#sm rookies kun

[ggmarchwi]

every 96-liner neo apparently has their own 00-line headache. kun has yangyang, doyoung has haechan, ten has yangyang AND haechan (pre-wayv), now shohei, who hasn't even debuted yet, has shotaro already trying him

[music-obsess]

Happy 4 Years With WayV

It’s been four years since you guys officially debut and I love you guys. I miss having you guys as 7 and I wish Lucas could comeback. But for the time being I wish the six of you the best of luck in everything you do. You guys have remained my favorite unit of nct since the day you debut and that’s not going to change. I will wait for you guys to return as 7 and if that never happens, Lucas you will have my support in whatever you do next.

[techtechonmymind]

[nouvely]

Q: What is difficult about living in a group?

[markicantwait]

I'm watching the nct lastart and I'm very pleased with some of the trainees there. Even tho Sion is already confirmed to debut along with Yushi, Sion has something... he remains me a lot of Mark and Kun for a reason haha.

A haven't learn the names of all the guys, but Jungmin (?) Riku, Anderson, Haetsu (?) Are mi favorites for now.

[moonjobf]

kun💚

[p1ngx1e]

My favorite peoples in the whole world

[thesingingrevolution]

this is history

[haechanhues]

pairing : ot22 x reader. sm rookies! shohei/eunseok/seunghan x reader. sungtaro x reader.

genre : fluff + angst + suggestive content throughout. 

warnings : suggestive content from a certain point. implications of bullying, swearing. toxic relationships. further warnings at every preview, written chapter etc please tell me if there are warnings I may have missed. everything in this fic is fictional. STORY COMPLETED BEFORE TAEIL’S REMOVAL SO HE MIGHT BE MENTIONED IN A COUPLE CHAPTERS ESP JOHNNY’S

summary : in which a girl farewells every boy she’s ever loved (or at least had romantic feelings for) in order to prove that her feelings for one particular boy are very real and unwavering. 

status : completed

taglist : @matchahyuck @haisuken @dinonuguaegi @replayenthusiast @90s-belladonna @scftharu @ahnneyong @liliansun

main masterlist

author’s note : now pls bear with me, this is kind of a concept that rattles me a little bit so pay attention to the previews which are listed as ‘phones’. timestamps aren’t necessarily important unless stated. i’ve had this idea in my head for 3+ years now and i've written about 13 chapters and i just cannot hold on any longer so here it is. 

EDITED : I will be deleting taeil’s chapter and because he is mentioned in another chapter or two he will be a warning.

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prologue :

P H O N E (1)

chapter one : hong seunghan

chapter two : osaki shotaro

chapter three : REMOVED

chapter four : matsushima shohei

chapter five : jung jaehyun

P H O N E (2)

chapter six : chittaphon leechaiyapornkul

chapter seven : park jisung

chapter eight : lee jeno

chapter nine : lee taeyong

chapter ten : jung sungchan

P H O N E (3)

chapter eleven : yuta nakamato

P H O N E (6)

chapter twelve : wong kunhang

chapter thirteen : kim doyoung

P H O N E (7)

chapter fourteen : song eunseok

chapter fifteen : na jaemin

chapter sixteen : lee donghyuck

chapter seventeen : mark lee

chapter eighteen : zhong chenle

chapter nineteen : liu yangyang

chapter twenty : johnny suh

chapter twenty one : dong sicheng

P H O N E (8)

chapter twenty two : qian kun

chapter twenty three : xiao dejun

chapter twenty four : kim jungwoo

chapter twenty five : huang renjun

P H O N E (9)

epilogue : you, again

author's confessions + thank you wrap up

[wongyuseok]

Qian Kun in Every Era 01.01.2024 🐻 HAPPY KUN DAY!! 💚

sm rookies ✦ nct 2018 empathy ✦ regular ✦ dream launch ✦ take off ✦ moonwalk ✦ love talk ✦ turn back time ✦ bad alive ✦ nct 2020 resonance pt. 1 ✦ from home ✦ nct 2020 resonance pt. 2 ✦ kick back ✦ back to you ✦ nct 2021 universe ✦ miracle ✦ rain day ✦ diamonds only ✦ phantom ✦ nct 2023 golden age ✦ nct nation ✦ no one but you + invincible ✦ on my youth ✦ poppin love ✦ marine turtle

