Listen guys we need to come up with crazy nicknames for one piece ships cause why do we have frobin when it could be superflowers or ironpetals like THATS SO COOL????
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Mina didn’t talk much. Yet among TWICE members, she was the most expressive. She always stayed loudly silent, so to speak.
Whilst making less than no sense, the oxymoron became quite clear once one got to know Mina a bit more privately. The resident penguin had, unbeknownst to herself, mastered the skills of non-verbal communication; other members could read her like a book without her saying anything, much to her dismay.
When she was sad, she would be pouty. “What’s wrong?” someone would ask, and they would give her a bucket of icecream.
When she was irritated, she would puff out her cheeks and cross her arms. Someone would be quick to apologize.
When she was happy, she would hum, and her body would sway lightly from side to side in her seat. Someone would be there just to behold the embodiment of cuteness known as Myoui Mina.
The best part was, she never knew what she did. Mina was always lost in her own mind, that she could barely care what she was showing to the world. Which was a lot, unfortunately.
“How can you guys possibly know what I think all the time?” She had asked in frustration. Jihyo only answered with laughter and a big hug.
Mina and Momo arguing was always a scene to watch, with the two of them jumping on top of one another, pinching and pulling on each other’s clothes, hair, or cheeks- anything they could grab, while bickering in a language that- according to Sana- was barely intelligible even for a Japanese.
With that said, it did not take long for Jihyo to realize something was going on. Something was off with Mina since they woke up that morning, and she tried to hide it so pathetically that even a blind person could notice.
“Good morning Mina-yah. You’re up early today.” TWICE’s leader sleepily greeted her roommate. It was not common to see Mina up and about at 7 in the morning; left to her own devices, the girl never saw fit to get out of bed before the clock hit double digits. Yet today she was, neatly folding up her mess of pillows and blankets. They did not have any work schedules for today, so Jihyo had every right to wonder.
“Morning Jihyo! It’s a lovely day, yes? Perfect for going out right?” Chirped Mina in a voice that Jihyo perceived as overly cheerful, if not somehow suspicious.
“Yeah… you’re going out today Mina?” She inquired quizzically. Yet another abnormality- Mina was the last person she’d expect to look forward to going out. There had been instances where they all went out the whole day, coming back only to see the girl at the exact place they left her in, surrounded by snacks and engrossed in video games.
“Yes! I mean, no. I mean, probably. Depends.” That was the worst answer to a yes-no question, and naturally it did not serve to satisfy any of Jihyo’s demands.
“That was a terrible answer Minari.” She was not hesitant to deadpan her opinion either.
Mina pouted. She sulkily ran out of the room, only to crash into the door to Jihyo’s amusement.
This unusual clumsiness continued for the whole morning, before Jihyo could not take it anymore.
“Mina!”
“Uuuuu…” Came a pained reply. The resident penguin had yet another accident, and she was now nursing her sore foot with which she just kicked the table leg.
“You’ve been acting weird all morning.”
“I do?” Mina perked up, surprise clear in her voice. It seemed that she yet again wasn’t aware of how awfully bad she was at hiding her predicament.
“Yes. Tell me what’s on your mind, would you?”
The penguin fidgeted. She was waiting for the right moment, but at this point it seemed right to just spill the beans right away.
“Jihyoahwouldyougooutwithmetoday” Mina squeaked, then hit herself on the head. Way to fucking go, Myoui Mina.
“… Come again?” As expected, Jihyo did not catch one word of that.
A few minutes and a lot of stuttering later, Jihyo finally got the idea.
“Ooooh so that’s what you mean. Of course Minari, why not? I wanna enjoy the outdoors today too. Let’s go!” Jihyo exclaimed, then instinctively braced herself.
Her situation in the Twice dorm was, for lack of better words, extremely volatile. If, God forbid, any other member managed to overhear her acceptance to Mina’s invitation, she would surely get in a lot of trouble from jealous supergirls. Being crushed beneath a sulky Tzuyu and spun around at Mach 7 by a frustrated Momo was never fun to say the least.
To her surprise, nothing happened.
“Eh? Where is everyone today?” Only now did she notice the unusual absence of the remainder of TWICE.
“I… may or may not have made them think they had some important business to take care of first thing in the morning.” Behind her, Mina timidly disclosed.
“Mina!”
