the bloody ass-beating —> yiiiiks! Abort mission! Abort mission!

There’s so many handsome guys in Lookism, but alas most are scary scarred handsome, not really idol material: Samuel for instance is out because of tattoos…

I know I didn’t talk about Johan, keeping him for another Lookism x DoD crossover trope.

*me racking my brain trying to remember the Lookism cast* wait there’s Luah too- *also me being too lazy to add her properly*

[moondaepuppy]

I'm listening to fanmade TeStar concert playlists and

is anyone else genuinely sad thinking about how that one day we'll read the last chapter and then its over 🥲

[rust-is-a-car-disease]

Dod au except is it really an au? (References to keundal and later chapters)

Its just people around moondae noticing how abnormal his behaviour is and reacting bc we know it happens but we never see it bc moondae glosses over it a lot.

Not just the stuff like glossing over his health and stuff due to living a poor life and stuff like not being able to afford the hospital or glossing over all sorts of things though thats fun too

Also like him staring off into space and reacting for a noticeable amount of time.

Or when he talks to keundal b4 they know?

Or when ryu chungwoo finds out abt the overlap between gunwoo and moondaes backstories and moondae not reacting to or knowing moondaes body backstory

Like not just testar either bc they spend so much time w him theyd probably brush it off eventually. Like maybe fans or just random viewers noticing and its like ??? Wtf is this dude doing??

Additionally: reactions to testar (and vtic) as a whole weird behaviours and habits after experiencing the supernatural phenomenon that is the system + stier habits etc.

I might elaborate on it later but i just got hit with my tiredness so i will take a break before doing anything

[nestofthorns]

*spoilers ahead*

maybe it's because i was reading orv before reading dod but debut or die feels like a love letter to idols and fandom the way orv feels like a love letter to readers.

i just keep thinking about the world of the screen. keundal receiving strength through gun134's fancams, despite never meeting. moondae receiving keundal's wishes and help through the system screen.

idols and fans live in two worlds, but they meet through the screen. what connects them? what makes the two worlds connect? why do idols keep performing, why do the audience — the fans — keep watching?

it's fun.

just like testar's concept — it's because it's fun.

because it's fun, because it makes you laugh, because it makes you scream, because it makes you cry.

because you share those emotions, the two worlds are connected.

and when you meet the idols live, those two worlds overlap for a moment and those emotions spill out.

gunwoo, who captured idol videos just to make money. gunwoo, who helped keundal during the worst time of his life through the screen. gunwoo, who lived in an isolated world but still touched others' hearts through the videos he uploaded.

and when they met outside the world of the screen, he once again helped keundal. keundal who cast the wish to help the one who helped him and became the screen itself.

because ryu gunwoo was his idol even before he was park moondae. because park moondae (ryu gunwoo) saved his heart, even before everything.

gunwoo gave him the world of the screen that saved him, and then keundal cast a wish to give him a world that loves him through the screen

idk i keep thinking about how much moondae loves his fans and how much they love him. how their prayers and hopes reached him when he was comatose. how he's always planning to make sure the fandom is having fun and not tired to support testar. how he may not be the og "park moondae", but he's undoubtedly testar's park moondae.

[rush-mp3]

debut or die novel chapter 347 spoilers

keundal is so cute, i can't do this 🥺😭💖

[moondaeznuts]

Debut or Die what-ifs

random thought but what if keundal driving

major spoilers about keundal if you don't know him. this takes place sometime after the series ending

Technically, he has his driver license but he never driven before soooo I can see Chungwoo and Moondae teaching him how to drive.

ew cringe dialogue incoming

"Keundal, I think it's about time to get a car."

"But hyung... It's cheaper to take public transportation instead? Besides... I still don't know how to drive...."

"There's going to be a debut line-up for our hoobaenims, yes? You're going to be their manager soon. You'll need to take care of them and drive them to their schedules if they can't."

"Oh, Right! I see it's safer that way too compared to taking public transportation instead."

"I've already talked to Chungwoo hyung about this and he said he'll teach you how to drive when he's free from his schedule. If not, then I can teach you instead. However, I'm not able to do much."

"Hyung, how come you haven't got your license yet?"

"...I don't need it."

I 100% believe that Moondae likes being the passenger princess that's why he's delaying getting his license again

Moondae would teach Keundal the rules of the road/basic driving laws and meaning of signs while Chungwoo helps Keundal with the driving experience he needs.

