#ryeji fake dating

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Anyway...

fake dating info dump(1/?)

Ig also spoilers for the au because this is really just me on full on info dump mode just throwing out every single idea I have. I kinda plan to write a fic at some point

Yeji's a vendor manager at Tdoong Snacks

First things first the girlies jobs:

Ryujin works in the IT department of Tdoong snacks, particularly in app development and maintenance. Which is how she originally met Yeji, their vendor app was bugging out. That then devolved to Ryujin annoying tf out of Yeji on the regular while she helps her fix her work pc

Yuna's an intern in the IT department (because I can never give up my Yuna intern agenda) and was originally the one helping Yeji with her shitty pc most of the time. That's how Ryujin found out about it (maybe Yeji comes in looking for Yuna and Yuna had college that day soo Ryujin is like bet let's piss her off)

Minju got a new job working under Dahyun (a famous news anchor and tv personality) at JYP News

I really love the idea of HR Chaeryeong lmao she's also in HR in my secretary Yeji au but I want her as one here as well

Jisu works under Mochaeng in the graphic design section of the Tdoong marketing department

Jihyo is a ceo somewhere probably lmao. I physically can not not include her in my ideas but surprisingly I haven't thought of anything this time

Eventually Ryeji realise they live in the same area on a really rainy day when Yeji begrudgingly offers Ryujin a ride. So they come up with this system where Ryujin drives them both to and from work using the company car cause Yeji gets so tired from having to drive around doing vendor negotiations and stuff. Which leads Minju to assume they're dating cause Ryujin is always around lmao and they bicker like 24/7

Ryujin jokes about the whole misunderstanding and makes a statement about how this is good for Yeji anyway cause now she can keep her lie going. Which gives Yeji the brilliant idea to properly ask Ryujin to be her fake gf. Ryujin mulls it over and eventually accepts cause it's not like it'll be very hard since Minju already suspected them just from how they interacted in general

Need a scene where they draft a whole ass contract for the terms of their fake dating (Ryujin: you're so dramatic 🙄) and decide they need to give each other nicknames and Ryujin's coming up with all sorts of annoying ones then finally looks at Yeji for a loooooonnnggg second and goes "Yeddeong" in a kinda sentimental voice that surprisingly has Yeji kinda malfunctioning a bit (which she justifies as Ryujin being hot af not because Ryujin actually has an effect on her Ryujin's fucking annoying after all) and Ryu gets all smug over it. And also just keeps calling ger Yeddeong at every opportunity now

I also need a scene where they go out drinking (while fake dating) with Yeji's friends (Hyunjin, Minju, Jisu, Jisung and Somi) and ryeji both get kinda drunk and Yeji kisses her but it's not the usual short kisses they usually have Yeji really goes for it this time. Ryujin's a better drinker so she kinda comes to her senses a bit and stops it all. She wants to take Yeji back home but Yeji insists on staying with her because she really doesn't want to see Minju rn and Ryujin doesn't say anything for a bit then offers to go to her apartment. She's actually slept over before cause one time Yeji wanted to make it look like they actually fuck and all since Minju would know how she is. Her plan was to stay at the office and work since Jisu and Somi are having a date night and Yeji doesn't wanna be in their apartment plus staying with Hyunjin is always super annoying but Ryujin just offers her to stay over at hers since it's not a big deal.

Yeji accepts and they get there, both tumble into Ryujin's bed not even bothering to bicker about who gets it and it's quiet and Yeji apologises for kissing her like that to which Ryujin is like "it's fine it's not like we haven't done it before anyway" and Yeji explains that she's kinda been overwhelmed by the whole Minju thing and she's really trying to show everyone that she's okay and moved on

Ryujin: why though

Yeji: ??

Ryujin: why do you have to prove you're okay even if you're clearly not

Yeji: cause I'm the one who broke up with her

Which surprises Ryujin cause you'd think Yeji got dumped and Yeji goes on to detail how at some point Minju clearly stopped liking her that way and was kinda just with her because that's what was always the case for them. There was no more passion from Minju so Yeji decided to end it and let her go. Yeji's got this fear that she can never be loved again because the one person she's ever been with basically stopped loving her. So it kinda fucks her up that Minju is in a happy commited relationship now that not only seems deeper than anything they had but is strong enough that they don't even seem to have problems being long distance despite being together shorter than the time her and Minju were together. In her mind this shows that Minju's capable of love and that it was just Yeji who was the problem.

Ryujin kinda just holds her hand through it all, not really sure what to say that can help her without confessing her own feelings. But she really wants to say SOMETHING somehow so she turns to face Yeji on the bed.

