#finally itzy solo covers are happening

[sohnswoo]

HERE FOR YOU

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pairing: RYUJIN x IDOL!GN!Reader

genre: relationship being revealed, fluff, mentions of dispatch and bad comments

word count: about 1.8 again lol

related works: ONE CALL AWAY, SECRET LOVE SONG

After your latest concerts in Seoul, you knew that something would change. Including within your secret relationship. You weren‘t really sure what the change would be. To be honest you were glad about having a solo stage last night, you really were. You finally had a chance to give just a tiny glimpse of your existing relationship. Another thing you were really glad about was the fact that your partner, Ryujin, had seen it happening as well – with a seat in the front.

You weren‘t expecting your song to blow up that much. It wasn‘t even released on any platform. You were happy for singing your own song – one you put everything into, your soul, your emotions and feelings towards her. It was kinda emotional for you as well singing it infront of so many people. It was definitely the best song ever you could have sang. The meaning behind it was always the thing you put most into. The beats and the genre of your song didn‘t mean a thing to you unless the meaning was right.

The thing you also expected to happen? To be on the cover of many tabloids, Soompi or other news. That even included Dispatch. Dispatch was the first – after many of your and Ryujin‘s fans had posted a lot of videos and pictures of you glancing at each other. Dispatch was really trying something. Maybe even something good this time? Besides of that, even at the start of 2022 – no new celebrity couple got announced. Ryujin was glad about that. But now? Even she was tired of having to cover up every time she leaves the dorm to meet up with you.

Maybe that was the reason Dispatch once caught a glimpse of her in your car the other day. They weren‘t really sure whether it was Ryujin with you or not, hell, they weren‘t even sure if it was worth to publish anyway. You guys did try to keep it low, always wearing some coats, sunglasses, masks and hats. But every now and then, when both of you had enough of playing hide and seek, you just would say ‚fuck it‘ and leave both of your dorms like always. So yea, maybe that was the reason Dispatch was about to publish it now. You gave everyone a little teaser at the latest show, maybe it was finally time to say goodbye to your secret relationship. You hoped so.

So when reading through several articles and posts on twitter and Instagram, you were amused. You were amused by reading the comments. You also hoped Ryujin would be amused as well when reading them. It was just a rumor by Dispatch – they haven‘t revealed you as an alleged couple, yet. They only released something regarding your solo song and the fact itzy was attending your concert as well. However, when fans started commenting some fancams where they saw Ryujin smiling at you, you smiling at her in return, all of them blew up. And boom. After some hours of relaxing at the dorm, your manager texted you the article you‘ve been waiting for. „IS [group name]‘S Y/N DATING ITZY‘S RYUJIN?‘ with pictures of you and Ryujin attached to it. They even added some pictures of you waiting for her in your car, not caring about what to wear and being very easy to identify. When reading through it, you noticed the fancams attached to it and clicked on them. You were surprised by the way your fans managed to get the interactions filmed. Even pictures of you glancing at her. And when Dispatch added your ment,

„...My muse helped me get this done. Oh, for now I can‘t tell you exactly who the person is but she is really special to me and the song is also a gift for her – I love you and I can‘t thank you enough for being here – not just now but always.“

You were amazed. Not because it was Dispatch but actually yours‘ and hers‘ fans who were able to put all the pieces together. Not only the looks you gave each other during songs but also your solo song. You responded to your manager if it was necessary to release a statement – to which he responded ‚t would be better for our company‘s reputation‘ (lol company shit as well). You made your way to your company without saying something to your members – not because you didn‘t want to but you will tell them after everything was settled – including revealing your relationship, of course. You were also texting Ryujin the entire time to make sure she‘s fine.

When reaching your company, you weren‘t expecting to see a lot of other people who were aiming their cameras and microphones at you. You didn‘t think twice and went straight into the building. You didn‘t want to tell them first, you wanted to release a statement at your company first. After arriving at your manager‘s office, he would already have a frown on his face. „So… did you really have to be THAT obvious Y/N? You know that some of your fans weren‘t really happy when they saw all of those news related to your ‚scandal‘“. ‚yea right, scandal, being in a relationship is indeed a scandal – the sarcasm. However, it was the truth though. It wasn‘t really good to be in a relationship when being an Idol. You wouldn‘t be able to satisfy your fans entirely.   You knew about the majority of the fans would be happy for you, and support you. But still, there were some fans left that wouldn‘t. And would make it obvious by closing their fansite, stopping to stan you and the worst case, will try their best to ‚harm‘ your relationship. You wished for nothing but the best by the way. You also made that very clear to your manager and also told him that it was the right choice, the right place and you would always do it again if you had to. You also told him about you dating since the start of 2021, which surprised him.

Your manager wasn‘t mad at you, he actually was happy for you. But still, as your manager he had to make sure you‘re handling it right. Your manager also told you that you‘re free to do anything but still to behave like an idol. Your fans and dispatch and any other source would be watching the both of you know. The comments would be spammed with each others names and groups as well. Most of them were always nice. But still. Ryujin had other experiences.

Her comments were filled with negativity, she would be only using you for fame and success, she not loving you and much more. Of course, there would be some nice ones inbetween as well. But still, she felt like she had to throw up at every comment. Nonetheless, she was happy now. In addition, the both of you were happy immediately after both of your companies revealed you were dating. A lot of fans and other idols would cheer on you – backstage, on vlive, by texting or calling. You name it. This still didn‘t change the fact that Ryujin was really hurt by the comments. She started to get upset as well. She would get a lot of mood swings infront of her members or it would also be seen while she was on stage performing. When she once was over at your place, she wouldn‘t be able to hold herself back and showed you a lot of bad comments.

„Look at that, I keep getting comments like this. I didn‘t even do anything to them. They just attack me.“ She would say while sobbing into her sweater. You wouldn‘t really know what to do when she started crying. You would rub her back and try her to re-collect herself again. „The worst thing about this, it‘s really starting to piss me off, they act like they know me and say a lot of bad things about me not being able to be in a relationship.“ She would continue. You decided it was for the best to let her continue speaking in order for her to release everything that had been on her mind the whole time. „You know, I‘m in such a bad mood lately, I can‘t even look at the comments anymore. But the next thing I do is actually have a look at them again and again. And like, they‘re getting more and more. Sometimes I really wish to not be an idol. This is putting me under a lot of pressure.“ Her crying would stop and she would look at you who had been silent the entire time. You would sigh and start to look at her. „Why aren‘t you saying something at all huh? Is it because your fans aren‘t attacking you? Is it because you‘re not affected by them? Tell me.“ she would say. You would think for a while. „Nooo, it‘s not like that. I also come across comments like that as well. I just…. Hm, I don‘t care about those bad comments“. When she gave you a confused look, you would continue. „I mean it, don‘t give me that look. Hmm, the thing is, If I look at them, I would get really mad like you, you know? So, instead of looking at them and thinking about those words the entire day, I decided it would be better if I looked at the positive comments. You know? I like the ones where they write „Y/N-ah, Ryujin must be soo lucky‘ or ‚Yah, that‘s Ryujin‘s S/O.‘. Personally, I love one certain line I just came across ‚The IT couple‘, I think it really suits us don‘t you think.“ You would give her a slight smile. She would cross her arms. „Well, I don‘t know about that. How about asking the fans huh?“ You would sigh and roll your eyes. „Yah, I am asking you – I‘m in a relationship with you, remember? If I asked the fans, I would get more than 1000 replies and different opinions“ She would wait a bit and nod. „I see…. But how do you cope with all of that???“ She would look at you and put one of her fingers on top of her mouth. „Well, how I cope with that? Like I said, I don‘t care about bad comments, they don‘t know me nor you. They don‘t have a say on our relationship.“ She would start to smile when you told her that. „So you know, I really recommend you doing that as well and also think like that – like me. I‘m here for you, you know?“

She would nuzzle herself into your side and lets out a sigh. „That could be true...You know, I‘m really happy that I don-, that we don‘t have to cover up anymore. I‘m so excited for our next dates.“

When the next date happened, you would chose a fancy dinner at a waffle café and your fans would love the content. Dispatch also stopped releasing articles about you and Ryujin shortly after that, since they finally recognize that nothing could stop the both of you from being happy with each other. <3

[honeypwark]

[ Missing ]

  ↳ Roller Coaster era (late Jan-early Mar 2019)

       ↳ Lily goes missing. All hell brakes loose. Every idol ever tries to find Lily.

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There’s a kind of contentment that comes with being absolutely exhausted. When you’re that tired, you know you’ve done your best and pushed yourself yet you’ve withstood the tiredness and given it your all. That’s usually how Lily feels after a long day of practicing. She’d be extremely tired, ready to drag herself home and flop into bed and start over the next day. But not today.

The exhaustion is there, wearing well into her bones but instead of feeling content, she just feels tired. She’s not even supposed to finish practicing for another hour and yet she is just so tired. Usually she pushes on through, telling herself the pain now is worth it in the end. But this doesn’t feel like the tired she’s used to. It’s so much concentrated, seeping into mind and making her just want to sleep.

She stumbles over her own feet again as she tries to work through the dance break at the end of her solo comeback song for the nth time. She takes a breath and bends over, coughing as she braces herself on her knees. She just feels completely wiped out; maybe she’s been pushing herself too hard? She wobbles over to the couch on the side of the room and sits down with a sigh.

“Okay, Lily. Take ten then we’re back,” she says to herself.

She coughs again, clearing her throat before settling further back into the couch and leaning her head back. All it takes is a few deep breaths with her eyes closed and she’s out like a light.

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“Lily Lee~ Unnie made you breakfast,” Nayeon sings gently as she enters the maknae line’s room.

The eldest member carries a plate of blueberry pancakes, Lily’s favorite. All of the members are well aware of how hard Lily is pushing herself to make her solo comeback go nothing less than perfect. They know she feels guilty for being given so many individual opportunities over her members despite all nine of their reassurances that they’re nothing but proud of her. Nayeon decided to surprise Lily with her favorite breakfast in bed.

“Li...ly?”

Nayeon doesn’t think she’s heard Lily get up this morning. Tzuyu and Dahyun are still asleep in their bunks and Chaeyoung is out to brunch with a friend. Lily’s bunk, however, is empty, save for Blue curled up in his usual spot at the foot of the bed. Nayeon leaves the room and her eyebrows only knit together further when she checks and finds the bathroom empty.

“Jihyo, do you know where Lily is?” Nayeon asks.

Jihyo, Sana, and Momo sit in the living room eating the extra pancakes Nayeon had made. (The best ones, of course, had been puts on Lily’s plate.) All three of them look up at Nayeon’s question.

