girlsfest | Round 2: Idolverse

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Round 2: Idolverse

Prompts should be based around a scenario related to being an idol. But it doesn't have to be possible in real life!

Canon compliant (could have happened in real life)
Canon divergent (things started out the same but details will change)
Future fic (could happen in the future)
Alternate universe (idol/non-idol, different group entirely, etc)

Example:

Characters/Ship: SNSD Jessica/Taeyeon
Tags: future fic

Prompt: set after taeyeon’s retirement and they’ve both taken a step back from the public eye. taeyeon goes to san francisco for a solo holiday (sightseeing, to visit a good friend, or maybe something else draws her there) and bumps into jessica unexpectedly (bonus if it’s at a club or a bar lol)

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CONTENT
Prompts and fills have to center around K-pop girl group member(s). This includes:

All active and former girl group members
Female soloists
Female members in co-ed groups
Any female idol or trainee affiliated with K-pop (e.g. GP999 contestants, AKB48 members who featured in Produce48)
Slash, gen, het, and trans works are all accepted as long as they involve at least one girl group member

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Characters/Ship: aespa, karina/any
Tags: canon compliant, no major character death

Prompt: Karina falls for another trainee as a coping mechanism. It's not supposed to last, so she doesn't treat the relationship like it will.

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[FILL] still I fall

Characters/Ship: Aespa Winter/Karina
Tags: idolverse, predebut, shared trauma
Permission to Remix: Please ask
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Characters/Ship: le sserafim kim chaewon/rocket punch kim yeonhee
Tags: hurt/(lack of) comfort, internalized jealously, pining on both sides but one side doesn't see it that way,
Permission to Remix: yes!

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There were only so many ways she could express this happiness before it started to hurt. ‘Of course, I’m happy for Chaewon,’ she says, her smile growing more and more strained each time. ‘She’s always been amazing, I had no doubt she would make it.’

Chaewon hasn’t replied to Yeonhee’s text in six months. Six months, and of course, of course, she’s happy for her. The happiness followed her everywhere; when she went back to the dorms and counted the shoes by the door and noticed the lack of a pair, before reminding herself ‘that’s right, she’s not here.’ When she scrolled on Naver and Pann, and sees Chaewon’s articles trending again and again and again. It’s this happiness for her that always makes Yeonhee leave a cheer or a heart, but no comments. Yeonhee wouldn’t be able to describe her happiness with just words you know.

Although, if she had to try, she would describe her happiness just like this; Happiness feels like a knife stuck in her throat.

Yeah, that seems about right.

Nobody else brings it up when they’re alone. Yeonhee opened her kakaotalk, staring at the tiny 1 from her last text sent out, waiting for it to disappear like always. There was a time she checked every day, but then weeks kept passing by. A picture of Chaewon on the main news page, an unread message. It’s just the way things are now.

Yeonhee considered deleting the app a few times, just for a week or two. In her mind, there was something therapeutic about detaching herself from the world that way. Maybe if she thought about it more, had been anyone else, she would have already done it. But she can’t.

She is Kim Yeonhee, the leader of Rocket Punch, and she’s so happy for Chaewon that she feels like screaming at her.

There’s no reply.

___

‘You’re the fucking worst.’

These words stared back at her, dimly lit in the darkness of her room. Yeonhee read them over in mind, the cursor at the end of the sentence blinking over and over like a timer.

‘Do you have any idol friends besides your members?’ This was the question.

Chaewon’s answer was, “There’s Yeonhee, who’s in the same company as me.”

Chaewon’s smile had gone sweet, a shy lift of her lips as she replied. Yeonhee thinks of all the times Chaewon and her had stayed up together, laying on the floor of the practice room, fingers touching. “I want to debut with you,” one of them had whispered, a confession as good as any. A promise, maybe. Yeonhee thinks of the time when she would come back to the dorm and the number of shoes and jackets at the entrance were more than enough for eight people, nine if someone joined them briefly.

She thinks about the day Chaewon left, for Produce 48. And when she had left again, for IZ*ONE. And when she had left again, just like always, because Chaewon had always moved to places Yeonhee can’t even reach. It was even an inside joke for just the two of them, Yeonhee being shorter than Chaewon after all.

“can we call each other soon? i know you’re busy, but i miss your voice.”

There were moments in which Yeonhee had considered just deleting that message, and then blocking and deleting Chaewon’s number. It was so tempting, as it always is, especially on nights like tonight.

‘You’re the fucking worst.’

Yeonhee breathes in through her nose. She hits send. She turns off her phone, shoves it under her pillow, and breathes it out through her mouth. It feels just as painful as a sob.

