#th; eval

@rkmseok march 19 eval set mar 10th 

decked in sweat pants that are loose enough to hide the knee brace, and an over sized hoodie that might actually belong to jaehyun now that he thinks about it, seonho stretches out along the couch in one of the recording studios. he was waiting on the instructor to come back to help him go over his vocals once more. it’s been almost ten minutes now and the teen was going insane waiting. bored, he ended up pushing up from his lazy position and went over to the sound board.

he’s been taught how to use it, well kind of, he’s had a few lessons and he’s helped arrange a song or two, so he knows how most of these nobs and buttons work. but he’s never done anything without supervision.

seonho doing anything without supervision is normally a bad idea but well. 

no one is here to stop him.

@rkmeiqi

laughter erupted from the teen, his body bending over his lap in an extra fashion. laughing with his entire body and not just his voice. as he tends to always do. his laughs could throw him across the room, and its lucky that he was worn from training, otherwise he might have throw himself across meiqi’s room. “ohmygosh--” he got out, a little breathless sounding. a hand holding his tummy as he tried containing his laughs a little. “--and the look on the ladies face when the entire tray of cookies fell over.” he laughed more.

they were reminiscing on their childhood. meiqi being one of his very few friends from his young days. someone who has seen him go from a quiet, chubby kid. to a loud mouthed teen. as he has seen her grow more bossing with every year. of course, he loves the girl. meiqi holds a special place in his heart. they’ve been around each other for so long, not counting the brief stent in the preteen years. but he feels connected to her in ways he doesn’t with other people. and it’s nice. he likes moments like that. moments they can just take a look back into almost simpler times. maybe not better, but simpler. 

@jaehyunrk​ march 2019 eval. set friday mar 8th 

this evaluation has come almost as a blessing. no dancing requirement, not strenuous exercise throw on top of their normal schedules. seonho was able to take a breather which was much needed especially after the revaluation he had had when going off to the doctors a few days ago. he claimed to be going to school but he skipped both training and school to make the visit and honestly he kind of wishes he hadn’t 

and while the doctor had said to keep off his leg, seonho knew there was no way he would be able to stay off his knee. 

so he’s glad this evaluation he could pick something that wouldn’t allow him to stay off his knee. like the drums. “hyung!” seonho yelled excitedly as jaehyun finally made his way into the instrument room. the teen was already sat behind the drums in the room with a large grin pulled across his lips. he’d had a few lessons on drums already but he was no where near perfect not that he cared. “check out this!” 

@rkbyunbaek rk18to19eval

he’s never been to jeju. 

a surprising fact to know actually when considering the fact his parents use to bring him on business trips all the time yet never once did a trip bring them to jeju--not even a vacation type one. he’s been to all the major cities of japan, and china, and even to paris once. yet jeju is so close and he’s never gone. a tragic fact really. but here he is now, and though this trip isn’t vacation and he doesn’t get to spend a lot of his time roaming around. there still is some time. and seonho was more than happy to be able to spend some of that time with his hyung.

@rkbyunbaek rk18to19eval

it’s early, and by all means seonho should have been sleeping a bit longer given the busy day he had yesterday and the busier day he’ll have today. but the teen was restless. just yesterday they all arrived to jeju island and seonho has never been to the island before so he had been over the moon with excitement when he arrived. practically tackling his hyungs out of his excitement, especially when he had found haknyeon hyung. knowing the older was coming home and that was such a cool thing to the teen.

but now it’s day two and its going to be a busy day and seonho is looking forward to it all but he’s also nervous for what’s going to be happening. and he hasn’t been sleeping well these days anyway so instead of laying there rustling around in bed he decided to sneak his way to another room. 

@rkbyunbaek

this eval was turning out to be fun so far. dongmin was working in two groups, which months before would have stressed him out because he doesn’t see himself someone talented enough for one group, nor does he really have the time management abilities to handle two eval groups AND his school. but things change, dongmin changed….. kind of. he feels more comfortable in his singing ability, and he has his morning period free so he can go in for morning training and leave for class. 