“Is she not in her room?” Jihyo asks.

“No.”

“Bathroom?”

“Just checked.”

“She didn’t stay at Jisung’s dorm last night, did she?”

“No, she was practicing until late,” Momo reminds the leader.

“Did anyone hear her come in?”

“We all went to bed before her but maybe?” Sana says.

Jihyo glances around at the growing worry on her members’ faces.

“Okay, um, Sana. Go ask the others if they know where Lily is and whether or not they know she came home. Nayeon, put Lily’s plate in the microwave and finish cleaning up the kitchen. Momo, call Lily’s cell and see if she’ll pick up. I’ll call Jisung and see if she’s with him.”

The other three girls set off to do as they were told and Jihyo pulls out her phone. She quickly finds the right contact and calls Jisung. NCT Dream’s dorm is practically Lily’s second home. She is constantly spending the night there, the other group’s maknae never complaining to give up his bed to Lily for the night if it means getting to joke around while eating cereal together the next morning. If not for their endlessly busy idol lives, they would be attached at the hip.

“Uhhh... Jihyo sunbaenim? Hello.”

The boy who answers the phone is not Jisung.

“Hello, who is this?”

“I’m Jaemin, one of Jisung’s members.”

“Where is Jisung?”

“He’s showering but he should be out soon- oh, he’s right here.”

Muffled, Jihyo hears, “Hyung, why are using my phone?”

Louder and closer to the phone, Jaemin answers, “It’s Lily’s leader.”

“Jihyo?”

“Yeah.”

Jaemin presumably hands the phone to Jisung.

“Noona?”

“Jisung. Is Lily with you?”

“With me? No.”

“Oh, okay.”

“W-Why? Is she okay? Did something happen?”

Jaemin says something Jihyo can’t understand. The sound that follows sounds suspiciously like Jisung hitting his older member.

“We’re not sure where she is right now,” Jihyo answers.

She looks up as Sana, Nayeon, and Momo return to the living room, several of the other girls coming with them, all looking worried.

“Do you need help finding her? I can call her,” Jisung offers.

“No, it’s alright, Jisung. Thank you, though. Bye-”

“Wait! Will you let me know when you find her?” Jisung says quickly before she can hang up. “Or ask her to text me when she’s home?”

Jihyo blinks, “Uh, yeah. I’ll tell her to text you. Bye, Jisung.”

“Goodbye...”

Jihyo hangs up.

“She’s not with Jisung,” Jihyo announces to the others.

“My call went straight to voicemail,” Momo says, “Her phone’s either off or dead.”

“I don’t like this,” Mina says. “Lily always tells us when she’s staying with someone.”

“Yeah,” Tzuyu agrees quietly.

“What if something happened to her?”

“She might just be at ITZY’s dorm. They live a little closer to the company.”

“But what if something did happen to her?”

“She was walking home late at night; someone should have gone to get her.”

“She’s so little.”

“If someone tried to grab her in an empty street she wouldn’t be able to do much.”

“What if someone recognized her?”

“What if she got kidnapped?!”

“What if she got followed by a sasaeng!?”

“Guys... GUYS!” Jihyo calls to get everyone’s attention. “Worrying like this isn’t going to help anyone. I’ll stay here with Sana in case she comes back. You all split up and start trying to find her.“

While the others hurry to pull on coats and shoes and throw their hair up into ponytails, Sana walks over to Jihyo.

“What are we going to do?” Sana asks.

“We’re going to start calling people,” Jihyo answers. “Anyone Lily knows and we don’t, we’re going to figure out their phone number and call them.”

“How are we going to do that? Like, I don’t have any of Blackpink’s phone numbers.”

“Well... okay. But you know Nayeon. And Nayeon knows Jisoo. Find connections like that.”

A few minutes later, Jihyo has gotten Blackpink’s eldest’s phone number and been told she’s not with them. Nonetheless, Jihyo tries to remember another one of Lily’s countless idol friends to try and call.

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What had gone from a ten minute break to a nearly nine hour night of sleep leaves Lily still fast asleep on the couch of a practice room that morning. She’s shifted onto her side, curled up and sleeping soundly. She wakes slowly, blinking and groaning at the bright overhead lights still shining from the night before. She eventually sits up and rubs the final remnants of sleep from her eyes. Her phone is dead, she realizes, getting the time from the clock on the wall instead.

10:13AM? Really? She was asleep that long? She’s almost surprised her body let her sleep for so long; she usually can’t make it past seven hours of consecutive sleep. She knows her members must be worried sick about her not being home after being alone the night before. She should head home right away to let them know she’s okay. As she pulls her coat on, she hopes her members aren’t worrying too bad.

Unbeknownst to her, the members of Day6 and Stray Kids are scouring the entire company building for her. Nearly the entire kpop idol community has become aware of Twice’s missing maknae as Jihyo and Sana have continued calling more and more people. If there was ever a day to run into an idol somewhere in Seoul, today would be that day as anyone who is able to is out looking for Lily.

“Come on, idiot, don’t actually be missing,” Jae mutters to himself as he starts checking in and out of practice rooms.

Despite Jae’s mean older brother act, it’s obvious and impossible to deny that he cares about the younger American. He’s always teasing her about her height but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how easily someone bigger than her could grab her and force her into a car or down an alleyway or-

“Lily!”

Jae spots Lily leaving a practice room further down the hall. The girl turns toward him.

“Oh, hey-“

Jae crashes into Lily in a hug, squeezing her tightly.

“Okay. Hi, there.” She pats his back as she hugs him back, confused as he usually only briefly hugs her in parting, “Is today a special occasion or...?”

“You are an absolute dumbass, Lilliana Lee!” Jae yells at her, smacking the side of her head.

“OW! What was that for?!” she whines.

“Your members have no idea where you are!” Jae exclaims. “They think you’ve been kidnapped or killed or something and have everyone you’ve ever even looked at for more than five seconds looking for you.”

“W-What?“

“They woke up and you weren’t at the dorm and you weren’t answering their calls so they started calling people to see if you were with them and now every idol ever is searching the entirety of Seoul for you but you’ve just been in a practice room?!!”

“I fell asleep! I didn’t mean to!”

“You can’t just disappear like that!” Jae continues to scold her. “You’ve got so many people worried over nothing and- shit.”

Jae turns away from Lily and covers his eyes.

“Are you-,” Lily steps around him to look at his face, “Are you crying?”

“No,” he says firmly.

“I think you are.”

He glares at her, “I’m still mad at you.”

She steps back with her hands raised, “My bad.”

He sighs, “Alright. Let’s get you home.”

“Okay,” Lily agrees softly.

She lets Jae lead her down the hall, coughing into her elbow before entering the elevator. Jae already has his phone out, texting his members to stop their search because he’s found her.

“Are you sick?” he asks.

“I just think I need some water,” she says.

“You should take some medicine when you get home, just in case.”

“Aw, you do care about me. The only tsundere I know is Jae Park.”

Jae shoves his phone into her hands, “Shut up and call Jeongyeon. You get to deal with her wrath.”

Lily looks at Jeongyeon’s contact that has been pulled up on Jae’s phone and gulps.

[ggukkiedae]

Troublemaker

yoonmi, hannah, and seri’s showcase of trouble, their collaboration album (what happened, and what they wore)

italics are spoken in english; everything was prepared and done according to community quarantine guidelines

the showcase starts with “that’s a no no”

the stage is dark and the lights flash on at the first beat of the drum revealing the three girls

you can hear cheers from specially when yoonmi starts rapping

the music at the end then transitions from that’s a no no’s outro to “not that type’s” intro

as soon as the number ends, the light fades back in to show three smiling and slightly panting girls

jin walks on stage with a mic and script in one hand and three tumblers

“wah, you kids did so well! you must have practiced so hard considering you forgot to put these out here before the show started”

the three girls laugh at him but gratefully take their own personal tumblers from him while he officially begins hosting the show

“everyone, welcome to troublemaker! today, i’m not bts’s jin, i’m the royals’ mc jin. let me introduce to you our three girls. we have bts’s miya, nct’s hannah, and txt’s seri! do you kids have a group introduction?”

yoonmi and hannah immediately turned to seri who laughed but placed her tumbler down next to the stool that was placed behind her

“2, 3” “hi, we’re royals”

“i’m our leader seri, this is our producer miya, and our choreographer hannah unnie”

the four of them sat down while cheering could be heard in the background

“it’s nice to see you finally on stage when your album has been released for a week now. why did you choose to wait for today instead of promoting on music shows?”

“well, we just thought that it would be nice to make it a little more special by having just one time performing since this is pretty new”

“also hannah unnie didn’t want to clash with wayv’s promotion period!” “hey, seri said this was a good birthday gift for beomgyu!”

seri let out a playful sigh and turned to jin who was chuckling “this is why i became leader”

“it makes sense. now that you can finally perform your stages, how do you feel? let’s hear from each one of you. hannah?”

“It feels amazing! i love the neos, but this is something different. there’s just a different feel when you’re acting sexy with people of a different gender and people of your own gender, you know?”

there was a yell of “sexy!” in the crowd which made hannah laugh “thanks, nana! moving on, miya?”

“this is really cool! i’ve never actually done a concept like this before, so it was exciting trying something new.”

“to be doing a unit album with hannah unnie and miya is interesting. i’ve seen their sm station before, and it looked pretty cool. i’m pretty honored to be doing this with them”

jin smiled at them “and i’m going to assume we’re not talking about the production process because you’ll have those up on your channel?”

“straight off the script, oppa” hanah smirked which made jin snort

“right, right, we’re making this as quick as possible because of all the performances. how about this, which of the performances are you looking forward to the most?”

yoonmi smiled “bicycle, of course! it’s a style new to all of us, and it’s bound to surprise everyone! i believe only five other people in here have seen it aside from us and our dancers?”

“that’s right… personally, though, i can’t wait for our bonus tracks. as someone who’s more into vocals than anything, i think it would be a nice way to show ours off. unnie, how about uou?”

“well, i’m personally looking forward to our unit stages. especially me and seri’s. it’s our first time working together, so that’s pretty exciting”

“speaking of your unit stages, it’ll be up soon, right? anything we can expect?”