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Standing at the front door, Jihyo could only stare in disbelief at the pouring rain.
“How can this be… The weather was so nice just now.”
“Now we can’t enjoy anything outdoors… and just going out is troublesome. Why even bother?” Mina murmured.
They looked at one another, mirroring the other’s disappointed look. It might not be the nicest thing to think, but Jihyo always thought Mina was the most beautiful when she was sad. The melancholy within those crystal irises was simply out of this world.
Lost in her thoughts, Jihyo never noticed the sound of rain coming to a halt. She only jerked out of it when Mina excitedly shook her shoulders.
“Look Jihyo! The rain stops!”
Dazedly tearing her gaze from Mina, Jihyo looked out to find out that the weather had indeed cleared up. The cloud had scattered, giving way for sunlight to shine brilliantly.
“Eh, really? Wow…”
“I guess we got really lucky. Let’s go?” Already standing outside, Mina extended a hand, which Jihyo gladly accepted.
“Say, Minari. Are we on a date?” Jihyo decided to ask as they were striding towards their destination.
“Depends how you think about it. If you want to, sure.” Came the mischievous reply.
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The so-called date was phenomenal.
They went straight to Lotte World, where they had the time of their lives just having fun and enjoying each other’s company. Jihyo was glad to see Mina in her bright carefree mood, playing her heart out at the arcade and screaming at the top of her lungs on the rollercoaster. Of course, she did as well. The couple had such a blast together, they barely noticed time passing by; only when Jihyo noticed their dark shadows on the ground, draped by golden sunset glow, did she realize the day was coming to a close.
“It’s getting late Minari. We should head back soon.” Jihyo observed sadly.
“Not so fast Jihyo-ah, we have a movie to catch in ten minutes.” Mina cheekily said, whipping out a couple of tickets from her pocket. Jihyo’s mood brightened immediately.
“Oh my gosh, are those for ‘District 9’ premiere? I’m dying to watch that movie!” She gushed with excitement. Mina nodded, proud of herself. “How do you even get the tickets? I heard they’re sold out in like one hour!”
“I have my ways. Are you coming or not?” Mina playfully waved the tickets in front of Jihyo’s face.
“Of course I am. Let’s go!” Linking her arms with Mina’s, Jihyo all but skipped towards the grand cinema.
As it turned out, she did not notice much what was going on during the movie- both of them were only pretending to be focused; rather, they paid more attention to where their hands were touching- and what part of their body was being touched.
They did not get home until late at night.
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Among the group, Mina was probably the most advanced with her powers. It was not in regard to strength, seeing as all of them were quite powerful in their own ways, and Jihyo forbade any kind of sparring to let them find out who was the strongest- this had sparked quite a few times, with only a simple ‘hey, wanna fight? I wanna try something’ and things went south as quickly as Momo. She knew she couldn’t physically stop them once things started, so it was best not to let anything go off in the first place. She also knew she’d probably limit their growth by not letting them test out new things, yet it was something they were fully able to do by themselves and not on others, and Jihyo was not about to let her precious members get hurt due to reckless experiment.
Except for Mina. Her time spent alone was more than enough for her to explore every obscure corners of her prowess, and no one could tell if she’d employed her powers or not- it affected the mind, with little to no visible changes to one’s body, so it was difficult to discern for sure whether Mina had done something to someone.
That said, Mina could very well hypnotize Jihyo into someone she wasn’t- from a loving girlfriend to a passionate lover, or even a helpless suitor, following the Japanese like a whipped dog- to her own satisfaction, or merely to get a kick out of the other members. Yet she never did.
“I’ll never try anything on you Jihyo.” Mina had declared, in the most resolute tone she could muster.
Because she loved Jihyo way too much for that, though this part she did not mention. She never dared say something so outrageous out loud.
And Jihyo was thankful. Still, if she was completely honest with herself, she was sometimes afraid- or, at least, apprehensive, of the fact that she was completely at Mina’s mercy.
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When Jihyo opened her eyes, it was dark. Reaching for the phone, she groaned when it showed 2AM. Being a deep sleeper, it was rare for her to wake up in the middle of the night like this. They were always so busy with their schedule; therefore, they could ill afford to waste precious sleep on random jerk-ups at night. Nevertheless, Jihyo felt wide awake, as if she had been asleep for much longer.
