TK

“Chaeroen! Here!” Taekyeong shouted with an arm raised high into the air. He bounced on the toes of his black and white Adidas sneakers to get his fellow bandmate’s attention.

Taekyeong was standing outside the doors of the arcade. He was dressed entirely in black with a mask covering his face and his dyed hair tucked tight into a beanie. “Thanks for coming out. I think this is gonna be fun!” He said. Even though his face was covered by his facemask, one could almost hear it in the way his voice rose with excitement.

“It’s been so long since I’ve been here.” He said as he lead the way up the stairs into the front desk. “What do you want to try first? There’s the baseball diamond, soccer, some other stuff this way,” he mused hardly able to stand still. He pivoted on his feet, entirely immersed and distracted by all of the bright lights and sounds.

⟨ jinhwan ➝ taekyeong ⟩ sometimes i worry about your thought process ⟨ jinhwan ➝ taekyeong ⟩ what were you last year? ⟨ jinhwan ➝ taekyeong ⟩ that might be your best bet, honestly.

↱ kkt ➝ open ↴

⟨ jinhwan ➝ ???⟩ not to brag or anything, but my halloween costume is straight flames ⟨ jinhwan ➝ ??? ⟩ probably my best work yet ⟨ jinhwan ➝ ??? ⟩ what’s your costume?

“I wonder why” She spoke, her eyebrows raised as she spoke, words filled with playful sarcasm yet a smile followed after at his imitation of her expression only to giggle at his dramatic acting while watching him, trying hard not to burst into laughter. “Oh poor boy” She spoke playing along.

 His words made the girl laugh harder, it was clever on her opinion and quite original since the gir had never been called a joke like that even if with a name like hers it was like begging for it.  “Now you know the reason behind my name” She joked along before adding at his final words “I know.

  Rose stared at him once more before giving a final nod, a smile spreading across her face “I do.” The girl said while looking at him carefuly as if to have a better look of him to evaluate her opinion “You have the look almost mastered I would say” She chuckled before leaning a bit closer to him and combing  his hair while humming maybe to tease him, maybe to place it the way she liked either way a smile grew on her face as she did. “There it is” Jangmi spoke while giggling “The perfect hurt-lost puppy look…” Rose spoke while taking a final look at him “it suits you” She grinned before leaning back to her seat. 

  “I think I’ve been embarrassed enough in this conversation” A chuckle left her mouth before she found herself adding “Now it’s my time to embarrass you with the same question” adding a wiggle of her eyebrows “So answer… what’s your type? Broken lost puppy or  bad-girl type?”

He sat perfectly still as she leaned forward to readjust his hair. At first his eyes watched her with playfulness, but his expression lessened a little the longer she lingered. His eyes watched her face almost carefully as if studying the way her brows arched when she smiled and the way her nose scrunched when she giggled. The lungs in his chest swelled and ached, angrily reminding him to breathe. When she pulled away, he drew in a slow breath through the guise of a chuckle and sat up straight as if to pose like the proud hurt-lost-puppy she had declared him to be. 

“Bold of you to think that I would be embarrassed,” he mused with a deep voice and a sarcastic chuckle to add to it. He crossed his arms over his puffed out chest and rolled his eyes up as if consulting the gods for his answer.

He hummed and hawed a little too long to the point where he started to deflate and looked as though he was very seriously deliberating over his answer. 

It was late in the evening, in fact, it was nearly 3 hours before closing, which was the perfect timing for Taekyeong. It meant that most people were preparing to leave, and by the time fans were aware of where he and his friend were live streaming from, the arcade would be closed and they could make their clean get-away. It was a fool-proof plan in Taekyeong’s eyes, though perhaps not in the eyes of his friend, Joohyung from Charmed.

“Have you been here before?” Taekyeong asked as he enthusiastically bounded his way up the stairwell where the sound of pings, bangs and shouts of winners and losers were becoming louder and louder.

“I came here once with Impulse but I thought it might be fun to do an Instagram live here.” He adjusted his facemask and ballcap over his head as he approached the door. He opened and made for the front desk. He had the foresight to have reserved his tickets ahead of time. Two hours of unlimited fun, popcorn and drinks. He handed his friend the pass and nudged him excitedly while bouncing on the balls of his toes. His oversized black sweater flopped with the motion as he took the lead.

IT WAS TYPICAL BEHAVIOR OF wooshik to treat taekyeong in such a manner whenever they ran into each other or spent time with one another. he would always be playfully rough with him, ruffling up his hair and giving him noogies and crushing his smaller frame underneath his much larger one. wooshik treated the younger idol like he would have treated his younger brother if he had one. he treated him like how he treated his group members. they weren’t blood related, but he saw him as a little brother nonetheless. 