[nct-kiss]

LILIAN LOCKWOOD

( face claim: xiang hanzhi [ actress ] ) ( voice claim: lea cota )

Stage Name: Lilia

Birth Name: Lilian Lockwood

Nationality: American

Position: Main Dancer, Vocalist

Birthday: December 21st, 1999

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Height: 170 cm ( 5'5 )

Weight: 59 kg (130 lbs)

Blood Type: AB

Representative Emoji: 🍋

Instagram: lil_lockedwoods

LILIA FACTS

She was born in Wuhan, China.

She grew up in San Francisco.

Education: The Urban School of San Francisco, School of Performing Arts.

She was adopted when she was almost a year old.

She has a brother.

Her adoptive parents are both doctors.

She said that she tried reaching out to her birth mother but she was denied contact.

Her favourite colour is sky blue.

Nicknames: Locky, Lily, Woodie, Yingying, Lannie, Lia

She is part of NCT KISS and WayV.

Kun gave her Chinese name which is Lanying.

Motto: What's meant to be will always find a way.

She prefers lemonades over coffee.

She has two guinea pigs called Tinks and Bubbles.

She likes listening to Lofi music whenever she is travelling.

She shares a room with Koyo.

Her hobby is photography.

She was visiting Korea for vacation when she was scouted.

She and Minhee didn't get along when they first met.

During trainee days, she tried stabbing Haechan with a pencil because he was annoying her.

She and Mark became friends over their dislike for Haechan during the trainee days.

She was part of SM Rookies.

She's allergic to seafood.

She doesn't like going to the gym but goes along to sit and keep her members company.

She says that the KISS dorm is like a petting zoo with the amount of pets everyone has.

She has Asthma.

She says that she used to be very sick when she was young and that's why her parents were scared to let her move to Korea.

She says she's the least athletic in the group.

She says she doesn't want to be born again, but if she was, she wants to be a tree.

Her adoptive father passed away in 2020.

taglist: @mosviqu @colourlikechampagne

[music-obsess]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUN

Than you for all that you’ve done for WayV. SM does not deserve you and I hope you guys have a very successful future. I wish to see you all happy and together I’m the near future.

Some of my favorite pictures of you. I love you and happy birthday you deserve the world.

[techtechonmymind]

[hotasfahrenheit]

So you wanna get into NCT eh?

Let's do this.

NCT - Neo Culture Technology - is naturally an intimidating group to get into - there's twenty members but there have been members added and people have left and there's another group set to debut and there's subgroups and everything seems all over the place all the time, but if you're willing to jump into it all it's so absolutely incredibly worth it and less complicated than it seems at first! Let me walk you through some basics- I'll do more posts to get deeper into each group later, but this will be a primer for getting you started.

Where to start? NCT officially debuted in April 2016 with fifteen members after promoting for a while as trainees and with other trainees (including future members of Red Velvet) under the SM Rookies banner. Part of the original plan for NCT as announced at their debut was to continuously add members with no end in sight, and to expand into a group with members from all over the world who could promote in different areas at the same time. This... didn't really come to fruition ultimately, tho they do have members from seven(ish) countries. (Taiwan is a free country y'all, that makes seven. Macau is a "special administrative region of China", that's the ish.) There will be one more unit added to NCT soon, the final new set of members, but this post is going to proceed with only the current groups and subunits since The Babies (as I like to call them) aren't officially debuted yet and I don't feel like explaining them here since this is already going to be long enough. Either way, NCT's unlimited expansion has officially ended which hopefully removes that bit of intimidation.

Now on to some music!

The first song and MV that NCT released was under the broad NCT U umbrella, and started with The 7th Sense. (Wait what the heck is NCT U, you ask? I'll get there, trust me, keep reading)

The 7th Sense unit was comprised of Taeyong, Mark, Jaehyun, Doyoung, and Ten, five of the fifteen debut members.

The next day, NCT U released Without You, sung by Doyoung, Taeil, and Jaehyun, so two boys we saw already plus a new one.