Glancing around at the barely visible bedroom, Jihyo raised an eyebrow when she saw Mina’s bed vacant. Normally it would be hard to tell, but the neatly made bed gave the clear indication that its owner hadn’t come around since the morning before.
“Where is she…” Jihyo wondered. She decided to go look for her in the living room. Their front door made quite an obnoxious creak when it opened, so it wasn’t likely that Mina had snuck out.
Upon entering the common room, Jihyo was startled the soft, almost imperceptible sound of sobbing. Sure enough, Mina was there all by herself, crying her eyes out while burying her face in open palms.
“Minari…?” She called out tentatively. The crying ceased right away, and Mina looked up from where she was sitting, her eyes puffy and red.
“Jihyo-ah…” Mina tried her best to sound casual, yet the cracking voice betrayed her, and she could not continue.
The leader did not push for an explanation. Instead, she sat down next to Mina and offered her a comforting shoulder- like she always did.
As she was embracing Mina and drawing comforting circles on the crying girl’s arm, Jihyo caught sight of something unexpected on the table.
Lying there were four familiar-looking tickets. To be more accurate, two couples of tickets, one for the Lotte World and the other for the movie ‘District 9’. All four were in brand new condition, not stubs- meaning, they had not been used, which would be indicated by the cashier’s ripping.
And Jihyo understood.
“Minari… Our date, it never happened, did it?” She whispered the all-too-important question. “You put me to sleep with the scenario you thought of. That’s why I felt like I’d slept the whole day, because I really did. And it can’t just up and stop raining like that, now that I think about it.” Everything started to fall into place.
Mina did not reply, but her silence was more than a verbal confirmation.
“Look, Mina-yah,” Jihyo heaved a sigh. She admittedly had mixed feelings about the revelation, but right now, Mina took top priority. “There’s no need to cry over spoilt milk. We can go out any other day, tomorrow if you want. So please cheer up, I’m sad when you’re like this.” She tried to console Mina, and while it did little to actually improve her mood, it managed to halt her crying enough for conversation.
“It’s not that Jihyo-ah…” Taking a deep breath, Mina continued. “I was really looking forward to this date. We were supposed to play games together, watch movies together, and m-maybe something else. But above all, I want you to be happy with me. So… even though we were not able to go, I imagined a day where we did- then hypnotized you into thinking that. I made you fall asleep though, so it was more or less a controlled dream.”
A choke, suppressed with difficulty thus far, finally escaped Mina’s restraint.
“It’s my fault. You probably hate me now. I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, Jihyo-ah.”
Glistening tears threatened to fall from Mina’s eyes again, and Jihyo would not have that. To Mina’s shock, the leader pushed her down on the couch, their faces only inches apart.
“J-Jihyo?” Far from accustomed to such compromising situations, Mina stuttered, her depression momentarily forgotten. She was painfully aware of how close they were to each other; the heat from Jihyo’s body was sending waves of butterflies to her stomach, almost as much so as her intense, mesmerizing orbs.
“Minari… I don’t know if you’re doing anything to my mind right now, but there’s nothing I want more than to take a bite on those delicious-looking lips of yours.” While normally that would sound tempting and Mina would immediately accept, she was feeling naught but scared at that moment. So she chose to shake her head vehemently. Little did she know, that little action only served to make her seem even more vulnerable- and, to Jihyo, adorable.
“You’re so sweet and kind, Mina-yah. There are many things you could have done with your powers. You could force me to go out with you even if it was raining, hell, you could even make me take off my clothes for you right then and there without any dates.” Mina blushed furiously at this. She would never have enough gall for that. “But you didn’t. You made me happy at the expense of your own satisfaction. If that isn’t the sweetest sacrifice ever, I don’t know what is.”
“But, I did not keep my words…”
“If everytime you break your promise you can make me this happy, then please, break it as many times as you can.”
“Jihyo… I…” Feeling the uselessness of words at the moment, Mina decided to throw caution to the wind. She lifted her head up, and their lips met.
Mina didn’t talk much. Yet among TWICE members, she was the most expressive. Her kiss, albeit soft and shy, was burning with unbridled affection.
