#i refuse ti believe kt …

[dashuisofanubis]

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals AU

A/N: I wrote this a while back, after we had a great conversation on the discord about which characters from TGWDLM the HoA kids would be. Naturally, I forgot about this and I found it while sorting though my files so I thought I might as well share

It starts off as just a typical day. Well, better than typical, because typical usually involves mysteries and life and death situations. Although, Eddie still hasn’t submitted his Business coursework, despite it being due tomorrow.

When he returns from school, Eddie walks into the living room and is immediately set upon by Willow, who asks him if he’d be willing to sponsor a hedgehog. He declines, saying he needs his money for more important causes.

Sibuna are going back to the school to watch the annual musical production, this time being a performance of Mamma Mia, before KT goes on a school trip to France. Eddie declines the offer to go on the grounds that he would rather do anything than go see Mamma Mia. 

That night, a meteor crashes into the school grounds, an event that was predicted by Robert Frobisher Smythe almost a hundred years ago. The Secret Society has been waiting for it’s arrival, and were first on the scene to investigate it. 

Life at Anubis house continues as normal, with Trudy singing as she prepares them breakfast. Willow, who got up early and helped Trudy, comes up to Eddie and asks if he’s changed his mind on wanting to save the endangered hedgehogs and performs a song on how they need to be helped.

As Sibuna (sans KT) walk to school, the kids see a bunch of students performing what must be a flash mob. They repeatedly ask them to join, but Fabian declines politely before Patricia attacks them.

Mr Sweet asks Eddie into his office. Eddie assumes it’s to berate him for not submitting his coursework, or at least for a father-son chat. Instead, he’s shocked and freaked out when Eric begins to sing about his deepest desires.

Eddie flees, seeing groups of students singing and dancing throughout the school. He rushes into the canteen, where he finds Joy, who laughs at his irrational fear that the world is becoming a musical. However it’s at that moment that the dinner ladies begin to sing about poisoning the food, and students around them choke and collapse to the floor, before rising and beginning to join in. 

Joy and Eddie flee to the back of the school, where they find their other housemates, except KT who’s on the school trip, and Willow who is still singing aggressively about saving the planet, now accompanied by a group of backup singers.

They realise they need to find somewhere to hide while they figure out what’s happening and decide on the Gate house. But when they go to leave the school grounds, they’re cornered by Denby, Victor and Sweet. Denby and Victor flee when Jerome slams a bin lid across Sweet’s head. Eddie says they can’t just leave him, he’s his dad, so they haul Eric along with them.

When they arrive at the gate house, they find Robert Frobisher Smythe, who initially refuses to let them in, until they prove they’re not infected by performing a truly awful rendition of Moana. (It’s a good job the HoA kids only performed a play, not a musical)

They tie up Eric, and Mara offers to keep an eye on him while Robert goes to find equipment. But Sweet comes to and escapes, but not before turning Mara. The others are chilling in the front room, when Mara enters, telling them they need to join her, but they’re going to die either way. Robert comes into the room and shoots her, sending everyone into hysterics, despite Robert’s insistence that she was no longer Mara. 

The group realises the severity of the situation, and they’re glad that at least KT will be safe, which is when they receive a phone call from her asking what’s going on. Her trip was cancelled, so she found Willow who started singing and dancing. Fabian tells her to go hide somewhere safe and that they’ll come rescue her. 

Fabian, Alfie and Eddie decide to go while Jerome, Joy and Patricia remain behind with Robert to try and discover an answer. The suggestion is made for Fabian to remain, seeing as he’s the “sciencey one”, but he reminds them that was Mara, and he can’t stay in the Gatehouse any longer.

- Act 2 -

They’re too late. Willow and a group of other students broke down the door to the music room and got KT. The evidence of a struggle is clear, and when KT walks onto the scene accompanied by Willow, she tells them in a song how if they’d been better friends this wouldn’t have happened. Eddie, Alfie and Fabian are grief-stricken and Fabian, still overwhelmed by the whole situation and what happened to Mara, blames himself because it was his suggestion for her to hide in a room whereas if she’d run KT might have had a chance. Eddie tries to convince him that it wasn’t his fault, but KT attacks Fabian, giving Eddie and Alfie no choice but to flee.