“the songs will be quite familiar” yoonmi winked and stood up “but, before that, we have two songs to perform”

hannah stood next “our second is something you may remember we performed in mama along with “not that type””

seri smiled “but the first is a little something we hope can make you feel stronger than anyone else out there. “you think!””

jin asked the audience for a round of applause and ran off stage when the lights went off. as soon as the light went on, the girls performed “you think” and “helicopter”

after helicopter ended, a vcr starts playing showing the behind of the showcase production. it showed yoonmi discussing the stage setting and how everything is going to happen and appear. hannah is discussing with the performance team about positioning and entrances and exits. seri is talking to the audio team about the mics and in ears as well as to the rest of the staff about the program flow

when the three girls appear on stage, a mellower melody plays. it’s “you never know”

they pick up the mood with “celebrity” a few moments after before the lights turn off

then a familiar melody plays. lights appear, and it’s yoonmi and hannah on stage. they perform txt’s “can’t we just leave the monster alive”

the txt boys in the audience were focused on by the screen and they were getting all surprised because “that’s our song?”

lights went off then turned on to show seri on stage instead of hannah, and yoonmi holding a guitar. they performed nct dream’s “puzzle piece”

the nct dream boys are seen lipsyncing along and you can see yoonmi accidentally look up and make eye contact with haechan who pulled a face (she almost started laughing)

next yoonmi disappeared, and hannah took her spot. they performed bts’s “lost”

the bts boys were show cheering while jungkook and jimin did the dance in smaller movements in sync with the two girls

when everything finished, yoonmi walked onto stage with jin

jin was clapping “wow, you girls did lost better than i did”

seri shook her head in laughter while hannah laughed at him “you’re being way too kind, oppa”

jin walks them over to the stools yoonmi and seri sat on earlier, now with two more extra for all four of them to sit

“it’s nice to see you cover each other’s songs. what made you girls think of doing this?”

yoonmi poked seri in the side to get her to explain

“well, our groups have different concepts, and we decided to try each other out because we were trying out a new concept for the album anyway. why not try a few other ones?”

“it looks like our lovely audience enjoyed it, as well?” yoonmi gestured over to their friends.

hannah laughed and pointed at the six boys making fun of mark “i think someone’s a little upset his girlfriend didn’t perform a song he was part off”

yoonmi laughed a little and waved sheepishly at her boyfriend

jin laughed and looked towards the audience “let me introduce to the fans watching our live audience. on seri’s hand, we have the boys of txt, and three of her friends from jyp.”

the camera turns to the five boys who started to bounce in their chairs excitedly while three people known as stray kid’s seungmin, and itzy’s chaeryoung and ryujin waved from in front of them

“over there on hannah’s hand, we have around 21 boys known as nct. two of them, i believe, are currently observing quarantine, so they couldn’t be here today”

the camera turns to show a large group of boys (and two puppies?) who were waving excitedly and a little girl who was sitting on mark’s lap and playing with haechan

jin laughed. “puppies, too. finally, on yoonmi’s hand, we have me, our bts members, chan, yoonmi’s other brother, and his family… well, mostly. little yoonseol is over there”

the camera then turns to seven boys hooting and cheering wildly alongside a laughing chan and eunsol

“how about a few reactions from our crowd. girls, take your pick from your members”

the three discussed between each other before nodding. seri went to jin and whispered something in his ear. he smiled and nodded

“our girls are going to sneak off for a bit to get ready for their solo stages.”

yoonmi, hannah, and seri hopped off of their stools and walked off stage. seri winked, hannah blew a kiss, and yoonmi waved before the three of them ran to the wings of the stage

jin continued “if we can call our members on stage, that would be nice. soobin, jeno, and rm?”

namjoon calmly walked on stage, pulling a hesitant jeno along with him while the txt boys practically threw soobin up. much to namjoon’s embarrassment, the bangtan boys together with chan and yoonsung started chanting each of the leaders’ names. he gave them an exasperated look which led to laughter

“now that everyone’s quieted down, soobin, what do you think about miya and hannah’s stage?”

soobin gave a nervous chuckle when jin held the mic up to him “i don’t know if i’m suited to give critique to my sunbaes.”

“soobin, we’re literally friends” hannah’s voice came from where she spoke into her mic backstage

soobin’s eyes widened while jeno and namjoon tried to hold back their laughs. jin shook his head

“you heard her” “well, miya wrote and produced the song for us, so her understanding of the song is no joke. hannah, on the other hand, she seemed to get the feel immediately. the five of us loved it”

jin smiled and patted soobin’s head before turning “jeno-ssi! i’ve seen you at the company once, but i haven’t seen your face around our dorm. miya hasn’t brought you by yet?”

jeno jumped a little startled before laughing and scratching the back of his head “we’re friends, but she just happens to be closer with the others. seri actually was the one who invited me to the company”

“come and visit us some time when hannah comes over. you’re like a cute puppy. anyway, anything to say about miya and seri’s cover?”

jeno’s ears were turning slightly red at jin’s off-handed compliment accompanied by the neos being loud. his cheeks heated up even more when namjoon patted his shoulder

“uh, jaemin, hannah, and i worked on this song together, so it’s a great honor to have miya and seri cover it. they both have really good vocals, and yoonmi is great on the guitar, of course”

jin chuckled and thanked jeno before turning to namjoon “you. your turn”

there was a round of laughter from everyone at the way jin addressed namjoon who just sighed

“i don’t know why yoonmi asked for my opinion when i have nothing to do with lost’s production and creation”

“oppa, you monitored our practices the most” yoonmi’s voice rang through the room which shocked namjoon a little bit

“right, anyway, the girls did great. seri reminded me a bit of taehyung, and hannah was eerily similar to jungkook. good job girls, you made the song seem like your own as well”

“thank you,” jin took over the mic once again “you three can head downstage now. up next, we’ll have the three girls showing off their personal charms with solo performances. seri’s going up first. she chose to do one of miya’s title songs to show off a more elegant side of herself. hannah is going to be exuding her charisma through her only solo sm station song (i suggest having her do more), and yoonmi’s going to be spreading the fun with her best dance performance winning comeback song. without further ado, here is seri”

the lights faded for jin to walk off stage. when the lights went on, seri was on stage, a smile on her face before she whistled

she performed “the boots”

the camera caught seungmin who was staring before he saw his image and shook his head with an embarrassed laugh

then it showed beomgyu and yeonjun who looked like they were yelling along to the songs

hannah was next. she performed “snapping”

the camera showed chenle and johnny who both stood up to dance along, mouthing every word

it also showed the neos doing a mini wave just because they could

yoonmi was next with “play”

jimin danced with her rather than her usual dancer (who was sadly sick)

the camera showed little yoonseol cheering her yoonmi unnie on

it also showed jungkook v and jhope cheering a little too wildly for yoonmi and jimin’s pair dance

after yoonmi’s performance ended, another vcr started playing

it was a mini montage of the girls practicing their performances in both the bighit practice room and sm practice room

there were also cuts of yoonmi leading the girls during the recording process

then the lights went off

bicycle started playing

there were cheers as the girls emerged from the dancers

it started off with seri and you can just hear the txt boys chanting her name loudly

hannah took over the pre chorus which was starting to hype up the audience a lot more

then she went “get on my bike let’s go” and started the chorus. you can see some of the people in the audience doing the choreo that they’ve been doing on tiktok for the past week

then the second verse started with yoonmi rapping and seri walking off stage for a bit

the camera turns to the audience during yoonmi’s part, and you can see jungkook jokingly covering mark’s eyes and jungwoo covering yangyang’s eyes, both with haechan’s help

seri came in for the second chorus

the dance break started, and the cheering was pretty loud even through the screen

yoonmi took the last chorus

then the song ended and there was cheering

jin walked on stage with a proud smile on his face

“it sounded like the military in here, i could barely hear our four lovely girl guests”

“i don’t know, ryujin can be pretty loud” “yah!” seri laughed at ryujin’s indignant yell at her statement

yoonmi sees mark struggling against jungkook’s and chan’s hands and points it out to hannah and seri who laugh

seri then notices johnny being jokingly held down by taeyong, jaemin, and kun while doyoung covered yangyang’s eyes with jungwoo’s help

meanwhile haechan was between them and trying to cover both their eyes

seri pointed the neos out as well, and the other two just burst into more laughter

yoonmi falls off the chair that the staff brought which makes seri and hannah laugh harder

the cameras caught everything

jin helped her up “aigoo, looks like our girls still have a lot of energy despite the crazy performance they just did”

“so this is what it feels like to perform in the military” yoonmi laughed

“you three put up quite a performance. now, it’s time to end. it’s time for your parting words, kids”

yoonmi went first, holding her mic up

“this was a really nice time. i’m glad we were able to show everyone what we’ve been working on the past few months. we’re also really glad to have been able to broadcast this so it could be watched around the world. i hope you guys enjoyed our half-concert half-showcase today. next time, i hope we can meet in real life like in person”

hannah went next

“we practically self produced the whole thing from music to choreography, so i’m glad it looks like you enjoyed it. thank you to our friends and family who are here today for coming to support us as well! these are the people we had in mind to give us energy when we were tired, so we’re glad to be able to show you what we came up with”

finally it was seri

“we worked very hard on every aspect of this collaboration album. it’s not going to be released on charts because we want this to be something you guys can enjoy without worrying about rankings. we hope that you can feel empowered and build up your confidence from listening to our album. we’ll work hard and, if we do this again, we’ll try our best to show you guys something amazing once again”

jin smiled at them “congratulations, girls. your album has been doing well, and it will continue to do amazingly. that’s it for troublemaker. time for an ending greeting”

“until now, it’s been the royals. 2,3”

“thank you” the girls bowed in sync and waved off until the camera faded

that was the end of their showcase

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BTS Reaction|| You’re an idol and you have a past together [Request]

A/N: To the lovely Anon that requested this I hope you enjoy this and it was everything you wanted! If not I’m really sorry!  

Seokjin:

You'd been dreading this day since you got the invitation, your manger accepted on your behalf without trying to get the go-ahead from you, assuming you would just go through with whatever she signed you up for like some kind of performing monkey. Standing in your dressing room as a group of stylists worked around you, one doing your hair, another doing your makeup, you were dressed in a silk ball gown ready to go onto the stage in front of thousands of people and present an award for someone, the easy part was talking in front of thousands of people but the hard part, the part you'd been worrying about the whole time was going out there with Kim Seokjin. The one that everyone loved, the most handsome guy in the world, which was true but whenever you heard the statement it made you want to rip the person who's head was closest to you off and scream about it. It's not that you hated him...well you did but it wasn't because he was Mr Kim Seokjin, it was because he was your ex-boyfriend who ripped your heart into a million pieces and left you to stitch the pieces back together.

"You look amazing." He said as you stood backstage together, you ignored him keeping your gaze in front of you as you waited for your cue to go onto the stage and start presenting but it felt as if an entity was passing while you were waiting.

"You can't still hate me, it's been seven years." You walked out onto the stage as soon as you were waved on and plastered the fake smile you'd become a professional at faking.

