girlsfest | Round 1: Quotes

Each prompt should be centered around words that have already been said.

Possibilities include a quote of any kind:

Existing works (books, poetry, TV shows, movie scripts, video game scripts, song lyrics, articles)
Speech (celebrity, netizen, anonymous)
Anything else that fits!

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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

PROMPTING

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Characters/Ship: itzy ryujin/aespa ningning
Tags: sports au
Prompt:

Though, I do admit, it came on fast
Still, I do believe that it can last
And I will be loathing
For forever
Loathing
Truly, deeply loathing you
My whole life long

— What is this Feeling, Wicked

FILLING

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[FILL] when the time comes

Characters/Ship: lesserafim sakura/lee chaeyeon
Tags: post-produce48, canon compliant
Permission to Remix: Please ask
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Characters/Ship: any survivor show trainee, group
Tags: canon comp, canon div
Prompt:

"The unfair proximity of a dream."

Characters/Ship: ITZY Ryujin/Chaeryeong
Tags: canon comp, post-sixteen, post-mixnine
Permission to Remix: Yes
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Chaeryeong was fourteen when the spotlights she’d entrusted her life to turned their back on her for the first time. Fourteen. Old enough to be realistic about her slim chances of making the team. Naive enough to have thought that she could, anyway. Nevermind that he thought what the team needed was a strong dancer. Nevermind that he looked past Chaeryeong on stage to pick the final member out from the crowd.

Ryujin was fifteen when she saw Chaeryeong cry for the first time in real life and not over a television screen. Chaeryeong cried like she had been left alone in the world: pathetically, and with every inch of her small, hunched body. Ryujin was always the first one to find her after every evaluation, eyes swollen, voice wet and self-deprecating. Always the one to get her water and a steady flow of napkins, when the comfort of her you did fine’s and they were being too harsh’s proved to be insufficient. Ryujin understood, even if she wasn’t the one shedding half her body weight in tears. Every single comment they got felt like a postmortem, a dissection into the death of their non-careers as singers.

Ryujin is sixteen when she finds out how cold the stage is when the spotlights are turned against her. Sixteen, when she finds out exactly how it feels to be told that the dream she thought was a step away from fruition, so tangible she swore she held it in her hand, was never in reach in the first place. The live broadcast is over. Her parents fetch her home. She skips a late dinner to tuck herself into her bed and mistakes the weight of her duvet to be that of the world on her shoulders. They had been counting on her and she wasn’t enough.

She is sixteen when she answers Chaeryeong’s call, crying into herself, inconsolable and incoherent. Chaeryeong lets her talk anyway, making a mess all over the microphone. She listens despite the unfamiliarity of this situation. This position they’ve found themselves in where the comforter has become the comforted.

She is sixteen when she tells Chaeryeong that she wants to give up on this stupid dream. Let it go before she becomes like any of those unnies on the show, addicted to the pain of trying, trying, trying, and holding onto any speck of hope they can find. Glimmers so small they might as well have been dust flecks illuminating under the conical beam of light they all covet so badly.

She is sixteen when she realises that Chaeryeong needs her as much as she needs the stage and the spotlights. Sixteen, when she realises she needs Chaeryeong, too.

She is sixteen when she calms to the sound of Chaeryeong’s breathing over the phone.

“I’ll see you tomorrow at practice,” Chaeryeong says, after a while.

Come back to me, Ryujin hears.

itzy is one of those groups i only know distantly and mostly via fandom osmosis, but as an enjoyer of survival shows this was an incredible read! the line about wanting to let it go, "before she becomes like any of those unnies on the show, addicted to the pain of trying, trying, trying, and holding onto any speck of hope they can find" makes my chest ache a little, because it's there's a lot of truth there. we've all seen those trainees/idols who keep on trying beyond what feels reasonable, those operating based on sunk cost fallacies when it would probably really be better to quit, but it also helps drives home just how young ryujin and chaeryoung were at the time these things happened? really lovely and hurtful at once.

jesus fucking christ this made me cry blood, i don't even know how you did it in such a little word count but i your characterization is excellent (sooooo ryuryeong i can't even believe it, you understand them sooo well), i can feel their struggling with almsot having it all, yet still not having it. and the end!!! the 'I'll see you tomorrow at practice",,, they're sooooo resilient. thank you so much for writing this to my prompt!!!!!

Round 1: Quotes

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[FILL] the world keeps turning

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