They run across the grounds, but they’re ambushed by a group of students. Alfie is wounded and turns into one of the creatures. Eddie is horrified and realises he can’t escape, when the police, headed by Sergeant Roebuck, rescue him. Roebuck says he can take him away, but Eddie says he has to go back for his friends at the Gatehouse. Roebuck gives him an hour.

Meanwhile, the group at the Gatehouse appear to be making progress, examining the blue goo that Sweet left behind. (Robert: Tell me, Patricia, what does this look like to you? Patricia: oh, um, I don’t know! Some kind of blue…shit? Robert: Exactly Patricia! What the fuck is this shit?) Joy realises there must be a connection between this infection and the meteor crash, but before she can do anything about it, Robert knocks her and the others out, and when they come to they find themselves tied up.

Robert reveals that his years of waiting haven’t been in vain. He started writing a musical, and he believes these aliens will bring a deeper nuance to it and wants to join their hive. He asks the captives if he can give them the pitch, and Jerome, grief-stricken, bemused and feeling the sense of fatalism, tells him to go for it. 

About halfway through, Victor and Denby show up and they perform one of Robert’s songs. Robert, having gotten what he wanted, leaves with them before being turned.

Eddie also returns and rescues Patricia, Jerome and Joy. They’re horrified to learn that not only were the others too late, but that Alfie and Fabian are gone too. Eddie tells them there’s still hope of escape, if they can reach the police in the next 25 minutes. They leave the Gatehouse and turn their backs on Amun Academy for good.

They’ve almost made it when they’re attacked and Jerome decides to abandon the group and run ahead to where the police are waiting. However, while Eddie was rescuing the others, the police were overwhelmed by the students. Sgt Roebuck attacks him and he joins the hive. 

Eddie, Joy and Patricia flee, piling into the back of a car and telling the driver to floor it. The driver asks them if they’d like pancakes or waffles, and to their horror they discover that the driver was once their housemother. They try to break out of the car and cause it to crash. Trudy is killed and Joy is injured, so she tells them to leave her behind and take down the meteor. 

Eddie and Patricia head to the site of the crash, where they find their housemates and teachers. Except, they’re not them, and the two find themselves succumbing to the spores. Robert says there’s no way they can break free from their control, but they manage to stay themselves long enough to blow up the meteorite.

Joy wakes up in hospital, with Nurse Delia telling her she’s the only survivor, but that she does have a visitor: Eddie. Joy realises Patricia didn’t make it and very soon discovers that neither did Eddie. She tries to flee but there’s no escape from the inevitable.

Across the world, Nina, Amber, Mick, Poppy and Piper are overcome with grief over the news of the tragedy that befell Amun Academy. But it doesn’t matter really. Their apotheosis will be on them soon enough.

[rkkyul]

190801 MGA SEASON 5 + EPISODE FIVE +  #5050 FEATURING : TEAM KT  ⟨ ━━ ❀ ° PART ONE: PERFORMANCE, LION HEART + I GOT A BOY ( LINES / SONG ) ⟩

it hits her all at once, the overwhelming emotions trapping her before swallowing her whole. she’s going through the motions - watching heejin and minho rise from their seat beside her as their names are called, numbly following them up onstage. kyulkyung isn’t sure she’s breathing air, mouth opening in surprise and eyes widening as her teammates lead the way. perhaps her reaction is a bit dramatic, but oh is it genuine. 

the whole experience was so surreal - to even be considered for the top performance of the week when she had failed to do so the entire show. kyulkyung was tired of being average, of resting on that safe middle ground between being the best and the worst. average. want an ugly word. their names weren’t called when the top performance was announced, but she was too high in the clouds to notice - hand clasped tightly around heejin’s as they awaited the announcement. was it disappointing? maybe a little, but to finally be at the point was certainly an ego boost. 