The full list of members (that I and no one else expects you to remember at this point) at debut were Taeil, Taeyong, Johnny, Yuta, Ten, Doyoung, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, Haechan, Jaemin, Jeno, Renjun, Chenle, and Jisung.

Since debut, members have been added, growing NCT to 23, and then a few left, dropping it back to 20. In 2018, Kun, Jungwoo and Lucas were added; in 2019, Xiaojun, Hendery, and Yangyang were added; in 2020, Shotaro and Sungchan were added. In 2023, Lucas was removed after being on hiatus for almost two years because of a scandal, and then Shotaro and Sungchan were pulled from NCT and re-debuted in SM's new boy group, RIIZE. (No, we're not going to get into my opinions or emotions about any of this right now, yes, I have a lot of opinions about both things and a lot of emotions about SungTaro. Maybe in a different post if people really wanna know.)

So what do I mean when I call NCT U an umbrella? Is that what the U stands for? No, not really, tho it's a handy way to think of things! U stands for United (or Unlimited, depending on who you ask) and is a flexible title that allows them to release songs using any members of the whole group. This lets them pick from a pool of currently 20 different members with different skills to best fit the concept of a song, and has allowed them to do things like release songs with multiple lead vocalists, songs with a collection of rappers, etc. It's super flexible- some U songs have only two members performing, some have nine, etc. (Once you become familiar with all of the members, the U songs become a lot of fun when it comes to seeing who gets mixed and matched for projects!)

Overall, don't worry too much about NCT U yet. Having the basic knowledge that it could be anyone is really enough to get you going and you can come back to all of the NCT U releases later. NCT has released four albums now as a full group (Empathy, Resonance, Universe, and Golden Age) that have both fixed subunit songs and NCT U songs with mixed members so there's a bunch of fun with all that later once you've gotten more of the basics down.

The key to getting into NCT is splitting it into the sub-units, of which there are currently four, including U.

NCT U - flexible subunit of varying combined members

NCT 127 - 9 member fixed unit, concept being that they're focused on Seoul (127 is the longitude of Seoul)

NCT Dream - 7 member fixed unit, original concept involving the fact that they were the seven youngest members at debut

WayV - 6 member fixed unit, releasing music primarily in Mandarin with a focus on promotion in China

The easiest thing to do if you want to take on learning all 20 members (plus the 3 former members which are at least in past MVs and content so you'll come across them either way) is to pick one of the three fixed units (NCT 127, NCT Dream, or WayV) and learn the members of that group before moving on to the next. NCT 127 and NCT Dream also share two members, which gives you a little leg up when you get to going from one to the other!

I'll make posts getting into each group more in depth soon to talk about members and with my fave songs and recommendations etc, so for each of the fixed units, I'll put in here their debut plus a recent song so you can get a grasp of how each group has grown and changed.

NCT 127 was the first of the subunits to debut, releasing Firetruck in July 2016.

127 debuted with Taeil, Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark and Haechan. The fashion and hair in this MV is uhhhhhh wild? Yeah we'll go with wild.

127 has gone through some lineup changes over the years as they've changed and grown- they added Johnny, Doyoung, and Jungwoo, and then Winwin went on indefinite 127-hiatus when he joined WayV in 2019.

Their most recent release was in October of this year and is so good that it managed to make it into my top 5 songs of this year on Spotify in slightly over a month so uhhhhh yeah here's Fact Check-

NCT 127 is known for having music that's a little more experimental and sometimes just straight up weird, so you'll see a lot of mixed opinions of them on the internet (I've seen people calling some/all of their songs just noise music) but they're ultimately like most kpop groups and have released stuff in all kinds of styles with different mixed influences, so it's worth listening to at least a few things before forming any kinds of opinions about their music if you don't like the first song or two you hear. I mean. It's worth it EXTRA if you do like thier music obviously. Anyway.

Next up!

NCT Dream debuted not long after NCT 127 in August 2016 as a bunch of ACTUAL BABIES, aged between 14-17 at debut. Yeah that's right, Chenle and Jisung were both 14. They debuted with the now iconic Chewing Gum, that involves some wild hoverboard choreography that isn't shown as much in the MV but was probably more dangerous than a bunch of kids should have been doing on stages all the time (especially one time outdoors in the rain???), but they all survived so I guess it's fine?

