#kq’s-contest

[hjnxx]

house of cards is a south korean reality show created by mnet. hosted by twinstar’s oh hyewon, it premiered on march 5th 2021 and was broadcast every friday for thirteen weeks until its final episode. the series was broadcasted on the sbs m channel or youtube depending on the viewer’s location.

with fifty - two contestants being entered into the ring, the aim of the show was to debut a four - member group under the rising company kq entertainment. and with the growing success of their boy group ateez, it wasn’t long until those fifty - two slots were filled—auditions being held from january to february 2021.

divided into groups of four, a ‘pod’ would consist of thirteen members recognized in the four main categories needed to be a successful idol groups : vocals, performance, rapping, and personality—the last of the categories surprising its viewers. one member from each pod would be selected to represent themselves in their respective categories, as well as expected to keep up if asked to suddenly perform in the other categories. each week, four contestants were eliminated.

on the final episode of the show, aired on may 28th, it would be announced that the final four would debut later the same year.

in an unexpected turn of events, highly voted contestants choi janelle and yamada emi did not make the lineup. ending up in fifth and seventh place respectively, the top four spots went to kq trainees ahyeon and micha, pledis trainee yuina, and eunji—a recent university drop-out and convenient store worker. outrage from comets—fans of teenstar—and new fans of emi were inescapable for weeks online, marring the reputation of the show. but the hate didn’t matter. not to a certain staff member at kq.

house of cards was the brainchild of creative director yoon boeun, hired in 2020 and tasked with the creation and development of the project kqueenz. with her newly selected four, she would go on to partially introduce the girls to the world on june 14th, faces partially hidden in a similar fashion to their seniors. dancing to rico nasty’s counting up, four girls dressed head to toe in black gave a teaser of what’s to come. despite the show’s negative reception, the dance cover was quick to go viral—hate-watched or not. they would quickly gain popularity due to being of ateez’s sister group.

after the release of their dance video, the group would go through a series of debut preparations—the release of the official group name on july first, hijinxx, individual and group street performances from june to august, posters in public areas—all to raise domestic popularity. and on september first of the same year, hijinxx would officially debut.

[kiestrokes]

Hello there! Thanks for tagging me in your contest post! I thought it would be fun to submit a prompt. If you don’t write it, don’t worry I will. 🫠 after hearing Matz I was literally inspired like being struck by lightning. I can’t stop thinking about this prompt lol

College AU where you’re best friends with music engineering major Kim Hongjoong and his roommate, dance major Park Seonghwa. One night while the three of you were studying at the library for an upcoming exam, you find yourselves talking about how long it’s been since you’d gotten any action. Jokingly, you suggest the three of you have some fun to “blow off some steam”, purely business and to help one another out. Surely since there’s no romantic feelings involved here it’s harmless, right? You soon realize just how attractive you find your two best friends when they’re both naked with cocks rock hard in front of you, ready to give you the wildest night that’ll have you begging for more.

Sorry if this is extremely unhinged. But I am feeling some type of way after hearing that song and have zero romantic smut thoughts surrounding them atm 🤣 anyways…

Take care, and happy holidays!

BEE!

MATZ! YOU'RE GIVING US MATZ 🫠

Please my ace ass would get myself into a situation like this, omg. This will make for such a heated fic 😩 thank you for sharing this idea with us, love!

I will announce the winner tentatively the first week of January (or as soon as my shipment gets here from KQ!)

You take care as well, and have a fantastic December 🩵

p.s. you'll probably see me in your masterlist reading and reviewing again now that I am free from exams 🤗

The tournament is still happening!

[tinybeetiny]

Blissful Life Blissful Love: Jung Daeho

This motherfucker I swear… he’s my bias���. I love him… so much…

Chapter List | Character List

Jung Daeho:

Birthday is July 24, 1999

Leo Sun

Sagittarius Moon

Aries Rising

Virgo Venus

MBTI is ESFP

Love Language: Physical Touch

Blood Type: O-

Height: 182cm

Hair: Ash Blond, only changes it once during the story

Favorite Food: Fried Chicken

Trained for 2 1/2 years

Group: SYNCO

Role: Main dancer/rapper

Debuted July 15, 2020

Signed by KQ

Friends: Changbin, Wooyoung, Taehyun, Winter, Lia

Daeho... oh Daeho. Where do you even start? He is definitely the loudest one in the group and also the most eccentric. Some would call him the problem child and he thrives in that position. He has always loved being in the spotlight ever since he was young, his mother always put him in those cutest baby contests which he won every time. He is playful and always tries to put a smile on everyone's faces but when it's time to get serious it's like night and day. He seems to have the best sense of style in the group and usually has to help Banhwa with dressing. He also seems to have a very big appetite and HaJoon has to go grocery shopping quite often. He had no problem acquiring the title of lead dancer seeing as he's one of the strongest dancers matching the skills of Hwang Hyunjin who he deeply admires, he would call it a bro crush... his words. Although he is an excellent dancer he is also quite skilled with rapping. He absolutely LOVES skinship, he loves holding hands, hugging, snuggling- any type of skin contact he will go crazy for. But he loves nothing more than to scoop Yura up in his arms pressing his cheek against hers knowing she absolutely despises it. Doesn't use honorifics with Hajoon but will with Yura, noona this, noona that. But all Hajoon gets is "Hey you"

[naivrse]

published 240917

back in january , seventh heaven held a press conference discussing plans for the year , during which they confirmed the debut of their new boy group. coming in the final quarter of 2024 , leaving fans to wonder and speculate about the final lineup of the group since.

the company first started recruiting trainees for the group back in 2021 , holding global auditions. however , the lineup has changed several times , with some trainees thought to be in the group debuting elsewhere and others outright being cut from the label , causing confusion for everyone following the process , especially with popular boys planet contestant zachary shin departing last month.

luckily for you , we've managed to deduce the most likely members , from sightings outside of the seventh heaven headquarters in yeouido to social media appearances , and gathered everything you need to know below!

from left to right : lee eunsang , park jihoon , hwang minho , koo jungyu , and cole noh.

lee eunsang was born in '99 in yeosu. he used to be a trainee at kq entertainment , training alongside the members of ateez , and left in 2020. he got into seventh heaven via audition shortly after.

while still at kq , eunsang displayed singing and dancing as his strongest skills. it's safe to assume he'll have a vocal position. since he's the oldest , it's likely that he'll end up also being the leader.

park jihoon was born in '00 in busan. he was initially signed to fnc entertainment and was sent to compete on produce x 101 by them , debuting in x1 after ranking 3rd in 2019. following that group's messy disbandment , he embarked on an unremarkable solo career starting in 2021. after two years , it was announced that he left fnc and had signed with seventh heaven.

in x1 jihoon was a lead rapper and dancer , and as a soloist , was able to display the full range of his singing abilities. he could really play any role in the group , as he's pretty much an all–rounder.

hwang minho was born in '02 and is from bucheon. he also goes by the name christian hwang. he's been modeling since he was sixteen , first making headlines in 2018 for his striking visuals while walking for ader error when he was still freelancing. seventh heaven signed him not long after , beating the many other companies that had clamored to do so.

in addition to being gorgeous , minho is a talented singer and guitarist. a demo named countdown that was recorded by him and ttyl's divya back in 2022 was leaked , along with several other unreleased songs by seventh heaven artists , last year and went viral for just how rich and strong his vocals were. he'd most likely be the main vocalist.

koo jungyu was born in '02 and is from songdo. he played ice hockey for eleven years before quitting to pursue his dreams of becoming an idol when he was eighteen. before then , he'd done some modeling and cfs in addition to competing. he signed to seventh heaven via audition in 2020.

surprisingly , jungyu is quite the dancer. in a post–game presser from 2018 , he explained that he was placed in dance classes by his parents growing up so he could sufficiently work out during the hockey off–season , and developed a passion for it. last year , he hosted the seventh heaven family winter concert alongside minho , making the two a fan–favorite pairing that people can't wait to see debut together.

and lastly , cole noh , who was born in '03. he's from california and most notably is the younger brother of honeylemon's kenzie. he'd sort of made an influencing career out of being related to her , having over 500k followers and millions of views from a series of tiktok videos he made hanging out with her and other idols in seoul in 2023.

without announcement , cole deactivated all of his social media pages and moved to seoul this june. he was studying at ucla beforehand , majoring in music , but obviously won't be returning for the fall semester this year. while we're not exactly sure what it is that he does talent–wise , we're still excited to find out!

most recently , the bunch were spotted by an eagle–eyed fan at lauryn's fanmeeting concert , clad in face masks and casual attire.

[chronosik]

new metro atlanta kpop store kpoppia hosted a kq weekend! here's me as cyberpunk san (i won a prize in the costume contest!)

[noonaishere]

All of the Times Ateez Has Been Plagiarized (That I Know Of, So Far)

For legal purposes, these are all allegations.

So, I’m making this little essay/list/thing partly for myself (because I know *I* keep forgetting all of these instances) and partly because I always see incomplete lists going around and it annoys me a little that some of the people on this list seem to have been forgotten for whatever reason. Also, a lot of lists I’ve seen aren’t in chronological order? Which I just find odd. I’m going to try and include as many links as I can to articles, videos, etc, and I’ll be including pictures from them here, just to make it easier for you lovely readers.

(Also, if you think I'me being biased towards koreaboo articles, it's only because they embedded the tweets they used correctly, so they actually click through. Other sites I looked at, either the tweets show an error, or they're static images of low quality.)

Here's the incomplete article that inspired this.

So here is the list of:

All of the Times Ateez Has Been Plagiarized (That I Know Of, So Far)

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MONOPOLY, HOLY MOLY – 2020 (Sept)

I can’t find anything about this artist, it seems to be only one person so maybe they’re just releasing it for fun? They plagiarized Treasure: Epilogue Action To Answer (and not even well, if you look at the shape of the black bar closely).

They did end up apologizing and changing the cover to something else, so at least they have more integrity than some of the other people on this list.

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---2021

Ammonit, Reverse – 2021 (Oct)

Another small artist or group, Ammonit plagiarized the style of the Fever series album covers. Like Monopoly, Ammonit also changed their cover later. Though I haven’t seen whether or not they issued an apology, at least they changed it.

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TRINITY, Life Ain’t Over – 2021 (Dec)

For their 2021 release of *Life Ain’t Over* Thai three-member group TRINITY copied Ateez’s Deja Vu photoshoot (the one member even having the same shirt as wooyoung), and their Fireworks mv. I’m actually not sure if they had ever acknowledged that they were being accused of plagiarism or not or apologized when I tried searching. (I thought someone had made a video comparing the two, but I can’t seem to find it.)

Now we get into Ateez’s worst year for plagiarism (so far)...

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---2022

Soyeon, Sun – 2022 (Feb)

This is probably one of the biggest ones to happen, I won’t lie. I remember the indignation of Atiny, the disappointment of (G)-IDLE fans, and general disappointment and confusion by Knets.

This was the finale of the survival show My Teenage Girl, and the song in the video, Sun, was written for the contestants by (G)-IDLE member, Soyeon. The chorus sounds like a pitched up version of the chorus from Ateez’s Wave.

Sportskeeda article

Koreaboo article

At first people wondered if it was maybe a sample, but it wasn’t. To sum up the initial discussion:

Then on Feb 28th it got weird, because suddenly EDEN-ary (Ateez’s production team) had a credit on the song on Bugs (though this wasn’t changed on other platforms). 

Also on the 28th, KQ issued a statement after receiving reports from fans about the similarity:

“On the 27th, the Challenge Team’s stage, called ‘SUN’, was broadcast for the first round of the FINALs on My Teenage Girl. Afterward, we received multiple reports through the company’s official channel and mails from webmasters that the song’s chorus melody was similar to ATEEZ’s ‘WAVE’, which was released in 2019. As the company was monitoring the related issue, they discovered that the company’s producing team, Eden-ary, was listed in the credits for ‘SUN.’ We want to clarify that we did not have any discussions before with the company or Eden-ary. In hopes of respecting creators and their unique works and in hopes that any misinformation can be corrected, we ask everyone to refrain from making unreasonable assumptions regarding the issue. Thank you.”

So they did not have discussions with CUBE about the use of Wave prior to the premier of Sun on MBC. 

CUBE then released a statement: 

“Hello, this is CUBE Entertainment. We would like to explain what happened on MBC’s My Teenage Girl regarding the song ‘SUN’ and (G)I-DLE’s Soyeon. First, we sincerely apologize for the concerns caused by the production of the song ‘SUN.’ Following the broadcast, through monitoring the episode, we recognized some of the similarities in the two melodies. Our artist immediately reached out to the original composer to explain the situation and apologize. In this process, especially since we admitted the similarities, we decided the song credits should be edited and properly given to the original composer. Soyeon discussed this option with the original composer and we asked the producers of the show to implement the credit change.”

So their statement seems to be that they realized the similarities after, and that Soyeon contacted EDEN-ary and then added them to the song credits. Their statement continues:

“An hour before the song’s release, however, the original composer’s agency declined our suggestion to be credited. We asked the producers of the show to undo the credit change but the change could not be applied and the song became released as-is.”

