Ara & Chan Things
Content Warning: 18+!! There are talks of sex in this!! Chan and Ara were both underage the first time they had sex. DONT DO THAT!! Be responsible kids.
- They met in 2010, the year they both started training, but they didnât become attached at the hip until 2011
- They argue about who confessed first. Chan says it was him. Ara says she did. Truth: they confessed at the exact same time. Loudly. Accidentally.
- Stay have two ship names for them: KangBang and ChrisRielle (mix of their English names)
- Chan rests his chin on her shoulder when heâs tired. She calls it his âlow battery mode.â
- She can calm him down faster than anyone, just by saying his name softly.
- They share a secret playlist no one else has heard.
- Chan lets her sit on his lap when he mixes because she fidgets less that way.
- He writes producing notes with tiny hearts near her suggestions.
- When she cooks, he hugs her from behind the entire time.
- They trained together for so long that they speak in full conversations using only eye contact. The members call it âmarried telepathyâ and swear itâs terrifying. Chan insists itâs just âefficient communication.â Ara calls it âyears of shared trauma bonding.â
- They have a shared notebook of music ideas theyâve been writing in since they were teenagers. Itâs messy, covered in doodles from predebut days, and filled with lyric scraps, dumb jokes, emotional venting, timestamps of the moment they met the boys. They guard it like itâs the crown jewels.
- When Chanâs confidence dips, he trusts Ara to see the parts of him he forgets. She has a handwritten letter on her phone notes titled âRead this when you forget who you are.â He pretends he never cries reading it. He absolutely cries.
- Ara is Chanâs unofficial physical therapist. Shoulder tight? She massages it Neck stiff? She stretches him. Back hurting? She tells every member: âDo NOT touch him today! I gotta fix him first.â Chan says itâs the closest thing to heaven.
- They have a little ritual before every performance. They rest their foreheads together, inhale and exhale twice, then say: âTogether.â It started during their trainee days to calm nerves.
- Ara is one of the only people Chan actually trusts to hear unfinished songs. Sheâs brutally honest but always kind. If she says, âThis line needs to be softer,â he changes it every time.
- They have been public about their relationship since the survival show. Chan proposed the idea of going public. Ara chose the timing. He wanted to protect her. She wanted to stand beside him openly. Their decision was mutual, steady, and full of trust.
- Chan visibly softens when she walks into a room. Like the tension noticeably leaves his shoulders. Their boys have a running joke: âAra entered and Chan updated his firmware.â
- Their boys often say that their love feels gentle, steady, mature. The kind that grew quietly and strongly over years.
- Chan will be giving a heartfelt speech and Ara will whisper something stupid like:
âYou missed a belt loop.â
âWHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT RIGHT NOW?â
- Ara once thought about quitting after an injury. Chan walked her to her dorm every day until she recovered, terrified sheâd disappear if he left her alone.
- They fought once, TRULY fought, during the survival show. They didnât speak to each other for three entire days. Chan finally broke, showing up at her room crying, telling her, âI canât do this without you. We canât be Stray Kids without you.â
- They leave each other loving and encouraging notes EVERYWHERE. Han personally makes it a mission that he collects them like PokĂŠmon cards.
- Ara is the only one allowed to organize Chanâs chaotic studio cables. Every time she does, he says: âThis must be what true love feels like.â
- Ara has mastered the art of âsoft scolding Chan.â Sheâll say âChrisâŚâ in a certain soft tone and he immediately becomes obedient.
- If Ara disappears from view for even a few minutes, Chan instinctively looks around to find her. Itâs not possessive. Itâs more habit. They spent so many years side by side that he feels weird when sheâs not in his peripheral vision.
- Ara once joked that sheâd marry him âwhen he stops losing his socks.â Chan has been suspiciously organized ever since.
- Chan canât handle when Ara ties her hair up. He looks away, clears his throat, or suddenly âneeds water.â
- Chanâs voice drops an octave when he talks only to her. Their boys have recordings. Stay have recordings. Staff have recordings.
- Chan bites his lip when Ara is performing. He tries not to. He fails.
- Ara once jokingly called him Daddy. Chan didnât speak for a full 30 seconds.
- Ara loves teasing him by leaning close when she doesnât need to. Chanâs revenge? Saying her name low and slow. She hates how well it works.
- They have a âthree-second stareâ that everyone fears. If they hold eye contact for longer than three seconds, the tension becomes explicitly illegal and someone has to intervene.
- Ara and Chan have a habit of talking with their foreheads almost touching. Private whispering. Soft laughter. The kind of closeness that looks like a kiss waiting for permission.
18+ Only!!
- Ara and Chan lost their virginities to eachother when they were both 16. In Chanâs studio. And they have not told a single person.
- Ara is very much the sub in their relationship but every now and then, usually on her birthday, he will let her have control.
- They have, and still continue to do so, invited their boys into their bed. They both have their favorites. Donât tell the boys.
- Ara has exactly one weakness: Chan when heâs tired. If his voice gets low and raspy from overwork, she cannot function. She once dropped her phone because he said the word âyeahâ too softly.
- Once during a âChannies Roomâ, Ara walked into their room, fresh from her shower, completely nude with no cares. She was hidden from camera but Chan went eerily silent and just watched her for an entire 4 minutes. Stay timed it.
- Ara has mastered the way to get Chan to fuck her harder. Sheâll whimper âChannie..â in a whiny voice and it drives him feral every time.
- Chan found out accidentally that she likes when his chains dangle in her face. Now he makes it a point to wear them when he fucks her. He relishes in the fucked out look she has when the metal touches her mouth or tongue.
- Chanâs favorite way to tease her? Saying âCome hereâ with his delicious accent and a deep, low tone. The one that sounds like a command. The one she always, always listens to.
- They have a live that lasted fifteen minutes and allowed Stay to ask whatever question they wanted. No limits. Stay took full advantage and learned many things about their resident mom and dad. To this day NO social media has video proof it ever happened and the Stays that do have clips understand not to post it out of respect.
- Minho and Chan have had a detailed discussion about Araâs ass. On stage. She finds it hilarious. Stay weâre eating it up. Their publicists were fearing for their lives.