WHAT A BUNCH OF ADORABLE BABIES.

NCT Dream debuted with Mark, Haechan, Renjun, Jeno, Jaemin, Chenle, and Jisung. Yes, Mark and Haechan are also in the NCT 127 list! They are workaholics who can't stop won't stop basically. (Yes, we also all worry about their health. It's A Thing.)

The original concept behind Dream was that it would be the youngest members of NCT, and when members grew old enough they would graduate out, and new younger members of NCT would be added in turn as members were added to NCT. The only element of this that was ever put into practice was graduating out Mark in December 2018 as he was the eldest member; no new members were added however, and eventually the whole plan was scrapped and Mark was re-added to Dream in 2020 (back where he BELONGS) and Dream officially became a fixed unit like 127 and WayV.

The boys are now between the ages of 21-24, and their music has grown a lot as they've grown out of their cute concepts and into more mature looks and sounds. Their most recent release was in July of this year, ISTJ.

They're still known for having a more youthful, optimistic vibe, and there's something incredibly uplifting and exuberant about them in general at basically all times. These boys have been together for half of their lives at this point and really grown up together and- yeah I have a lot of emotions about Dream that I'll save for later.

Moving on!

WayV time! WayV officially debuted in 2019 with the Mandarin version of Regular.

(NCT 127 released both Korean and English versions of Regular as well, and they are the last NCT 127 MVs that feature Winwin before he became 127-inactive and became fully active with WayV instead.)

WayV debuted with Winwin, Kun, Ten, Xiaojun, Hendery, Yangyang, and Lucas. Lucas has since been removed from NCT and WayV and the other six members have continued to promote as a six member group.

WayV has hit some snags, especially with things out of their control like the pandemic- they live in Seoul when they're not promoting or touring, and travel into and out of China has been difficult for obvious reasons for the past few years, which has made it harder for them to be pushing into the Chinese music industry when they haven't been able to travel in China as freely as they could have under other circumstances and couldn't do things like concerts or fanmeets. They have started touring and promoting more heavily in Southeast Asia more recently, and some of the members like Winwin and Ten have spent time in China over the past few years working on things like acting in dramas, participating in variety shows, or judging on Chinese dance competition shows as well. Xiaojun is also currently a host on one of the the Korean weekly music shows, SBS's The Show.

WayV's most recent comeback was actually last month but I'm gonna use their comeback from the VERY end of last year (Dec 28) in this post because I'm still obsessed with this song-

WayV mix a lot of different elements into their music and are the most multilingual of the groups- since they're based in Seoul, they've often performed on the weekly Korean music shows with English versions of their songs, and they have the NCT member who speaks the most languages in Ten, who is Thai, and speaks Thai, Mandarin, Korean, English, and Japanese, as well as multiple members who speak four (Hendery and Xiaojun both speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and English; Yangyang speaks Mandarin, English, Korean and German). They also have Kun, who is both a licensed airplane pilot and licensed sky diver (who promoted Phantom by skydiving with a banner for it) as well as being a music producer AND the only member of NCT to have a university degree. Basically WayV is a bunch of overachievers who deserve the whole world.

So..... that's all the subunits! I hope this breakdown gave you a place to start with. Feel free to use this as a base to go look up more information about each subunit, or watch the videos I included here and the ones I linked throughout in the text in various places to get started. I will also make some more posts about each subunit to get into more about the members and more songs by each so you can hang out and wait for those too!

Related things to come from this? More NCT posts, possibly more kpop posts in general like this? I've talked to a few people about how to get into NCT in basics, and this post is dedicated to @catatonicrainbow most specifically as being the most recent internet pal to want to get into NCT and being the one who finally got me to make some kind of thing like this. Meanwhile, @poetry-protest-pornography and I have been discussing starting a kpop podcast where I teach her about different groups as my knowledge is vast and deep and has been accumulating in my brain since around 2008 and she's MUCH newer to kpop than me, and I often infodump at her already about various groups. So like. Now that we're both talking about that publicly I guess we really gotta do it. Maybe I'll make companion posts on here to go with the podcast? Or something. We'll see. But there will be more of this stuff coming! So hopefully if you've read this far and enjoyed this content, you'll be excited for more? Whee!