"Wow, let's give a round of applause for Xenex for preforming their debut song 'It's Gonna Hurt.'" The crowd clapped along with you and Jin as you smiled into the cameras, Jin said his lines while you stood there and looked as happy as possible, no one knew about your past with Jin. If they knew they wouldn't let you work together. You dated way back before you both debuted, both of you were in a strong serious relationship and you thought it would last forever, but so did everyone else in relationships, they all think their relationships will last forever and ever but that was fairytale nonsense, everyone knew that relationships didn't last.

"The nominees for The Artist Of The Year are as follows, TWICE, ITZY, BTS, AB6IX, NCT127."  You said into the microphone looking at Jin as he opened the envelope with the results in.

"And the winners are." There was a huge drumroll before he opened it and both of you smiled.

"TWICE!" You both yelled in unison clapping as the girls made their way onto the stage to receive their award and give speeches, you hugged each of them before exiting and heading straight for the dressing room, wanting to get out of the venue as soon as humanly possible but you knew he was following you, you got to the dressing room just in time, slamming the door in his face to make a point that you didn't want to speak to him.

(X)

"You can't ignore me forever, you know." You sighed as you came out of the dressing room and seeing him stood there, even though he still pissed you off he still looked unimaginably good looking, and the suit was only adding to his good looks.

"What do you want Jin?" You questioned putting your bag over your shoulder and waiting for your manager to come out of the room with the rest of your stuff, Jin's hand reached out and took your wrist into his grasp, your breath hitched in the back at your throat as you felt the jolt of electricity that ran through your body, your eyes prickled with tears as you realised you wanted to stay there in his grasp.

"I want you, I need you back in my life. Nothing is the same without you in my life." You closed your eyes letting the tears roll silently down your cheeks,

"No Jin. You can't do this. I have to go." You whispered trying to get out of his grasp but he span you around so you were facing him, only you tripped over your own feet and toppled into his chest, eyes gazing up into his beautiful large brown ones, he smiled down at you caressing your cheek with his free hand.

"Tell me you don't feel this, tell me you don't feel the same excitement as before and I will leave you alone. I miss you." He whispered to you, you leant into his hand the door to the dressing room snapping you from your daydream, your manager stared at you and you straightened up and moved away from Jin.

"I'll wait outside in the car." You manager said in a low tone, leaving you alone with Jin. You filled her in on everything while you got unchanged back in the changing room.

"Come back to me...I'll make everything up to you I promise." He pleaded but the moment was over, the mental image of being back together with him was no longer the sweet imagine you had in your head, it was a harsh reality of what happened when you broke up.

"No Jin, I can't go through that again." Shaking your head you tried to step away from him but he wasn't having any of it, he took hold of both of your arms and forced you to stare up at him while you told him you didn't want to be together again.

"Why?" You sighed looking at him, finally letting the tears you'd been trying to hide flow free, your eyes were bloodshot and he could see how hurt you truly were by everything happening,

"Do you know what it's like, to have your heartbroken over and over again?" You whispered to him, his grasp on you loosened and you walked away before he got take hold of you again.

Yoongi:

BigHit Entertainment wanted to hire you. You. They wanted you to work for them, and normally that would be one of the best things a person could hear but not you. Working for BigHit meant working with your ex-boyfriend, none other than Min Yoongi. You dated before he debuted and the relationship had its ups and downs like most relationships but the ending was the worst thing. It left you broken into pieces, you could hardly get out of bed for anything, you broke down and it knocked your own debuted date back by another two years thanks to the breakdown. Though your management at the time put it down to personal family issues, not wanting to go into detail about how you dated another trainee when you weren't supposed to.

"Miss Y/L/N." You looked up at the small receptionist and followed her down a long series of hallways, each of them covered in images of Bang Si-Hyuk with each member from the groups he had working for him and for the solo artists too, as you drew closer to his office you noticed more and more pictures of him with BTS, all of them looked so young. The final image was a group image of them standing together after they debuted, you smiled sadly at the look on Yoongi's face. That was the same day everything ended for you, the door opened and you walked inside, bowing to Bang PD and shaking his hand after he held it out for you to take.

"Welcome Miss Y/L/N," You smiled at him and sat down across from him, looking over his desk. A photo frame caught your eye, inside was a photo of him with the BTS members, all gathered around a dinner table and next to that one was another image with him and the boys from TXT. It made you feel as though he really cared about the people that worked for him and you felt good about going to work for him, your previous employer wasn't the greatest and you were glad another company was willing to take you under their wing.

(X)

"I would just like to thank you for this wonderful opportunity." You said as Bang PD gave you the studio tour, you'd signed the papers and you were officially under his company.

"No need to thank me, one of my other members suggested you and once I'd listened to some of your previous work, I have to say he was right in putting your name forward. I'm glad we can work with you." You smiled at him, wondering who it could have been that put your name forward when you stopped outside the studio with the words 'Genius Studio' written across the glass, a lock outside. It was definitely Yoongi's studio.

"Speak of the devil." He chuckled knocking on the door, it opened and standing there was Yoongi, staring at you his eyes not moving from your face, you felt your eyes begin to water the longer he stared into your soul, and Bang clearing his throat dragging you both away from each other.

"I'll leave you to give Y/N the tour, I have some more work to do." He left and you were alone with Yoongi, for the first time in seven years since he left you there was an awkward tension in the air.

"So you accepted their offer?" He questioned moving aside for you to come inside but you stayed out in the hallway, not wanting to go inside with him.

"Yeah...You showed them my videos?" You questioned wanting answers as to why he showed them you, you of all people. You were the one person he truly hated.

"You're brilliant, you deserve to work with the best of the best." You slowly moved inside when you heard people coming, you didn't want to block anyone's way. You sat down on the leather sofa inside the studio and glanced around, it looked like he slept there all of the time.

"Why did you do it though?" You questioned him, wanting to know exactly why he showed them your videos, sure you were good but there were better people out there other than you.

"I already told you-" You were shaking your head at him and he stopped talking, he looked down at the floor as he sat down in his giant leather chair.

"Why." You whispered to him, you stared up at him and he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.

"I broke your heart a thousand different ways and I'm sorry...This was my way to say I'm sorry." You scoffed and got off the sofa, going to leave the room.

"So they've only taken me on out of pitty because their number one producer broke my heart and they wanted to say sorry." Your back was slammed against the glass and Yoongi was standing in front of you, one arm above your head and the other next to your waist, he wasn't touching you but the way you were so close to each other made your stomach flip, you wanted to reach up and kiss him but you knew you couldn't do that. You and Yoongi didn't work as a couple, there were countless fights, sure the making up was good but the fights weren't worth the makeup, you knew it couldn't work between you no matter how much both of you wanted.

"You ripped my heart out and crushed it Yoongi...I can't do this." His hand dropped from above you and ran across your cheek, looking you dead in the eyes.

"I had to do that, I didn't want to but I had to." You frowned at his words but there was a banging on the door,

"Yoongi! We have to go." Yoongi moved you away from the door before you could question what he meant by he '' did what he to do.'' You smiled at Hoseok on the other side of the door and Yoongi walked out, leaving you inside without another word to you.  

Hoseok:

Hoseok saw you before you saw him, you'd just walked into the venue hall of the hotel where a party was being held for a bunch of Idol's to attend. It was a small get together for all of the Big Hit Artists and your manager convinced you to go along to make connections. Hobi's eyes never left your body once, he watched as you slowly walked through the room, greeting people on your way, smiling and bowing and then stopping to talk to a few people. Namjoon knocked his shoulder once he noticed Hoseok was staring but Hobi didn't want to look away, you were dressed in his favourite colour and favourite style of dress, it was as if you were begging for his attention. But you had no idea he was going to be there but once you saw him out of the corner of your eye dressed in a black suit you wanted to go over to him and hug him right away but you knew you weren't allowed, you knew you had to keep your distance and you also knew this was probably a text from your manager and his manager. They were the whole reason you and Hoseok broke, after all, telling you both that you couldn't go on to debuted if you were dating, neither of you would succeed if you were held back. So you both parted ways, on good terms but your managers made you promise not to see one another again unless it was absolutely necessary.

"Y/n, this way." Your manager said once she saw who you'd seen, you looked down at the ground and followed her through a doorway which leads to some more singers, you greeted each of them and smiled in the most polite way possible, trying to shake Hoseok from your thoughts, the way he looked in the suit, he looked toned and so grown-up, more grown-up then the last time you saw him.

(X)

The night had dragged on and it was finally coming to an end, your manager had gone to the bathroom so you escaped out of the area and went out onto the balcony, you looked down at the ground and it was crowded with paparazzi, the door opening alerted you and you sighed.

"I was just getting some air, I will be right back-" You stopped your sentence when you realised it wasn't your manager coming out to check on you, it was Hoseok. His suit jacket was undone, his tie gone from around his neck, presumably in his pocket.

"Oh. I was just leaving." You whispered trying to go back into the venue hall but he stopped you by taking hold of your hand as it reached the handle.

"Please don't." You stared at him with an eyebrow raised as he knew that you weren't supposed to talk to one another or be alone together.

"Hobi we can't be out here." You whispered to him but he didn't budge, he took hold of your waist and pulled you closer to him, both of your breathing hitched and you stared up into his eyes, wanting to do nothing but make out with him on the balcony, but this was dangerous if anyone looked up right now everything would be over.

"We can't be anywhere, but I had to see you." He pulled you closer to the brick wall near the door so if anyone did look up they couldn't see you, and if anyone came out onto the balcony they wouldn't see you because of the doors blocking you.

"I can't stop thinking about you. I've missed you so much." He whispered to you, moving his arms from your waist and up to your cheeks, cupping them and staring deep into your eyes, your arms slowly moved from your sides and to his neck,

"I missed you too Hobi, so, so much." You could feel your eyes starting to well up as you stared into his, but you didn't want to ruin your makeup so you closed your eyes., letting out a sniffle as you imagined staying there all night, his arms wrapped around your body.

"I have to go." You whispered knowing your manager would be out looking for you by now, and if she saw this there would be consequences.

"I have Joonie distracting her and when he fails I have the rest of them willing to step in." You let out a shaky laugh and finally hugged him tightly, his arms dropped to around your waist and he squeezed you.

"This feels like our last goodbye." He murmured into your hair, you hummed in response and pulled away.

"Not yet," You stood up onto your tiptoes and kissed him, your hands tangling into his black hair and tugging on the ends, he still let out the shakey moans he used to do when you were together and you smiled into the kiss.

"Now it does." You whispered as you pulled away, taking the handkerchief from his top pocket and wiping the red lipstick from his lips, putting it back into his pocket and sighing.

"Don't say goodbye." He whimpered but you knew you had to, the longer you left the more torture it was going to be for you both.