Ryujin: are you sobered up now

Yeji looks at her kinda weird: why?

Ryujin leans in and repeats herself.

Yeji: I think so?

Then Ryujin leans in and kisses her real soft and slow and whispers "don't discount how lovable you are Yeddeong. Cause you are. And you deserve to be loved"

And they both just don't bring it up again until a later moment where they maybe have an argument or something

Lastly for now I need like a chapter of Ryujin realising she's falling for Yeji and deciding to go all scientific method to prove whether she's actually falling or not and the conclusion is goddamnit she is 😭

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Brain kinda working so after the whole kiss and telling Yeji she's lovable thing Ryujin wakes up alone and kinda panics and starts overthinking. Did she maybe overstep? Was it a bad move to kiss her after Yeji told her all that? She wanted to show affection the easiest way she could but did Yeji just hate it.

Ryujin leaves her room and she was too in her thoughts to smell the (slightly burned) food on her cooker. She sees Yeji first and takes a second to compute that Yeji isn't just here but wearing her apron and other clothes. And then the fact that she's cooking which is most certainly a fire hazard comes last

Yeji turns and smiles and Ryujin can't help but smile too.

Yeji explains that she's making Ryujinna meal as a thank you

Ryujin: I don't know how poisoning me is a show of gratitude

Yeji: they're not that bad

Ryujin: I'm pretty sure that one in the middle is totally black

Yeji: don't eat it then! shut up and let me thank you

And like always Ryujin just sits and eats despite it having way too much flour in it.

Yeji: seriously though. Thank you. For everything.

And suddenly Ryujin has a hard time swallowing not just cause of the terrible breakfast

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Oh I like that fake dating idea actually kinda imagine Ryujin doing her usual mocking laugh when Yeji explains everything

Ryujin: that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my life literally why would you tell her that

Yeji: literally please shut up and fix my computer

Ryujin: that's why she thought we were dating?? Pfffffffffff

Yeji: are you actually here to help me or should I just ask Yuna to do it

Ryujin: what I can't visit my girlfriend and have a chat when I miss her?

Yeji:

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Wondering if Yeji's just not a fan of these kinds of parties or if she's just shy loml. Noting this down for fics I need to find a way to include in ryeji fake dating I'm imagining them being so shy and awkward about parties and clubbing but they go because Yeji always told Minju she really enjoyed it whenever she'd invite her when they were dating and now it's come back to bite her in the butt. And maybe as the night progresses Ryeji actually have a lot of fun in their own little world and start dancing in a corner somewhere when they get drunker maybe even smooch a bit

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Okay kinda idea though it's not concrete. So Yeji and Minju have been broken up for a year now, Minju moved on but Yeji's very much still not over it. Minju gets a job in the city and needs a place to crash so dumbass Yeji is like "you can stay at mine for as long as you need to 😃" and when Minju is like are you sure that won't be awkward af since yknow Yeji's like "no worries Minju it's been a year besides I already have a gf" (she doesn't, at all). Enter Shin Ryujin, the annoying asshole from the IT department that Yeji has to take rides from cause they live in the same area and however much they hate each other it makes financial sense. Yeji doesn't want anything more to do with her but Ryujin rolls with Minju's assumption that they're dating just to piss Yeji off.

It is them. It is literally Ryeji

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And now I'm thinking about fake dating 🫠

I'd imagine that Ryujin completely falls for Yejii during their fake relationship but keeps that to herself caause she thinks that Yeji hasn't moved on from Minju so when she finds put that actually Yeji did move on and all this is cause she thinks she's not worth love it becomes Ryujin's mission to show her just how loved she is 😔😔😔😔😔

Meanwhile poor Yeji just thinks that Ryujin feels sorry for her or something which sucks cause she kinda likes her too 😔😔😔😔😔😔

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i support your braining brain and every thought that you have abt abo ryeji

You're so sweet 😭 I really hope the thoughts lead to writing cause I can't stop thinking about them and I need ya'll to know what goes on hjdkah

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Results are in! Thank you to everyone who voted 🖤

Lowkey shocked at the fake dating au sweep and how high neighbours au got but I'm also so happy cause fake dating and escort/hotline are my current fixations and neighbours is in my top 3 aus

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The ideas aren't flowing properly rn oof I'm so tired from this project bullshit. And now I have my last week of internship to deal with. Fuck 🥲

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I just started reading the spiderryu ryeji thing on twt because of you and it’s??? So good???? I know smau's are really easy to read through but I just read like 200+ chapters in half an hour?? And it's making me SICK because it's SO CUTE pls drop more recs if you have any more