Also like yes obviously I know other people have probably made these kinds of posts and there's videos and podcasts and etc out about this kind of stuff already, but I figure since everyone processes information differently, having multiple sources for this kind of information and different ways it's presented will probably be helpful to SOMEONE so I'm gonna make the content I feel like making either way. :) Cheers!

[So you wanna get into NCT eh? 1 | 2 | 3]

[dojae-huh]

I have this looming suspicion that Taeyong, Doyoung, Jaehyun, and Haechan live in the same apartment complex. It seems like Taeyong is living separately on his own, but still in the same building as DoJaeHyuck. Judging from Haechan's words in their recent Home Not Alone content where he said that sometimes it's better living with members than with family, he is not living with both of his father and mother's families. He probably only stays over during weekends, but he does not live with them. The reasons why I suspect he lives with DoJae are 1) The sudden closeness of JaeHyuck. In their 6th anniversary content, it was revealed that it was JaeHyuck who went out the most together to eat. That was also the year where Doyoung was busy with solo schedules, paving the way for Jae and Hyuck to bond together and go out. 2) Although Do and Hyuck are already close, they are definitely closer than ever lately. IDK if I'm making sense with that, it's like they just truly see each other as brothers. Also, sometimes when you look at the three of them when all of 127 are together, you can kinda feel that they form a clique, like a little family XD Haechan likes posting pictures of either DoJae or the three of them. DoJae are living together. Jaehyun has been jokingly mentioning non-stop about Doyoung's "pants", and if I remember correctly, someone said it's because Doyoung does not wear pants in the dorm, he only wears an oversized shirt and boxers. Why would Jaehyun even know that if they're not living together and does not frequently see Doyoung in their home walking around only with boxers lol. Not to mention they often share the same stuff, often buys the same brands and couple items. Sometimes they are also caught wearing each other's stuff. Also, another gut feeling, that Jaehyun is actually close to Gongmyung. Fans like to play it off as Jae having a little crush because he's always smiley when talking about Gongmyung, but I see it in a way that Jae adores him as his older brother, that once he started being with Doyoung, he sees Gongmyung as a familial extension, like he finally also has an older brother. Jaehyun's expression everytime he comes up kinda made me suspect that. Of course, you won't hear from either of DoJae that, it would be the equivalent of slipping, so they run with the story that it's Johnny and Jungwoo that Gongmyung knows, when in reality, I bet he is more familiar with Jaehyun. Sorry if I'm rambling nonsense, cause when you follow them closely, you would notice crumbs and hints every now and then, and suddenly you'll be hit with a Eureka moment that things are finally making sense, lol. But feel free to refute any of this! Sometimes I think I am too delusional already but there is always this gut feeling that I cannot ignore XD

Did you read one of my older posts on the topic or did you come up with all arguments yourself? Because you repeat what I said in 2020-2021 verbatim, heh. Different people, same conclusions (deduction works).

I'll make a quick recap for newer fans. (Correct me if there are mistakes)

SM Rookies lived in two dorms: one for future 127, one for dreamies and those who didn't belong to a unit. So Ten and Kun lived with Dreamies. WinWin lived with 127.

Every year or two members switched rooms. Only Yuta and Taeil lived together for a very long time (+WinWin as the 3d roommate when he was with 127). I remember that Do lived with Taeil, Johnny, Mark. I don't remember if he shared a room with Tae or not. Jae and Yuta (2016). Jae and Johnny shared (2017).

In 2018 it was Jae+Hyuk and Do+Mark. However, highly probable they switched rooms after JaeDo came out to the group (i.e. in summer). There were many TMIs and slip ups hinting at that.

In second half of 2019 all 127 neos moved to new dorms (Dreamies and WayV as well, Chenle lives in his own house). They lived on two floors (5th and 10th), fans got room tours, lives, it was pretty public. Afterwards neos started to move out without announcing it loudly. Some left first, some only when the lease was over.