semi finalist. 

the words were strange to her. the woman who had allowed herself to persuaded into something she once found silly was now officially a semi finalist for the mga’s fifth season. oh, she couldn’t wait to tell her mom. 

her heart was still racing when the trio once again returned to their seats, following throughout the hug minho gave them - adrenaline coursing through every part of her being as the show went on without her. kyulkyung listened, watched more talented performers leave them and she wondered how she had even managed to make it this far. she didn’t doubt her worth or talent, just wondered what happened to suddenly have luck on her side. 

after the disaster that was 2018, the woman entertained the idea of this just being some cruel joke. zhou jieqiong? making it this far on her own? joonho would’ve laughed in her face. but she tried to not think about that.

she’s slapped back into reality when the contestants suddenly awake with life, their bodies moving in shock and excitement rising in hushed tones. moving her eyes from where they stayed fixated on her shoes, they follow the movements of the new appearances on stage

from sphere entertainment, please welcome CONVEX’s very own JINKI and JINWOOK, as well as our star trainee and winner of the last season of the MGAs, GO HOJUNG!

her ears hang tightly onto the world CONVEX, hoping a familiar someone’s name will follow but much to her disappointment, she’s left with unfamiliar faces and dismay. but she perks up, attentive in her seat as she patiently awaits the coaches from TRC to be announced. JINSOUL - kyulkyung can’t help the tiny noise that passes her lips, excitement enveloping her entire form when she lays eyes on her best friend. “hey, that’s my best friend!” she attempts to whisper to minho and heejin - practically shaking in her seat and definitely way too excited.

i can’t believe she didn’t tell me, despite her thoughts, kyulkyung grins anyway. her anticipation only grows as time passes. please let me get onto trc’s team. please. please. please.

and no, not just because that would mean jinsoul gets to coach her.

she’s just a tiny bit disappointment when the TRC group announcement rolls around and her name is passed up. just the tiniest bit. however, this is short lived when her name is revealed under KT. the company is a bit surprising, solely for the fact that she wouldn’t have chosen it for herself. out of everything, she was expecting nova the most. but getting picked to perform in a group for a company run by katie lee, that’s pretty amazing. 

                                                                     ❀

"semi finalist? oh, god i can’t believe.” yea, she can’t either.

kyulkyung laughs at her mother’s enthusiasm over the phone - feeling her cheeks grow hot at the woman’s constant, unrelenting praises. it’s nice to hear the complements and she allows her ego to inflate with each syllable. her mother always complemented her, but it was nice to hear something the woman herself could also feel proud of.

the mgas were different than anything else she had done in life. there was no reliance on anything other than what her talent alone had to offer. there was no behind-the-scenes magic that needed to worked, no amount of bills slipped under the table and secrets to be kept. the fact made her prideful if anything.

after last year, it seemed as if everything wrong she had done had constantly stayed on her back - a quiet monster, the chill that ran down her spine and kept her awake at night. it was hard to put it past her, but somehow she had managed to tuck it away far enough, bury it so deep within that it never even became an afterthought. the process took time and trust, especially with her mother who felt almost as guilty as her.

“you know after last year, i worried about you. i felt like i set a back example.” kyulkyung clenched the phone pressed against her ear tightly in her grasp, fighting back whatever emotions spewed up. biting down on her lip, the woman pushed through whatever words left her mother’s mouth through the phone. perhaps the worst part about the whole situation was that her mother felt responsible, took on her daughter’s worries and that was not okay. 

the woman’s voice is strained through the phone and she fears she’s holding back tears. “but i’m proud of you, for doing something and making it this far. i really hope you make it this week, jie.” me too, mom. she answers, burring herself further beneath the sheets - feeling the dull ache of attachment to the woman who can only speak to her through a phone or stupid screen.