Keundal would be a very cautious driver and pretty aware of his surroundings because he doesn't want to get in a wreck. flashbacks to testar car accident

[moondaeznuts]

DEBUT OR DIE KEUNDAL/BIGMOON/BM HEADCANNONS

BIG SPOILERS IF YOU DONT KNOW WHO HE IS

this one has more light spoilers might make another part for the heavier ones

I love him so much and I always talk about him on twt lmaooo so im kinda just compiling stuff from twt into a big posts(?)

some of these hcs are kinda built/expanded off of canon stuffs soooo yeah

some of this might be canon actually but it sometimes hard to tell because I read mtl :cry:

He's twitter moots (brief mentioned of seeing each other in their twitter timelines in part2) with the other fans we see in the series (Moondae's fansite master and the Kim Raebin fan! I cant remember their name spellings rn... will edit later)

HE'S THE RICH FAN... buys all merch he can get his hands on his bedroom is full of TeSTAR merch (it's always mentioned he has merch in his bedroom)

He helps pay(?)/sponsoring those fanmade advertisements like those type of fan ads you see on a member's birthday

If he can he goes to those birthday fan café events :) OROROR he helps pay rent for spaces so they can have birthday event!!!

(idk if this is an actual thing) those mass buy album events(?) the fans would do each comeback(?) he buys albums for other fans that couldn't afford the newest album at the moment... (Moondae will just give him a sign album anyways lol)

He buys any plush/cotton TeSTAR doll he can get his hands on (based on a tweet he saw in ch644 for a Chungwoo doll) he has some sort cute display for each of the members :D however he has some Moondae dolls everywhere in the house (Moondae is concern about this\ Keundal just misses him that's all...) lolol (Groom of May doll sitting on the couch is canon! so cute)

Ahyeon custom making/crocheting clothes for keundal's dolls whenever he comes by his house or as some sort of gift (help there was a cursed thought of ahyeon crocheting moondae's underwear for one of keundal's moondae doll :sob: <- reference to that one moondae doll account on twitter if ykyk)

He has his own custom made TeSTAR t-shirt designs... it may not be the best quality (as in looks more meme-y/shitposty instead of some serious design... "Graphic design is my passion meme" vibe) it so cute and funny (the shirts are in the depths of his closet)

this is getting long.. (its like 8 bullet points but still) I made a Part 2 here still with light spoilers

no heavy spoilers for now...

[moondaeznuts]

DEBUT OR DIE KEUNDAL/BIGMOON HEADCANNONS pt2

SPOILERS IF YOU DONT KNOW WHO HE IS

still not heavy spoilers but yeah

keundal/bigmoon hcs: Part 1

Keundal sitting on the couch holding/hugging one of his Moondae dolls while watching TeSTAR's variety shows/preformances/livestreams or any other extra content

He has a basket of apples in the kitchen for Moondae!

He has all of gun123 videos saved on his phone or somewhere just incase everything gets deleted and so he has something to rewatch

other than that he saves moondae's fancams too

Keundal doesn't cook much... but he attempts to make/follow any of Moondae's recipes! though it may not be just likes Moondae's cooking it's still edible (he rather have moondae cook for them)

^Whenever Moondae does a cooking livestream he also tries to follow along!

he'd rather starve then sell his moondae signed photocard(s)... (just let moondae make him food!!!)

his favorite cereal always changes he probably cycles through different brands and flavors

he cycles through different TeSTAR songs for his alarms I guess the alarms depends on what event is going on for that day

Any hobby that Moondae mentions he does Keundal will also try to get into it too

Keundal and Moondae going skiiing together(pretty sure that this event is canon and moondae is good at skiing) they both find it fun!

^Plus keundal and the other members going skiing together for vacation

Keundal's vocal stat is at C in his original body so it raises up to C+ or B- just from singing TeSTAR songs for fun!

^Moondae giving Keundal vocal lessons and singing advice so his singing stat is higher

Keundal and Raebin having long deep conversations talking about the process in the making of the songs in the albums! Keundal wants to know everything and Raebin is happy to tell him

Keundal and Raebin also discussing the interpretation and meaning behind songs too (omg)

Keundal really likes Baese's acting and would ask him how he felt/his thoughts when he's acting

He def watch anything in which Baese acts in (if its a new kdrama or movie he would watch it with Moondae)

Keundal learning how to crotched from Ahyeon! so cute

Eugene teaching Keundal how to dance to one of their tictactoc (tiktok) dance challenges would be so funny

[moondaeznuts]

About Moondae's surprise birthday letter on 12/15/2022

Before the novel was completed, it used to update 5 days a week (Monday - Friday) until November of 2022 it switched to 4 days a week (mon, tues, thurs, fri). If the novel was on its old update cycle then chapter 565, in which we see Moondae write his birthday letter, would've been uploaded on his birthday

[moondaeznuts]

(12/15/23) HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARK MOONDAE (art from official accounts)

Happy birthday to my beloveds Park Moondae and Ryu Gunwoo

oops spoilers: omg i love the foreshadowing in soheun-nim's moondae chibi art and how the background is also a bunch of status windows (could be reference to keundal?) and the breaking of the background (like debut or die season 2 cover art of Moondae breaking the status window) could be a foreshadowing in novel part 2 or how Moondae's potential is infinite therefore cannot be measured/contained

They actually drew Gunwoo art on his birthday but unfortunately it wasn't for an official birthday post