🍎 keu

the second time gets a reaction, but not the one you expect.

"...who?"

"you."

"oh."

there's a pause.

"right."

another pause.

"that's me."

from that point onward, every time you call him park woojo he looks just confused. not upset. not suspicious. just completely lost as to why you've suddenly decided to start using a name nobody ever really calls him.

james / chao yufan

✴︎ surprised because no one has used his full name casually like that in soooo long ✴︎ gets completely sidetracked once he realizes your pronunciation is perfect ✴︎ makes you repeat it just to hear it again ✴︎ spends more time asking where you learned it than questioning the prank ✴︎ remembers he was supposed to be suspicious ten minutes later

"chao yufan."

his head snaps up almost immediately.

"...what?"

"can you move?"

instead of answering, he just stares at you for a second.

"say it again."

"what?"

"my name."

now you're the confused one.

you repeat it and he immediately grins.

"again."

the prank completely falls apart from there because now he's too busy asking where you learned the pronunciation from. by the time he remembers something weird is happening, the conversation has already moved on.

kim juhoon

✴︎ catches on too fast i fear ✴︎ decides if you're using government names then he's doing it too ✴︎ starts responding with your full name every chance he gets ✴︎ commits to the bit harder than you do ✴︎ somehow turns the prank against you

"kim juhoon."

he looks over immediately.

"yes, yn ln?"

you already know this was a mistake.

"can you pass me the remote?"

"certainly, yn ln."

he hands it over with a completely straight face.

from then on, every sentence includes your full name somehow. it only gets worse when he realizes you're trying not to laugh.

by the end of the day, you've heard your own government name more times than he's heard his, and somehow he's the one enjoying himself.

eom seonghyeon

✴︎ immediately assumes something bad happened ✴︎ sits up straighter every time you say it ✴︎ mentally prepares for bad news that never comes ✴︎ keeps asking if everything's okay ✴︎ doesn't find the prank nearly as funny as everyone else

"eom seonghyeon."

his head lifts instantly.

"...yeah?"

"can you hold this for a second?"

he takes it without question, but the look doesn't leave his face.

later you do it again.

"eom seonghyeon."

"...what happened?"

"nothing happened."

"are you sure?"

after the third time, he's fully convinced you're working up to something. when you eventually tell him it's a prank, he just stares at you with that slightly annoyed, soft scowl of his.

"...i thought you were about to tell me something serious."

ahn keonho

✴︎ doesn't react much at first because everyone calls him ahn-kono affectionally anyway ✴︎ gets confused by the way you're saying it rather than the name itself ✴︎ starts trying to analyze your tone like there's some hidden meaning ✴︎ keeps randomly bringing it back up later ✴︎ finds the prank more annoying than funny because now he's bothered by something he can't explain

the first time you call him ahn keonho, he barely reacts.

"ahn keonho."

"hm?"

"can you pass me that?"

"yeah."

that's it. you almost think the prank is going to fail completely until you do it again later. and then again. by the third time, he finally pauses.

"...why do you keep saying my name like that?"

"like what?"

"i don't know." he frowns. "just... ahn keon-ho."

when you refuse to explain, it somehow bothers him even more. twenty minutes later he'll still randomly glance over and ask, "seriously though, why'd you say ahn keonho like that?"

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