Officially it was: 5th - Do(+manager), Tae, JN+Hyuk, 10th - Yuta+Taeil, Jae+Woo, Mark(+manager). TMIs hinted that Woo spent most of the time with Mark, while Jae spent many nights on 5th. And that there were no managers. Johnny moved out first, then Yuta. Others, seemingly, waited till the end of the lease.

There were a lot of troubles with sasaengs gathering around the dorm building and bothering neighbours.

Now, back to the present. As you said, anon, it is highly plausible several neos live at the same apartment building/complex. 1) Convenient for a pick up by the manager, 2) the building needs to be close enough to SM HQ, 3) well secured, have many rooms for lease, 4) JaeDo and Hyuk have the wish to live together. There were rumours Tae and Jae had flats in the same building from ssg.

Jaehyun was introduced to the family. He is even close with Kim cousins, of course GM knows him well.

Haechan and Doyoung, Johnny and Doyoung provide a good contrast.

In the last live (7th years anniversary of the two joining 127) JN asked Do how long ago he bought himself a synth (to learn playing piano). It means JN not only doesn't live with Do, he doesn't visit his house. In the past few years Johnny often complained Do didn't tell him news about himself, Do replied that he wrote them in the 127 group chat. They talked about not seeing each other for several days during breaks between comebacks.

On the other hand, Do remembers Hyuk asked him to live together when they are old as a recent TMI ("Home not alone" series), something to share with the others as they weren't present. Do says to Yuta that he can rest, Do will make Hyuk feed him meet instead. It's Hyuk's chore to help with cooking and everything else.

Jaehyun had a synth in his room on the 10th he brought from home. If JaeDo lived together permanently, Do wouldn't need to buy a new one for himself. They also can't live together, only two of them, officially. Meanwhile, owning two separate flats nearby and basically using one most of the time is the classic way for gay couples in Asia.

JaeDo continue to match clothes often for dance practices, trips. And that is easier to do together as a morning ritual.

[winwintea]

I got what I expected from the homework helping scenario. Let's be real none of them would help. They would just go ''Babe, you don't need school, you don't need a degree, you're gonna be fine without it, look at me😌 I'm doing great" BRO WTF IF I WERE TALENTED AND PRETTY LIKE Y'ALL I WOULD HAVE LEFT SCHOOL TOO.

No offence but most of them didn't even finish high school. Only renjun and chenle graduated from Beijing contemporary music academy so ig that counts. But yeah all of them dropped out . I mean I'm not directing this to them but most of the idols (imsorryimsorryimsorry) didn't even pass highschool. Like it's necessary to graduate yk. I hope they atleast pass that stage. AGAIN I'm not hating on anyone but just stating this. Sorry again for ranting live I've been thinking about this for sometime now.

-🍄

NOOO BC THEY LITERALLY WOULD… like realistically some of them would try their best… but they really couldn’t understand… AND SO TFYE IF I HAD YOUR FACE CARD I COULD BUY EVERYTHING AND NOT GO TO SCHOOL TOO BUT UNFORTUNATELY I CANT SING OR DANCE 🤗🤗 and i’m not even like… sm standards of pretty… like 🥹🥹

ITS FUN TO IMAGINE LIKE 🤓☝️ dreamies though… like renjun and chenle could definitely… QHJDJSJAJKDKS

i think most idols have stated how hard it is to do both school and be an idol as a full time job… and it was especially hard for the dreamies since they were so young 😭

jaemin has expressed interest in going back to school i think? i forgot where but i watched something where he said he wanted to, and it’s not like they have a choice either 😔 i hope they do eventually get some sort of education in the future

did mark graduate??? WHEN DID HE BECOME A TRAINEE I DON’T KNOW MY MARK LEE LORE

most of this can be blamed on our number one public enemy SM ENTERTAINMENT! bc if you debut the dreamies that young there’s no opportunity for them to learn… and then there’s kun who wasn’t part of nct until like 2018 so even though he did join sm rookies the same year he started his bachelors… he had so much free time to finish anyways cause SM WASNT DEBUTING HIM 🤗 (although he might’ve asked not to debut early cause he wanted to finish idk… regardless i think about this a lot too)

AND NO WORRIES FOR RANTING I LOVE HEARING YOUR RANTS AND RANTING MYSELF AS WELL <33 and your claims are all absolutely valid do not apologize lmaoo