#rkmar20eval

@rkrose

they find little breaks in between; believes it to be a source of mental and physical recuperation. as someone who gets exhausted all too easily, jisoo needs more than just five minutes of catching her breath. if it was up to her, she would have preferably settled for an hour long break. unfortunately, she does not have that kind of liberty unless she wants to be blasted for slacking around. given that she just came back from her week of gallivanting at her home city, she should be picking up exactly where she left off.

still, fifteen minutes of sitting around should be considered a necessity. 

“i should say, i did not expect your dream concept would be band themed.” after nearly three minutes of comfortable silence, she speaks up. “it makes sense, though as you have always loved playing instruments.” she continues. they were all unique and had their differences—she finds that this is one of their most endearing qualities as a group. the way they have their own molds to fit into and still come together beautifully is an aspect she will treasure until her next life. after all, it is not easy to find something quite like what they have in this time. 

⇢ outgoing to: @rktaeyang

Working on this eval together had been an absolute blast so far. Jeongguk was having the time of his life. The further away he was from feeling like second choice in KT, the better. But there was something in the air that he could only describe as a mellow feeling. The group itself had been going hard at practice and was doing great but he couldn’t help but notice how the mastermind that came up with the idea seemed especially out of it recently.

After practice he thus holds an ice cold water bottle to Taeyang’s cheek while the nova trainee is spaced out, wide grin on his lips the moment he’d be noticed. 

hello! i have daniel’s ideal eval performance picked out and it’ll be this band version of bang bang bang by bigstar. they’ll all be dancing for half of it (timing still to be determined. maybe you can help!)

i have A Vision and that involves four members to be the band, and three to be members that will dance for the entire performance, making a total of seven ideally! we can work with whoever we get though. to make things easiest for me (and hopefully it’ll be easy for y’all as well) i’m going to make two separate lists for roles, since we’ll be dividing this up differently than the original song. pick one from each!

guitar: @rkrose​

keyboard: @rksungmin​

bass: daniel

drums: @chrxsrk​

dancers (3):

and then:

singing: @rkrose​ @chrxsrk​

rapping: @rksungmin​

any: daniel

edit: while i’m here, i’ll add his weak eval to this post so i don’t have to spam dash with two. he’s going to do blood sweat & tears by bts (the hard dance + the sexy is a big yikes for daniel.) just comment if you’d like to join! we can mess with line distribution and combine roles, etc etc, if needed. if nobody wants to join this it’s nbd, i can find another group to toss daniel into instead.

rm:

suga:

jhope:

jeongguk:

jimin:

v:

jin:

@ericxrk

He and Eric had made a lot of promises over the course of their lives so far. Some serious, such as Eric’s vow that Hwichan would have his heart when the time came to pass. (Which was a promise that was thankfully never kept.) Other not so much. Like both of them becoming idols. A promise that was slowly coming into bloom.

After their falling out and subsequent reconciliation after he’d been signed, Hwichan had promised his little brother that, if it was allowed, he would partner with Eric for the younger’s first ever trainee evaluation. And much to Hwichan’s delight, March’s evaluation was a cross-company one and he’d eagerly paired up with his brother, even being gracious enough to let Eric choose the song and concept.

Which turned out to be a mistake. Really, by this stage, he should have known better.

Sitting down on the practice room floor with a sigh, Hwichan massaged his head as the music faded away. Truth be told, Hwichan had nothing against the song, per se. It was just so out of his comfort zone, not his kind of music at all. But a promise was a promise and seeing Eric enjoy himself made it somewhat more bearable. Watching the younger boy break off from the group and head towards him, Hwichan tossed him a cereal bar and motioned for Eric to sit with him.

Debuting is the main goal of every trainee, but getting there is not only uncertain but also a surprise box since you don’t know when or who you’re debuting with. It’s all in the hands of the company to define your future and the concept of their groups, so whatever they throw at you, you better be prepared for the mission! But what if you had a say in their decisions?

While it’s just a hypothetical scenario, when they meet with the coaches on the first week of March, trainees are invited to let their imagination take control for once and pick their dream concept for this month’s evaluation. Since it should be something that suits their image and skills, more will be expected from those performances and coaches don’t want to be left with a feeling of ‘it could’ve been better’. The song is their decision and the only restrictions are that no one can perform solo this time and both dancing and live singing are required, no exceptions.

However, before they get too excited, the coaches reveal they’re performing not one, but two songs this month and the second should be a concept opposite of their dream one, something that it’s out of their comfort zone. Grouping with trainees from different companies is allowed and they may be in two different groups for those. One’s favorite concept can be other’s challenging one and vice versa, meaning they don’t need to have the same goal with a certain stage. For this particular one, the coaches have been watching you, so don’t try to do something easy and comfortable twice because they will be taking notes and those will be looked down for not trying hard.

On the last day of the month, March 31st, one of Seocho’s auditoriums will be prepared for the evaluations and all trainees should gather there to perform and watch others with the coaches they all know well by now.

*KT Experimental group can find more details in their post coming up in a bit.

In order to collect +2 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE AS YOU WISH and +2 DEBUT POINTS, write one 250+ words solo or a four-post thread with another trainee about preparations. For +3 POINTS IN A RELEVANT SKILL, +2 DEBUT POINTS and +1WK RELEVANT ACHIEVEMENT, write one 300+ words solo regarding their performance at the end of the month. Please tag all your posts with #rkmar20eval and have them up by midnight EST at the end of Saturday, January 31st. Threads may b continued after the deadline, but points can only be collected if the requirements are met before it.

MARCH EVALUATION (for the APRIL 1 verification form)

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the day of evaluations, as always, arrives sooner than later, but he doesn’t feel rushed at all, or panicked, or nervous. after all, it’s not every day that he gets to perform a dream concept, performing the skills in which he feels the most confident. yes, there’s still choreography, and yes, it’s still difficult, but because he feels so self-assured, so ready, he can’t feel anything else but excitement.

                                                        I CAN BE YOUR HERO  ˟                                                  (      ALL VILLAINS GET BACK     )

there’s something gratifying about saying words like i can be your hero and i’ll protect you so that no one can take you easily. something about feeling powerful in the moment, in being able to find the strength to say such things with conviction. he’s almost envious, that he can say it so well while performing but he can’t quite pull it off off-stage. 

@rksungmin

jonsguk was very happy to meet a new human and become friends with them and when haruto and jeongguk mentioned a fourth person, jongsuk was eager to meet this new person. the name was familiar, but jongsuk reasoned that there was a lot people named sungmin and it couldn’t have been his dear ex boyfriend of his high school days.  it was very impossible of that. he had been pretty sure. it had been a very mutual breakup where they had decided that they were too busy and jongsuk went ahead with his youtube career.