“i wasn’t going to tell you this in case it jinxed you this thursday but chun and i are coming in next week - just in time for the finals. he has a business down there, but i figured i’d tag along just to see my girl.” and lying in her bed that night, phone tucked between her ear and pillow, making it to the finals next week meant so much more to her.

                                                                     ❀

once again,the week goes by rather smoothly with her teammates. except for the fact that they are busy, busy, busy.

the coaches and teammates are alike in the ways that they are helpful to a girl with minimal singing experience. and lucky for kyulkyung, this week she’s in a room full of incredible talents. of course yukhei and her scream over each other their first meeting, having only spoke to the boy over suwoong’s phone a few episodes ago and having got along pretty well. he’s just as fun as the woman expected and paired with talent to combat his upbeat nature. 

the girl known for her singing and musical talents, yuri is just as amazing to work with as she expected. their team is full of power vocals, yuri and sia bringing enough to the table and offering whatever tips they had to ever so curious kyulkyung. “c’mon please... think of me please?” she begs yuri to sing such an iconic song - phantom of the opera being a personal favorite of the woman. she could never get enough of the tragic story that was erik and christine. ugh, it made her cry every time.

“i’d say i’d help sing it, but that’s a disgrace to phantom of the opera. it’s a sin.” kyulkyung pulls a hand to her chest, bowing her head in sadness before shaking her head at the thought. yuri is the only one who could do it justice while she couldn’t bare the embarrassment for herself.

kyulkyung’s delighted witrh yuri’s compliance, elated to hear one of the songs from her favorite musical from personally one of her favorites on the show. before being teamed up together, the woman had always admired her from afar - completely losing herself in her voice and loving every moment of it. just as expected, yuri’s voice complements the song nicely and she can’t help the long drawl she lets out, pressing a hand against her heart and swaying ever so dramatically to the tone of the other’s voice. 

all shenanigans aside, the woman found herself in a situation that left her bewildered. she didn’t mind to help usually, but sia’s call for help left her a bit nervous. kyulkyung didn’t have experience with cutting or mixing music, but the other girl needed help and who was she to refuse? “i don’t care to, but you’ll have to lead the way some.” the woman admitted with a tiny smile, eager to help out in any way that she can. 

the process wasn’t too difficult, but it was a process. creating the choreography with nakyung for the dance break wasn’t nearly as hard as creating the mix, but eventually they got it done ( and kyulkyung was there to offer any extra help whenever someone needed it ). the fact that they had managed to pull it off was extremely exciting for the woman, even going as far as to do a mini celebration dance whenever they finished it. yes, she was embarrassed with herself afterwards but damn was she proud. 

turns out she’ll be heading back to hook & crook after the show with a little bit more than dance and performance tips.

                                                                       ❀

thursday approaches quickly and this time, kyulkyung’s a bit nervous when she climbs onstage. the semi finals held a lot of more meaning than the other performances and after being in the top 3 last week, she’s sure there’s an expectancy for both her and her team. in fact, the entirety of team kt had at least one episode’s worth of top 3 experience under their belt and it makes her wonder if they’ll be watched that much closer. 

her hair, now faded a bit after a few washes, hangs loosely atop her head - the white nature of her top and shorts a contrast to the red bandanna that’s tied around her thigh. she’s standing on stage with her team, head held high and signature smile wide despite the nerves that light up when the judges and eyes of their first live audience lays upon them. “hello! we are FOH!CUS.” the team greets before being met with the thunderous clap of applause.

the noise is enough to brighten her smile and settle whatever negative emotions she felt. kyulkyung did not get stage fright, well not anymore at least. the eyes of an audience was not foreign to her especially after her time with knb. it was all just noise to her, eager eyes there to watch them perform and their entertainment for the night. they’d give them a show worth while, especially with all the pretty faces and power vocals up there. 

in the most arrogant way possible, kyulkyung thought team FOH!CUS was hard to forget. 