So, an hour before the show aired, they called up KQ, KQ declined a song credit (I would guess because it sort of made it look like a collaboration and let CUBE/Soyeon off the hook for plagiarism), and it was too late to change it.

Soyeon’s statement is a little different: 

“After the episode aired, I thought I should apologize to the original composer for some of the similarities that have been suggested. So I got in touch with the original composer, explained what happened, and apologized for it.”

In that, in her recounting of events, her apology took place *after* the show aired.

Koreaboo article

As one person observed:

So yeah, kind of a Grade-A Mess.

After everything died down, CUBE registered the song copyright and it seemed like comments regarding the controversy were disappearing? No clue what that’s about.

Koreaboo article

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NMIXX, OO – 2022 (Feb)

Welcome to: A Bigger Mess.

Koreaboo article

Someone at JYP is a BIG Ateez fan, I think. There are similarities between the look of their mvs (NMIXX even having some locations be the same as Ateez’s mvs), but there’s similarities with lyrics, graphic design choices, and lore. Basically, the only thing that isn’t similar is their sound.

The studio DIGIPEDI has worked with Ateez before and worked on NMIXX’s O.O video, but Illusion (the mv that NMIXX’s debut seems to mirror most strongly) is not one that DIGIPEDI worked on.

Now, while it’s not as if another group can’t have a pirate ship, can’t have a dreamy landscape - in fact, the group Treasure has a flying ship and a dreamy landscape in some of their mvs - but, as someone observed:

(I apologize for having to screencap a tweet from an article, but Mr. Muskrat has made his website so unusable that I can’t even find the original tweet.)

Even if the production team at JYP somehow happened on the same concept and look that Ateez has used for years, it would still be on them to realize, “Oops, this is too similar, we need to change something before people think we’re copying,” and then change the things that were too similar so they didn’t look like they had no ideas. Marketing research is a thing that companies that make stuff (even music) do as a prelude to starting a project, so I don't understand why it seems like JYP's team didn't do any.

Like, Charles Dickens had books where people were arrested for stealing bread, Les Miserables has a main character arrested for stealing bread, the Disney movie Aladdin has a character almost arrested for stealing bread; having the action “someone stealing bread” doesn’t mean that all of those creators have stolen the idea from each other, the idea exists as an idea a lot of people have. Just like flying ships and flying whales (Gojira, anybody?) and pirates and dreamlands aren’t owned by anybody - not even Ateez - it’s when you use all the ideas someone else has already used, and you use them in a way that looks JUST like the person or people you got the ideas from that it starts to become a problem. You can take inspiration from someone or something else, but you can’t just take That Thing and make it “2 inches to the left,” you know? For instance, I might read Lord of the Rings and want to write a book with elves and dwarves and a terrifyingly evil bad guy with a ring - those are all things in other stories that no one owns - but I CAN’T write a story where a group of people take a ring once owned by a terrifyingly evil bad guy and bring it to a volcano to throw it in, I have to write a different story where the ring does something else and the elves and dwarves maybe won’t even work together and there’s a different type of battle, and the bad guy looks a different way and maybe isn’t even a guy, and the world doesn’t look like Middle Earth-- and definitely I can’t use hobbits because they’re legally owned by the Tolkien estate because they were his original idea (that’s why they’re called “halflings” in DND, because of legal reasons.)

Anyway, back to normalcy. Please direct your attention to the lyrics portion of this video:

There’s a lot of similarities with their lyrics as well, so I don’t think NMIXX’s look kind of being “Ateez but 2 inches to the left” is as coincidental as some people wanted others to believe.

(PS: this is not me hating on the girls in NMIXX at all, they seem talented and nice. This is about one of the Big Three companies having a production team that doesn't need to copy others but seem to have done so anyway. But, since their look and even their sound seems to have changed a whole hell of a lot since debut, it seems like JYP has sort of abandoned NMIXX’s look at debut?)

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Eltee Skhillz, Odg – 2022 (Mar)

(Sorry for the quality.)

I don’t even have to say anything, the evidence is right there. 

I think I have a moral obligation to make the joke, “His name is Eltee Skhillz [elite skills], but the only thing he’s skilled at is not having his own ideas.” (I think I’m allowed to be salty, he really went frame by frame as he copied.)

Eltee Skhillz (or someone in his team) put in the youtube description of the mv, “Partly inspired by ATEEZ "The Real" and "Say my name" music video”. Please see my earlier tangent about how inspiration and copying are not the same.

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Vata, New Thing choreo – 2022 (Oct)

This accusation was about a point of choreography. On the dance competition show Street Man Fighter, We Dem Boyz leader Vata performed a dance move that looked pretty similar to Atinys:

This is straight up the Driving move from Ateez’s first comeback, Say My Name. It’s in between a “starting a bike” move and a “getting off a bike move”, but the move in between is the SMN Driving move. 

Interestingly enough, there’s a moment in Street Man Fighter where We Dem Boyz is unhappy that it seems that another group has copied their choreography, and they say, “They copied about four counts,” of the choreo, from 1:48 - 1:54:

I WISH I could find this other video, where they were in the middle of a dance battle on the show, and Vata copied another groups move. The other group got annoyed and started arguing and Vata and his group said, “If it’s three beats, we’ll consider it copied.” Meaning: if someone does 1 oe 2 beats of someone else's move, it's not copied, but 3 or more beats is. I just found that so funny because Vata insists he didn’t copy the SMN move, but it’s 3 or 4 beats, both of which match with WDB's (conflicting) arguments for why they didn't copy other teams during Street Man Fighter.

(If anyone finds that clip, please let me know. I saw it around the time everything was happening but I can’t find it now. It was sort of dark and the two groups were in kind of a tight ring as the members of each were dance battling and the camera angle was from higher up.) 

During the show the groups were allowed to “vandalize” each other’s rooms earlier in the season, and other groups wrote some interesting things on We Dem Boyz flag: 

From this Koreaboo article:

(Written on the paper) “Melvin copycat ㅋㅋㅋ” and “JBLAZE copycat” (the comment circled with the hearts) “JBLAZE copycat” “This is SMF but they said they’re going to do Street Boy Fighter after!!” “Tristan copycat” “We Dem Kid” “Some people might think you made Fear of God” “Some people might think you also made Essentials” “If you mess with us” (knife) “You need to practice dancing. ‘You should dance the same dance at least, you guys are a team'” “Vata [cut off] Melvin copycat”

JBLAZE (along with Anze Skrube and Josh Smith) are the choreographers who created the dance for Say My Name (Anze credited Josh with creating the Drive move). Coincidentally, Melvin Timtim is another choreographer who also worked with Ateez, so that’s kind of interesting that the other groups accused WDB of copying him as well. It seems as if Vata has a well known history (in the dance community) of copying other choreographers.

Anze Skrube took to Instagram to reblog some posts regarding the situation (there was more than just this, he was popping off for days) and talked about it on his Stories:

(“I thought you are a friend of San” is in reference to San and Vata having done a challenge together a few weeks before and KQ uploading it to social media.)

Allkpop article

Mnet also coddled Vata, not taking a stance, but saying "We are in the midst of arranging a position while respecting the situation of the artist (Vata) as much as possible." Which fans HATED, because - if anyone needs to be respected here - it’s the people who were stolen from, not the one doing the stealing. (What the *fuck* Mnet? Why are you like this? This is why kpop fans use a snake emoji when they talk about you and how shady you are.)

Koreaboo article

Vata made an apology:

“This is Vata. I thought this would be a cold wind that would breeze by, but I am writing this to stop the misunderstandings. When I first heard the song, I thought of the wilderness and so I made the intro of riding a horse or motorcycle. That’s why in the beginning, there is a motion of kicking to start the engine and a motion of getting off the bike. These are parts of one move that transition from one to the other. I think the choreography its being compared to has a different transition and means something different entirely. As someone who loves the dance culture, I believe it is at its best when the artist and dancer respect one another. It saddens me to see that this isn’t taking place. Regardless of the reason, I apologize to viewers of Street Man Fighter and to those who root for We Dem Boyz for any controversy that had occurred on my behalf. I will repay you by putting on a better stage.”

Koreaboo article

I just have to say: this really reads like one of those youtube apologies, where the youtuber deflects and doesn’t want to be held accountable for their actions. He also seems to say that Wooyoung and Anze are being disrespectful by calling him out. (And he even said "I was hoping this would blow over" I don't think you're supposed to say that in your "apology" even if you were thinking it, homes."

Because, PS!: Wooyoung called him out with the “biting” motion during a stage at Kcom Saudi Arabia:

And here are some other shorts that have clips from Anze and his IG:

Short 1

Short 2

While everyone was doing WDB's dance on tiktok, San did the LAW challenge instead (which I feel is a better song anyway, but that's just me) and it seemed that, aside from Wooyoung's call out, and San's snub, KQ was not commenting on it.

Atiny, meanwhile, streamed Say My Name and made art about respecting artists (what Vata had NOT done to Ateez). There were hashtags and SMN challenges and tweets galore:

The thing that made this whole incident REALLY strange, is that the dance Vata had plagiarized the Drive move for was for the kpop artist Zico… who is managed under KQ. So, when the music video for Zico’s song, New Thing, came out, it lacked the drive move at the beginning:

Dance Performance video

So all the people trying to say that it wasn’t copied or tried to defend Vata (I saw someone say they would defend him because he’s more famous than Ateez… please lick boots somewhere else) didn’t matter because… Zico and KQ thought it was too similar to let it slide.

(Oh! Also, Carats, EXO-Ls, Shawols, Ahgases, Monbebes, ARMYs, ELFs, and Inspirits were spotting tweeting on Atinys’ behalf, so I would like to personally thank our friends who stan other groups for their help and support. The kpop world needs some love more often than not, because we are not each other’s enemy… capitalism is our enemy.)

(Love you, bbys 💖💖💖)

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---2023

Super Dragon, Revolution – 2023 (Feb)

I hate trying to look this group up because the SEO for their name is GOD awful. Like you could not pick two more common words to name something. It’s also the name of several restaurants, the co-creator of a California wrestling promotion, and - of course - part of a title for a Dragon Ball series.

Maybe that’s why this is probably the incident I see the least. Maybe it just gets lost in the SEO sauce and no one even sees it so it’s just flying under the radar? Which is weird, because it’s like a combination of the TRINITY incident and the incident that will come next. A Frankensteinian amalgamation of a lack of imagination, if you will. 

But oh, oho! I have twitter-- I don’t have twitter, I have *a friend who has twitter,* and she messaged me very early in the morning on February 21st to send me a bunch of tweets of this band:

It’s the sound of Wonderland and the look of Fireworks.

The two songs played at the same time:

The thing that - I don’t know if I find it the funniest or if I hate it the most - but the thing is… there’s such a *severe* LACK of imagination. I’m inspired by things all the time, people, places, things, any kind of nouns, inspire me… but like I said earlier, there’s a difference between writing a story with elves and dwarves and just rewriting Lord of the Rings and pretending it’s your own. And this is just a poor man’s version of Wonderland.

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3WICH, Kicking Your Face – 2023 (Sept)

On the Taiwanese music competition show, Music Maker, group 3WICH had a song that didn’t just seem similar to Ateez’s Guerrilla, but seemed to be almost a carbon copy:

If you listen to the whole song, it’s literally just been skinned so they could put new lyrics. Originally, 3WICH and their composer, Jhen F, did a livestream where they denied there was any plagiarism, and at first the song had been left up pending investigation, but was soon taken down until the copyright issues could be clarified. The president of the TV station that ran Music Maker, Huang Liang-hsun, made a statement:

(translated by @ananmiyabi630 on twitter (I think))

Koreaboo article

This story is still developing as I write this, but it seems to have affected the president of the TV channel Music Maker is on a lot:

If he goes, I hope he has fun. 3WICH and Jhen F can sit in the parking lot and think about what they did while they listen to the stadium scream “Break the WALLLL!” at the end of the concert.

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So yeah, those are All of the Times Ateez Has Been Plagiarized (That I Know Of, So Far). I hope you enjoyed all of this mess, and maybe people won’t try to plagiarize them so much, now that they’re a bigger group and it’s more apparent that people are paying attention to them.

Idk.

Probably not.

I’ll update if I see any new ones in the future.