“stop acting like you don’t love it.” he chuckled when he leaned his weight into him, giving his shoulders another gentle squeeze, before he finally released him and let him go. “you’re welcome. thanks for inviting me out. i actually needed a reason to get out for some fresh air anyway.” he smiled down at him, nodding his head. “you know i could always get something to eat.” wooshik scoffed, waving his hand at him dismissively. “i’m not going to let you pay for our meal. i’m your hyung, i’ll pay for it. don’t worry.” he took his phone from his hand so he could look over the menu. “recently? decipher v has comeback schedules and promotions, i’m releasing a single next month and decipher as a whole might be having a comeback in december so.. i’ve been a little busy. what about you?”

Taeyeong finally felt the air returning to his lungs when he was finally released. Despite the rough-housing, Taekyeong felt nothing but brotherly love for his seombae and hyung. Wooshik had been one of the few idols in the industry to reach out to him and offered guidance and advice in ways that some of the seombaes in his own company weren’t willing to offer. For that, he was eternally grateful.

“I’m glad it all worked out then!” Taekyeong said as he pulled the facemask under his chin, showing off a flashy smile, though there was a slight look of hollowness in his cheeks. A typical sign of an idol that was in the midst of preparing for promotions

“Fine. But I’m getting the next one!” He said as he rose up on his toes to look over Wooshik’s arm to see what food he was selecting on the mobile app.

[ to: tee-kay ] lmfao bro [ to: tee-kay ] you already know i’m down, you don’t even need to ask [ to: tee-kay ] any excuse to kick your ass in a game is an instant yes from me [ to: tee-kay ] also ew don’t use those emojis you loser

A smile grew on her face while the female listened to him talk about his dog back home, giggles coming at the mention of the dog being a troublemaker and a little brother finding it adorable. “Oh no, it’s a lovely name.” She smiled before adding playfully “Plus i can pronounce it even if it’s in english so it’s cool” Chuckles could be heard after those words left her lips.

  Her eyebrows raised in surprise to his words before listening to him carefully trying to understand what he wanted to say to help him find the right words, the girl was born and raised in Korea yet she could understand the struggle of trying to speak a language that wasn’t your native one and so she was trying her best to understand the word he was searching for before chuckling and nodding to show she got what he meant “I did, don’t worry.” She replied with a smile.

 Jangmi watched him as he followed her actions before heat raised to her cheeks at his questioning of what she meant with her words. “You are making fun of me now, aren’t you?” She asked though her smile and actions made it clear that she was anything but serious about that question since she stuck her tongue out in playful banter “Meanie” She added before she smiled as she tried her best to imitate his look, innocent eyes and head tilted to the side gently, “Like this” She spoke.

Taekyeong cackled when her nose scrunched and her cheeks noticeably turned a brighter shade of pink. His mouth curled into a mischievous smile while his tongue poked at the inside of his cheek

“No! Why would you think that?” he asked as he mimicked her nose wrinkle and also stuck out his tongue. However, the second she called him a meanie, his eyes widened and his mouth opened with a loud gasp. His hand dramatically shot up and clutched the material of his shirt over his heart and a very painful grunt burst out of his mouth.

“It hurts!” He wheezed as he very slowly and carefully draped himself over the lounge chair and groaned his fake last breath. After about a minute he shot back up in another fit of laughter that caused a couple more heads to turn, but he didn’t seem to notice or care.

“You really are a rose. Pretty and prickly!” He snorted and waved his hand. “I’m just joking.” 

He leaned back to set his glass under his chair, hopefully out of harms way. He drew his legs up and crossed them while still leaning forward, mostly so he could hear Rose over the music and the crowd. 

WITH A FREE DAY AHEAD of him, wooshik didn’t really have anything on his to do list. usually when he was free of decipher related activities and schedules, he would use his new found free time and freedom to do all the things he couldn’t do when he was busy with work. he would go to the movies, go shopping, run a few errands, whatever he wanted. but with all of his errands already completed and no movies out in theater that he particularly felt like going to see, he found himself sitting around in his apartment, bored and unaware of what to do to fill up his day. 

that was, until he got a message from taekyeong and suddenly he had plans again. he had no idea how the younger managed to lock himself out of his place, but he wasn’t going to judge him or make fun of him.. okay, maybe he would tease him about it just a little bit, but he wouldn’t give him too much of a hard time over it. he was nearly there at their designated meeting place when he felt his phone vibrate with a text message. he glanced down at the message, but since he was less than a minute away, he decided not to reply. 

he spotted taekyeong almost immediately when he arrived at the river, and he met him halfway. “no need to thank me, you’re saving me from a lot of boredom.” he reached out to playfully ruffle the shorter male’s hair. “you don’t need to be so formal. i’m your hyung, we’re comfortable with one another.” he draped a large arm around his junior’s shoulders, giving him a squeeze, before letting him go. 

