girlsfest | Round 3: Free-for-all

Use this round for anything that doesn't match the other categories. Round 1 & 2 prompts can still contain these elements, but this is where you can request them without any other strings attached!

Alternate universes/tropes
First/last sentences
Intergroup/crossover pairings
Group lore

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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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Tags: You’ve Got Mail (1998) AU; or alternatively, Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) AU

Prompt: A & B are rivals in their real life careers, but meet and fall in love anonymously online.

FILLING

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[FILL] you’re sweet

Characters/Ship: STAYC Sieun/Sumin
Tags: rival bakery owners on the same street vs getting baking advice from each other on reddit LOL
Permission to Remix: Yes
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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Characters/Ship: EVERGLOW Sihyeon/Yiren
Tags: canon compliant
Permission to Remix: Yes
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Sihyeon blinks at her like she's speaking in a different language when Yiren says, "It's a little patronising, unnie."

It almost makes Yiren doubt whether she spoke in Korean at all, but she knows she did.

It's Sihyeon. Yiren would talk to her in Korean even in her sleep.

"You don't like me making a cheek heart on you?" Sihyeon asks, enunciating her words like she's speaking to a child.

"God," Yiren sighs and then feels like said child throwing a tantrum immediately. "It's not that. I just. Forget it."

*

The problem is that Sihyeon does as asked and not as Yiren wants--the two are rarely alike, and Sihyeon knows that better than anyone else. Except the more she adheres to Yiren's request to not broach the topic, the more it feels like perhaps she doesn't after all.

Or worse, that as long as it didn't interfere with their dynamic on stage, Sihyeon didn't care anyway.

*

So Yiren goes into overdrive, throwing up rock-paper-scissors when Sihyeon asks for a high-five during the encore, ignoring all calls for a joint heart when they go live, crossing Sihyeon's name off all 'which member would you pick' quizzes at fansigns; every new tour stop brings forth more ways to evade Sihyeon's hands, her eyes, the inevitability of being pulled towards each other.

At best, it's obvious to anyone looking and at worst, it's highly self-destructive but nobody calls her out on it because barely anyone's paying them any attention anyway, and the six of them have long since stopped meddling in each other's business unless directly asked to do so.

*

Yiren hasn't felt Sihyeon's palm against her cheek in over a month and she thinks, stupidly, that she might die if someone didn't touch her soon.

Does Sihyeon miss how neatly Yiren fit into her arms, too?

So she barges into Eunji and Yoorim's shared hotel room and tucks herself against Yoorim, who is busy hunting for the next challenge to try on TikTok.

Eunji's on her phone, too, on her own bed and pays Yiren very little attention, as per usual.

Yiren talks around in circles, and then in straight, unambiguous lines when it's clear Yoorim hasn't read into the tension around her and Sihyeon at all.

Yoorim's methods of diagnosis drive Yiren to the point of questioning whether she's constructed this tension in her own head but it is Eunji who cuts to the heart of the matter, almost heartlessly. "You want Sihyeon unnie to want you for you, away from the cameras and the group. You want her to just want you. But Yiren-ah...it's Sihyeon unnie."

She doesn't elaborate. She doesn't need to.

There's pity unmasked all over her face at Yiren's willingness to stand in line behind not-boyfriend number three, who Sihyeon is busy dishing out heartbreak to over long-distance texts.

Yiren didn't even know that Eunji cared enough to listen to Yiren's lovesick whinging.

Or maybe it's just another survival tactic, patch up the sinking parts of a doomed ship long enough to haul yourself ashore.

Yiren understands but she doesn't care about what Eunji has said either.

Come another fan-meeting, Yiren will continue orchestrating distance between her and Sihyeon, if only to wait for the curtains to fall and hope for a hand that might reach for her in the darkness just as it had under the blinding lights.

Perhaps needing to be wanted is her only means to survive this world, too.

Round 3: Free-for-all

[FILL] what you love about me-me-me