Ayyyyyy glad you enjoyed it, that au is SO GOOD. Like slapping myself crying into my pillow and giggling type good I love it so much

And okay recs let's go I'll try my best

For starters, Ryeji Fake Dating is the ryeji au that convinced me to start planning and writing my own. I really love the humour in this

Op's off twitter and Ryeji exes is currently incomplete but imo what they posted is well written enough to just read and suffer with even if it's not done

Then the goat of goats Ryeji dance au, anyone who has not read this please do yourself a favour and jump on this it's so well written and so 🥺 you won't regret it. And if you've read it just read it again adskjh it's so good lmao. Op is off twitter as well but they also made a tiny Valentine's au that's very cute

Another fave, I haven't read it in a while but I remember it just getting better and better as it went on

This hasn't updated in a while and idk if it'll get an update any time soon but I really enjoyed the tension between our girlies and I just wanna know wtf happened in the past lmao like why aren't they friends anymore goddamnit

Another ggsmaus au, VERY GOOD (though I have some issues with the resolution to Ryujin's whole family trauma. I feel like it wasn't handled very well but that's a personal thing for me I haven't seen many people complain about it and I also don't think it subtracts from how good this au is)

This account rts ryeji aus and has a thread of some finished ones in eng and tagalog. I haven't read everything on there but they're a good resource

Then there's another one that I don't remember and still can't find cause I think Op is off twitter too so if anyone knows of an archive of that Ryeji au where Ryujin calls Yeji "my girl" all the time please share it's really good 😭

Also last but not least, not ryeji but this Chaerlia au changed my life lmao. It's very silly and cracky lowkey but it's basically the basis of how I view Chaerlia in Jacket lmao

Not sure if you also want some fic recs but in case you do there's this unfinished masterpiece by rexwrites (still deluding myself that there'll be a chapter 3), everyone's fave ryeji fic that you've probs read but leaving it here just in case you haven't, and then everyone's other favourite ryeji fic and imo the undisputed goat of ryeji fanfics period

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in a ryeji fake dating au, who do you think initiates the situationship? like most of these aus start with someone in a bind, and they need the other person to do them this solid or whatever. is that ryujin or yeji??? i feel like the story would change so much depending on who initiates

Okay it's so fun that you're asking this cause I actually have a fake dating au jfhgh but I changed up some stuff and haven't really talked about it so this is a fun opportunity to. I actually had a really rough time with it cause you're completely right the dynamic totally changes depending on the initiator. I personally chose Yeji to be in the bind cause 1) I'm always writing Ryujin going through it 😭 she deserves to chill a bit hfhfg and 2) I wanted to write exes plot and I felt like Yeji fits what I had in mind really well?

At first, my idea had them as workmates but I changed them to reluctant roommates. They hate each other but they also really don’t so it's pretty common for Ryujin to pick Yeji up when Jisu ropes her into drinking somewhere. Enter Minju, Yeji's ex. The Yejbol-ing gets a billion times worse when Yeji's drunk so Minju assumes that Ryujin is the mysterious gf that Yeji was going on about in her drunken rambles. In her drunken rambles she also invited Minju to stay over during her two week job search in the city and now she's so embarrassed and so determined to prove she's super over Minju that she makes a deal with Ryujin to be pretend gfs.

Now if we were gonna go with Ryujin I feel like she's less likely to initiate? Yeji def wouldn’t do it on purpose but I feel like it could happen by mistake. Ryujin though I feel like is so opposed to involving people in her mess so at first maybe something happens, Yeji swoops in cause Ryujin's always helping her and then after Ryujin apologises and she kinda has to teach herself to ask for Yeji's help again? Even if it's complicated ass help like being her fake gf pff. Yeji's just really so happy that Ryujin is coming to ask her for help straight up that she doesn't consider her ginormous feelings for her and says yes

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Ryeji Day Poll (MAY 5TH)

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Thinking about Ryeji roomates perhaps I'll change fake dating to also include that I think it'd be fun. But also I'm doing a lot of thinking and 0 writing imma try hard and push myself tomorrow

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MASTERLIST

AUs

Secretary AU Yeji is Ryujin's secretary. They have an interesting work relationship.

Works what you want

College Omegaverse AU Omega Ryujin and Alpha Yeji falling in love, getting together and making it work.

Works acts of service HC posts Ryeji mating bite hcs

Fake Dating AU Yeji's ex is in town and she hasn't moved on.

Neighbours AU Ryeji are neighbours and they hate each other.

Rocker AU Ryujin returns from the UK and rejoins ITZY as their guitarist. Her past with Yeji becomes a problem

HC posts Ryeji rocker au 1 

Oneshots

when she looks at me

you’re a mean one

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