"Goodbye Hobi." You whispered leaving a small kiss on his cheek before walking back into the venue hall and going to find your manager who was in no doubt a hissy fit about you leaving your spot where she told you to wait.

Namjoon:

You took some shaky breaths as you looked out at the sea of people in front of the stage. You were performing at an award ceremony and it was almost time for you to go onto the stage and perform your debut song, it was a ballad about heartbreak and everyone close to you knew who it was about but no one apart from your close friends knew. Someone was straightening the end of your silk ballgown, it was a tight fitted red dress that had a long train on the bottom, you didn't want to dress up like this but your managers insisted, telling you it would fit the song perfectly,

"You're going to do great." Your stage manager reassured you, handing you the blue sparkly microphone, you stared at it this wasn't your usual microphone for performing.

"We lost yours, someone else who is performing tonight offered us his." You nodded and he walked away, you looked over the microphone turning it upside and seeing the letters 'RM' across the bottom, you knew instantly it was Namjoon's microphone, you looked around for someone to try and swap it but it was too late, your cue was coming so you walked out on the stage and hugged the presenter, smiling at her and then getting ready to sing. The venue quietened and you looked over the crowd while you waited for the music to start, front and centre sat Namjoon, staring at you. You felt your eyes begin to water and the song hadn't even started yet.

"I'm in my bed, and you're not here." You began singing, the lights dimmed and a single spotlight was on you, fake snow began to fall around you and you stared forward, trying not to look at Namjoon.

"And there's no one to blame but the drink and your wandering hands." You began to gain more confidence but your hands were still shaking uncontrollably. Namjoon knew it was about him, he had to know. It was all anyone talked about in your close friendship group when you first wrote.

"Forget what I said, it's not what I meant, and I can't take it back. I can't unpack the baggage you left."  You began to belt out the rest of the lyrics, putting all the effort you had into it.

(X)

"What if I'm down? What if I'm out?" Your eyes dropped to stare at Namjoon who was staring at you in awe, his eyes were filled with tears and you glanced away back up to the top of the room, you'd been crying as soon as you hit the first verse.

"What if I'm someone you won't talk about? I'm falling again, I'm falling again. I'm falling." As soon as the lights shut off you ran off the stage, shoving the microphone into your manager's chest and making a run for your changing room not caring about all the questions there would be after your performance. You just made it inside the changing room when Namjoon reached it, banging on the door but you were on the floor in front of it, so he couldn't just open it and walk inside. You brought your knees up into your chest and silently sobbed into them, you heard him knocking on the door and you felt your heart sink as he called out your name.

"Go away Namjoon." You stuttered out not being able to stand hearing his voice calling out your name like that, or just hearing his voice. It brought back all of the memories you had of your last night together, memories you'd managed to push into the back of your mind that you hoped would never resurface.

"Just let me in and we can talk." You sobbed out a whine and moved away from the door, it was now or never.

"Talk? Talk about what?" You asked opening the door, ready to fight him on this but he pushed you into the room and slammed the door behind you.

"Talk about us, everything we had." He said to you, trying to cup your face in his hands but you slapped them away and moved as far away from him as you could get.

"Everything we had, you threw that away Namjoon. Not me." You reminded him of what he did, he was taken back that you threw that at him.

"I told you I was sorry." You shook your head laughing at him as if he thought that saying sorry would fix everything he did to you.

"Please, as if Sorry fixes everything Namjoon." You whispered to him, going over to the dressing table and leaning against it, looking at yourself in the mirror and catching him staring at you.

"What I did was wrong." You stood up and turned to face him, this was the first time he was taking responsibility for his actions.

"I just wanted to say I'm sorry, I know it wasn't easy for you, and I should have been there...I shouldn't have gone off and done what I did. It was wrong." You stared at him, he was finally admitting to cheating on you while you struggled with everything happening around you.

"Joonie I-" He shook his head at you, sitting down on the sofa that was inside the changing room, you watched him as he continued to talk.

"There's nothing I can say to you that will change your mind on how you feel but...I want you to know I am truly sorry. I never meant to hurt you...I was just a dumb 19 year old who." You looked at him and he was crying, you made your way over to him and sat on the sofa, not next to him but near enough to him that you could reach and rub his hand in a comforting way.

"It's fine." You whispered,

"Not it's not, I hurt you and I don't know how I can ever stop you from being so hurt." He stared at you and you stared back, you leant closer to him, not caring about the past anymore just him sitting there in a suit,

"Y/n!" The door opened and you sprang apart from one another, he got up and left the room while your manager came over to congratulate you.

Jimin:

You were in your studio working on a new song when the door opened, you looked up to see Yoongi walking in with a bag, you smiled at him and he began unloading his stuff onto your desk, you span your chair around to face him. He was collaborating with you on your new song, your manager said it would be a good investment of your time and since Yoongi was one of the best rappers out there you decided it would also be a good idea, the song wasn't just for you though. It was for a new Korean Drama that was due to come out at the end of the year and they wanted you and the rapper of your choice to work on it. You'd been meeting up together for the last month on the low down thanks to your history with his band member Jimin, your ex-boyfriend, you didn't want to Jimin to know about this. The way things ended wasn't the best, even though seven years had passed there wasn't a day that went by where you didn't think about him.

"You ready?" Yoongi asked looking up at you, you'd been staring at him for the last two minutes in silence, you nodded at him and walked over to the sofa, bringing out your notes and showing him ideas you had for your own lyrics. The show was about past lovers finally coming together after some time apart and you thought it was ironic that they asked you to work on a song for it, of course, no one knew about your past with Jimin...At least you didn't think anyone did.

"Have you thought about who you're bringing to the premier?" Yoongi asked out of the blue, you stared at him. You never spoke about personal stuff together, it was normally small talk about the weather and then straight to work, you shook your head.

"I was going to go alone," You said with a frown, why was he all of sudden interested.

"So you're not dating anyone right now?" You shook your head trying to hide the clear frown that was forming on your face but he nodded, going back to your notes and taking out a red pen to help you out with some more lyrics

(X)

There was a rapid knocking on your door at 5 pm one night, you groaned coming out of your kitchen and making your way over to the door, you peered through the eye hole and saw Jimin standing there in the pouring rain, banging again on your door trying to get you to answers.

"I know you're in there Y/n!" You ripped the door open and he stumbled inside, taking off his coat and going into the living room.

"Make yourself at home." You said sarcastically, shutting the door and walking behind him, he sat on your sofa, kicking his feet up onto the coffee table and looking at you.

"What are you doing here?" You questioned standing in front of him and folding your arms across your chest, he smirked up at you, you'd gained confidence in the last seven years after he left.

"I wanted to see you." You stared at him and looked him up and down and then around the living room again, not much had changed since the last time he was here.

"Can you leave, my boyfriend will be home any minute." He laughed.

"You don't have a boyfriend, I made sure Yoongi found out before I did this." He said to you, getting up from the sofa and walking round to you, you were face to face now, he looked at you and licked his bottom lip.

"You sent Yoongi to spy on me?" You asked raising your eyebrow at him and staring at him, not wanting to show him that this was making you nervous and your heart skip a beat.

"No, I just asked him to make conversation with you." You glared at him and walked to the front door again, trying to get him to leave your house.

"Please get out." You said to him, you didn't want to go through this.

"No." You stared at him as he walked over to you again, and he pinned you against the front door.

"No Jimin." You whispered as he leant down closer to you, trying to kiss you but you moved away from him and slipped under his arm.

"You don't get to come back here! YOU left ME!" You yelled at him finally breaking down, tears rushing to your eyes and staring at him.

"I left you?" You nodded.

"You walked out without a word as if I was nothing to you. So do it again. Walkout as if I'm nothing and never see me again." You pleaded opening the door and gesturing for him to leave, he stepped outside and as soon as he was out of the door you slammed it shut and slid down the door, hitting the floor and crying into your knees.

Taehyung:

You stared down at your phone as it rang again, it was the 65th missed call you'd had from Taehyung in the last two hours, he was trying to get your attention after he spotted you earlier that morning. You'd gone to see your friend Kim So-Jung who worked in the same company as him, he'd seen you walking into the dance studio with her, and he followed wanting to see what you were doing there, and he stayed to watch you practise your new dance routine for one of your new songs. You'd always struggled with dancing and it was no surprise that even after your debut you still needed help, but he found it adorable that you were still trying so hard now you were a big star.

You groaned hearing your phone vibrate again, you ignored it turning it off and throwing it onto your sofa. You didn't want to speak to him, you didn't want to see him or hear his voice. If you did you knew you would turn into a weak little girl who wanted her ex-boyfriend back, but you couldn't go back to him. You laid down on the sofa and stared up at the ceiling, you had no idea how you were going to make it through the next week. You'd agreed to see Sowon for the rest of the week to work on your routine and you knew Tae would find out when and where your dancing would be since he worked in the same building. It wouldn't be hard for him to just "bump" into you while he was out for a walk through the halls.

(X)

You'd managed to avoid him all week, it was the last time you were supposed to be seeing Sowon and she was running late though so you waited outside the dance studio playing on your phone when it started to ring again, the caller ID popping up with 'TaeTae' on the screen, you groaned laying it down on the ground and looking up to see him staring down at you.

"You still have me saved as TaeTae?" You ignored him looking at the floor, wondering how long Sowon was going to be, you didn't want to have to sit here all day with him talking to you.

"Are you waiting for Sowon?" You nodded and he sighed sitting on the opposite side of the wall to you, you stared up at the ceiling, avoiding all eye contact as possible.

"She'll be late, they had a group meeting and it's still happening...I can help if you like?" You shook your head at his questions but you knew it wasn't going to stop him from talking, he was just going to keep talking over and over until he got a real response from you, so you stood up from the floor.

"Where are you going?" He questioned standing up with you, you looked up and down the hall damming yourself for not making it clear as to where everything was when you first got here.

"Coffee." You said picking a direction to go in and hoping it was the right one.

"Coffee machine is this way." You slowly turned around and followed him down the hallway, wanting to walk behind him and not beside him but he was making that difficult by slowing down to walk beside you.

"How have you been?" You stared at the floor as you walked, was he seriously trying to make some kind of small talk with you after seven years of silence.

"Been good. You?" You questioned him, trying to be nice but not really wanting to be since he ended the relationship. You reached the coffee machine and he began making it just the way you liked, you watched as he did so and then as he walked over to a table, sitting down and patting the chair beside him so you sat in the one in front of him, taking the cup and blowing into it.

"Can we just talk about it?" You looked up at him and then around the room, you were in some kind of canteen.