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“Let’s go back to bed, shall we? You need rest.” Mina obediently nodded, still feeling light-headed from the kiss. She barely felt her feet when they walked hand in hand back to the bedroom they shared with Nayeon and Sana. What she did feel however, was that her heart dropped as Jihyo left her personal space and made for her bed.
“Wait…” Fortunately, she was still close enough to hold Jihyo back by the hand. The leader turned back with a half-puzzled, half-expectant look, her eyes glimmering in the semi-darkness that shrouded the room.
“Sleep with me tonight.”
“You know I can’t. The others won’t let me hear the end of it when they wake up and see us.” Jihyo replied regretfully.
“Let me come over to your bed then, I’ll take the blame.” Mina decided to follow through with her sudden bout of boldness. It was, after all, a small price to pay for that warmth she missed already. “They won’t even know, I promise.” She winked meaningfully.
“You know I didn’t give you permission to abuse your powers right?” Chided Jihyo playfully, pinching Mina’s dainty hand.
“But it’ll make you happy right~?” Jihyo had to concede to that. Silently they tiptoed to her bed and lay down. It was barely large enough for two people, so they settled in a spooning position.
Sleepiness soon clouded Mina’s mind, and the soothing presence of Jihyo, who was breathing rhythmically into the back of her neck, provided an profound sense of peace that no plushie could ever match.
“Mina?” Amidst the fog of drowsiness, she heard Jihyo whisper her name.
“Yeah?”
“You talked a lot tonight.”
“Hmhm.”
“You were really bold. Almost as bold as the Mina you pictured then put in my head. I like it.”
“Oh, shush you.” They shared a light laugh.
“Good night, Minari.”
“Good night, Jihyo.”
With that, Mina drifted off to blissful unconsciousness.
As she held the peacefully sleeping Mina in her arms that night, whatever doubt or fear Jihyo might have had with the girl all but evaporated. Sure, she did break her promise, intentionally even. But the sweet little penguin would never hurt her, and no amount of hypnosis could possibly alter her trust.
Kara is leaving in two weeks, two days and eight hours. Lena promises herself not to think about it before she has to, but she feels as if she has a clock ticking at the back of her mind, draining the color from her day with its every move. It's there when she helps Kara move her boxes into her new storage unit. There when they kick Alex's ass at Trivia night. There when she stops by her apartment to pick up clean clothes and finds her Devil's Ivy brown and lifeless.
Logically, Lena knows she will get used to Kara's absence. Humans are adaptive creatures. She is going to miss her, of course, but she spent most of her life without Kara there to flood her office with flowers or take her on strange culinary adventures. She can survive a couple of months of long distance. But she dreads going back to how things were before. The monotonous cycle of work and sleep. Coming back to an empty apartment every night, feeling lost and restless and alone.
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A lot of the comments I got in the last workshop on my soon-to-be novel (AKA Superflowers 2.0) say that it doesn't follow the structure people expect from a romance novel. And I get what they are saying, but I don't think it's necessarily a flaw of the story. It just means I'm not writing a Romantic Comedy. It's a love story, but the focus is on the growth and the healing of the characters and how they affect each other's lives, not on the "will they won't they" aspect.
But it does make me wonder... is this kind of story going to be publishable?
Are people going to want to keep reading about these characters if I won't keep them in constant suspense? Is there value to this kind of story?
I know all the ingredients to make this story into a proper Romantic Comedy are there. But I'm not sure I want to do it. I love all the ways this story is different from what I expect from this genre. I love all the things that make it mine. But is it enough?
Comments from class on Superflowers (the version where Kara and Lena have different names and they live in Israel that's totally isn't fanfiction. I don’t know what fanfiction is) so far:
1) It's not believable for a high tech company to be a family company/ the buisness part is not believable (well there is nothing believable about L-Corp in canon either but it survived five seasons).
2) The slow burn is too slow.
3) Two people can't be this clueless about the other person's feelings (every supercorp fic writer ever- laughing historically).
4) Are Lena and Sam exes? (My professor, repeatedly).
5) Is Lillian all bad? (I actually made her a lot more human then canon!)
6) Why would the board/Lillian have a problem with Lena being gay? It's not an issue to be gay today!
7) Everyone loves Lex and they are absolutely right about it.
8) What is the purpose of having therapy sessions in this story? (To give Lena much needed therapy!)
9) it's not believable for a CEO to have lunch with her assistant. (Sorry Jess).