[softieteez]

additions masterlist

ivy

Olivia Min, better known by her stage name IVY, is a fictional singer, dancer, and songwriter under KQ Entertainment where she was placed in the fourth-generation group ATEEZ. She was formerly in the temporary group i.o.i before leaving her former company, JYPE.

current status: HIATUS

nyx

NYX is a fictional eight member girl group under highfield entertainment. the group was formed on the fictional survival mey10 on february 14 of 2020 but they didn’t debut until may 4 of 2020. the group was originally supposed to have 10 members but contestants jihan and lonny left the company. the group was formally known as may8, then valentine before they stuck with nyx. on august 9 of 2020 the group revealed their fandom name to be nightstars, which is often shortened to nighties or stars.

current status: HIATUS

gee

Minji, better known by her stage name GEE, is a fictional singer and dancer in the fourth-generation girl group ITZY. Formerly known for her instagram fame, GEE has seemingly made herself a well-known name in the K-pop industry

current status: HIATUS

star

Hwang Bitna, also known as STAR, is the fictional eighth and only female member of the boy group BTS. Star is a rapper and sub-vocalist within the group, though she holds many talents. her solo debut, STARRY, was released on January 10, 2017, reaching number 1 on billboards hot 100.

current status: Not Started

evelyn

Evelyn Yun, also known as Evelyn or Eve, is a fiction fourth-generation k-pop soloist under Kakao Entertainment. Formerly known by her Korean name Hyerin on Produce 48 and later on in IZ*ONE, the singer and rapper debuted on February 2, 2022 with her pre-album release Hurt, later releasing her debut album EVE on February 14, 2022.

current status: Kinda Hiatus?

esme

Esme, also known by her chinese name Yani, is a fictional kpop idol in the famous girl group BLACKPINK. Esme is a vocalist and dancer, and is formerly known for her modeling and acting career when she was younger

current status: Not Started

prizm

PRIZM is a fictional four-member co-ed group under Highfield Entertainment. The group debuted on April 12, 2017 with members Day, Iris, Oliver, and Hyo. PRIZM was formed on the project show Two and Two, also known as 2&2, where the members competed for spots in the group. on May 1, 2017, the group revealed the fandom name ‘spexrum’

current status: HIATUS

x&o

X&O is a fictional kpop girl group under Lucky Love entertainment. the members consist of Miya, JJ, Hyelim, and Yoonji. The groups overall message is to love love and yourself. X&O debuted on February 14, 2018 with their mini album Ready For Love. The 4 members originally started as 5, but member JiYun left the group in 2019 due to health issue.

current status: ONGOING

[nct-yeona]

Yeona's Appearance

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Read with Caution! Warning: Pictures of female bodies that could be triggering for people who struggle with body dysmorphia or eating disorders. Disclaimer: If you want to imagine yourself as this character, do not read. This is my idea of this character and is purely fictional. All the pictures are from Pinterest and are not mine. Credit to the owners. Not all pictures match the description.

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[Skin Tone]

Yeona’s skin tone is a mixture of pale ivory and porcelain. She has very light skin and she gets sunburned easily. She is lucky regarding acne and breakouts since those were never really a problem for her.

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{Natural Hair Color & Type}

Yeona has naturally black hair. Her hair is curly, which she loves but it’s quite hard to take care of. She has dyed her hair a lot and it is very damaged. She is trying her best to heal it.  

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[Eye Color & Shape]

Yeona has natural hazel eyes. They are mostly brown but have a small ring of green on the outer part of the iris. The brown is quite light and can easily be covered by colored lenses.

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{Noticeable Features – Cheeks}

Yeona has adorable puffy cheeks. They are round and squishy, which give her a cute look and a sense of youth. Especially her members love to grab and touch her cheeks.

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Look Alike – Soeun & Yeosang

Park Soeun is a member of the South Korean girl group Weeekly under IST Entertainment. She was a contestant in the survival show MIXNINE.

Yeosang (여상) is a member of the South Korean boy group ATEEZ under KQ Entertainment.

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@lavenderdwaekki here is your idol life ship!

Sorry for how long it took..hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed doing it !!

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Stage name: Eden

Liner: 00’s

Group: Ateez

Group members: 9

Positions: ——>

Co-Leader,Lead Dancer,Lead Vocal,Sub Rapper

MBTI: ENTJ

Languages: Korean and English

Nationality: Australian

Face claim: Gaon from Xdinary Heroes

Fun facts:

- He shares the dorm with Yunho and Yeosang

-He’s the leader even tho he’s part of the maknae line

-Hongjoong says that he’s really confident and diligent for his age

-Hongjoong often asks Eden for advices

-Artistically his taste are similar to Mingi

-Hongjoong has a lot of respect for him

-In 2021, Eden, along with Seonghwa, Jongho, Yunho and San, debuted as an actor in the Korean drama ‘Imitation‘.

- He’s the co-leader along with Hongjoong

-He is one year older than Jongho and together they call them the “fake maknaes” because of their mature appearance

-Eden was a contestant on MIXNINE. He ranked 36rd

-He was the last member to join KQ Entertainment

-All members said that he seemed cool as a first impression and was afterwards too

-Jongho and Eden (Ateez),Chani(SF9),Hyunjin,Han and Felix(StrayKids),Sanha (Astro),Soobin(TxT) Sunwoo and Eric (The Boyz), Daehwi (AB6IX) have a 00’ liner groupchat fun fact they also added Beomgyu(TXT) and Eden thinking they were born in 2000 too and in the end kept Beomgyu as their maknae and Eden as their Hyung.

-Wooyoung and Eden (Ateez),Yeonjun (TxT), and Changbin (Straykids) are a well liked and known 99’s friend group.

-He graduated from Hanlim Arts School where he met Jongho(Ateez) and Sanha(Astro).

-Him ans Jongho are fan of Monsta X and monbebes

-Eden,Felix(Stray Kids),Jake(Enhypen),Danielle(New Jeans) and Lily (Nmixx) posted a titktok dance chalenge for the last ateez comeback alltogether becoming the first public appearance of the Aussie line rumored group chat.

-Eden role model is Hyungwon of (Monsta X)

-San,Yeosang and Seonghwa chose him as the most attractive

-Mingi and Yunho voted him as the member they would date in the group if they were girls

-If they could switch identity with a member for a day Hongjoong would wanna switch with Eden while he would wanna switch with San the morning to workout with an hot body, Hongjoong the afternoon to give orders to members during the day, and Yunho the night to have the most comfortable bed.

-Seonghwa said that when he argues with Eden it seems he is arguing with a mirror because they get angry the same way and it’s a lot of who yells louder but it never lasts long. pt1

-Eden answered that he likes arguing with Seonghwa as both of them are honest and solve the issue fast even if they are loud they never give the cold shoulder to each other and make the group mood awkward he said that he don’t argue much with Wooyoung cause he know at the end he has to be right at all costs (member laughed and sayed that’s true at which answered Wooyoung: “Because I’m often right”) pt2

-Yeosang loves teasing Eden and he named their ship himself Yeoden saying it sounded pretty.

-He said he dislikes lazy and complaining persons

-He said his ideal type would be a girl who takes care of herself and keeps improving day by day.

-Fans started shipping Eden and San after a pepero game where they seemed so imperturbable and like in a k-drama fans went crazy and created the Saden

-Eden said he’s close to Jongho and knew him for the longest but that him and Seonghwa are the one he argues the most often with.

-When they asked if he could choose his dorm mates again who would he choose Eden sayed everybody would be okay apart from Mingi cause they would talk all night rather than sleep as they have a lot of common interests and similar tastes.

-Eden one time sayed that while the member feels like his real related blood brothers, Yeosang and Hongjoong seems like his mother and father.

-Wooyoung revealed that by error he was Eden first kiss when they played a paper mouth passing game and that the paper fell to the ground.

-He voted Yunho as the member more similar to him personality wise

- He won a lot of popularity during Kingdom when his mic stayed on while breathing loudly

-His members revealed that Eden takes really badly defeat and that just after their debut when the group struggled winning popularity he used to cry openly a lot as well during Kingdom but that now he cries a lot less and hides it if he does

-His first appearance for fashion week was with Gucci and he posed with Hanni, he also went for Louis Vuitton with Felix(StrayKids).

-He said in an interview that when you train to debut young you don’t have time for friendship apart of your members and even tho he got to know with time a lot of idols he considers only some of them true friends

-Fan says hi best era was Pirate King even if his members say he was the most handsome in Say My Name

-Eden sayed he worked really hard on his body to show off savage and exotic look and to show some skin to his fans but haters hated as usual to what he answered with a self-love message laughin it off and even older idols of the industry complimented his attitude for his young age and the clip went viral as well as an hashtag for him trended on twitter

-Fans voted him as the members who dresses the better and he agreed with them

-He was voted as one of the best body of the 4th gen and he shared how he wasn’t always this skinny and muscular and that he struggled like everybody with self confidence before he also said how he liked San body

-He voted Mingi and Seonghwa as the most handsomes and said if he could switch up appearances he would be Seonghwa and have Mingi as his hot friend.(lol)

-Eden got a scandal one time about a girl on internet saying he dated her and two-timed while he was in Australia, she had photos of him nobody had so he was really afraid of people not believing his innocence but fast enough the agency reacted saying they would take legal actions against her and every false rumor as it wasn’t a thing for agency to do that at that time caught by surprise she stepped back and made an apology letter saying she was the friend of an old friend and wanted to make Eden a “”joke”” in the end he just skipped for 1’week promotion of Inception and went back with no problems.

-Even when its not his turn or his things Eden cleans the dorm sayed Yunho he grumbles a little but in the end it’s all perfectly cleaned up

-Members said that Eden seems really contained in front of the camera but that infact he’s really emotional

-Members chose him as the most difficult member to prank as he plays along even knowing about it to prank back his hyungs

-They sayed Eden is easily jealous and he explained that being 9 feels like there’s always one left out and same being 3 by dorms that’s why when two members are together he will try to stick to them he also said that Yunho and Yeosang often have fun faking to ignore him(They laughed) and him and Jongho also have to fight for the love of the hyungs.

-They voted Eden at the second scariest when angry cause they can be laughing and the minute after he bursts out

-In kpop they call him the duality-king as he passes radically from cute to sexy

-Members said he’s the most different from what they show on camera and that he talks more than it seems in real life

-Hongjoong said even tho is good at giving advice he never wants them back

-He is a good listener

-He would define himself as ambivert

-He loves children’s and wants to be a father in the future

-He’s really good at doing fan service and a lot of fans started the #RaiseEdenPay after a fancall with a fan

-The training coaches liked him a lot and said he was such an all rounder already when he came to the agency for the first time

-Members said he has a dark humor

-He acted in a boy love with Jun (a.c.e.)

-He was the first kpop idol being an ambassador for Balenciaga and after posing with Han Sohee their interaction went viral and some dating rumours sparkled too

-He produced song for Ateez

-He passed 2020 new year with Hyunjin,Beomgyu and Jeongin.

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Real name: Eden

Age: 23

Trained for: 2 years

Known has: Duality king, oldest maknae,leader son’s, Human Balenciaga

Side activities: Producer,Acting,Égérie

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Relation with the group:

(They all got a close bond so the score don’t go lower than five neither more than 9,5/9 and more than about closeness it’s also about how much they argue.)

How you see Ateez: To you Ateez is like a real blood related family that impacted on your growth. You feel that there’s a part of yourselves than only the group can see and understand. Sometimes tho you feel that Ateez holds you back from new opportunities and when you think about renewal of the contract you know you would renew it only to not hurt your members and the group and to stay together. You feel often that the group is not ambitious enough and consider it rather as a step to do for the future than an eternal project.

How Ateez sees you: Ateez are really protective of you and most member feels like you grew up too fast or that you missed childhood time like them and wants to give you a break you never had. Sometimes they think that you can seem quite detached tho and insensitive when managing as a co-leader the group you seem to see think of Ateez before even the members of Ateez individually. Sometimes they even feel scared of you not renewing the contract because they know your ambitions and ego. They feel like you already have too big and idealistic projects in mind and think you should slow down.

Relation with the members:

What you think of Seonghwa: Seonghwa is a role model for you even if you don’t like sometime how he underestimates you and sees you as a child. Contrary to the “hold back” you feel with the group Seonghwa is a member that gives you energy and motivation by is assertive and independently nature. A love-hate relationship: you love and respect each-other when you are able to complement each other, and you hate each other when you fail to understand and appreciate your differences. When disagreements arise, the argument is between your egos. You are grateful to Seonghwa tho as often because of your impulsivity you don’t know how to express yourself and he often helps you find the words like a corrector. Eden: “I think y’all exaggerated and that your reasons aren’t valid at all” Seonghwa: “To me y’all took it a litlle too personally and it’s hard for me to understand your reasoning but I’m trying my best to tho” Eden: “WHATS EVEN THE DIFFERENCE” Seonghwa: “It’s the same just how a kind and well mannered leader talks✨” Eden: “ok..got it..I guess”

Overall: Eden sees Seonghwa as and older brother who helps him mature. Relation:7,5 Affection:8

What he thinks of you: He’s supportive of you and you remember him a younger version of himself but sometimes he treats you like a child. Seonghwa is quite admirative of the way you carry yourself.(Fun fact: Seonghwa thinks you physically handsome?). Alove-hate relationship: you love and respect each other when you are able to complement each other, and you hate each other when you fail to understand and appreciate your differences. When disagreements arise, the argument is between your egos. Seonghwa thinks tho that your communicative skills improved and that often when he explains you something you listen and understand his point but he thinks you shouldn’t do it only to stop an argument or because your hyung said so but to keep harmony and mutual respect between group members (as a co-leader). He thinks you are really strong mentally and admires how sometimes you carry the group to yourself and how it is your priority but he thinks you should empathize more with the members in it.

