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Mark: Apollo [Ἀπόλλων] - /Apollō/

Olympian god of music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light, and knowledge. Patron God of music and poetry. Plays the golden lyre, bearer of the silver bow and arrows. Twin brother of Artemis. Child of Zeus and Leto. (Color: white)

Donghyuck: Hermes [Ἑρμῆς] - /ˈhɜːrmiːz/

The divine trickster. Cunning, cleverest of the Olympian gods. Patron of roads and travelers; also herdsmen and heralds. Outwits other gods for his own satisfaction or for the sake of humankind. Served as the guide to the Underworld, herald or messenger of the Gods. Child of Zeus and Pleiad Maia. (Color: peach)

Johnny: Heracles [Ἡρακλῆς] - /ˈhɛrəkliːz/

God of strength, heroes, sports, athletes, health, agriculture, fertility, trade, oracles, and divine protector of mankind. Greatest of Greek heroes, strongest man on earth. Child of Zeus and Alcmene. (Color: brown)

Doyoung: Nemesis [Νέμεσις] - /ˈnɛməsɪs/

God of retribution. Carry out judgement to inflict punishment upon those who would perpetrate evil deeds against others or amass good fortune that they never deserved. (Color: grey)

Taeyong: Hades [ᾍδης] - /ˈheɪdiːz/

God of the Dead and Riches. King of the Underworld. Possessed precious metals of the earth. Has three-headed guard dog, Cerberus. A greedy god, greatly concerned with increasing his subjects. Child of Cronus and Rhea. (Color: black)

Ten: Helios [Ἥλιος] - /ˈhiːli.ɒs/

God of the sun. Handsome titan crowned with shining aureole of the Sun. Drives a golden chariot drawn by steeds across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. Child of Hyperion and Theia. (Color: gold)

Jaehyun: Ares [Ἄρης] - /ˈɛəriːz/

God of war. Represented physical, violent, and untamed aspect of war. Overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering. Brother of Athena. Child of Zeus and Hera. (Color: dark red)

Yuta: Dionysus [Διόνυσος] - /daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/

God of grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. Semi-divine. Interested in exotic beasts. Protector of those who do not belong to conventional society; symbolizes the chaotic, dangerous and unexpected. Child of Zeus and a mortal, Semele. (Color: burgundy)

Taeil: Zeus [Ζεύς] - /ˈzjuːs/

God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, and justice. Chief of the gods. Played a dominant role, presiding over the Greek Olympian pantheon. Child of Cronus and Rhea. (Color: purple)

Winwin: Poseidon [Ποσειδῶν] - /pəˈsaɪdən/

God of the sea, earthquakes, soil, storms, and horses. Protectors of all waters and seafarers. Bearer of the trident. Resides in the city of Atlantis. Child of Cronus and Rhea. (Color: deep blue)

romantic era, virtuoso au.

honestly i just wanna have my blog be my main!! so i can comminicate with u wonderful nerds better so on jan 1st ill be moving to @sol-peaches 

joshua x reader

word count: ~ 5900 a/n: american university!AU; ambiguously non-american/non-native english speaker!reader; probably too much actual talk about IPA; the tiniest dash of  nsfw at the end

If only the course listing had warned you that concentrating in your English phonetics course would be made ten times harder by developing a truly GPA-threatening crush on one Joshua Hong.

“To facilitate pronunciation, the nasal consonant changes its place of articulation to match that of the consonant directly following…”

You are really trying to follow along with your professor’s eloquent example of an assimilation rule in the phonetics of standard English. Thus far all you have written down in your notebook, however, is just “ASSIMILATION RULES”, underlined twice with ‘homorganic nasal rule’ jotted underneath it. Since then, all you’d managed to do was rewrite over the word homorganic several times over. A part of you was trying to remember whether the professor had pronounced homorganic with five syllables or four. So at least you were still a little bit studious.

Most of you, however, is having to focus way too much on not letting your gaze flicker over to your left to where you know Joshua is sitting. He’s probably having no trouble at all following the lecture. His calm yet intensely focused gaze had been one of the first things that you’d been taken by. Other than just his overall appearance, which has been a distraction since day one of class.

“I think I’ve been mispronouncing im-polite  for years,” Seungkwan whispers to you from the desk next to you, emphasizing the nasal enough for you to clue in that he must be referencing the phenomenon your professor is going on about.

Most of those in Phonetics of the English Language are international students. Without anyone suggesting it be done, you tend to arrange yourselves in the classroom so that you’re arranged by homeland, or at least by mother tongue. You happened to be one of two in this class from your country; the other girl always sits on your right.

As it happens, the small group of students from South Korea sit to your left. Seungkwan was the one who sat on the rightmost end of that group, and so it was purely by this coincidence of this self-selected, entirely unofficial seating chart that the two of you struck up a friendship which seemed to exist exclusively within this one classroom.

You’re doing your best not to make your horrible infatuation with his friend too obvious.

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