The familiar hulking figure of Wooshik was a very welcomed sight. TK bounded over and immediately fell for the hyung’s noogie. It was a common action most of his hyungs felt compelled to do. TK barked loudly as Wooshik’s arm coiled tight around his arm. The black ballcap flipped off of his head under the sudden show of affection and felt the large hand mussing his dyed hair.

“Ah-! Okay! I got it, I got it!” He laughed.

Taekeyong dipped his arm a little to snatch his hat from the ground and leaned his weight into the older idol in a sideways hug and let go when he was finally released.

“Really, though. Thanks for coming. I’m waiting for someone to reply to my texts to let me use their spare key.” His hand came up to rub the back of his neck. “Are you hungry? I have the chicken place app up if you wanna order. I’ll pay since you‘ve come all this way.” he said as he held his cellphone over to Wooshik for him to inspect the different food options.  

 Jangmi laughed while shakingher head gently having fun with their goofy conversation about doraemon. Her eyes widened, clearly not getting the name of the breed in english, after all the girl wasn’t fluid in the language and only knew the breeds if they didn’t change from korean to english. The girl looked at him, blinking, as he pulled his phone out  before leaning gently to the front to get a better view of the picture “Oh my, he is adorable!” She smiled brightly while turning her attention to him “What’s his name?” She asked 

 The female watched surprised as Taekyeong finihsed his drink while she still had half of hers, “Did you liked it?” She asked, playful tone obvious on her voice.  

 Pink covered her cheeks once again, surprised by his question, yet Jangmi tried to hide it while taking a sip of her drink before placing a hand under her chin as if she was thinking her reply to such question “You…mh let’s see” She spoke while staring at him while biting her lower lip to play along with her words. “A puppy, definitely” She nodded while smiling before tilting her head gently to the side, “An adorable and gentlemanly one for sure” She added while swinging feet covered by his shoes. “Specially if you keep looking at me like that” Jangmi chuckled, her nose scrunching softly playfuly.

“Right?” He laughed. “He’s a troublemaker though. He lovesgetting into things he’s not supposed to. He’s like a little brother. His nameis Johnny.” He snorted. “Lame name, right? My parents named him.” He shruggedhis shoulders a little. The attention from dogs shifted to the empty glass inhis hand. His eyes darted between the two of them and realized just how fast hehad finished the drink. His brows shot high into his hairline and his mouthhung open in a gasping laugh.

“I completely forgot there was alcohol in this!” He broughtthe glass to his mouth and sniffed. “I can’t even smell any in it. Maybe thebartender gave me a- how do you say?” He dropped his phone into his lap andgestured his hands as he tried to search for the word in Korean. “A drink withno alcohol in it.” He laughed at himself, his ears felt hot with embarrassmentas he struggled to find the word. Eventually he gave up and waved the issueaway with his hand. “You get the idea.”

Random Questions For Character Building - Accepting

Go to karaoke song?

Bounce With Me by DJ Doc. It's on the older side, but it's very easy to learn and is a great hype-song.

A song that describes them?

Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons. I don't think this accurately depicts all of TK, but it definetely speaks to his overworking personality and determination to do the best he can.

Celebrity crush?

He has a couple ;D

What would their hogwarts house be?

“Don’t worry about it, it happens,” Hanbyul quickly waved off the apology. Goodness knew tipsily walking into someone was a lesser offense for sure. He was glad that whatever bits of English the younger seemed to keep lapsing into, it was simple and easy for him to follow, even tired and struggling to keep up with the language.

“I can imagine. I’m sure a lot of hard work went into your performance.” His smile was polite, more mask than genuine. A part of him felt bad, he didn’t mind Taekyeong as a person though he had a history of avoiding him as much as circumstances allowed it. For someone so fond of calm Hanbyul attracted chaotic, messy and especially loud souls somehow (even he was surprised at times with how close he and Nam Yena, of all the people, were) and that meant constantly sitting at a conflict point. 

“All’s well, thank you,” he replied. “I’m sure Changwon has been keeping you updated, mostly just… lots of travelling. Brushing up my Japanese.” This time, smiling genuinely came a little more easily to him. “I’m sure you must’ve been busy too, with your recent comeback and all. Schedules makes it hard to cross paths in our line of work.” Hanbyul shrugged. “That, and a lot of us have moved out of the dorms.” He hesitated for a second. “Strange, isn’t it? Going from sharing a home with so many people to having your own space all to yourself.”