Overall: Seonghwa sees Eden as a younger brother who needs to be guided a little and surrounded of good influences. Relation:7/10 Affection: 7,5

What you think of Hongjoong: Since the first time you saw Hongjoong there was already “that” connection you two became close the faster maybe and you feel a true affection for him. You are reserved with your feeling but with Hongjoong you do your best to show him you support him and typically you feel like you can support him without it holding you back on your goals. Him choosing you as his co-leader touched you more than it seemed as for you logic thinking self why would he wanna share the role he would have to share it’s good points with you.(Literally your soft spot nobody hurts hyung). You and Hongjoong have the type of friendship where you don’t need to talk to understand each other across the room and sitting together in silence isn’t even awkward anymore. Sometimes tho you think Hongjoong is too clingy and don’t understand his need to introduce you to new people when y’all already have your group (Chan and Changbin) and the “spend more time 2gether excuse” makes no sense to you as you see him every day and you like to separate your time with him,time with your common friends and time with your own friends.

Overall: Eden sees him has one of his only totally genuine friends and as an important figure in his life he cares a lot for Hongjoong and tries his best to give back the support he gives him. Relation:10/10 Affection: 10

What he thinks of you: Same for Hongjoong since the first impressions he felt like he met exactly the friend he needed and you two became close naturally and works really well as a duo so he has no problem choosing you as his co-leader even tho the others weren’t so enthusiasts. You two have the type of friendship where you don’t need to talk to understand each other across the room and sitting together in silence isn’t even awkward anymore. Hongjoong doesn’t sees you as insensitive just someone that doesn’t knows how to express his feelings and that shows he cares his own way. Hongjoong tries often to introduce you to his friends (as he’s not the biggest fan of some of yours) but the fact that he often say you can’t come meet them last minute hurts Hongjoong more than you think. Overall: Hongjoong sees Eden as his absolute best friend and as a brother that he wanna help and support his best. Relation:10/10 Affection: 10

What you think of Yunho: Eden doesn’t really know how to read Yunho even after all this years, in the dorm they are roommates and even tho Yunho is the oldest (in months) he feels like he should be the one in charge but in the end he feels like he takes care a lot of him, he feel like they are similar but at the same time can’t read his actions neither understand what he thinks but strangely can’t get angry at him, he has affection for Yunho and often feels privileged for him to talk about his feelings to him rather than the other members also because of the fact members often joke(or not) about him being insensitive. Yunho flatters his ego a lot and he enjoys it but he’s afraid at the same time that the moment he finds a better listener he just puts him aside. Eden has often control over relationships but without even doing it on purpose Yunho has total control of Eden. Yunho brings happiness to Eden that’s why even within the group he is often jealous of other members interactions with Yunho. Overall: Eden sees Yunho as the type he never met and treasures him. Relation:8/10 Affection: 8/10

What he thinks of you: For him you actually quite easy to read and even if he was part of THE members disapproving your leader position he thinks like Hongjoong that it’s just difficult for you to express your feelings. He genuinely thinks you are a good friend and try to do your best he also sees you as an essential emotional support and thinks you give good advices. He thinks tho you are a litlle insecure and that you should deal with your control issues and jealousy. Overall: Yunho sees him as a good friend that is often misunderstood and that has internal fights to solve you are not irreplaceable but he has affection for you and empathize with you a lot. Relation:8/10 Affection: 7,5

What you think of Yeosang: He’s the first member that talked to you and helped you open up in Ateez. You think he’s a good but too worrisome person and that he should chill a bit you also grateful for how much he does for you and you don’t feel the need to overly show it as the time you spend with him even if doing in particular is you way to say “thank you” out of cameras you don’t like acting flirty with him as for you he’s like a blood related brother (ick) and you feel really comfortable in his presence. When he complains about your coldness with him you tell him it’s because you don’t feel the need to prove anything as he knows what are his thoughts of him.

Overall: You see him as a really close person to you and a blood related brother also as the second most important member after Hongjoong you also grateful for everything he did for you. Relation:9/10 Affection:9,5

What he thinks of you: It’s a flirty friendship with lots of skinship and you two get often shipped by fans. Even if you two seemed to be so different you unexpectedly became close really fast like with Hongjoong. Yeosang enjoys your presence and have fun with you. He personally really appreciate all sides of your personality and if you quarrel with the members he will be the first to tell them to go easy on you and that they are exaggerating. Tho he doesn’t think you reciprocate the same energy and while he could even consider you one of his best friends he often thinks you treat him as a casual member or friend and that hurts his pride and feelings, he understands how particular is your relation with Hongjoong but he doesn’t get how sometime you can be sweeter to Yunho that barely asks you if you okay when you sick while Yeosang becomes the whole damn nurse, or how when you feel excluded in the dorm come and say “Don’t steal my Yunho” while it should be the opposite. And like Hongjoong when he tries to spend more time with you with meeting his friends as an excuse it hurts him how you seem annoyed about that. So there’s a lot of Yeosang being angry at you and refusing to talk with you not even gettin the reason. Overall: Yeosang sees you as his closest friend but dont feel you reciprocate Relation:8 Affection: 10

What you think of San: You and San were really close in trainee days but somehow after the debut and then success of the group your relation deteriorated considerably at the point to avoid each other in the dorm sometimes. You two share similar tastes and vision on the group and similar motives for wanting to be idols but also similar passions out of the entertainment and often people though you two where brother when trainee. The first years after debut you didn’t noticed a change of attitude but the more the time passed and Ateez gained in success it seemed to you that every little things was a reason for San to get mad at you and naturally you two fell apart without even realizing it and every time you tried to talk to San about that issue he said there was no problem to solve or apologized saying it was stress and that you two could hang out the next day and you would hang out and everything would be like in trainee days and his attitude would change maybe for the next day too but the day after it would start with little remarks before you two arguing and everything all over again. You got sincere affection for San but the more the time pass the more you are tired to try and think that your friend is not the same anymore you don’t even get jealous of Wooyoung as you too just grew close to other people in the group and you think that it must be like this. The fans also ships you a LOT so the agency often encourages you to skinship and in pepero games if you two are not already near you know you have to be and actually because San is your friend basic skinship did not disturb you in the beginning but then when your relation grew messier it made no sense to you to act all flirty on stage for him to then yell the shit out of you but strangely to him it’s okay and when you tell him you don’t wanna act close in front of your fans he just says “but we are close I’m not faking it you are my friend like Wooyoung can be there’s no difference” to then again act like an ass right after. Overall: You care for San but think that more the time passes more he is trespassing your limits and you consider him as a friend even if you don’t know if it’s really a friendship anymore. Relation: 7 Affection: 9

What he thinks of you: He was really close to you in trainee days and tbh he appreciated you and your friendship even more than he did with Wooyoung. People often mistaken you for brothers and coaches and teachers said your strong points and weaknesses were practically the same you even wore matching outfits as you found it fun how people told you you were so similar both aspect and personality wise. You two shared similar way of thinking and of seeing the things and when Hongjoong asked to vote you as a co-leader San didn’t thought much about it and thinked it could only be positive for the group to have 2 leaders that it would be innovative and offer balance during decision making moments but only after he realized what it implied. When the positions were given San had a strange feeling he was happy and proud of you but at the same time a little envious still not in a toxic way but teachers always told you were so similar but you still got more positions than him tho. The more the group got success the more it was obvious who where the popular and well-liked member and even if San was part of them Eden was too and even if San was slightly more popular he knew it could change in a fraction of seconds but of course they are a group so of course he can’t be the only one having success the thing that scared him was the fact you two were popular for the same reasons and for your international fan base exactly like with the positions he became paranoid and also because you two shared the same ambitions that Eden knew more than anyone else about SAN’s one San started drawing all the scenarios of opportunities where Eden would be chosen over him and from then the love-hate started he knew Eden could do nothing about it but he just decided that if being Eden was enough to get everything so easily he should at least have some hard work at the dorm and naturally some remarks became argue and before even San could realize it he broke the friendship. When he knew by the agency of the two of them being shipped even if he was a little awkward about that he decided to play along and realizing how much fan liked it he just started to do fanservice as much as possible both to please fans and gain popularity but also because he missed Eden but when Eden talked to him about how it was odd he felt guilty and a litlle shameful realizing what he done he tried to fix up but as soon as they get back In a competition context he can’t help but becoming unfair again. Recently San started realizing it and how much he hurt and deceived Eden for him to be awkward to them holding hands even after such a long friendship. He became more mature and stopped the whole “being mad for nothin” thing but he feels like things are not the same anymore and that Eden doesn’t even wanna try to save things anymore when there’s nothing to save and he honestly understands him. Overall: Eden iis important to him no matter what and he thinks he was an important part of his life and he has been there in San’s hardest moments even if San can’t say he did the same. Relation: 7 Affection: 8,5

What you think of Mingi: You and Mingi have really similar tastes and ways of displaying affection he also often gives you advices on style and you like to go shopping together while you are on tour, it’s a warm and easy friendship. You have respect for Mingi and only good intentions towards him and even when fight arises you always mean well. You genuinely have affection for him and nothing else. A lot of internal jokes. You tend to help Mingi affirms himself and give him a lot of affections naturally. Sometimes tho you get hurt by the fact he doesn’t seem to trust you enough to confide you his problems. Sometimes you think Mingi takes things too deeply and is hurt easily when you don’t mean to. Positively you two for closer faster because of being born the same year and like to represent 99’s liners. Overall: You love Mingi and even if he’s a little older than you you feel a protective instinct towards him like a younger brother you think he’s easily hurt and should become a little bit stronger. Relation: 8,5 Affection: 9

What he thinks of you: Mingi feels like it’s easy to be with you he loves your style and feels like you two complete each other quite well in term of tastes you will never argue for which film to watch and often if you take a meal the other will just go with “the same”. Mingi has the capacity to make Eden chill down and he also feels appreciated. The vibe between you two is so good that sometimes Mingi feels like he can’t talk to you about serious matters not because he doesn’t trust you but because it would ruin the whole mood also not in a bad way but sometimes Mingi feels like in important matters you couldn’t understand is sensitivity and so when he’s sad he just avoids confiding in you rather than telling you directly he don’t think you can understand to not hurt your ego or your feelings. He also thinks your critics are too direct and hurtful. Positively you two for closer faster because of being born the same year and like to represent 99’s liners. Overall: Mingi is a little scared of Eden reactions but really loves him a lot and admires his confidence. Relation:8 Affection:9

What you think of Wooyoung: Your relationship is complicated you always felt some kind of good rivalry between you and him and always envied is sunshine side. You always thought Wooyoung brings a lot to the group and some time feel threatened by it also the fact that he became San best friend made your relation a little distant but you never felt jealousy. The good point is there’s no game like with San it’s always 100% truth even if it harmful. There’s always some kinda tension but you don’t really pay attention to it since you already used to that vibe you also think Wooyoung plays the saints but that he isn’t better than you and luckily he agrees quite easily about that. You feel like if there wasn’t the whole San issue you and Wooyoung could be good friend as before that situation you two got along really well. You feel also like Wooyoung matured and grew up a lot and still have light feelings for him. Producers thinks also your voices mix really well so they like to put you together musically. Overall: You like spending time with him when San is not around and feel that the more he matures and make his own opinion the more you two build a great friendship. Relation: 7,5 Affection:8

What he thinks of you: Wooyoung relationship with Eden never been easy and San talkings on you made his opinion quite biased. He always been honest about what he thinks of you and often complained about your control issues. There’s always some sort of tension and when San would complain about something Wooyoung would be sure to remark it at least Wooyoung thinks it, not like San who just search something to say. Sometimes tho Wooyoung goes against San to defends you as slowly he started understanding the whole story and felt an idiot for following San like that mostly because at the end of the day he appreciate time he pass with you without San being around. He also thinks that you never really considered him and that hurt is ego, San gave him attention and he naturally took his side. He used to feel like he was the clingy little brother and when Eden compliments him he feels like he got finally recognized. Producers thinks also your voices mix really well so they like to put you together musically. Overall: Lately he realize he maybe got Eden wrong all long and that spending time with him is not that bad after all. Relation: 7 Affection:7,5

What you think of Jongho: You feel like the other members some nurturing duty toward Jongho. You feel like you known each other forever and you feel like you can trust him you do your best for Jongho to feel the same towards you. There’s the maknae line feeling too that makes both of you being really close and secretive about your problems wanting to solve them alone without the help of the other members and of course they dislike it. Jongho helps you with past issues and you give him advices in current relationships things that only you two know about. This closeness can be sometime a little toxic tho as each other take the bad habits of each one. A lot of people says you are alike and you dislike it as it gets tiring and that’s what destroyed your friendship with San. You have sometime some competitiveness with Jongho but only good feeling one. Sometimes you feel like Jongho idolizes you in a strange way and imitates you strangely but you think it’s normal as you are his hyung and should only be a phase. Sometimes It can be a little creepy as he tries to imitate not only style and good traits but also your flaws and that makes you a little angry like the mommy duck again you hope it’s a phase and that if you smoke he will not do the same. Overall: The annoying lil bro, you like to spend time with him but when you have to hang out in your free time you prefer go with your own groups as he is bro-zoned. Relation:9 Affection: 8,5

What he thinks of you: He considers you as his big bro but sometimes thinks you and other hyungs overdue the maknae things as he is only one year younger he doesn’t dislike that treatment tho but he’s neither fond of it. He thinks he has a lot to learn from Eden and sometimes comes off as cringy trying to imitate some of his actions but he does it by pure admiration and nothing else. He also likes Eden friends and would like him and Eden to share more out of the group even if sometimes he thinks he comes off a little bit too clingy to Eden and tries not to step his boundaries. Bonus: He thinks he’s really attractive for women eyes and often asks him for advices in relationships. He also confides in him when he did something wrong knowing he will not be judged and that Eden is the type to say truth even if it hurts. Overall: He sees Eden has a close like family friend and always looks out for his advices. Relation:9 Affection:9

Social circle: Many friends but only some close ones. Unexpectedly you feel equally close to the 00’ liners and the 99’ liners (Out of your group). You also recently became closer to the 98’ thanks to Seonghwa and Minho.

