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road trips with astro 

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“I nurtured these friends,I nurtured them” Defconn states, looking at the camera. Behind the set, stood the 7 members of Astro. Ha-Eun gulps as one of the many other camera’s start to film the group.

The staff of Fantagio had told the group that they would be appearing on weekly idol to promote Confession. While the boys of Astro had appeared on weekly idol before with KNK and 4TEN, Ha-Eun had not. That day, she was auditioning for a drama and wasn’t able to attend as the recording time was the same as her audition. The boys seemed excited to go on weekly idol again as they had a lot of fun last time, however Ha-Eun felt the opposite. She had watched episodes of Weekly Idol in the past, and while she doesn’t have an issue with Doni and Coni, the activities in the show make her anxious. The anxiety had been building up over the past month, and last night she poured her heart out to Eunwoo while the boys were sleeping. 

Ha-Eun laughs along with the boys while Coni gives hints about the group to Doni. When they are finally called on set, Ha-Eun hides behind the Variety certificate that Jin-jin and Eunwoo carry in.

“1, 2, 3, 4... aren’t you missing a member?” Doni asks, while the boys giggle. Ha-Eun pops her head around the back of the certificate and waves at the camera, before introducing herself with the rest of the group. They are then asked to introduce themselves individually.

“I am the captain of justice.”

“I’m the invincible rock.”

“I’m the puppy-kitten of the team.”

“I’m the ultimate weapon!”

“I’m the team’s smile engine!”

“I’m the guardian of women’s hearts.”

“I’m the baby of the team!”

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After doing a catwalk, and performing confession, everyone sits down to write their profiles.

“Let’s start with Jinjin first.” Doni says, before reading the Jinjin’s paper, “likes to play with members ‘reporter and dinosaur’, ‘climbing a cliff’ and more.”

“Ah, when we were filming DOCCA, the members and I would play these together.”

“Lets do a little so we can see.”

Jinjin gestures for Ha-Eun, Sanha and MJ to help show off the cliff climbing play. Ha-Eun walks a little to where the boys are almost in a type of push up position, and copies them. When action is shouted, the three start scrambling and screaming. Ha-Eun holds one arm up, with her fist clenched as if she was holding onto a piece of rubble and thrashes around. Meanwhile, Sanha and MJ crawl forward.

“Sanha, are you okay?!” MJ asks. He then looks over at Ha-Eun and reaches over, “Take my hand!”

Doni quickly stands up and points towards the exit. “Please crawl your way out of the studio.”

The other members are cracking up as the four stand and dust themselves off. Then, they do one more play where Jinjin is the reporter and the other members run around and be dinosaurs. Ha-Eun crouches a little, putting one hand up on her head and one behind her back, she starts running a little around set. 

Jinjin attempts to interview several of the members but after a few failures, Coni kicks Jinjin’s leg and starts shouting. Immediately, Ha-Eun stops. Despite knowing that it’s just a variety show, and it’s just for the sake of comedy, she begins to feel uncomfortable. She wanders back to her seat, watching everyone else, in hopes of not bringing any attention to herself. 

Everyone then becomes a bit calmer, and sits down. Eunwoo places himself next to Ha-Eun and puts his arm on her shoulder, swinging in his seat. After a few impressions from Jinjin, such as Dobby and Dogae-ssi, the MC’s move onto Eunwoo’s profile. He also shows off a few impressions as well as a girl group dance he prepared. 

Rocky shows of his personal skills, followed by Moonbin showing off his great sense of smell. A bunny blindfold is placed on his face and the members line up. 

“I’ll guide you” Doni says as Coni couches in between Eun and Rocky. Doni guides Moonbin to the first three member, who he guesses correctly. Moonbin sniffs Coni, suddenly letting out a complaint.

“Ah, something feels strange...”

Coni lets Moonbin smell MJ, Coni, Sanha and then Ha-Eun, following up with asking him who was the first person he smelt. He guesses MJ correctly,

“Who was the second person? It’s between Sanha and Ha-Eun.”

“But...” Moonbin hesitates, shaking his head. “They don’t smell like that though.”

“What was that smell then?”

“Sour.”

Doni then gets Moonbin to smell him, with Moonbin answering that he smells like rubber. Finally, taking off the blindfold, Moonbin passed.

“What does Jinjin smell like?”

“JinJin smells like the shampoo he uses, Rocky is like seafood, Ha-Eun smells like vanilla or fruity. I think it’s a perfume she uses... Then Eunwoo is scentless, MJ smells a bit like green tea and Sanha smells like a baby.”

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“Lastly, we have Ha-Eun. She is very expressive in regard to hand gestures, she can play the piano and she can jump over a skipping rope while doing a handstand. The last one is interesting, can you explain?” Coni asks. 

“Ah, I used to do a lot of gymnastics when I was younger, it was something my mum wanted me to try so I attended lessons. Obviously, we practised a lot of handstands and back handsprings and jumping handstands was just a useful skill. I don’t know how I started doing it, I assume I saw some videos of people doing it and gave it a try!”

“Well lucky for you, we have a jump rope here.” The crew passes the rope to MJ, who stands on one end, while Doni stands on the other side. Ha-Eun stretches for a bit before getting into a handstand. 

“Woah, I’ve never seen her do that before.” Jinjin gasps, putting a clenched fist to his mouth. 

“Jinnie, didn’t you hear the part where I said I did gymnastics? This is one of the basic moves.”

“Okay, are you ready?” Doni asks, Ha-Eun nods and the skipping rope moves a little. “1...2...3...go!”

The rope moves in a circular motion and Ha-Eun jumps, everyone gasps. She manages to do about 10 jumps before putting her feet on the ground and bowing to the camera. 

“Woah, that was really impressive.” Coni gawks, “You’re really tiny so I think we’re shocked that a girl like you has that much strength.”

A girl like me? What’s that supposed to mean? But she shakes her head and bows towards Coni, thanking him.

“These friends are really hardworking and full of energy too. Until now, its Astro!” 

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The filming had ended after a good two hours or so and the group are now in the van heading back to the company for their dance practice. Ha-Eun was sitting next to Eunwoo in the back. All the members were talking to each other about the filming, or listening to music. Ha-Eun was doing the latter, looking at the passing street with headphones in her ears. She’s ripped out of her little world as Eunwoo tugs her headphones off. 

“Hey.” She crosses her arms and pouts.

“Hey,” He chuckles back, “how did you feel about today?”

“ To be fully honest with you, I felt fine most of the time knowing that you were there looking out her me.” 

Eunwoo grins and puts his arm around her as he lays back in his seat.

“I’m glad, let me know if anything else ever bothers you.”

“Of course.”

She also sits back in her seat, thinking to herself.

金 ; Eunwoo ﾉ Astro  ㅅ icons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ozr79pcjo

So... some (most) don’t know, but I have been playing instruments and participating in choirs since I was young. I play the piano, viola, and ukulele, as well as sing. As Mochi, Mechta, and I were watching the MV 3 hours on loop (literally) after its release a started to point things out to them while trying to fall back to sleep (It came out at 5 am where we are).

Here is the list of things I noticed: (OP stands for personal opinion.)

- There has been a trend of heavier instrumentals, meaning they are very powerful in beats and bass, in Kpop (especially with BTS), but Always You has a light sound.

PRISTIN at mini fan meeting event

C: Smooth Criminal

PRISTIN at Mokdong fan site event

C: Smooth Criminal