"No, there's nothing to talk about. You left me, end of story." You said to him not wanting to think about the way he left you. It was heartbreaking to think about, it was as if he really didn't care about your feelings at all.

"Give me one more chance, please, just one?" You shook your head at him looking over at the door as you saw Sowon walking past,

"What, so you can leave me again?" You questioned him, he sighed and reached across the table to take hold of your hand but you stood up in a rush, knocking the drinks over and drawing attention to you both,

"I have to go." You whispered leaving the hall and going to find Sowon, you couldn't be near him for any longer.

Jungkook:

Jungkook looked up as soon as you entered the venue, you were getting ready to perform as an opening act for the New Years Eve show and he was getting ready to perform later. You were dressed in nothing but some sweatpants and a baggy t-shirt but you still looked as beautiful as the last time he saw you seven years ago, he was pulled from his daydream when he noticed someone calling out your name, you turned around and hugged whoever the guy was and continued walking together, he felt his blood boil as he watched the interaction you both had, wanting to find out everything about the person who had their arms wrapped around you that wasn't his.

"Jungkook," Jin said knocking him from his daydream, he looked away from you and continued to stare back at the plans in front of him. You'd noticed him the moment you walked into the venue so when your friend Changbin from Stray Kids rushed over to greet you, you were grateful. You didn't want to see Jungkook for too long and have the urge to rush over and hug him. It had been seven years since you saw him but just one sight of him had you weak at the knees and wanting to be back in his grasp.

"You're performing too right?" You asked Changbin as you walked through the halls going to find your own changing room, he nodded and you smiled looking around behind him for the rest of his members but they were nowhere to be seen.

"Jungkook was staring." He reminded you as you reached the dressing room, you groaned walking inside and wanting the earth to just swallow you up and never let you back out as long as Jungkook was walking the earth.

"Still not over him?" You groaned and Changbin chuckled, pushing you onto the sofa at how dramatic you were being.

(X)

You were all stood on stage for the count down, Stray Kids behind you and BTS right in front of you which was the most awkward encounter imaginable because only Changbin knew of your past with Jungkook and the rest of them were friends with one another, Jungkook was turning around every five seconds to smile at you while Changbin was staring down at you to make sure you were okay with what was going on.

The countdown finished and you walked off stage with Changbin, going to find something to eat to drown your sorrows in the food, being in that close proximity as Jungkook was testing your patience. You shoved a dumpling into your mouth and Changbin stared at you, trying to say something but cut himself off by laughing, you shoved another into your mouth.

"Jungkook is behind you." You almost spat the dumpling back into your hand but swallowed it down and turned around to politely greet him since you were in public view.

"Nice to see you." He said to you and Changbin, he was eyeing him up and down and you knew what was going through his mind so you moved closer to Changbin.

"I need to go and get changed." You said with a giant smile on your face, leaning up and kissing Changbin on the cheek, something you always did but lingered a little longer than before, he chuckled and dragged you into a hug.

"Do not bring me into this." He whispered into your ear so you scuttled away from them and made a dash for your changing room.

"Y/n!" Jungkook was running after you and you speed up, damming the person who made you wear heels tonight, he caught up in no time and you stared at him.

"What?" You questioned, dropping the smile since no one else was around you now, he touched your cheek and you moved away from him not wanting him to touch you like that.

"Why are you with him, when we both know you still love me." You sighed, it was the same Jungkook as before. The jealous boyfriend who wouldn't let you have any friends.

"He's a friend Jungkook." You said as you pushed open the door to your changing room,

"Now if you don't mind, I have to get changed." He made his way inside with you and sat down on the sofa.

"Change away, you know I don't mind the view." You looked away from him and walked over behind a changing screen but he followed, staying on the other side.

"Just come back to me Y/N...I can change...I was an immature teenager last time." You stared at the screen, he was slowly starting to convince you about it.

"We can go back to how we used to be...do you remember how happy we were?" You did, you remembered all of the good memories. None of the bad ones in your mind as he spoke to you in his sweet convincing voice.

"I love you Y/n." He whispered to you, you went to say it back when reality came crashing back down.

"Stop! Just...just stop speaking! Stop trying to change my mind Jungkook." You begged with him, you wanted him to leave but at the same time you didn't. Your heart and mind were going in two different directions and each of them were telling you they were the right one to follow.

Tagline: 

@yoongisdumplingcheeks​  @yourguessisasgoodasminemate​

@lovies-kpop-fan-fiction​  @snowy-meowl​

[issabakugodrangeel]

Showcase gone wrong

Stray Kids 10th member AU

Summary: Stray kids get ready for the showcase in order to debut, but things didn’t go as planned. 

Warnings: None!! But just a DISCLAIMER no hate towards the ITZY members or their fandom just wanted some drama in my story!!! 

A/N: Request are open!! It’s finally up took me a while but here you go....... sorry if this wasn’t good....

Lisa’s P.O.V

“RISE AND SHINE BOYZ!!! I got some excited news!!!!” Chan yelled, opening the door to me and Felix’s shared room as he turn on the lights. I groan pulling the covers over my body tossing to my right side. 

It’s been half a month now since I moved in with these idiots and I’m kinda I love them dearly but they’re so loud sometimes. 

“Felix! Go turn off the lights!!” I said in my sleepy voice.

“How about you get it? You’re the one that’s on the bottom bunk.” He argues. I groan again.   

“Do I have to get Woojin to wake up your ass?” Chan bursted through again giving us our last warning. 

That got my attention and I jolted sitting up. “Okay, I’m awake!” I shouted with my eyes still close. Chan laughs and leaves the room before saying “Hurry up!” 

I sight tiredly. Trying to adjust my eyes, I can hear Felix’s giggles. “Is someone scared of Hyung?” He teases his head was hanging between the railing end. I glared at him. I grabbed my pillow and smacked his face. He let out a ‘ow.’ 

So I may or may not be afraid of getting waken up by Woojin. I don’t even wanna say why, I can’t relive that morning. I did warn them I love to sleep. 

Finally, having the energy, I pulled the sheets off me and slipped on my slippers.  Felix also gets down from his top bunk. 

“You got drool on your face.” He giggles pointing to it. I didn’t have the energy to say anything so I try to playfully smack him but he runs out the door. 

“Noona, I made you pancakes.” Jeongin set a plate in front of me. “Aww!! Thank you my little Dongsang.” I pinch his cheeks. “Don’t baby me, Noona.” He whined sitting down next to me. 

“Hey, where are my pancakes?” Jisung asked him. “You’re a grown man. Make some yourself.” Jeongin tort back. Jisung just glared at him. I couldn’t help but snort. 

“Noona.” Hyunjin called me. “Hmm?” I asked taking a bit out of my food. “Do you cook?” He asked. I almost chocked on my pancakes. Everyone just looked at me oddly. “Hell no I don’t. I can’t cook to save my life. So, don’t ever ask me to make anything.” I warned them. He frowns. 

“Okay, so JYP emailed me the line up for the show case.” Chan announced once he was done with his food. 

“Who are we competing against?” Changbin asked him. 

“ ‘Boy story’ That new Chinese boy group JYP is trying to debut.” Chan started reading the list. 

“Isn’t that boy group that are 10 years old?” I questioned. He nods. God dang it. Why these kids so damn young. 

He started listing off others. Some of I never heard of and some I have. “And then the girls project.” He finished reading the list. 

“Hey isn’t your friend in that group?” Minho nudge Jisung’s elbow. “You mean Ryujin and her squad?” Jisung asked him. He nods. 

I felt tens when Jisung said that name. I still haven’t told them about my beef with them and I don’t plan to. 

“I’m not friends with them anymore remember? I haven’t been since a long time.” I got confused. “What do you mean?” I asked him. 

“Didn’t you used to train with them before Chan asked you to join our team?” Felix asked me. I slowly nod. 

“I stop being friends with them cause I heard they were bullying this trainee at the company. More like I was told they were harassing them. I don’t like being friends that are bullies.” Jisung explained. I almost Aw. At least he good at making good choices. 

“Do you know who it is?” Seungmin asked?” Jisung shook his. “Nope. They never said their names.” He said. I kinda felt grateful for them for not reveling me but also scared at the same time cause other trainees paid attention. 

“They scare me.” Jeongin said

“Why?” Hyunjin raised his eyebrow at him. 

“Well, they look scary.” He said. We shrugged it off. 

“So, Lisa, hows the solo stage coming along?” Chan asked me going to a new topic. 

“I told you guys I’m not spoiling. You guys are just gonna have to see like the others.” I smirked at them they let out a groan. JYP asked me to do a solo stage during the show case and I agree. I tried to kept what I’m doing a secret. And the kids have been dying to know what I’m going to do. 

“Knowing you, it’s going to be amazing.” Seungmin said. “I promise to every inch of bone in my body I won’t let you guys down.” I promised them. I need to debut with them I gotta make them debut. 

“There’s nothing to worry about. Everything will be fine.” Chan assured us. 

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The following past and it was the day of the showcase. I was so nervous I tried not let it show. Tho I can’t help like something bad was going to happen. 

When we arrived at the venue the girls project team acted like they didn’t know me. The guys thought it was wired since they know i’ve trained with them before but didn’t questioned me. 

We were in the dressing room waiting to do our practice run. A knock was heard on the door. The staff member opened it. “Lisa, you have visitors.” She said. I frown my eyebrows. 

My lips turned to a smile. “You guys came!” I screamed running up to thew two men that came into the room.  

“We told you we would come.”Zelo smiles. 

“Besides you did came to my survival show so it’s only fair I come to your showcase.” changhyun lifts me off the ground. 

“Now I have even more reasons to be nervous.” I admitted. 

“You nervous? What are you so nervous about?” Zelo questioned me. 

“Well for starters I’m doing three stages. And I don’t want to let my team down.” I said fast. 

“Hey.” Changkyun places his hands on my shoulders. “You’re going to be fine. You did this once before.” 

I still couldn’t get this feeling off my chest. I know he’s right but, the others are what I keep thinking. I won’t be able to live with myself if I can’t make them debut. 

“Noona, we’re on in ten for practice.” Seungmin called for me. 

“Go get em shorty.” Zelo smiled at me. I glared at him. 

----

Following the other members I made my way to grab my mic to make sure it was charged and working fine. 

Meanwhile the girl project team was practicing. The guys were talking about how good they are. And they were. 

“You okay?” Chan asked. I jumped from sudden appearance. 

“Y-yeah. They’re good huh?” I pointed over to them. 

“We got this.”Chan assured me. I just stared at the stage. 

Once the girls were done it was our turn to practice. Fist it was my solo stage. Surprisingly it turn out just fine. 