Best friends: (Sees and call them at least once a week they know him better than some members)

Minho (Stray Kids)

How you became friends:

You and Minho didn’t became immediately best friends it was a really progressive thing, at first when becoming close to Stray Kids to you Minho was just one of the fun hyungs and shared sometimes a good laugh with but nothing else, you knew tho he was quite close to Seonghwa. One time Minho asked Seonghwa backstage when he was free to hang out and as you were just near, spontaneously he invited you too knowing that both of you weren’t close enough and had no intention to hang out it was only a polite formality but Seonghwa answered naively as you were about to kindly refuse “Eden isn’t it the day we both free?” He said “No,no you are probably wrong hyung i have things this d-“ you answered but he insisted “No but I remember you said you would do nothing on that day you even complained about it!” To which Minho said “He must be busy you shouldn’t force him-“ and Seonghwa concluded “He’s just shy he will come he can’t reject his hyungs like this anyway what a punk trying to escape it lying aren’t you?”. After that you just surrendered and y’all went for a coffee in cafe managed by Seonghwa’s cousin that assured they would be no fans, as the new formed trio sat down Seonghwa got a sudden emergency and had to leave but since a free day is difficult to have and you just arrived ,awkwardly you and Minho had to stay, as you both knew it couldn’t get worst you inexplicably started to laugh about how awkward it was and neither of you wanted to be there on your free day, slowly it became a conversation and as in late afternoon Seonghwa tried to call you to apologize feeling you would kill him at home he was surprised to see you two were still together and telling him to says what he had to say fast as you and Minho where in the middle of a debate. After that it didn’t took long for them to have the bond they have now.

The friendship:

You two together become the gossip duo literally, if something happens in your life and you need immediate physical advices and mental support you call Minho at 4am and be sure he will be there in less than an hour. Eden has also the ability to understand what Minho’s thinking or wanting to say in a scary way. As Minho has more friends than it seems sometimes Eden is quite afraid to be too clingy and make him escape as for him spending all his free time with Minho isn’t an issue as he never gets bored of him, even in skinship he feels like doing too much will make it seem like Minho is his only friend. Together they dare to do things they couldn’t do alone and even disobeying agency (of course with consequences they regret later). Minho is really supportive of you and even sends cofee trucks and express it publicly promoting you as you were one of his members even when you aren’t there. Sometimes tho Minho feels like not to burden him Eden tends to do omission and hide the fact he’s doing poorly and ngl he hates it when he comes to know that by someone else and tends to block Eden for some days as it happens so often that Eden apologizes seem unnecessary now also cause he know in the end he’s the only one Eden will truly confide, it’s just retarding the moment and it gets on his nerves and patience. Another fun thing is how the two are usually quiet but after long time they do not see each other they will tend to even talk over the other one because of all the things they waited to say (in a cool way). Again Eden is a soft baby for Minho and that’s why other are always shocked to see how much skinship he does and Minho not even noticing as it is normal to him. Y’all need your dose of each other daily and it’s hard to imagine replacing the other one. One of the criteria for your future partner is to be approved by Minho and same goes for him, if the love of your life told you to spend less time together you would be like “bxtch let’s just break up it will be faster”. You two together became unstoppable and chaotic not only Minho but you too. Minho calms down Eden and make him chill down quite easily at least more than others. Eden isn’t really disturbed by Minho being older and he likes the 98’s line.

Sunoo (Enhypen)

How you became friends:

There it’s quite an unexpected combo but with a quite normal story, initially you wanted to make friends with Jake for the Aussie bond but Sunoo took you by surprise as he was really excited to meet you the first time you were introduced to Enhypen and people a litlle too energetic like him usually annoys you or when someone’s over gentleness seems fake he remembered you a litlle of Wooyoung too but strangely you saw he was sincere and that was just his nature and as he was a litlle shy he asked your number to Soobin (when you were still close) and the same day wrote you, fast you met again and almost instantly got along as it’s easy to get close to someone like Sunoo you felt at ease and got affection for him soon. Your schedule don’t often coincide and as Sunoo is a rookie you don’t have much free time but the litlle he has he gives priority to you and you text each other often maybe the most with the fact you can’t meet him like your other friends, with time tho it’s easier to meet.

Your friendship:

You feel the fact you are older (grandpa vibe) and in the beginning felt like you were hanging with a kid (like with most of enha even tho you get along better with the maknae line) and as Sunoo grew he was a lot more comfortable with you and less admirative or complimenting added to the fact you don’t see often, and when you asked to hang out with his group of friends who are younger too he was like why would you, you often felt a litlle jealous in the time before knowing actually Sunoo wanted to gatekeep you as his friends likes you too what made you reassured but that made the relation be a lot of on and off. Because of jealousy and time issues there’s often a up and downs. Switching on a funnier side your tastes in dating are polar opposite and often Sunoo warns you before getting in a relationship and his guts feelings are ironically always true, the “I’m your boyfriend until you find the right one” energy’s there, you also have the tendency to find ugly each person the other will like that is quite hilarious and helpful knowing you will never fight for someone(side eye). Rather than criticizing your introverted nature Sunoo likes it and you appreciate is more positive side. You two have quite that flirty ambiguous relationship (and that makes jealous someone COUGHjungwonCOUGH) the type to call each other “jagiya” like jooheon and hyungwon and have no problem to say the other is attractive and shouldn’t lower his standards. What’s cool is that Sunoo never felt overshadowed even over time by your more experience and even tho you have a tendency to take the lead and being the iconic one (like he is Eden’s friend not the other way) he perfectly adapts to it. Sunoo as his spot as your bestfriend as he never doubted you and understands you easily without the need to explain (cute warning) to him you are perfect with your flaws and they are what makes you the perfect friend for him, and even in an argue where you can come off as rude he will let you calm down wait for you to come back and apologize and will always forgive you, he knows you have a good heart and even when everybody is against you he will stand by your side. Sunoo being savage about the skinship in award show and Eden telling him to be discreet is the real show he for sure wanna show off their friendship. What at the end of the day makes Sunoo and your relation truly important to you is how he understands your humor and never get offended, the confidence you both have in each other and last but not least Sunoo’s by your side and makes it clear. Also the more the time pass the less are present the beginning issue and even years later you feel Sunoo enthusiasm about you and you don’t hesitate to support him and recently even more publicly as is number one fan.

Soyeon (G-Idle)

How you became friends:

Since Soyeon started writing and producing for G-Idle you became a great fan of her, you wanted to meet her but since it’s difficult with girl groups because of dating ban and scandals you had to ask her number trough a hairstylist staff that worked with both, you thought it was a litlle embarrassing but it was the only way and it surprisingly worked! You started texting each other for some months and when promoting at the same time you understood it was better to ignore the other but before going on stage Soyeon saw you and surprised smiled, you discreetly smiled back but after the show she came to you and wished you good luck for your stage in front of everybody and all your members teased you asking how you knew her and if you dated you denied and ignored them just blushing, after that and seeing you were a little embarrassed she apologized for coming so suddenly, you thought you f.cked up but then she asked you to come to the dorm and that it was the easier way to hang out, after that your friendship started.

Your friendship:

You and Soyeon are so close that often you would be mistaken for a couple and people in the industry would gossip about you two, but your common ground is how you don’t care bout agency rules and what people think so really you didn’t give a f*ck. It’s true tho that your friendship is quite ambiguous first because of Soyeon possessiveness, when you take a partner over to meet her she will be overly smiling and kind and then after leaving will start listing all the reasons why she doesn’t like her and she’s better but you know it’s in a sisterly way, second it’s how you constantly flirt with each other and mostly in a physical way, Soyeon starts it but you play along (of course in a respectful way) so yeah even if for you it’s purely friendly you understand how other can doubt you two are friends coz even you have doubts sometimes, but yeah you know production studio + some shots.., anyway you understood that was problematic when you started dating,also STRANGELY Soyeon tends to be more touchy when there’s your lover around what wasn’t particularly odd to you but started pissing you off when she started to make feel insecure your gf/bf. But bros before hoes Soyeon always helped you see clearer in toxic situations and cut off toxic peoples she always did her best to tell you the truth without hurting you too much and was the one to open your eyes on San,Wooyoung and Yeonjun situation. You are younger than her so to her you are like the little brother she never had. However the whole strange closeness is a true issue after starting your first serious relationship and putting her boundaries the bond you had went a up and down with one day being close like before the other cause of your partner acting totally distant and Soyeon didn’t liked that at all so she respect that but started ghosting you and when you would try to ask why she overreacted she just answered you to find a boy/girl that would accept your friendship and that you always told her she came first but you lied, so you just brushed it off for some time. In the end it’s hard to let go of her and you also know it would be impossible to part ways peacefully it would also impact your relation with the group you also feel she confided to Miyeon something cause after your first big argue while the other seemed normal and to not really know about it you felt like Miyeon was a litlle more distant than the usual. Even if sometimes she gets on your nerves and you would wanna hit her on the head you can’t deny she always accepted you for who you are with your flaws and qualities and would be ready to do anything for you (stalking crush together vibe) she wants the best for you and if she often sees your partners as rivals it’s cause she do natural selection he/she has to takes both of you or nothing.

Hongjoong (Ateez) The typical soulmates + ->>>(Your moons match). Your relation is almost unrealistically good you two match each other and you hardly could replace the other or being who you are now without each other presence. Your trust in each other is almost unbreakable and silences are rather relaxing than awkward there’s no need to talk just to be by each other sides.

Close friends: (See them often not necessarily with a group and know they your qualities as well as your flaws)

Jun (a.c.e), Felix,Bangchan,Changbin(Stray Kids) Yeonjun,Soobin and Taehyun (TXT) Shuhua,Yuqi,Minnie(G-Idle)Danielle(NJ) Jake,Sunghoon and Niki (Enhypen) Momo,Jeongyeon (Twice) Wheein,Moonbyul(Mamamoo) Jaemin,Renjun,Jisung(NCT dream) (the highlighted are the one you are closer to and the groups where there is no one are the equal bonds)

Friends/Friends of friends:

(Enjoy a day time to time with other friends and know your good parts)

Holland (soloist) Beomgyu,Kai (TXT) Hyunjin,Han,Seungmin,Jeongin (SKZ) Hanni(NJ) Jungwon (Enha),Miyeon (G-Idle)

Has a crush on you:

Yujin (IVE) It’s some platonic crush since she knows Liz dates Eden now, she finds is awkwardness cute and intellectuals and artistically connects to him a lot, like his work and honestly when he does song for Liz she’s quite jealous and imagine they are for her without trespassing limits. One time she innocently asked one for her and since Eden is kind he said yes even if she knew would but one time she visited the studio she saw on his pc he had a folder she didn’t opened where he really was doing it..she was moved even tho she knew it would never be more than that..

Jungwon (En-) Jungwon knew Eden by Sunoo and one day as they were invited to fashion week for the same brand and Jungwon was so stressed about going alone but Eden was attending too and Sunoo informed him about Jungwon attendance and if he could stay near him so when Jungwon was on the verge of the panic attack Eden arrived like a savior and reassured him (jungwon was like wah 🥺😭) he made Jungwon gain confidence again and after that Jungwon became all shy around him and his litlle crush lasted since, now with time it stayed and grew in some sort of admiration and thankfulness and even when not crushing anymore Eden makes him all giggles and ngl if Eden came and instantly confessed Jungwon would not be against it at all ;) .!

