girlsfest | Round 2: Visual

Prompts should be based on a visual medium that isn't text. For example, it could be a moment between the idols that you want to be expanded, it could be a scenario with other people, or a moodboard of aesthetics you'd like to match the fic.

Photos
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Videos

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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/winter
Tags: racer minjeong & wag jimin

Prompt:
Minjeong tries (and fails) to impress Jimin on the track.

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Characters/Ship: any
Tags: crushing on your straight roommate

Prompt:
guess mv - charli xcx ft billie eilish

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Characters/Ship: kiss of life julie/natty
Tags: rookie idol natty accidentally runs into her fansite
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Characters/Ship: any
Tags: cat and mouse
Prompt:

naomi elizabeth on a blood stained floor in a shiny deep blue sleeveless dress. she's covered in blood splatter and looks up at the camera which photographs her from upside down

Characters/Ship: purplekiss goeun/chaein
Tags: killing eve au, pre-slash, blood and injury, mutual obsession
Permission to Remix: Yes
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It’s been a long time since the woman looking down at Goeun and admiring her wasn’t her wife. This situation has gotten so dangerous so quickly. She shouldn’t be here.

“Who knew you looked so good in red?” Chaein - not her real name - says. Her voice is a little more bouncy than Goeun had imagined it would be when they first crossed paths two and a half months ago in the bathroom of a hospital before Chaein’s seventh known murder.

Eyes: brown. Hair: chestnut, thick, wavy, maybe long enough to reach to the middle of her back, but it was up in a bun. Height: about five-foot-three. Face: soft and somewhat doll-like. Her lips are wide – plush, and her smile is…pleasant. The strange looks her fellow agents had bombarded her with. A silence in the room which had a board with photos of crime scenes strung up in chronological order.

Pleasant? Joohyun, the branch director, had asked. Goeun gulped and averted her eyes, answered, Yeah, sure, I’m just being as descriptive as I can, and made no move to undermine anything in her previous statements.

None of them had been there. They hadn’t understood. Goeun was the reason they even formed this taskforce; that they knew that seven high-profile deaths were linked; that the person who’d committed these clever murders wasn’t a man; and now had an idea of the woman’s physical characteristics. It was all Goeun going above and beyond, researching outside of work hours, doing too much, getting fired and then rehired – an all-consuming desire to know the female serial killer who was shaking up the international community in more ways than one. To know her and to catch her.

Then Joohyun had met their female serial killer – hired assassin is the recent, mostly-confirmed theory – as well, after Chaein had stolen Goeun’s phone and lured them halfway across the world. And that had been before Goeun’s house had gotten broken into.

How the fuck is Goeun going to explain this to Eunseong? She never explains anything about her work to her wife. That’s kind of what being employed by a classified government entity entails.

It hurts to sigh. Her whole body throbs, each wound’s sting singing through her flesh and culminating into a symphony of agony. At least the blood from her wounds is slowing its flow and starting to coagulate. The stench of copper in the air, of herself outside herself. Tackiness covering her arms, legs, and torso. She wants to reach for the phone in her thigh holster, or her gun a couple feet away, except Chaein is watching her attentively with her pleasant smile. The mere twitch of Goeun’s muscles makes her want to scream.

It might still be too risky to take her attention off of the killer in the room, so Goeun stares back, defiant. Daring Chaein to make another move. To cut into Goeun again, to take the gun, something.

Chaein rocks on her heels while studying her work. She leisurely runs her eyes over Goeun, who’s prone on her back and still like a doll. Arms splayed out at strange angles and legs crumpled together. Skin peeking out of her vibrant blue satin dress – a disguise for the night, surely – delicately marred by the deep crimson of blood. A shiny, splattered puddle near her shoulder where Chaein had carefully pierced her, just enough to subdue her and bring her to the floor, not enough for blood to spurt out in a fast, fatal spray.

This scene is much messier than what Chaein has been trained to do. She doesn’t kill this way.

No, this is something a little more fun. Risqué, even.

“You know I didn’t wanna do this, kitten,” Chaein tells Goeun with a purposely ridiculous pout. “But you really oughta stay out of my way. ‘Kay?”

Chaein has never been pursued by someone like Goeun before. Sure, plenty of people have tried to kill her, or had found her before they died at her hand or someone else’s, but the situation with Goeun is different. The scale is different, in a bad way, too many eyes in too many places on her these days. Leedo, her handler, is struggling to contain the wrath of their organization.

But also: it feels different. How Goeun looks at her is different. (Goeun looks at her.) Yes, there’s always been fear there, but also…intrigue. And lately something that might be called respect. When they meet, they meet as equals; Goeun’s body language says it loud and clear even if she doesn’t speak. She never underestimates Chaein, doesn’t dismiss her as devoid of reason, asks her prying questions less like an interrogator and more as if she could care about the weapon Chaein has been molded into that happens to look like a human being.

I heard you like me, Chaein had written on a scrap of paper for Goeun to find. Watching through the agent’s window as she read it, turned it over in her hands, then sniffed it – she wants to know my scent! – had sent a funny feeling zipping down Chaein’s spine. She thinks about Goeun a lot. She thinks Goeun might think about her even more, though.

“Maybe we could do this again over coffee back at your place?” Chaein steps towards Goeun’s black head of blood-strewn hair. She leans down until their faces are only a few breaths away, staring into each other’s eyes upside down. Goeun’s little button nose flares, her round eyes full of fire. Her face is quite charming; Chaein has seen her enough times now to be sure.

Goeun still hasn’t reached for her gun. “I know where you live!” Chaein sing-songs down to her, grinning.

The police will be here soon, if not agents from the taskforce dedicated to all things Chaein. She puts her gloved hands into the front pockets of her leather pants, blood and all, and skips away into the night.

Round 2: Visual

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[FILL] CENTERFOLD