#fmdminhee

IN-’VERSE INFO

The following idols are informed they’ve been chosen in early August and will be sent a contract to sign: @fmdhyoyeon, @fmdartemisia, @fmdxsuwei, @fmdhyuk, @alicefmd, @fmdminhee, @fmdtaejin, @durifmd, @fmdheesung, @miyeonfmd, @fmdwoochan, @fmdrina, @fmdjaeyeol, @fmdting, @fmdsan, @fmdminah, @fmdsooah, @fmdminjung, @fmdsophie, @fmdjynx They will be told not to share the news of their casting with anyone yet and sharing the news with anyone outside of their management before they’ve been officially announced will result in them being removed from the cast and replaced.

The cast members will be paired up as follows, with the designated filming date (for a twenty-four hour span from the afternoon/evening of day one to the afternoon/evening of day two):

Lipstick’s Artemisia & Fuse’s Sooah - August 7 - August 8

Lipstick’s Ruby & Lucid’s Hyoyeon - August 8 - August 9

Lipstick’s Minnie & Lucid’s Suwei - August 9 - August 10

Fuse’s Minjung & Lucid’s Alice - August 14 - August 15

Fuse’s Miyeon & WISH’s Rina - August 15 - August 16

Knight’s Hyuk & Unity’s Ting - August 16 - August 17

Knight’s Duri & Unity’s Jaeyeol - August 16 - August 17

Decipher’s Taejin & Knight’s Heesung - August 21 - August 22

Knight’s Woo & Alien’s San - August 22 - August 23

Aria’s Jynx & WISH’s Sophie - August 29 - August 30

(admin note: The date of the first day of filming should have been checked to work around all muses’ schedules with the consideration idols do not attend music shows on Mondays and some schedules may happen on the morning of the day they meet, but if you notice any problems, please send in a message and the date will be fixed!)

Before the first meeting, each pair member will be driven to the filming location by a manager and told whether they are the younger or older “sibling” of their pair, but not the identity of their partner. They will then be asked the following interview questions by their manager and are expected to answer them as if having a casual conversation with their manager. There will be three cameras stationed in the car for different angles of the interview “conversation”.

What are the traits you think you should show as a good younger/older sibling?

What kind of personality would you like your older/younger sibling to have and why?

What might surprise your sibling about you if they only know you as a celebrity?

The idol member will then have their partner’s identity revealed by their manager by playing the message from their audition as linked above (if their partner didn’t say their name, their manager will tell them who it is).

What do you think about your partner now that their identity has been revealed? From what you know of them, what are they like / what do you think they are like?

Following the conclusion of the in-car interview, they will be taken to the location of their first meeting: an apartment rented out by production and set up with mounted cameras where they’ll be spending twenty-four hours together to get to know each other. They’ll be aware that this is the setting and concept for the first day of filming beforehand.

The older “sibling” will arrive first and will be given time by themselves to get to know the apartment, which will include everything the pair might need, like food in the fridge, a video camera and Polaroid camera, board/card games, and pair-specific props like a guitar, a karaoke machine, cooking essentials, video games, etc. based on public knowledge of the interests of each member of the pair. Each idol will also be allowed to bring a single bag of their own full of anything they may need overnight like pajamas, toothbrush, snacks, bonding activities, etc. 

Examples of what the apartment might look like are here, here, and here.

The younger “sibling” will arrive after the older “sibling” has had about thirty to forty-five minutes in the apartment on their own.

In addition to everything else in the apartment, each pair will also have also have a “secret notebook” which will include questions and tasks for the pair to get to know each other including the following:

Have three meals meeting the following requirements:

Leave the apartment for one meal mutually agreed upon by both siblings.

For another meal, cook together using what’s supplied in the kitchen.

For another meal, order take out agreed upon by both siblings to be delivered to the apartment.

Take Polaroid photos together as proof of this memory.

Teach each other the point dances of one of your songs.

Use the projector set up in the living room to watch a reel of moments (stages, variety appearances, etc.) from each of your careers prepared by production and discuss your experiences as an idol.

Share your concerns with each other.

A note is included in the notebook including these missions and telling them they should work to achieve every mission by the time they part at the end of the twenty-four hours.

Outside of these missions, the “sibling” pairs will largely have free reign over what they discuss and what they do within the apartment with their twenty-four hours together, although everything should remain family-friendly and image-conscious and idols should not be too candid about any frustrations with their company, their group members, or their fans.

When/if the pair sleep, they’ll sleep in the same large bed like real siblings might do in their childhood.

At the conclusion of their first day together, they’ll do separate talking head interviews before leaving:

Was there anything that surprised you about your sibling during the time you spent together?

What was the most memorable part of the twenty-four hours you spent with your sibling?

Do you feel that you opened up to your sibling or is there still a barrier between you two?

What would you like to do with your sibling next time you meet?

OUT OF ‘VERSE INFO

The final number of submissions was twenty with even numbers of muses by gender, so all muses submitted were cast in the show, although the casting process would have been selective in-character. Pairing was semi-random as complete randomization was not possible while still keeping pairs realistic and making sure muns weren’t paired up more than once across multiple muse submissions!