Exes:

Soobin

How you met:

During a certain period TXT and your group promoted at the same time repeatedly and you saw them almost daily so both of the groups naturally grew closer. You first made friend with Taehyun since you liked his whole vibe and people already told you you two would get along and were sort of similar then with Beomgyu you thought he was fun to be around and easy to talk to. Then you had diff planning and didn’t really made “friends” with the others until you had a first collab at MAMA with Hyunjin,Yeonjun,Yeji,Heeseung,Wooyoung and Karina , Wooyoung already knew Yeonjun and introduced y’all even tho he wasn’t expecting you would get immediately along and wasn’t really pleased to say the least. You started hanging with Wooyoung,Yeonjun and Changbin and there started the iconic quadrio. You met again with Taehyun and Beomgyu and started to hang with them (Beomgyu,Hyunjin,Jeongin crew created) and they all said in the end you were more similar to Soobin than Taehyun and that you should meet him. After that since you came so often to the dorm it would have been awkward to not introduce you to Kai and Soobin. A fun fact is one day you slept at the dorm and Soobin wasn’t informed since he came home late in the morning Kai was asleep, Beomgyu left early for an advertisement and Taehyun and Yeonjun went down to bring breakfast home. Your hair were blond in this era like Yeonjun and you wore a borrowed clothe of Beomgyu that Yeonjun wore a lot (cough stole cough) Soobin just finished showering so you didn’t heard the shower on he jus came out with nothing on you immediately understood the situation feeling the warm of the shower and decided to not move since the voice wasn’t familiar Beomgyu and Manager wasn’t home and half probability if members you were close too Yeonjun/Taehyun showing off or members you weren’t close to Kai/Soobin only you didn’t knew at that time that the other two were out (Yeonjun Taehyun) Soobin convinced it was Yeonjun just approached the sofa being like “Are you trynna get killed by Gyu, Junnie? Go steal one for me too then so I can put something on-“ seeing you didn’t answer he turned to see you putting your hands against your eyes he jumped of the sofa screamin’ and Kai that woke up rushed to see the scene screamin’ too thinking you two were in some business Soobin ran after him to explain, some business Soobin ran after him to explain, Yeonjun and Taehyun came back almost at the same time screamin’ surprise breakfast so yeah your “i got to do something really important I better leave” didn’t worked AT ALL and was totally vain they dragged all of you to the table and Yeonjun feeling the strange vibe was like “Yo what’s up with this silence? Did you made friend? Did you fought? Eden’s scary but he’s a good and handsome guy..” seeing nobody answered he replied to himself ”Isn’t it Eden? Come on introduce yourself”

Flirt (While):

After what happened Soobin couldn’t stop thinking about Eden but didn’t really knew how to approach him, so he often asked Yeonjun trying to look uninterested when Eden would come in the beginning Jun found it odd and one day after he asked for the 10th time in a week he jokingly told him “you should ask him” and Soobin told Yeonjun to give him Eden number to what Yeonjun turned around shocked Soobin being like “what..you told me to-“ Yeonjun answered “If you wanna befriend him just hang with us you should have asked” but Eden was totally hostile at this idea after the surprise event of the last time he even avoid coming to the dorm so they came to Ateez dorm and even tho is shy Bin tried his best and after he sent subliminal message that you didn’t understood Yeonjun told you to give him your number to what you answered “He should have it we are on the same group chat..at least you didn’t saved me?” The two melt of embarrassment and Soobin was like “right..right! I did but since you never talk there Hyung I forgot”. After that you realized he tried to get close to you in a way too clingy way for your introvert persona and he reminded you of Sunoo, you thought he maybe was interested in a G-Idle member and tried to gain your favors by befriending you and when he did an interview where he said his ideal type it fitted Soyeon perfectly and for you that was the answer to everything, you also noticed how he was when he thought you weren’t there (only with members) and how he became strangely kind in your presence, you hated fake people Sunoo was an exception cause he was straightforward at least, you started to despise him and other members noticed also his strange change of attitude that didn’t happened with other Ateez members Yeonjun at that time already understood something was going on and while Taehyun and Beomgyu found nothing abnormal in it Kai suspected something too. After some time Yeonjun decided to keep quiet but he literally knew. One day after the situation lasted for way to long (around 1 month since the incident) you were alone at TXT dorm after a long time since you avoided going there waiting for Yeonjun that by Soobin words would be “late” you went to Beomgyu bedroom where there was the pc where you would play with Jun you closed the door and watched your phone laying on the bed and less than a minute after Soobin enters nonchalantly and as you where about to be rude and ask if he had any business here you retained yourself and simply voiced “yo” Soobin asked what you were doing and while trying to see on your phone he fell on top of you, he passed unconsciously the limit you pushed him harshly before he had time to apologize and yelled to him “damn can you stop acting like that and tell me what you want?!” He seemed so shocked cause the truth was he wanted nothing he didn’t even totally realized he liked Eden at that time “I- nothing! I just fell-” Eden yelled “DONT follow me or you will have to explain to Yeonjun why I left” then you slammed the door, Soobin felt awful and he decided to go out get some air Yeonjun that just arrived just letted him pass and watched Eden in confusion as Soobin face was screaming “I’m not ok” and when Eden explained it Yeonjun worriedly told him “You idiot..I think he likes you in the like you a lot way” and at that moment it hits you, every gesture and small act became really clear it seemed obvious and you felt like a true dumbass for not realizing be4, you unlocked a whole new perspective on the situation. 1 week after you,Hyunjin and Jeongin came to sleepover and play videogames with Beomgyu as you came in and Beomgyu greeted yall you noticed all the other members missed and he told you they were eating out so y’all wouldn’t be disturbed. It was late at night when they came (around 1 am) yall came to great the others and they seemed surprised like they knew they were friends over but not which and you could read that on Soobin face that remained impassive.

One day after the situation lasted for way to long (around 1 month since the incident) you were alone at TXT dorm after a long time since you avoided going there waiting for Yeonjun that by Soobin words would be “late” you went to Beomgyu bedroom where there was the gaming pc where you would play with Jun you closed the door and watched your phone laying on the bed and less than a minute after Soobin enters nonchalantly and as you where about to be rude and ask if he had any business here you retained yourself and simply voiced “yo” Soobin asked what you were doing and while trying to see on your phone he fell on top of you, he passed unconsciously the limit you pushed him harshly before he had time to apologize and yelled to him “damn can you stop acting like that and tell me what you want?!” He seemed so shocked cause the truth was he wanted nothing he didn’t even totally realized he liked Eden at that time “I- nothing! I just fell-” Eden yelled “DONT follow me or you will have to explain to Yeonjun why I left” then you slammed the door, Soobin felt awful and he decided to go out get some air Yeonjun that just arrived just letted him pass and watched Eden in confusion as Soobin face was screaming “I’m not ok” and when Eden explained it Yeonjun worriedly told him “You idiot..I think he likes you in the like you a lot way” and at that moment it hits you, every gesture and small act became really clear it seemed obvious and you felt like a true dumbass for not realizing be4, you unlocked a whole new perspective on the situation. 1 week after you,Hyunjin and Jeongin came to sleepover and play videogames with Beomgyu as you came in and Beomgyu greeted yall you noticed all the other members missed and he told you they were eating out so y’all wouldn’t be disturbed. It was late at night when they came (around 1 am) yall came to great the others and they seemed surprised like they knew they were friends over but not which and you could read that on Soobin that remained impassive Yeonjun took you apart fastly “It would be good if you talked to him he’s been moody all week and acts like there was nothing when I talk to him” “but maybe there’s nothing Jun” he replied again “Just in case do it please” you let a sigh and nodded “I will but I when other sleeps” Yeonjun patted ur back smiling tenderly and after that you returned playing with others. At 3am when everyone was asleep you entered discreetly in Soobin (like imagine if Kai got up AGAIN lmao) and as he was asleep you gently woke him up, he was surprised but you made him a sign to not talk to loud, you could see he was mad and answered only “what?” While frowing “it’s 3 am…” after that you apologized for last time and told him what you believed and he seemed astonished, you talked a lot and ended up falling there asleep found by Kai who literally screamed again (like bro wth) and Yeonjun teasing you like “You only had to apologize I didn’t asked you more~-” (STFU PLEASE) after that without really realizing you started being interested to Soobin and the flirty one, you offered him gift and made him laugh and not much after you two got into a relationship.

Relation(while/during):

You are definitely the one in charge proposing activity and the more bold leading one type, during the relation they were definetely up and down, first you decided for obvious reason to keep it secret under a friendship disguise and people believed it quite easily! In your friends only Hongjoong,Yeosang,Soyeon,Sunoo,Shuhua and Minho knew while in his friends he told nobody but Yeonjun eventually got to know and Kai isn’t blind neither..apart from them everybody else would have never even guessed. The strong point of this relation were how you two couldn’t hide anything to the other even it eventually became harmful and you two got a brutal honesty that hurt the other more than one time, octet Eden called Soobin “sunshine” and really felt he was one he made him wants to be a better and sunnier person on the other end he tried to make Soobin less naive cause everything isn’t fluff and kindness and even if he fell in love with him for this side in the first place he felt like the need to make him see life for what it really was. Soobin changed a lot to please Eden (decided on his own never forced) he tried to be darker and act in a less childish way which made him come off as rude sometimes and other members weren’t pleased when they noticed that change. Soobin and Eden flirted and denied their feelings a lot before deciding to enter in a relationship. After long and bad day really Soobin was Eden glimpse of light, and until now Eden thought he found a twin flame in Soobin. Both had an intense physical attraction and it was like a game to retain to do anything suspicious, but they also had to keep jealousy apart and Eden didn’t enjoyed that to say the least he hated that was really possessive and it often ended in drama, quite a power struggle. Soobin feels Eden needs him and his also proud to be his knowing is high criteria’s and even after all the argues he never gets tired of him. Argue hurt even less than just thinking to breakup. Speaking bout that often in argue one would come up with the “you wanna break up then?!” “No!” “Me neither” and it would solve as it easy as that. Even if secret Eden felt bad that not even TXT that is a small group knew about them like Soobin wanted to hide he felt like their relation was never confirmed, and that Soobin was ashamed or afraid of romantic acts and for Eden that’s not normal when you are a couple. The jealousy isn’t about closeness as they often joked about it being a distance relationship but again about Soobin non demonstrative nature he made Eden happy of course but not intentionally and Eden missed that. Sunoo said that if he loved you he should be able to prove it with both acts and words but you brushed it off saying that even if the relation wasn’t conventional it was okay and you even liked it more this way + Soobin did things and tried to change but it was tiring as you never seemed to notice. The whole relation felt like a roller coaster and you were okay with it and getting emotionally involved until schedules started to be full and it to be a good person wrong time it’s a relation were you needed to be well in your head and okay with your mental health to deal with it. The rare times you saw TXT you spent most of your time with Soobin what made you get more distant to the rest of the group.

The break up (end):

Even tho the relation kept going for 1 year and a half that for this industry is a LOT the last 6 months were like you already broke up since you saw each other like once a month and didn’t even texted apart some good night or apologizing for having no time and the other doing the same. Soobin brought up the « maybe we should break up » first but he expected a conversation after this so he was more than surprised seeing how you immediately agreed and nodded almost like he spelled the words for you. Eden even if sad just knew he had to move on and honestly didn’t even had the time to be sad, but Soobin literally right away regretted it, he was confident in your feeling and he would have expected you to beg him as always and to be in terrible pain but Eden just acted like he was freed from some weight and not even a month after hanged at the TXT dorm greeting Soobin in a casual way. Members worried for Soobin and Yeonjun even told Eden to let some time pass before returning to the dorm also cause everything became quite awkward now. Soobin took it bad, he didn’t wanted the relation to go on and lost the spark but the moment you really left him he felt everything all over again.

Post break up (now):

Since you still have common friends and jobs Eden did his best to keep the relation polite and friendly and even tho Soobin didn’t liked that and preferred everything or nothing he just decided to accept that. Now that some time passed you two even hang out in group and Eden really consider Soobin a friend even if hanging out alone the two of you is still too soon for Soobin. Yeonjun thinks Soobin didn’t got over it and that he even fell in love back again with Eden but Eden denies it and say both are over it and that Jun thinks too much.

Wheein

How you met:

You and Ateez were invited to a kpop European festival in which Mamamoo would perform too, you knew you were in the same hotel but didn’t really interacted to not create problems. On the night before the concert yall divided to go visit at night some places since it would be more *discreet*, you went without managers and members since you enjoyed some time alone and by coincidence you met her, she had an hat and a mask you saw she was Asian and that she got quite the Korean style so you thought she must be a Korean tourist seeing you observed her she turned surprised and recognized you, you didn’t recognized her immediately and though she was a fan but when she said “Don’t you know who i am?” You instinctively bowed and apologized understanding that she was a sunbae she laughed it off and said she was from Mamamoo and there you screamed “Wheein!” Finally remembering her name to which the only two tourist present at 3 am turned around, you apologized awkwardly and you two laughed it off, you ended the hang out with her and came back late at 6am to what managers weren’t pleased.

Flirt (While):

After that you bragged to your members about it a little but didn’t interacted again during the festival only shy smiles and seeing how Mamamoo members watched you backstage you knew she told them about you. Back in Seoul you thought you wouldn’t really see her again but when she wrote you saying that she couldn’t ask you number out of shyness at the festival but that a staff that worked with you gave her you couldn’t help but feel butterflies in the stomach. The flirt by text was childlike for a week before you decided to meet, you two enjoyed the same things and she even took to her parents home as a “friend”. Eden let Wheein taking the lead and even if she’s older he feels like she’s a ball of fluff he has to protect and what’s even more funny is that she thinks same about him even if physically she’s like half of him. Fast enough even if you know how difficult it will be you decide to start a relationship with Wheein being your first relation with another idol.

