#i might make his own collage immediately after scheduling this letter or at least searching the pics 🤭

[faceglitchsworld]

It's the first of November!

First and foremost, I hope you celebrated a good Halloween yesterday and spent a good time.

Now, let's enter into a new month by celebrating an old ma-I mean leader's day.

Happy birthday, Dann 🥳

As always have a look at the collage I made.

I know what you are thinking. It looks a little weird. Well, look at the center 🥺

I wanted to dedicate this collage to Dann's leadership instead of just focusing on just one member relationship so, here you go, you got Kingdom group selfies 😭

Finding these two pics has been a little difficult since Dann nowadays doesn't hold the phone like he usually did before. And I get it. Hwon is tall 🤣 Better use him as the selfie maker instead of forcing him to shrink himself 🤣

I also used a couple of two old screenshots of mine for making this collage! I needed to dive a little deeper in my phone's memory to find them but you can see them now! 😭

I might do the same for the last letter I should write for this month probably...

Anyway, here's the letter.

Today, we're celebrating the day of a leader who's the perfect example of what happens when you struggle to make others respect your authority.

Our Dann is a very simple man. He speaks a lot of languages—Mr. Worldwide indeed. He's experienced, a talented singer, and he might be a good actor, too. He's friendly and open—the perfect idol, if you ask me. But there's one last thing that our fox still struggles to get.

His members' respect.

If you've been into K-pop for a while, I think you perfectly know the entire gimmick/inside joke of the Leader that sometimes isn't able to manage the members or the jokes about the oldest members. Well, Dann is literally an incarnation of both.

This man tries everything, everything to be listened to by his members and what he gets is always one thing: S T R U G G L E. I never saw a leader struggle more than him. The disrespect he gets every time, how the members, especially Louis, mess up with him, and the betrayal ™ Arthur, his long-time member and friend, gives to him. This man deserves a break 🤣

But our man didn't give up; he fought back. And what's more effective to counterattack than embarrassing your fellow members? Dann is well aware that he's not just a leader but also the oldest member, so why not make your youngest fellows cringe by embracing the "how do you do, fellow kids?" meme? Since then, he has become unbeatable. He perfectly knows how to counterattack, like the respectable leader he is.

Jokes aside, I love Dann. He's my second bias in Kingdom, although he doesn't share the same spot as Ivan (I love my artic hare more, sorry Dann, hope you understand haha). His album is one of my favourites, it's in my top three.

I always had a soft spot for traditional music blended in pop music (spoiler, I will keep talking about it in the next letter for sure haha) and Dann's album immediately got my heart out when I listened to it for the first time. It's also the album that got a "better" treatment, considering he got two MVs instead of just one. And I wished the albums after Dann's followed the same formula, which would have highlighted the ballad or one of the b-sides in it. But oh well, guess we can't have everything in this world.

And what about his character inside the Kingdom's lore? The hero who first fought to bring peace to his kingdom but he gets broken immediately after all that struggle because of one, last tragedy? Perfect, immaculate, kinda relatable too. I have no idea how he will develop later in the story, I see him as kind of the wiser king compared to the others. He might not have the strongest powers as the other kings have or be "manipulative" but if he notices that something is going wrong, he notices it immediately and he'll do everything to find a solution before history repeats again and he'll see another tragedy happening in front of his eyes.

I don't know if it's the most accurate depiction of the character, again, I followed my vibes but it's an image that kind of fits Dann, both in the story but also in his career as an idol. I don't think I need to explain to you the entire history of Dann, I think almost everyone who digged a little into his past knows that, he already experienced the hardships and the suffering of seeing your dreams crushing and burning instead of blooming.

I think he saw the debut in Kingdom not only as a second opportunity but also as a way to make sure that his members would not go through the same path he went through. He protects them in any possible way and I think that, deep inside, he's also seen as that old, funky big brother everyone wished had by the members.

Dear Dann, I wasn't expecting this letter to be this long and I just highlighted a little part of you. Yesterday (in my timezone at least, I know it was midnight in Korea haha) you wanted to bless us with another cover and show us your vocal talent. I, and I think other Kingmes do too, love your passion for music, especially if we talk about your vocals, which bless us every time.

I briefly mentioned your struggles because I wanted to make this letter light-hearted. It's your birthday after all, haha. But I want to remind you that, whenever you feel down and think you might not make it this time, there's the love of your members and Kingmakers right on your back.

I'm glad you're taking more and more steps in songwriting too and you're building your place into Kingdom's history by writing cool songs. I loved Gundam and I can't wait for the day you'll be able to write a title track too. Hope this day will come soon.

My birthday wish for you is that you'll finally manage to be listened to by your members for once. It will probably happen soon I believe, but if it will not happen, well, keep going, I believe in you 😤

Happy birthday, little cute fox 🦊