“Wow, Noona that was amazing.” Felix said having the bright smile. 

“I feel like i should’ve done something better.” 

“Trust us. That performance was enough.” Hyunjin said. 

“You honestly killed it. Rapping and singing not to mention dancing at the same time I felt that.” Minho places his arm around my shoulder. I took a sip of my bottle before Chan called me for the 3racha stage. 

For this stage the boys did mess up a bit nothing serious but I didn’t seem something like they would do.  When we got to the team practice for warrior descendant Changbin and Jisung messed up again. 

Chan pulled them to the side to talk about the mistakes they did. 

“You did well.” The voice of Yeji startled me. I looked at her confusingly. “But it looks like you guys need a lot of work.” She fakes smiles. 

“Oh, I saw you guys had a few mistakes yourselves. You guys just don’t want to admit it.” I gave her one in return. She didn’t look to happy. 

“Well, just see who gets to debut in a few hours.” She grins at me before leaving. I ignored her and went to check up on the others. 

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It was finally time for the real showcase tonight JYP was making his way to his place. 

I went to go double check my mic that it was recharged and working fine. “Testing 1,2,3?” The tech guy gave me thumbs up saying it was good. I nod. Minho stood next to me to check his. 

“Lisa your stage is almost up.” A staff member reminds me. Well, it’s now or never. I gotta do this. I try to take glance at the rest of the members as I could reminding myself I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them. 

----

My solo stage was done I handed my mic to the tech guy rushing over to the others. 

“See you had nothing to worry about.” Woojin pats my shoulder.

“I still have two more stages. Am I shaking?” I asked looking at my hands

“You’re not. You’re over reacting.” Changbin said placing his ear set in. 

“3racha lets go.” Chan called to us. Here we go again. 

----

Our stage went fine just that Chan slipped a little but I don’t think too many people notice. The way he fell scared me but I stayed focus. 

Now it was time for our team again. I feel like we should be okay we practice so man times. 

Everyone kept cheering us on. When I got to my rap part I only made it to three words till my mic was go cut off. I began to panic but tried not to show it and still went on and did my verse using all the power in my voice so people could still hear me. Before my verse ended Chan notice my mic was off and quickly rushed to my side making it seem like it was part of the dance and let me shared my mic with him. I kept it calm but in the inside it wanted to barf. 

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Getting off the stage hearing the crowd die down I quickly rushed to backstage. At this point my eyes started to water. Fearing for the worst. 

“What happened back there?” Our manager came up to us. This time my heart was beating ten times than it was before. 

“I don’t know my mic was working just fine.” I said with a panic tone in my voice. I can tell by the others they were uneasy about this. 

“Didn’t you make sure to check your mic before going on stage?” He yelled. 

“I did before going on for my solo stage.” I answered him by now you can hear the fear in my voice got to me. 

“I was there when she checked it. Something must’ve happened.” Minho tried to defend me. 

“Minho, not now. She needs to learn from her mistakes by herself.” Our manager raised his hand up thinking he was going to hit me I flinch and back away a bit. Everyone looked at me confusingly including manager. 

He takes a moment to realize my actions. “L-Lisa -ah, did-did you really think I was going to hit you?” He questions me his voice lowering with concern. 

I was too embarrassed to reply and hid my hands underneath my sleeves. “I-I’m sorry.” I knew I messed up. This was exactly what I was afraid off. I didn’t really tell them during my time at TS everyone there would get abused it was something I just kept to myself not wanting to cause more trouble. At this point my head started hurting. I let myself get carried away. 

Our manager sights. “Well talk more later, you guys are needed on stage.” 

“Lisa-“ Chan tried to put his hand on my shoulder till I lightly shoved it off and walked to to the stage.

----- (gonna speed this part up a bit)

I was so nervous. I knew I screwed up our chances of debuting. The boys probably hate me at the moment. Though we did received positive feedback  we still had some flaws.  

JYP was now talking to the ‘girls project’ not gonna lie. They were really good. “But there was one person who stood out to me the most the entire time.” I snapped back to reality hearing what JYP had to say. “Lisa.” My heart began to beat faster as he made eye contact. Now everyone turned to look at me.

“I wasn’t expecting you to have a mistake on stage. Even so, your mistake could’ve hurt your group you handle your situation very well.” My heart was still racing. “Most people would’ve panic and stopped but you kept performing keeping it natural. And Chan you helped a lot by sharing your mic with her noticing the problem. I give you points for that. That’s team work. “JYP complemented us. We thanked him and bowed. 

He’s right if Chan didn’t save my ass back there things might’ve been worst for us. 

“Of course I care about my artist knowing it wasn’t something out of the blew we’ll be looking into it.” JYP assured me. I nod. Could someone really sabotage?

“This is really hard for me because all of you are really good. But there is one winner.” JYP said. “Congratulations boys team.” My heart instantly dropped hearing our name. It dropped in a good way. Our team looked at each other with shocked eyes. I held back my tears from crying in front of all these people. I felt someone put an arm around me to comfort. I glance over to see it was Minho.

“You guys still need a lot of work but I really liked how you guys work together. You move if you were one body. I can really feel that stage aura in all of you. “Congratulations. You are the new JYP boy group to debut. ” He smiled at us.

So many emotions were going trough my entire body. Once the cameras were turned off. I quickly hugged Minho. After that I ran over to face Chan. He too was crying. “Thank you.” I cried as I hugged him the tightest. “Thank you.” I sobbed in his chest. “I should be the one thanking you.” He chuckles through his sobs.

Once everyone was done hugging and crying. “Guys I’m really sorry for letting you down.” I apologized to them for the million time.

“It’s okay. You heard JYP, mistakes happen.” Chan said.

“That doesn’t change the fact we almost didn’t make it this far.” I argued.

“Noona! We’re debuting! No ones blaming you and why would we? We never did.” Jisung said placing his hands on my shoulders. Everyone nods.

“I love you guys. So much.” I smiled at them.

“Another group hug.” Jisung yelled as we all huddle around each other.

“Lisa!”I heard Changkyun call for me when everyone let go.

“guys!” I smiled and ran over to them hugging them.

“You did it.” Changkyun ruffles my hair.

“You we’re amazing regardless of what happened.” Zelo patted my shoulder.

“I don’t know I have feeling it was planned.” I told after what JYP said.

“Maybe but did you see the girls team when JYP said you were going to debut. It was hilarious.” Changkyun smiles. Mine fades once he mentions them. What if it was them.

“We should celebrate with your members.” Zelo suggested. All I did was nod. 

--

-To Jisung  

As Jisung was packing his bag someone came up to him. "Congrats Jisung Oppa." He jumped a little but notice it was just Ryujin."Oh, thanks Ryujin. Sorry you guys didn't make it but there always next time right?" Jisung tried not to be selfish about it but just didn't want to talk to her.

 Her smile faded. "I feel bad for what happened to Lisa. It was wired her mic died middle of her performance." Ryujin mentions. Jisung stopped packing his bag and glanced over to Lisa. He knew she was beating herself up over the little incident. "yeah, Minho hyung was right, her mic was fully charged before we went on stage." Jisung also couldn't but think about. He also knew that Lisa was acting very wired at every single practice they had to prepared for the showcase. This wasn't something he knew that she would make a mistake in.

“Anyways, the girls and I are gonna go get dinner do you and the other boys want to join us?” She asked moving to a different topic. 

“Ryunjin, remember we’re not friends anymore.” Jisung reminded her as he zipped his bag. 

She looked hurt by his words. “That does mean we still can’t hang out?” 

“To me it does. Sorry, but the guys and I already have plans.” Jisung told her his final answer.

“Fine.” Ryunjin took her bag off the table but all her stuff fell out as it was not zipped. 

She let out a frustrating yet panic sight and she quickly tried to put everything back in her backpack. Jisung notice something odd that shouldn’t be in her bag. 

“Is that a mic you have?” He questions her as he went to pick it up but Ryunjin snatched it from his hands. Tho Jisung was quick enough to react to get it first. “Why do you have this?” He gave her a confused look. 

Ryunjin tried to snatch it but Jisung pulled his hand away. He then took a moment to process everything that just happened. “You switched out Noona’s mic? Why” He had a look of disbelieve. Ryunjin just had look of fear on her face. 

“You guys are the ones that have been harassing her haven’t you?” Jisung put the pieces together he figured it out. “The way she would always tense up whenever we talked about you guys. She used to trainee with you guys. Why!” He started to raise his voice. 

Ryunjin backed away a bit. “What did she tell you?” She regain her composure and acted like she didn’t do anything.

Jisung started to get angry at this point. “She didn’t say anything. Now I know why she never talked about herself much. Why did you do this? You know this could’ve impacted the rest of my member too? Do you know how hard Chan hyung worked to get us here? What do you have against Lisa anyways?”

“She’s not one of us oppa!” Those words really hit him. 

“That is so stupid. She doesn’t have to be. So she’s not Korean just because she’s not our race doesn’t mean she has what it takes to debt. We all deserve a chance. You’re lucky I’m not reporting you and the others.” Jisung snapped at her. 

Ryunjin was shocked she never seen him this angry before. Just as she was about to walk away Jisung grabbed her arm. “I’m warning you right now Ryunjin, you and your other members so try to lay another figure on my Noona you’re going to regret it.” Jisung glared at her as he went to talk this members. 

{Lisa SKZ 10th Member Masterlist}

[fmdmiru]

headcanon: idol edition #1-15

Day One: Introduce your muse. Are they solo or in a group? What is their position in the group? Consider this day the day for writing the basics.

miru shimazaki, more commonly known just as miru, is the lead vocalist and lead dancer of dimensions’ seven-membered girl group, 7rophy. she is known for her strong, rich voice as well as her fluid and accurate dancing. her unofficial nickname is cupid.

Day Two: Talk about your muse’s childhood. Where did they grow up? Did they have any dream jobs besides being an idol? When did they realize they wanted to be an idol?

she grew up in osaka, japan. she was the younger of twins, being born forty seconds after her sister, moe. her mother works as an accountant, and her father works in a clothing company, managing sales. when she was younger, all she dreamed of was beating her sister so the idea of becoming an idol was completely foreign until she saw an ad for dimensions’ global auditions.

Day Three: Take us back to when your muse was either recruited or auditioned to become an idol. How did that go? How did they feel getting up on stage for recruiters? If your muse could give their younger selves advice before the audition, what would they say?

miru was confident in her audition. she had worked hard and prepared bee’s irony for her audition. there were no nerves or anything. all she had in her mind was that she had to succeed in order to beat her sister. if she could go back, she’d probably tell herself to loosen up her eyes because they were probably like lasers with how determined she was.