Relation(while/during):

You two were really optimistic starting the relation maybe even a litlle too much counting that you two had also a considerable age gap. Often Wheein calls Eden a baby (with affection ofc) and Eden feels Wheein makes him take responsibilities and grow more mature. Still Wheein doesn’t underestimate Eden and feels she can rely on him. It’s a youthful relationship but soon enough you two realize difficult to date in the industry and while Wheein warned Eden, he prolly didn’t expect the stress that would decade of it and Wheein felt bad to make him handle it so soon and endure it as a rookie even if he repeated he was serious about it Wheein felt bad and knew it was unfair to tie him to her. Wheein became insecure too, thinking a younger girl would suit him better even if Eden said he didn’t cared at all.

The break up (end):

Wheein was the one to break up it hurt her cause she felt Eden was really in love and she liked him a lot too but she thought it wasn’t the right moment for them even if he cried and said that she was crazy to think he could find better than her she told him it was better for them to cut it out there and maybe in some months after Mamamoo tour start again as “just friends”.

Post break up (now):

After Mamamoo tour ended you didn’t kept your promise to contact each other again, Eden was too proud and even if it’s sad Wheein already moved on but around one year later you two saw each other at a music show and Wheein came to talk to you and hugged you as a big sister proud of Ateez success after that you saw each other again and breaked the “ex can’t be friend” thing! Also fun fact Soyeon being a big fan of Mamamoo encouraged you to rekindle your friendship so she could hang out with her too lmao

Boyfriend/Girlfriend:

Jaemin

How you met:

You met Jaemin in the most basic way at work, it was an after award party and while you were at the bar you two asked for the same drink simultaneously what made you laugh and when the bartender answered there wasn’t you again asked for the same other one at the same time and when other members joined you since some NCT and Ateez members get along and see each other they found you two laughin dead and Mingi explaining you two were already like that when he arrived like “when those even became close to each other?”

Flirt:

After that you two “InNoCeNtLy” [ ;) ] exchanged number (but fr tho) and agreed to hang out some times. So Like the bond started chaotic as at the first hangout at the arcade Eden told Jaemin before the other night he always thought Jaemin seemed like a snobbish self centered SM idol and that arcade would have been a cheap entertainment fro him to what Jaemin was shocked and told Eden he would show him he knew how to have fun (infact Eden let Jaemin won that day but shhh). Jaemin after starting to hang out with Eden will start to change a little and be less conventional and more confident and even tho some members will tell him Eden is a bad influence for him he just doesn’t care and without realizing it he will start wanting to be more to Eden really quickly Eden will understand what he means by that but prefers to take his time as Jaemin remembers him of Soobin and he wanna be sure to be over Soobin before starting anything else. Jaemin is okay with that and will wait patiently not listening to the ones telling he’s being played. The way Eden confess he’s so cute he literally invites Jaemin to the studio and sings a ballad he wrote for him with the guitar that is quite clear about what he feels and after saying he will never do something that cringe again literally Jaemin jumped into his arms.

Relation:

To Eden, his relation with Jaemin is what he always needed (and missed while he was with Soobin) he doesn’t think of Jaemin need for independence threatening to the relationship because the rest of the time this one is really demonstrative. When arguments occur they don’t try to search for who’s wrong and who’s right they rather accept the fact they can have different opinions and don’t let that ruin the good moments they pass together. Eden literally never bored with Jaemin that always succeeds to surprise him even in activity that Eden wouldn’t usually go for. Most of all they respect each other and even when some argue take become on a big scale they will never “insult” or bring down the other. Like yeah a TRUE power couple. People often refer to Eden as the “rigid” one but to Jaemin he’s like a a soft bear and feels like he’s too good for this world he also admires his work and think he is a true artist and that K-pop industry waste his talent knowing damn well nobody gonna let him write and produce his whole damn song all alone and then release it (Jaemin is a true sm idol after all 🥲) but he don’t wanna break it to him so he just encourage his lover. Ok don’t know where to put this but yeah unexpectedly Jaemin is the big spoon..There’s still some weakness to that relation, jealousy again and again and from both side even if different. In that Jaemin is odd like Eden can become crazy jealous and Jaemin will absolutely enjoy it and find it cute (OKAY??), on Eden side the jealousy manifests as possessiveness even if like everybody (I guess ?) he can feel jealous with Jaemin socializing at the end of the day he doesn’t really care that much cause he trust him but man..literally he wanna control and possess Jaemin so bad like to Eden it’s worst if Jaemin comes later home than what he told him than if he’s flirting with someone in front of him (okay..? X2) and like Jaemin is even worst on that cause he will play it and if Eden isn’t jealous of him doing skinship with members ect he literally get upset he didn’t noticed (ㅠㅠ? x3) and honestly Eden does notice it but he knows what’s Jaemin goal and prefer just ignoring it ( bro we all know your jeno’s hetero stop the act ). At the end of the day it’s still a lot of sweetness and Eden forgive everything for Jaemin 💕 bonus: You didn’t really became close to NCT since you two preferred to hang around out of the dorm you only know some members close to him like Jeno but not a lot since the relationship still fresh.

OR

Liz

How you met:

You met Liz in the most basic way (yeah too) at work, after a special solo stage on a music big program they filmed reactions backstage and yours became viral we could see on your face how you were amazed and comments flowed like “I want my man to watch me like Eden watch Liz” or “He should try to hide it at least ㅋㅋㅋ“ IVE already debuted since some years and you could see they weren’t rookies anymore, they re passed images on the big screen behind Liz and you and Ateez went on stage just after you were shy after that and try to not see her until the end of the show but in backstage that caught you off guard how she came to you and just bowed giggling you smiled quietly trying to act cool and after a small talk said bye. After that episode her solo stage went viral as well as your reaction and people did challenge when one danced and the other was like “wouaw” then the same but reverse on the sound/beat, you and Liz met backstage some weeks afters when this blew up and decided it would be fun to do it to which it blew up again! As an excuse to send the drafts Liz tried to ex number but not taking the hint you told your manager would settle this by email luckily Liz manager that isn’t dumb told you two were “adults” and could do that alone (LIKE TAKE THE HINT) after that Liz texted you and you two started becoming close.

Flirt:

What’s fun there is that Liz did pretty much all alone and it’s really a friend to lover trope, Liz took her time or Eden just didn’t took the signals but it was a really slow thing also because Eden was still healing of his past two failures and Liz was still growing out of her rookie phase and he didn’t really saw her as a “romantical option” even when he started to get the hints he was kinda in the friend zone vibe even tho he liked both her appearance and personality but Liz was so determined that she would get what she wanted lmao..so litlle by litlle Eden surrendered and decided to try out an “us” and that was definitely a good choice for both.

Relation:

A power couple, a duo, a combo, like literally it’s the “IT COUPLE” and everybody new in the industry is introduced to them as the Lizden as a whole (Hyuna and Dawn vibe). It can be almost the annoying type of couple to be with like they overflow of love but at the same time you envy them like they even like to argue together if they can spend time with each other I can’t ㅠㅠ👋 . They share everything like some friend comes and his like we should talk in private Eden be like “what you mean, Liz knows already everythin” or “You still have to tell me what happened since I was taking a shower Eden answered at my place on kakao 😃😆” . Still both have their pride and often will ignore on purpose the other just to run to each other dorm one day after (ㅠㅈㅜ¿). The two also love to surprise the other with big love gestures like seriously st valentines is THE date. They support each other work the best they can and have an unbreakable trust in their bond. They can argue often and sometimes not know how to handle each other crisis or past wounds/traumas. Like you trigger each other sometimes without realizing it and tend to overstep boundaries in argues but never to hurt the other one but love should come every when the intention is noble (right ?:’u). Liz youngness sometimes make feel Eden like he’s the only one giving stability to the couple while he’s still developing his own self but at same time he knows how much efforts Liz puts to be more adult to please him and he also don’t wanna change her neither and he enjoys her childish,youthful and fresh sides/nature/aspects (nothin weird) he also realized thanks to her that he can’t control everything and rather than changing himself or her just accept differences and go with the flow. 💗🫶🏻🌈🐈

Rivals:

Yeonjun

Why: Nothing between you two personally, fans created it after a stage were you performed together Blood // Water by Grandson you two known for your eccentric style while on the style Yeonjun won by his earrings and crop top combo you were amazing with your electric guitar and none was out dancing the other, Moa and Atiny created some sort of fanwar for the title of “it boy” when an interview came out were people knew that the idea of taking the guitar came you during rehearsal the same day you had to come on stage people praised you again and Moa were mad they dragged you about the fact you wore a skirt and had your hair long the club scandal was recent and even Atiny thoughts it wasn’t clever from you in the end in a V-Live Yeonjun talked of how he liked to perform with his friend (you) to remind people of your friendship and to stop it already, he saw a lot of tweets and honestly was angry at his fandom, he didn’t really impacted you friendship tho,maybe a lil more on your side.

Your relationship: First of all Yeonjun and you are close and as he was born 1 day later than you you created the tradition to celebrate together your birthday you would spend the 12th of September together all day then at midnight it was Yeonjun turn, and even did birthday v-live together. The issues came after your breakup with Soobin, that just summed up with the other problem that got constantly in your friendship way, Yeonjun best friend is Wooyoung and as you can guess he got no problem talking shit bout you if it was San it would have been different since you close but Wooyoung is really Yeonjun best friend but at least Wooyoung wouldn’t do that in front of Changbin that would obviously defend you and tell you about this (he did infact lmao) but at that time it was only Wooyoung against Changbin word and he honestly didn’t cared bout your problems with San since you two were closer. After your breakup with Soobin let’s say your relationship with TXT changed a bit and Yeonjun way of seeing you too. A little like Miyeon and Soyeon like even if you are in “polite/friendly” terms with Soobin you know he probably got no problem to tell Yeonjun bad things about you.

Group you are friend with:

Stray Kids: You made friend with Hyunjin trough Jongho and Changbin through Wooyoung that made you meet Felix aussie like you that also made you meet Bangchan (that then was the one to introduce you to Xdinary Heroes). Probably one of the group you the closest too as you are close to a lot of the members.

What do Stray Kids thinks of Eden and Eden of them: They admire him a lot and when he comes to the dorm they are all overly compliments him even tho sometimes Eden feels it’s exaggerated. Remember about the family feeling with Ateez? Sometimes he finds it as well in Stray kids dorm and he feels a real friendship bond there he also thinks Stray Kids are fun and that there’s no awkward feeling with anyone of the members. Often when Eden goes back to his dorm Stray Kids is like “You should debut as our new member so you wouldn’t have to leave” and it make Eden thinks even tho Ateez is big how would have been things if he debuted in a bigger group under a biggest agency or if they won Kingdom instead where would they be now? At Stray Kids place maybe and he could be the one saying that.

TXT: Ok so TXT is a group you are close to..so close that you and other members have beefs regularly..basically you really close to all of them and have been for a long time only that you argue a lot and it’s often a Yeonjun,Wooyoung vs Changbin Eden but of course you go trough those things as adult. You sometimes hang with Hyunjin,Jeongin and Beomgyu altogether too but you less close to that group.

Xdinary Heroes: As soon as your Stray Kids friends knew you where a fan of their younger group they told them about it and when you were in the backstage of a music show with Ateez they ran to you bowing and introducing themselves, saying they were equally fans. You didn’t had the chance to get close to one of them in particular but with time everyone dropped the formalities.

Enhypen: Danielle wanted to present you to Jake but before she had time to do so one time that you were hanging around with TXT you met the full group you got along with all of them and in particular Sunoo (who became your actual best friend even trough the age gap)

Newjeans: You got to know Hanni at a Gucci event and she introduced you to Danielle who had aussie descents like you after that you met the other members too and did TikTok challenges with them.

IVE: You met them in the backstage of a music festival for the first time and congratulated them on their latest release after that you got close to Liz,Yujin and Rei. (You were already close to Liz tho)

G-Idle: You were a big fan of Soyeon work and after you met her and became close often coming “secretly” to the dorm, you naturally grew close to each one of the members and surprisingly you consider all of them close friend they as well are the girl group you closer to.

Eden scandals:

Two timers: Fake you didn’t even knew that girl personally and honestly it seemed absurd to you. Company just made a denying statement and you didn’t participated to Inception promotions for a week as at that time they were a lot of scandals going on and idols leaving their groups.

Han Sohee dating rumours: Fake You met her for the first time at the Balenciaga event in Italy she was really anxious and was impressed by how calm and self-confident you seemed to be (even if you were actually stressing like her) photographers asked you two to pose together and after that she attempted a small talk you two ended by exchanging numbers but after the rumors blew up none of you dared text the other one as it was quite awkward. The scandal had a positive effect and gave you popularity.

Club scandal: True You went clubbing with Holland (Soloist) and Jun (a.c.e.) in a club that has a reputation of being frequented by LGBT and as during the promotions of your BL you said it wasn’t a problem for you to kiss a boy people started making assumptions about your sexuality especially k-nets you made an apology letter for “clubbing” and didn’t participated in entertainment programs and music show for the following week. The scandal had an important negative effect on your Korean popularity but made international fans like you more.