Taekeyong smiled and bobbed his head in response to the hard work. He had thought about expanding on it, but Hanbyul was more than aware of what work went into creating a large production. The guarded expression caused Taekyeong to take another half step back. Usually he wouldn’t have cared or minded, but he was running on maybe two hours of sleep for an entire week and his social battery was running on as low as it could physically handle.

“Changwon doesn’t really tell me much, to be honest.” he says with a shrug. “Mostly tells me to shut up, go away, buy ramen--” he joked with a hiccuping laugh. “But that’s great! Japanese is a hard language, right?” Taekyeong had tried to learn in high school. He could read some of the characters, and he had a few words and phrases memorized-- but it was far from any credible form of fluency. “How much can you speak?”

Seeing the obvious pain flashing through his face, she began digging through her bag for some pain medication before turning to him again. “You came to?” Questioned rhetorically before she pulled out what she was looking for; a water bottle and some tablets. she combined the two, before closing the lid and shaking it lightly. 

At his question, she furrowed her brows at his lack of memory. “I was going to ask you the very same thing,” she digressed, “I’m not sure..I saw your fall but not the reason for it.” She eyed him suspiciously before lowering her head to hide her smirk, it was a clever thing to say even in a situation such as this but showing him a reaction felt like encouragement.

 “I think this is your phone, I found it right before I found you.” Handing it over, she supported his back as his balance seemed to threaten a fall before he leaned against the tree. 

“Will ya stop joking for a minute?” She inquired handing him the water bottle, “It’ll taste a bit odd, but I don’t have any fruit juice on me so I added something that can give you enough to stabilize you if you haven’t eaten or drank anything in a few hours…” Which she safely assumed from his current form that he hadn’t. Gently, she moved hair out of his face that seemed stuck there from sweat and pulled out a towel from her bag patting him gently. “Drink up, and shut up…you need your energy.” She whispered gently, remembering trainee days where this would occur daily and how often she would be around to have to take care of the boys. “Why would Charoen mind?” She inquired raising her eyebrows, what did he know? 

The pain in his nose had him reaching up to touch it and he felt a little blood on the bridge of the nose, but luckily not coming out of his nostrils. He let out a small huff of relief-- no broken nose. Cindy’s voice swirled in his mind again and he tried his best to turn his head to look at her, but lifting his head was proving more of a challenge than he was willing to vocally admit.

“Oh you know,” he huffed. “Promotion season. Being busy and passing out seem to go hand-in-hand.” his voice was husky and strained. He heard the sound of water being shaken and when he looked over she had pressed the bottle into his hand. His brows arched but he took it with a mumbled ‘thank you’.

He put the water to his lips and immediately recoiled from the bottle. His tongue stuck out and a loud “Blaugh!” barked out from his mouth. “What the heck?!” he wheezed in English as he brought the back of his hand to catch the dribble from his chin. “What is this?” he asked before taking another drink. The second take was a lot easier than the first now that he knew what to expect. He felt his stomach churn and heard it groan as it took on the supplements. 

“Oh nothing,” he sighed as he pulled the bottle from his lips, “I don’t know anything.” His lips curled into a smile behind the bottle.

He looked down at the cellphone that she had held out to him and at first he didn’t seem to recognize it. His hands shook a little from the effort of simply raising his arms as he reached for the phone. He pushed the power button and it showed his now playing song that had been paused during the fall. He pulled his earbuds out and stuffed them into his pockets along with his freshly cracked and chipped phone. 

Random Questions For Character Building - Accepting

Are they close to their family?

In the eye of the public, they’re a close-knit dancing family. On the inside, while they do get along, there is a little tension. While his parents are happy that he’s utilizing his dancing skills, they’re not very happy about him being an idol. They had expected him to dance contemporary or ballet competitively instead. When he has a chance to talk to him, they don’t usually ask him about his work unless it’s directly related to dancing.“We watched your latest performance.”“Oh! Really? What did you–”“Your points have become sloppy. You should consider a summer camp to refresh your basics.”

Best thing in their life?

Being able to debut despite failing the Who’s Next: Origin Story show. He genuinely feels so blessed and is eternally grateful to his fans, the company and to his members.

Did they graduate high school? if so did they attend college?

Random Questions For Character Building - Accepting

Do they want children?

Absolutely. At least three. He has no preference or expectation of gender, but he definitely wants a family.

Opinion on pets? cats or dogs?