@jaehyunrk​ eval prep starter. 

dongmin has never been shy when it comes to wearing all kinds of clothing. as long as he thinks he looks cute in it, or looks handsome, then he will wear it. of course, he tends to avoid dresses or skirts when just out and about. mostly because of the looks he has gotten in the past. he isn’t ashamed, no, just shy. but this eval presented a chance for him to go all out. and he was rather excited about it. royal jdj was pulling together to cover a song ( putting their current project on hold for the eval ), and he thought they would dress up. 

but his hyungs had other ideas. “jaehyun hyung....” he pouted, holding up the tie. suits have never been his favorite thing to wear. he always felt stuffy in them ( though might be a big part of his age at the time, and he’s still young ) and he has no clue how to wear them right. his mom was always okay with just a button up at parties he was forced to attend. “i dont know how to do this.” he had wanted to make sure his suit would fit right, he wasn’t sure if he had grown since getting this one, and its a good thing he had tried it on because it was just too short on his ankles. he would need new pants for it, but luckily his jacket fit. 

          SEPTEMBER EVALUTATION - RAP PERFORMANCE           BY LEE DONGMIN FROM ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT                            ( song - outfit - lyrics under cut ) 

this months eval had been a source of entertainment for the teen. unlike the last few evaluations he has gone through, dongmin felt a bit more at ease with this one. part because he wasn’t going to have to figure out how to rap all on how own, and also because while in the process of trying to figure out what he was going to do, the teen had been struck with such an amazing idea.

while he is sure some other trainee’s in the rap group would probably try and write their own, dongmin was aware he wouldn’t be able to do something like that. at least not make a rap that would be fun to listen too. something that either made sense, told a story, or got his emotions across. he can still barely write a song ( tho he does think he has improved in his composing ). so why not go for something fun, while also working on his rapping ability. after all, if the company wants him to be prepared for anything they throw at him, then they should be prepared for whatever wild idea he can come up with.

might as well show them he isn’t afraid to go out of his element.

and thats pretty much what he has done with this evaluation. as dongmin has really only ever done slow ballad style songs in the past. this song–rap, is nothing at all like the one’s he has done in the past. if he was someone who placed bets, then he would bet that his choice of song would surprise pretty much everyone in the company.

he didn’t tell anyone what he was doing, he never worked on it in the company where someone might have over heard. this was very hush hush. even going so far as to practice a slow rap that was much more his style. he wanted to wow people when he does his performance.

once his turn was up for the eval, dongmin channeled as much of that swag swag nature that lisa noona and him has talked about. trying to pretty much before the personification of swag–impossible because lisa and elly are both much more swag like–so he could do this song right. his outfit had been carefully constructed, picking something out of the decade the song he picked was from.  

he started slower, building the song. using the relaxed motions he had seen being used in the countless of videos he watched of others singing this song. wanting to really portray himself as a chill, and swag rapper. saying the opening to the rap like he was some kind of announcer to a big hip rap off. honestly, its a wonder why dongmin isn’t embarrassed by this. he should be, by every natural right of the land, he should be so embarrassed by his choice. an endless sea of talented hip hop artist in the whole of korea and he goes for this song.

honestly, dongmin could probably do this rap in his sleep now. he has gone over it so many times while learning it that he will never forget the english alphabet ever again. it’s such a good thing he’s fluent in english already or this could have been so super messy, but he is fluent-- and now he can add a bunch of other songs to his list of ones he knows. which is both good and bad. some of these songs he doesn’t even know the meaning behind them-- having not taken the time to go over them. that can always come later, he supposes. right now he wants to give the best performance he possible can with the time he is given.

the rap ended much smoother than he had figured it would. having been afraid he would run out of breath and mess up a line. guess he is getting more stamina than he first thought he was. when he ended, there was a strong urge to do a mic drop-- but he had already probably gone over board with the rap he choose. so he didn’t want to push it. the minute he was done channeling that inner rapper, the teens shyness showed up. a small blush forming on his cheeks as he bowed and thanked everyone. thus ending his stage.