[atzjieun]

Former “SIXTEEN” contestant Jieun to debut in KQ Entertainment’s upcoming group

October 8, 2018

Jieun, a former JYP Entertainment trainee who participated in “SIXTEEN”, which formed TWICE, has been confirmed to make her debut in KQ Entertainment’s new group, ATEEZ!

Fans have been patiently waiting for Jieun’s debut ever since the finale of SIXTEEN, when it was announced that she had been one spot away from debuting. Jieun, who was only 13 during the show’s run, stole the hearts of the audience through her kind, quiet nature and dedication to improving. She was announced to have left the company shortly after the show concluded, leaving fans wondering what her next move would be.

Nearly three years after the show’s finale, Jieun reappeared when she was featured in KQ Entertainment’s U.S. Training Series as a member of KQ Fellaz. Although she performed and trained with her fellow trainees, it was unclear as to whether Jieun was an official member of the group, as she was the only girl in the nine-member lineup. With the release of “Code-name is ATEEZ”, Jieun’s debut with the group was essentially confirmed, but some netizens still held doubt.

However, on October 8, 2018, KQ Entertainment released the first debut teaser for their upcoming rookie group, ATEEZ, which included Jieun. While fans were happy at the news that Jieun would be included in the group, many netizens pointed out the bizarre gender ratio of eight boys and one girl. Some questioned KQ’s reasoning, citing her debut as a way to generate attention for their group.

What do you think?

[+72, -36] one girl and eight guys??? what is the company thinking??

[+89, -64] well that’s one way to get attention ㅋㅋㅋ

[+143, -55] did y’all think she was just their manager or something? we are not surprised!

[+28, -17] i would be seriously pissed if i trained that long just to end up in a boy group

[+47, -11] then in a few months we’ll get a notice that she’s leaving for “personal reasons”

[+193, -494] how much you wanna bet she slept with a higher up or one of the members to get in?

↳ [+504, -103] she’s a minor, weirdass bitch!

[+403, -103] wah, she was a baby on sixteen and seeing her performances in the predebut shows it’s clear how much she’s grown! jieun, fighting!

taglist: @teezingsiyeon

[cherryfolder]

cherry 🍒 profile

Basics

Birth Name — Lee Chaeri (이채리) Stage Name — Cherry Date of Birth — August 21st, 2006 Height — 163 cm (5'4") Blood Type — A Birthplace — Busan, South Korea Education — Hanlim Multi Arts School Languages — Korean, English, Japanese Nationality — Korean-Japanese MBTI — ISTP

Career

Agency — KQ Entertainment Years Trained — 4 years Debut Date — April 2nd, 2024 Official Emoji — 🍒 Official Color — Cherry Red (#D2042D)

Socials

Fanclub Name — Berry Instagram — @/jagichaeri Twitter — @/cherrykq YouTube — Cherry Lee Official Website — www.cherry.kqent.com

Skills Ratings (out of 10)

Singing — 9 Rapping — 7 Dancing — 10 Stage Presence — 9 Entertainment — 8 Producing — 8 Modelling — 10 Acting — 7

Claims

common — lee ahin ex momoland singing — chaein purple kiss rapping — soyeon gidle dancing — chaeyeon soloist speaking — lee ahin ex momoland

Fun Facts

Cherry is known for her flexibility and has a black belt in Taekwondo.

Cherry is younger sister of Woozi of SEVENTEEN. She was adopted by Woozi's family.

When Cherry was a kid, she entered a child model contest and got cast. At the time, her family refused, but 5 years later, in 2020, she secretly entered a Honey Entertainment open audition and passed.

Cherry left leg is weak due to her being in a car accident when she was still in her childhood days.

Cherry isn't good at sports and physical activities.

Cherry is scared of big mascots and clowns.

Cherry is a huge fan of TWICE and Sabrina Carpenter.

Cherry is a voice actor and had voice over several movies and tv shows in different languages.

Cherry's ideal type is someone who is witty and loyal. She also prefers sexy over cute.

[kiestrokes]

hi! omg your fic prompt contest sounds so fun! I thought about my submission for a while so I hope this makes sense.

the reader/MC is an author. she/they are waiting for the bus one day and they notice a man that has the most striking beauty. they take out their phone and make notes about the man. soon, they realize they're seeing the man everywhere and that sparks the idea to take their notes about the stranger and create a character for their new book.

Park Seonghwa comes to life on the pages and soon she realizes what she writes about him is coming true. His name, job, clothes, hobbies... his love for them/her. they're not sure why they hold this man's entire existence in their pen.

the only way to truly find out if he could actually love her is to stop writing and risk being dropped by her publisher and having to repay her advance.

(I thought this Ruby Sparks type story would be fun with Seonghwa but it could really work with any of Ateez.)

First of all, HI!

Welcome and thank you for participating 🤗

This entire idea is so cute, especially for Hwa 😩 he truly is a man written by women (and honestly so much more). It is also super indulgent of an idea for (imo) ff writers.

I will announce the winner tentatively the first week of January (or as soon as my shipment gets here from KQ!)

I hope you have a lovely December 🩵

The tournament is still happening!

[cfmanamongmen]

are these guitarists real?

Dec 6, 202346,381 views • Dec 6, 2023Watch the other compilation videos below! 1. we need to talk about the shred contest: https://youtu.be/sG8JJkNer3U 2. These Guitar Players Are INSANE: https://youtu.be/WInwYDq34mI 3. guitar players that melted my skin off: https://youtu.be/JMrPVxIYx5g 4. guitar players in 2023: https://youtu.be/LBaL6zwi-KQ 5. 35 AMAZING Guitar Players 2023: https://youtu.be/oHbpGJytbIc 6. The Craziest Guitar Solos You'll Ever Hear: https://youtu.be/MFBDlofTQZ8

[rubyyvonne]

YECHAN

Stage Name: Yechan (예찬)

Birth Name: Lee Yechan (이예찬)

Birthday: October 21, 2005

Position: Main Rapper, Main Dancer, Vocalist, Maknae

Height:

MBTI: ESFP

Nationality: Korean

Notes:

Yechan was introduced as a member of KQ FELLAZ 2 on August 20, 2022 alongside Yujun. They were the last 2 members to be revealed.

He was born in Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.

He became a KQ trainee at the age of 14.

He was a contestant on UNDER NINETEEN. He was eliminated in the final episode at the rank of 15, so he was unable to debut with 1THE9.

He has a ghost story like Yujun, except instead of the keyboard playing the vacuum turned on by itself and he was scared.

He can speak fluent english.

He is friends with MCND’s Win due to UNDER NINETEEN.

He is very fast.

[canyouhearthevoices]

ATEEZ Theory TidBits Ep 12 - What did KINGDOM contribute to the storyline?

Oh boy, KINGDOM, am I right?

Kingdom contributed enough to be worth a whole album - and in the end, it kind of was, through FEVER EPILOGUE.

In this post;

Materials in KINGDOM

Additions to the storyline

Track/performance breakdown

Reactions from the fandom

Important motifs and storyline elements which were added

My perspective on the storytelling and quality (from a screenwriting kid)

Other important things to note

Conclusions

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Mnet is a snake, and the groups went on KINGDOM doing their best to deal with the snakebite. It was a terribly designed show as far as the competition itself went - a literal popularity contest - and we knew, no matter who had the best or worst performances, that Stray Kids would win (they deserved it, of course. But ATEEZ deserved it more). But ATEEZ went in with no care for the competition itself, and without trying to create a performance that would be most likely to win. Instead,  they took it as an opportunity to do some big-budget film-set-level performances which contributed massively to their storyline and really emphasised its cyclical nature. They brought a whole lot of new fans in, including all of the other groups on the show. 

Full discussion below the line.

Materials 

This time, almost everything that they did was important to the storyline.

Performances as ATEEZ - ‘WAVE: Overture,’ ‘Symphony No. 9 WONDERLAND,’ ‘Answer: Ode to Joy,’ ‘The Awakening of Summer;’ and ‘The Real.’

Other performances; MAYFLY’s dance, vocal, and rap units (not related to the storyline)

Behind the scenes videos for all ATEEZ performances.

Additions to the storyline

The album less ‘added’ to the storyline and more recontextualised previous songs to suit the next era of the story. They showed HALAteez helping different versions of ATEEZ, and finally sacrificing themselves to help (what I assume is TREASUREteez) defeat the Guardians and obtain their Treasure. Taken as part of only the TREASURE and FEVER series, it seems to round out the story in a big, fat piratey circle, but, with the addition of THE WORLD, we see it in a new context as HALAteez helping several of many many ATEEZs.

Performance breakdown

WAVE: Overture - Everyone is dead, especially Hongjoong.

Symphony No. 9 ‘From the Wonderland’ - they killed and ate the kraken. Seonghwa killed it, of course. 

‘The Awakening of Summer’ - 1984 drug heist but make it Gothic murder pirates.

‘Answer: Ode to Joy’ - The Avengers Endgame of the ATEEZ universe. But a billion times better, of course. 

Reactions from the fandom

Well. I didn’t have the best opinion of ATINY at this time. ATEEZ were undoubtedly overworked, either by their own volition or by KQ’s choice. But either way, they were overworked, and some members of the fandom took this as a sign that we too should be overworking ourselves and ‘owed’ ATEEZ something... probably streams or votes or the like. And they ruthlessly persecuted anyone who either didn’t do or didn’t agree with these things. And hopefully y’all remember my opinion on this. All of us have a parasocial relationship with ATEEZ, and, by the nature of that relationship, ATEEZ will always owe us more, and we will never owe them anything (except to be respectful and treat them like human beings, of course, but that exists for anyone, no matter what your relationship with them it). And I don’t mean that ATEEZ should overwork themselves - certainly not. But I owe them nothing and they owe me everything, if we choose to think of relationships as transactional, as the world likes to. 

ATINY, you sucked in this period. And I hope you feel terrible.

But as far as reactions to the performances - I think it goes without saying that everyone loved them. A lot. Very iconic. Especially Seonghwa and Jongho. Killing it.

Important motifs and storyline elements which were added

Brought back the Guardians

Brought back HALAteez

Time travel and the Cromer

The introduction of the 1984-inspired ‘Strictland’ (because ATEEZ are bad at names) which informed the THE WORLD era/concept/storyline.

My semi-professional perspective of the storytelling, production and production values, etc

As we would expect from both ATEEZ and KINGDOM, the performances had great production values. the ability to have a higher budget and to have multiple sections of the stage which could operate as individual rooms/scenes was very useful for all of the groups, but especially ATEEZ. This was especially noticeable in WONDERLAND, with the whole kraken thing. Of course, the storyline remained cohesive, and included both easter eggs and important details for ATINY, while also being accessible to a new audience. Anyone can appreciate a fight with the kraken or an epic showdown, but not everyone can notice and understand the importance of HALAteez giving ATEEZ the weapons they used to fight the kraken.

This accessibility was what caused so many people to become fans during the KINGDOM period (including all of the other groups on KINGDOM). You see a group fighting a massive kraken on a pirate ship, and that appeals to everyone, even if the details of that fight are niche and only for the fandom. It was very snazzy, and, like I keep saying, I feel that the reactions of the other groups perfectly represented this transition for many people. 

Quality of the album

Well, if you give a group that can make do with a pretty low budget a big one, what will  they do? They’ll kill and cook a kraken of course. But the kraken honestly wasn’t the best indication of a higher budget on the show, although it is the most commonly referenced one. It was evident everywhere - in the costuming, the pirate ship set, the stairs to heaven and the opera singers in Ode to Joy, and the Blimp and set of ‘The Awakening of Summer.’ But even without the budget, it would have still been of very high quality, because quality entails more than just budget.

Other important things to note

The behind the scenes don’t show what I want them to show, but they are still fascinating and worth the watch, if mentions of ATEEZ being overworked and on 2 hours of sleep for the week don’t trigger you in any way.

Conclusions

Iconic, brilliant, exciting, revolutionary to the storyline, intriguing to fans and non-fans alike, and so on and so on. And, let’s be honest - Wooyoung saying that they ate the kraken after they killed it will never not be funny. It also confirmed that the kraken is female, so I won’t have any kraken misgendering on my blog.

[kinnie-quarium]

➠Kinnie-quarium’s 100+ Follower contest!

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Rules!

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⤷ The contest theme iss..! Your favorite/most important kin memory! that means anything happy/sad/etc! It’s all up to you!

⤷ The requirement for submitting your entry is: Please keep your submission to some form of edit! such as an aesthetic, moodboard, drawing, etc! please remember to make sure your edit is based off that memory!

⤷ Submitting multiple entries is a-okay! however we are limiting it to 3 entries for organization sake! you can however only win once!

⤷ The contest will only run for about a week ending officially on August 26th 12am MST!

⤷ In order to submit your post and make sure we actually see it! please @ this​ blog in your post as well as tagging the post under ‘#kq’s-contest’! 

➣ First place winner: 1 Edit set, 3 full icon sets, 2 aesthetic/moodboards, 1 wallpaper and a stimboard!

➣ Second place: 2 full icon sets, an aesthetic/moodboard, and a stimboard!

➣ Third place: 1 full icon set and an aesthetic/moodboard!

➣ All entries will receive a set of 3 icons of their pickings!

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