Awaiting Your Return, Shining SHINee.

right so, it's 2012-ish, and key's little clique the 91-liners, consisting of most idols born in 1991, but mainly, key, KARA's nicole & hara infinite's woohyun, FT Island's jaejin, MBLAQ's mir & BEAST's dongwoon. the other members kinda come and go, but this is pretty much the core group. (also minho, when key let him)

they were everywhere, because, i mean, they were young, famous, and pretty.

key was the unofficial leader of the group, because of course he was.

key & woohyun, in particular, were very close.

they

were

always

together

and talked about each other all the time, it was borderline annoying.

now thiiiis is where it gets a teeny bit messy.

key had another 'good friend' park hyeonseop, who he had been openly hanging out with, A LOT (i have a whole keyseop tag lol, if you're interested) from like early 2013? hyeongseop even hung out with woohyun occasionally, and he even passed the minho test.

now, shoot forward to 2014, and ultra bff's and og members of the 91 line, which is still going strong at this point, key & woohyun, debuted their group ToHeart, and released one of the gayest songs and mv's, 'delicious'.

it was a very fun time. the promo was superb

(let us all bask in the glory that was the w korea shoot)

the song was a bop, and they seemed to have an awesome time promoting together.

and obviously, because of this, key wasn't really seen hanging out with hyeongseop that much.

suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, park hyeonseop unfollows both key and woohyun. hm. wonder what went down there, hmmm....?

anyway, toheart went on, and honestly, they were so out there, anon. and incredibly obvious. there were mainstream rumours about them dating. like, ones that key actually addressed

jokes because the company didn't do shit lol, key was like 'i'm releasing an album with my bff turned boyfriend' and just did.

then, obviously, toheart promotions ended, and key and woohyun weren't seen together as often, publicly, but still posted the odd insta post, and publicly hung out with the other 91 liners.

theeeen, distaster?

around like 2016? the 91 seemingly stopped hanging out in a grouo publicly. no insta posts, no fanaccounts, nothing. and during their peak, these were everywhere. also, al of them were doing promotions at the time, so, they had plenty of opportunities. it was a bit odd.

then,

key unfollowed woohyun, (and a few other people) in early 2017. now, i know, that who you follow on insta, isn't an indication of your real life relationships, especially when you're a celebrity, but, when your someone who has a very strong instagram presence, like kibum, unfollowing your close friend, is a bit of a statement.

like, fans were genuinely shocked.

these two had been inseparable for years.

woohyun unfollowed key some time after, and they literally have not publicly interacted since. like at all.

key has since followed woohyun back, but they still don't seem to hang out or interact like the do with their other friends.

that's why woohyun commenting on key's post was such a shock (especially he STILL doesn't follow him lmaoooo), and also why people go very slightly feral at any mention of toheart.

of course, this is pretty much all assumptions based on the bare minimum they choose to show the public, but, it's lowkey funny to think about key & woohyun's friendship turned romance ending one idol duo, one idol friendship group, and one other relationship.

moral of the story?