“hello! constant #5050, zhou jieqiong here again!” she will never forget that tiny bit of chinese at the beginning of her introduction - not until the very end ( it’s kind of a habit at this point, honestly ).

as the group arranges themselves for the beginning of the performace, yuri finds herself in the center - surrounded by her teammates and introducing the audience to chi chi’s lion heart. the vocals are soft as are their movements, the singer’s tone and charisma alone enough to draw attention and set the mood of their performance. kyulkyung’s sure the audience’s heart fluttered just a little as did hers when she heard yuri sing the song for the first time.

ah 넌 달라진 게 없어 여전해 난 애가 타고 또 타 사냥감 ���아 한눈파는 너

kyulkyung’s voice follow’s the other girl’s smoothly, a nice transition into her sweet tone and flowing nicely with the music. luckily for her, the movements during this part are minimal for her at least - allowing her voice to carry unfaltering and comfortably. singing live was something she worried a lot about, but with tips and a lot of help, her confidence grew little by little. her smile is delicate upon her lips, her legs carrying her into the next series of moments as they draw into the chorus.

chi chi’s choreography isn’t hard to follow, but it’s nice and fun to watch. the song and melody allows for an easy smile from kyulkyung, putting on an image of a girl in love and innocence. their movements and choreography are soft and flows nicely against the music, but that makes it so much better when the shock of their transition settles in.

lion heart suddenly comes to a halt and everyone is moving into new position - a new light overwhelming them as the beat changes entirely. the mix that kyulkyung and sia put together takes over the stage, the group moving in sync with one another in a way contrasting themselves just a few moments prior.

nakyung and kyulkyung were responsible for creating the choreography, transitioning them into the beginning of i got a boy and creating a whole new mood for their stage. the woman’s presence changes drastically, a more coy, cheerful look overtaking her frame as the upbeat tone of the music sounds. personally, she prefers songs like this to lion heart - feeling more like herself with peppy beats and modern lyrics. hahaha! eh let me introduce myself - kyulkyung points to yukhei as speaks,  here comes trouble, whoo! there’s a playful grin on her lips as she moves - raising a hand to motion a ‘come here’ movement with her fingers, 따라해.

어떨 땐 오빠처럼 듬직하지만 애교를 부릴 땐 넘 예뻐 죽겠어

preparing for their performance was once again fun for the woman - this being what she looked forward to most when she joined the competition. and honestly speaking, kyulkyung learned a lot more than she thought she would. working with people was one thing especially on a show like the mgas, the fierce nature of the competition threatening to bring out the worst in people but so far, that hadn’t been the case ( at least for her ).

the way they move alongside one another on stage is exciting - no doubt a visual and talent overload for their audience and she wonders if this what being an idol felt like. and if that’s case, it makes her want that contract even more.

making it this far was exciting, but left her greedy more than ever. there was a lot pending on today’s performance, on her advancement into the competition that she undermined completely. coming in with no expectations and following through with nothing but the highest, that was surely a shock. but not only did she want a contract presented to her in the end, kyulkyung would also love for her mother to at least see her perform once. 

귀 기울여 주는 너 너

her mother’s words drive her confidence, fuel the endless stream of energy that courses through her as they near the end of their performance. kyulkyung didn’t have a lot of lines, but she didn’t asked for many - leaving the singing up to the professionals and taking as many notes as she could. the coaches and her teammates helped equally and she matched their drive with one of her own, practicing up until the very last moment because she didn’t need the embarrassment up on stage.

she’s not as perfect as she’d like to be, but she knew what she had to work with and milked it for its worth. what she lacked in singing she made up with her dancing and countless expressions, enjoying every minute she was up on that stage. 

as the performance neared its end, kyulkyung couldn’t help the bottomless pit of worry that began to sizzle deep within her stomach. no matter how good they did or how much the crowd loved their performance, one of her teammates would be going home. 

it hurt to think about, but she supposed that’s just the nature of a competition and she’ll do anything in her power to make sure that person isn’t her.