Day Four: Remember the trainee days? What are some of your muse’s memories of being a trainee? How long were they a trainee? Were they worried about potentially not making a debut? Talk about any challenges they might have encountered.

she wasn’t that liked as a trainee. she was definitely a kiss up because she just wanted to survive and looking good to trainers wasn’t a bad thing. she definitely didn’t think of the possibility of not debuting. all she did was work hard to make certain that she did. she trained for a year and a half before debuting. the only challenge was learning korean, but in order to know whether someone’s talking shit about you or not, you gotta learn fast which is exactly what miru did. 

Day Five: Recall your muse’s debut. What was the song they debuted with? How did it feel performing for the first time on stage as an idol? Feel free to bring up their thoughts about the concept, choreography, lyrics, music video, or other components. 

7rophy debuted with pepe. it wasn’t exactly miru’s style as it was too peppy and preppy for her. it felt nice being able to stand on stage though. she liked all the lights and attention. she likes attention. overall, her debut experience was great because for the first time, she felt like she was finally in the spotlight and not her sister.

Day Six: What concept does your muse think they can pull off best? Cutesy? Manly? Sexy? What concept do they have a hard time pulling off? What kind of concept would they want to do at some point?

miru likes the direction that 7rophy is going with these days. songs like latata and hann are a lot more comfortable than songs like high heels or like. she thinks she does better with mature, sultry concepts. things that are commonly called ‘girl crush’. anything that’s not too cutesy is fine with her though she thinks she pulls that off pretty well as well.

Day Seven: Which era is your muse’s favorite in their career? Why is it their favorite (think concept, promotions, choreography, etc.)? If your muse has recently debuted, talk about what they would want to do for their next comeback.

she definitely loves hann. after the success of latata, she was afraid that 7rophy would be remembered as just being one-hit wonders, but then hann did just as well, and so she was satisfied. also, the dark concept was comfortable, and she liked the amount of lines that she got in the song. she trusts minzy to compose songs that fit with their image well and thinks that dimensions should have let her take the wheel earlier in their career. then maybe it wouldn’t have taken this long.

Day Eight: Talk about your muse’s strengths and weaknesses as an idol. Feel free to discuss their own personal thoughts regarding these components. Think of qualities such as vocals, dancing, visuals, acting skills, and variety show skills, for example.

miru doesn’t think she’s weak at anything. she’s strong enough in her vocals and her singing, she has stage presence that captivates everybody’s eyes, and she plays the dumb, innocent foreigner on variety shows that pays off well enough for her to be called from time to time. she knows she’ll never be able to act because of her nationality, and so she doesn’t bother trying to get into that industry. she would love to be more involved with magazine covers or any other stylistic offers such as endorsing a brand. for that to happen, though, she knows she needs to build her own name up.

Day Nine: What is your muse’s fashion style? Talk about what kind of clothes they love to wear. To them, what is the essential thing to have in their closet? What is their favorite outfit?

miru is very interested in fashion, and so she likes to dress up whenever she can. she doesn’t like anything flashy and rather mixes and matches what would be considered “casual” clothes to make it her own thing. so the individual items she wears don’t look like much, but she puts them together well. her casual outfits are probably close to what itzy’s lia wears (inspirational links here and here and here)

Day Ten: Talk about your muse’s three closest friends. How did they meet? How long have they known each other? What do they love most about their friends?

i don’t think i like plotted enough with all of you to really list miru’s closest friends?? unity’s jihae sort of encourages her behavior because they’re similar in a sense, and she would consider him a close friend. her members like minzy and bella are also considered close friends. aria’s mimi and miru became friends in a really odd way, but she still looks up to her and how long aria’s been going strong in this industry.

Day Eleven: Has your muse had any scandals? How have these scandals affected your muse as an idol or as a person? If your muse has not had any scandals, talk about their views on scandals. Is all publicity good publicity?

it surprises even miru that she hasn’t had a single attitude scandal yet. maybe it’s because she’s so good at turning on and off her idol persona. the last thing miru really wants is a bad scandal though because while it may help her name get known, it’s not in a positive light, and she needs a positive name value in order to have a long career.

Day Twelve: If your muse is in a group, what are the fun things about promoting with other members? What do they love about being in a group? What do they love about their members? If your muse is a solo artist, what are their thoughts on promoting alone? What do they love about being solo?

miru is certain that she would have rocked it even as a soloist. she thinks she has enough stage presence and charisma to fill up a stage on her own, and she would love to get an opportunity to one day. however, she’s also super dedicated to the group mainly because she has a love for her members. it’s her loyalty kicking in mostly, but she knows that the group needs to be solid for her to get any individual opportunities.

Day Thirteen: For the muses in a group, what are the challenges of being one of several people in a group? Have there been any troubles that have come along with being in a group environment and times they wish they were alone? For the solo artist muses, have you ever felt lonely promoting alone? Do you ever wish that you were in a group instead?

the one thing miru was really upset about at first was that she was never a main anything. she’s the lead vocalist and lead dancer, which to her sounded like she wasn’t good enough to really be the top in anything. she still suffers from an inferiority complex even with her members as she has moments where she doubts her skills, but she’s gotten better at trying not to compare herself to them. it does get tiring being around the same group of people all the time, but her members do a good job of giving her some space when she needs it. overall, she’s pretty satisfied with the atmosphere that 7rophy has as a group.

Day Fourteen: If your muse is in a group, how do you think they would have fared had they had a solo career instead? What kind of concept would they have? If your muse is a solo artist, how do you think they would have fared if they were in an idol group? What position of the group do you think they would have? 

if miru were to have debuted solo, she would have loved a concept like dimensions soloist 1. something alluring and seductive where the force of the song and performance itself is enough to captivate peoples’ eyes. however, if she did debut as a soloist, she thinks that dimensions probably would have given her a concept similar to bc soloist 1. something fresh and young. she doesn’t mind either one because she thinks she can rock anything. she firmly believes that she would have been successful even as a soloist.

Day Fifteen: Who does your muse look up to in the industry? Why do they look up to this person? 

miru admires anybody who’s had a long and strong career. she’ll mention bee and aria usually as her idols. bee because of their public recognition and aria because of their fanbase. both groups have been in the industry for so long, and yet every comeback seems to still do well. that’s the kind of career that she wishes for.

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No Free Here

Everything about artists is heavily managed and controlled

It is a known fact that most companies have the say in how a member is going to look, act and even sing and speak. It is all about the concept of the group and how the member will fit it. 

BLACKPINK Rosé is known to have a unique singing voice that attracts listeners. However, fans have pointed out that the voice she is singing in, is in fact not her own natural voice. Fans have made many videos “revealing” Rosé’s real voice, which is a deeper tone than what we are used to hearing. There’s been a claim going around saying the company make her sing in a more high pitched tone, to create a more diverse voice within the group. However, no comment on this has been published from YG Entertainment or Rosé herself.

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PinkFantasy is a six member girl group with an unheard of concept. One of the members Daewang wears a huge bunny mask. Below is the actual photo used to promote Daewang.

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It is said that the company is using this as a marketing ploy to garner more interest and more fans, however some say it is Daewang’s own choice as she suffers from stage fright and is not comfortable without it.

TWICE Chaeyoung is a member who has had many appearance changes, and she is not afraid to do so. Chaeyoung also has a number of tattoos, which are covered up or blurred out in music videos and TV shows. Her appearance changes has often come as a surprise to fans, and even to the company staff, as it was revealed that when she cut her hair short, she did it without notifying the staff. It was a shock because it wasn’t preplanned meaning the stylists had to quickly change how they originally wanted to style Chaeyoung and the look she was going for. JYP Entertainment founder and CEO, Park Jinyoung commented on the situation saying “Your decision should have been known to the company before you went any further. You should’ve asked or mentioned this to the company before making a dramatic change like a hair cut.” This proved again that everything, down to the members hairstyles, are managed and part of the image the group is set to go for.

©Chaeyoung/JYP Entertainment

Park Jimin, known as Jamie, was a part of the group 15& (debuted 2012) and a solo artist under JYP Entertainment until 2019. Jamie worked as a host on the popular show After School Club, where she made it very clear that she wanted to release music and be a singer, but JYPE was stopping her from doing so as she 15& went on a hiatus in 2015 and her solo activities were sparse. She would often look into the camera and call out JYP by saying “JYP, I’m a singer! I need to sing!”. This was done in a what seemed like a fun and lighthearted way by her co-hosts, however it was clear by Jamie that she was serious. However, since leaving, Jamie has expressed her gratitude towards the company founder and CEO, whom she says always gave her good advice and allowed her to find the music she wanted to produce.

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Sunmi, former Wonder Girls member, is now a successful soloist in South Korea. She debuted in 2007 under JYP Entertainment, but went on a two year hiatus in 2010. She then returned in 2012, with a solo debut as well as rejoining the group. Her solo debut was very successful. She later expressed that she didn’t have creative freedom within the company, and that JYPE told her how to sing, dance and what facial expressions to make in her solo debut music video, even if she did not like it. JYPE is also famous for their artist singing in a “half breathe half air” style, and Sunmi said this was so heavily enforced, she wasn't able to experiment with different styles. Since leaving the company in 2017, and signing with a new company, she has all the creative freedom she wants. She said she has been experimenting with different styles of music and performances, which ultimately have worked in her favour as she is one of the top ranking solo artists in South Korea today.

©Sunmi/Getty Images

Got7, also formerly under JYP Entertainment, are very talented in songwriting. However, during their time at JYP Entertainment, their involvement in songwriting was limited as JYPE didn’t think what the members wrote would fit the groups concept. Group leader JB presented a song to Park Jinyoung, who is known to produce songs for all the artists under JYP Entertainment, on a TV show and was met with criticisms from Park. This wasn’t received well by fans who complained that Park was being too harsh and said many of the songs produced by JB and the other members are fan favourites.

Are we seeing a pattern with JYPE and their artists? Yes very much so! Especially in the past, JYPE was managing their idols very tightly, with limited freedoms as they had a specific image they wanted their artists to show. However, JYPE seems to be letting their artists have a bit more freedom and participation as many songs from Twice, Day6, Itzy have been written or co-written by members. Stray Kids, who debuted in 2018 under JYPE, are one of the few groups in the industry who have somewhat full control of the music they make as members of the group are credited on every song they have released. 

SM Entertainment is also a company known for tightly managing their artists music and appearances. Girl’s Generation, Seohyun, said she, along with other members, wanted part in making their song Lion Heart, but were denied. 

There are many other stories of artists having very little creative freedom whilst under a company. Sistar’s Hyolyn said the company didn’t like the type of music she made, so she was discouraged and didn’t bother writing more music - until she left.  

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