#yunho bias

[storkmuffin]

hello stork! i have a question about the term 'fan attracting fairy' (i think that's what it's called) in relation to the atz members. i think the general consensus is that san and maybeee seonghwa are the people that originally make many people go: 👀👀 maybe i should get into them, and of course the other members also get a variety of people into ateez.

what ive seen around these parts as a newer atiny is that yunho tends to bias Wreck a lot of people, and maybe eventually shift their bias, but many people tend to write him off when they first get into ateez, which was the case with me. do you think yunho's tendency to want to appeal to the maximum amount of people and be the most likable to the most varied and different types of people at once sort of makes people dismiss him as generic?

his 'thing' is being the perfect bias/boyfriend/whatever else, and after people get into ateez and maybe watch live performances and they get to know him more and they get fascinated by his charms and intensely competitive nature or humor they're like okay maybe i like this guy. but do you think his need to appeal to everyone is the thing that makes him like. uniquely unappealing to everyone? this exact scenario has happened w atleast 4 irl friends, 7 online friends and me, and i think even you originally didn't get into ateez because of yunho and didn't even consider him in the running for your bias for a Long time. what do you think?

TLDR: Yunho's ults are crafted from witnessing him live in performance in concert and fanchats, which makes sense because he is boring on camera for various reasons. (Yeah I said it).

First, a brief personal history:

So the first time I mentioned Yunho as an interesting member (no, shut up, I just didn't find him that interesting, OK?) was for being catholic on stage and then on January 22, 2025, I quoted a youtube commenter ktiny who said something like:

the audience actually took a close look at him and made a sound like OhhhHHHHHHH???? as they went from going, Oh, Idol Face Type Is Doing Idol Stuff to OMG WTF WTF?? So there’s that.

And then I went to the finale encore for Towards the Light, and on day 1 of the two day concert series got totally turned around on Yunho, so much so that I researched the Yunho birthday cafes being hosted near the arena the next day for day 2 and went to three of them and chatted up the Yunho ults who were there from all over the world.

 They all asked me, Is Yunho your ult? because I was at the damn birthday cafe, and when I said, He wasn’t but I saw him live yesterday and now I feel really differently, they gave me the look I consider The Yunho Face of Quiet Absolute Confidence, before saying, quietly confidently(!), “Yes, he has that effect.” 

And thus began my deep dive into Yunho. Then I was asked to compare contrast Yunho and Mingi's speech patterns but it wasnt't until April, 2025 that I made my first Yunho Crying Compilation which then directly led to people diagnosing me as a Yunho Bias.

It took a while, in short, and the shock to the system that was the live performance in concert.

Second, the Yunho must be experienced in live performance thesis.

OK - So the way I would describe the reason why Yunho is a slow burn as opposed to a the usual Introduction Fairy candidates (I've seen that they are variously, San, Wooyoung and Seonghwa) is the difference between flash and glow.

San is considered a fashionable beauty - the triangular body holding up a face that's both ultra- Korean classical (19 century) and yet also very of-the-moment, in that they didn't used to let boys with eyes like that and jaws like that become Idols nor hold them up as beauty standards (even though they were always beautiful) - Flash and fashion, you know? Wooyoung is quick on the draw, sexy, witty, fast, loud as fuck = sparkly. Seonghwa is lickable, a beautiful pervert who pretends to be gentle so he can choke you out later let out his dominant side in the quiet of his Lego dungeon. HongJoong, for the record, has a mad genius vibe. Mingi is his own creature in his own universe, a mad rap prophet hollering in the desert who snaps out of it periodically to insist, No I'm a precious soft little chikadee, hold me gently in your palm and tell me I'm cute, I'm mommy's princess. Jongho is like, I really should be singing opera but you're only young once so I'm going to be in an Idol band for kicks. Yeosang is the 4th dimensional SM prince that somehow got lost and picked up by this weirdo group of insane boys and is too polite to leave.

So many of the people around Yunho are snap crackle pop, but he's doing Good Boy Gentle Glow over here.

Yunho looks too standard and yet not standard enough. He looks like an elevated version of the best looking boy in your high school, the one who was always laughing with other boys and really nice to everyone and the teachers loved him and he got to be class president while the smartest girl in the class only got to be vice president because people need smart girls to do the work but nobody likes them and anyway she's a girl (ahem). He's not extremely, excessively expressive like Seonghwa or San, and he doesn't go all out unalloyed sexy like Wooyoung and Mingi on photoshoots or in reality content.

Some of this is personality, to be sure. He refuses to get messed up, make mistakes, lose, fall apart, be the fool or the loser in group activities. This is dull.