___

you

i miss you so much, chaewon, but i know you’re going to be fucking amazing,

my chaewon❤️

yeonhee, i miss you too! come to our debut showcase if you can?

vip access on me…

you

i’ll try, i miss you!!!❤️❤️❤️

you

[image sent]

the song was really good! you got this!

being the leader must be hard right~?

you can always come to unnie for advice hehe ❤️

my chaewon❤️

oh haha

but i will, honestly. it means so much. i admire you a lot these days yeonhee,

i’m sad you couldn’t come, tell your parents i said hello! we need to travel together soon!

you

obviously,..

i seriously miss you…

was it worth it?

my chaewon❤️

same, i miss you and your snoring and cooking so much…

you have no idea, yeonhee. seriously.

(Yeonhee isn’t sure which question Chaewon was replying to. Maybe it’s better to leave it like that.)

you

no matter what happens from here, you got this.

i’m always here.

you

[image sent]

the new title is really good!😚

i wish we could have been in japan at the same time.

we always talked about going to disney…

i know you’re busy right now, or asleep. was just thinking about you! love you always!

you

was it worth it, in the end? leaving?

would you have stayed if i asked? or take me with you?

do you even remember i exist?

[messages not sent]

you

everything is making me fucking crazy.

can we call each other soon? i know you’re busy, but i miss your voice.

___

There’s only so long Yeonhee can keep her phone off, because no matter what, she’s still Kim Yeonhee, leader of Rocket Punch, and she has things she can’t avoid. Eight hours of escape wasn’t enough, but it was all she has.

When her manager scolds her later, telling her they were trying to reach her—to double check something, but it’s fine now, just be more mindful—she nods curtly, her shoulders tense. Juri holds Yeonhee’s face in her palms and pulls her cheeks. “I’m here, you know? For anything.”

The words make her think of Chaewon.

She waits all day, her phone cold in her pocket. When she gets her hair and makeup done, she chooses to shut her eyes, listening to her other group members bicker affectionately amongst themselves. During the waiting time, she chooses to map out the hallways instead, her phone cool in her palms, the screen dark. Yeonhee carries it just in case she needs to pretend to look at something else. On the ride back, she lets the slow rumble of the van be her music, her eyes heavy.

It’s when she’s alone in her room that she turns it on, plugging it up into the charger before wandering away from the desk she places it on. Suyun and Sohee banter with each other as they make dinner, Yeonhee turns on a random selection from Netflix, anything that fills the moments of quiet where Yeonhee feels angrier at Chaewon the most.

She washes her face, takes her vitamins, and locks her door. Her phone is charged, and there’s a message. There’s a feeling of heaviness that she notices first before she realizes it’s mixed with a feeling of relief and…something.

chaewon

i know. i am.

i’m sorry

i never wanted to make you angry

is it too late to ask if we can meet up, in person? no more texting, or calling. i want to hear your voice.

i know i fucked up all my chances, but even then.

is it too late for me to see you?

Yeonhee wishes she was alone in this dorm, with nobody else in other bedrooms, asleep, listening to music, not thinking of Kim Chaewon of all people. She wants to scream, knowing that the muffle of her pillow would do nothing to hide the feeling. It feels feral, the way it hangs in the back of her mouth, something angry and sad and full of longing and joy and everything. Just, everything.

you

hi, sorry my phone was off today.

i feel stupid for sending that message, i’m sorry, i wasn’t thinking.

as for meeting up, i’ll think about it.

sorry chawon.

Her reply is instant. Yeonhee finds it ironic, the way she wishes the conversation felt so tense and wrong.

chaewon

let me know if you ever feel up to it

i’m sorry.

you

things happen. that’s life.

Yeonhee doesn’t scream.

___

i hope the formatting is okay, and the fill is what you were looking for in form of prompts/tags ^__^ !!

Edited 2023-04-16 18:04 (UTC)

you're insane for this!! it was so easy for me to forget chaewon was in woollim and in this limbo of will she join rcpc or go solo and in the end she got bought out but i'm sure you never forgot TT____TT i love that concept of, of course you're happy that your friend is successful but you were supposed to do it together so of course it hurts, but you can't say that because then you sound petty and ungrateful. and chaewon really is the one who ran away from her guilt.....!!! thank you for writing :)

the way reading this made me want to scream!!! this was so good oh god thank you for writing this!

HI oh my god this fill is so good... admittedly my knowledge of rocket punch is limited to passing familiarity with the whole chaewon / woollim thing and also my brief but passionate obsession with bim bam bum but i really loved this!! you hit it out of the park with the simultaneous jealousy and happiness and longing and the whole string of text exchanges makes me want to gnaw on my own fist. and just the drama itself of being a member of rocket punch while watching one of your closest friends launch through the superstar izone -> lsf pipeline is such a great angle for this prompt i loved your take 😭

^ wow i was not logged in while commenting. anyways just wanted to say this was from op and great job again!

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