Some of the problem - a lot of it perhaps - is his face. He's just not as expressive as they are, except when he's crying. (ahem). He's beautiful but he's not especially photogenic. This is isn't a diss - he's very beautiful, but some people have a special something when photographed (I'd say Wooyoung and Mingi both have this) that elevate their physical presence, and others don't (Jongho - also very bloody handsome - is not photogenic or photographically expressive either, and resembles Yunho too, so maybe it's a face type issue.).

In LIVE PERFORMANCE however, Yunho really really really shines. He's big, and he's loud, and I dunno if you watched the movie, but he sings a LOT MORE of the songs than somehow you remember. He has a lot of in-person charisma. He also seems physically powerful, more so than the other members. Yunho is actually very loose and playful on stage, where it feels like that would be the more high risk place to be loose and playful, than he is in reality content or music videos. For some reason they have him sitting still a lot in music videos, which I find unfortunate. LET HIM JUMP AROUND MORE, KQ.

And the other thing he excels at is the TokToq chats, but in order to get the full flavor, you actually have to speak Korean, I feel, and be able to appreciate courtesanship, and prefer Geisha performance as opposed to candour. I would think that the Mingi fans who love when he just, uh, gets FULLY WEIRD or just says things really bluntly would feel suffocated by Yunho's TokToqs, in the way that I feel (frankly) bewildered by the abrupt, stop and go but nevertheless very genuine-and-frank feeling Mingi TokToqs. This isn't specific to Mingi either - one of the reasons I stopped being a Stay was because my bias Lee Know also does very strange fanchats that border on hostility. He wasn't always like that, but he's gotten to be that way more and more. It's not my thing. I don't want to know the real you, I want you to perform Idol you.

In any case, Toktoqs are also a form of live performance, in a way that the semi scripted reality content isn't, and the music videos aren't and the lore stuff isn't either.

And to get to all this - the live performances, the footage of live performances, the tokToq chats - you need time to discover and immerse yourself, whereas the music vidoes and screenshots of photoshoots etc are what get people into fandom. Hence the later discovery of Yunho by the Yunho ults, I think, in their fandom journey.

[neflheimen]

Ateez keeping me so well fed with that dance practice video but especially as a hotteok

[starryise]

i need more kpop moots if you like: ateez, skz, txt, boynextdoor, or just kpop (and you're a fun delulu stan) interact :D i also enjoy different kdramas so i will be yelling on main about them

[storkmuffin]

I'm so mad I know this now.

such a pillow princess....literally lol [😂]

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and this guy doesnt have pillows at his dorm.... also does he not hug puddeongi in sleep? 🥲

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

i'm in love or whatever inception lyrics says for @aprylynn (insp.) ♡

[ihavetoomanyfandomstobesane]

atiny, i’m conducting an experiment! can yall rb this and tag your bias/es and sexuality, if you feel comfortable enough?

[kpop-locks]

꒰ ˀˀ ↷ yunho ; simple ”♡ᵎ ꒱

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[storkmuffin]

boiling with rage immediately

sometimes a 6' tall bias wrecker is also babygirl

[poemsfromhersoul]

Insane

[randomagnes0210]

Yuyu today ❤️

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[hyunni-baby]

Seongwha Smutty Headcannons

Warnings: smut. It’s just smutty. afab! Reader

*this isn’t very long or crazy. These were just some things I thought of on a whim today lmao. Love u.

* He seems like the type to like tying people up. Not in a necessarily “rough” way but in a Shibari type way. I think he finds a sort of beauty in it. He would like seeing you tied up and he would sit there and call you pretty while he ties each knot. 

* The type to call you “good girl”, “Pretty girl”

* I think Seongwha is a missionary guy because he just loves looking at you.

* BIG eye contact guy.

* While he enjoys eye contact most of the time, he likes the throw in the occasional blindfold for a bit of sensory deprivation. 

* This man will eat you OUT. Overstimulation at it’s finest. He will hold you hands and just keep going until you can’t take it anymore.

* Overstimulation goes for having sex as well. He loves a pillow princess. He will keep fucking you until you are screaming his name.

* The way he looks at you while you give him head…something sinister. He will bite his lip and throw his head back rolling his eyes as he cums with a fistful of your hair, pulling your head back as we watches you swallow him.

* Actually the king of aftercare. He will shower with you and wash your hair for you, holding you close as the two of you are enveloped in the steam.

[storkmuffin]

3x speed Work

Yunho does it perfectly with all the trimmings. As usual.

[thesylvianovels]

A man of many…head wear.

[minhanniecoupsie]

[thesweetiepienovels]

Me waiting in line at the cinema to see the Ateez movie:

[stargirl-gd10]

Rockstar Yunho...

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