#the magic word is ✨ The Honorific ✨

[braceletofteeth]

Love In The Air (1x02) || Semantic Error (1x02)

[princesslachimolala]

The 8th Member of Bangtan 💜

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Chapter 7 - The Game Night👾🎮📺

Synopsis: you (yn 🦊) are the 8th member of Bangtan and get to enjoy making music, filming fun side projects for army and hanging out with your members

Pairings: platonic! Ot7 x gn! Reader

Warnings: mentions of a horror genre video game (nothing too graphic), yn struggles with nightmares and sleeping

A/n: slightly on the shorter side, pure comfort fluff fic of how I think a video game night with Bangtan would go… reader is gender neutral so read honorific’s as they apply to you

Enjoy!✨

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You put on your fluffiest, most oversized sweatshirt and slid on your fluffy BT21 slippers. You made your way to the dorms living-room but paused at your bedroom door, making the last minute decision to grab 8 face masks for you and the boys to use for some self care.

As promised Jungkook had set up the gaming system, Tae had gathered snacks, Yoongi was pouring (non-alcoholic) drinks and with a mound of pillows and blankets waiting on the couch, you and the boys were all set for game night.

“Time for your skin to glow!” you proclaimed smearing the jelly sheet mask onto Jimin’s face.

“Ah yn-ie it’s so cold” jimin complained with a pout.

“Beauty is pain Jiminie” you tsked him.

“But I’m already beautiful” he rebutted sassily.

“Yes you are oppa/hyung but you need to have a good skincare routine”

“Listen to your dongsaengie, they’re very wise Jimin-ah” Yoongi said, voice muffled through his already applied face mask flapping over his mouth.

Jungkook and Taehyung were playing Fall Guys in a 1v1 game, making all kinds of frustrated noises.

“Ahh noo don’t fall!!!”

“Yah they picked me up I can’t move!!”

“This level is too hard!!”

“What are you talking about hyung this is one of the easy levels”

At the end of their rounds Tae flunked out at the second level while Jungkook had made it to the semi final but missed the qualifier by one player.

“Aishhh” he complained setting the controller down, “so close”

“Who’s next?” Tae said waving his controller.

“Me!” you leaped up from your spot next to jimin to grab the controller.

“Yah” Tae said waving the controller teasingly high about his head, “what’s the magic word?”

“… borahae?” you said cutely, tilting your head.

Tae rolled his eyes, suppressing a smile.

“Yah here you go little one… don’t be so cheesy” he passed you the controller and pulled you back down to the couch snugly between him and Jimin.

“Oppa/hyung, play against me please!” you asked the room.

They all looked confusedly around the room.

“Wanna specify which oppa/hyung, your asking?” Joonie said huffing a laugh out.

“No” you said, shooting him a finger heart.

“Aish, don’t be a menace baby petal,” jin chided, “here Jungkook let me have the controller”

“Here you go hyung”

You and Jin started your game. First with a relatively easy round of making the fall guys slide around and jump over the moving walls, then the next round got more tedious.

You fell off about 20 times and eventually lost the round, huffing with frustration as Jin qualified and you didn’t.

Tae was snickering next to you watching the replay of your fall guy dropping off the edge of the track.

“Yah your were just as bad as I was, Kim Taehyung”

“Aish not the full name” Jimin laughed.

“Dongsaengie’s have no respect these days” Tae said poking your side and shaking his head in faux disappointed, making you squeak.

“Pass the Doritos kookie?” you asked.

“Sure, noona/hyung”

“See, the maknae still knows his honorific’s…”

“Yahhhh….” Jin did his characteristic shout, startling everyone in the room as his character fell and he got disqualified from the round.

“Aish none of you are good at this game, let me have a go” Yoongi said.

While Jimin and Yoongi played the round, you giggled and watched the screen as they were proven just how annoying that game was. You also set about putting the rest of the boys face masks on.

“What’s the scent, yn-ie?” Namjoon asked as you smoothed the corners around his nose, “it’s so nice”

“Mint choco” you smiled, winding him up.

“What??!?”

“Pffft, ahahaha”

“Ah joonie they got you there”

“Aish I didn’t believe there was a mint choco face mask anyway” he said indignantly as the boys wound him up too.

“There’s lots of flavours these days Joonie”

“Flavours, yn-ie? I hope you don’t eat face masks?”

“Aish Hobi” you giggled, “you know what I mean”

“Why is my face mask silver I look like a robot” Hobi complained.

“You’re the Hobitron 3000, oppa/hyung” you giggled.

“Yeah yeah…”

“You’re in quite the joking mood tonight baby petal” Jin said.

“I’m just happy that it’s our night off, oppa/hyung” you sighed.

“Tell me about it, my feet are killing me from all that dance practise” Tae said, “anyone want to rub them for me?”

He stuck his large bare foot out towards you, Jin and Jimins faces and your all grimaced, wriggling away.

“Aish Tae!”

“Put the dogs away Taehyungie”

“They’re only feet guys wow”

“Has anyone noticed that I made it to the final round?” Yoongi asked the room monotonously.

“Ah well done hyung” Jungkook said now having a dig into the bag of popcorn.

“Okay Joonie’s and Hobi’s turn then we can play Mario Kart right?” you directed the question towards Kook and Tae since it was their gaming set.

“Ooh yes we can play teams!” Jungkook said excitedly, “wanna be on my team noona/hyung?”

“Yes Kook, I’ll be on your team”

“What about my team?” Jimin pouted into your face.

“Let’s do maknaes vs hyungs” you suggested.

“Yesss” Tae agreed giving you a thwacking high five.

“Ow Tae now I’m not gonna be able to hold the controller properly… are you trying to sabotage the maknaes?”

“No no!” he looked imploringly at you, “sorry little one”

He pulled you round your middle to sit back against him, inhaling your scent. Everyone looked at the two of you lovingly.

Now the thing about your relationship with the boys and their relationship with each other was that you could be affectionate without it being weird or stepping over a line. The idol world could get lonely and you only really had each other at the end of the day. You could argue one minute (seriously or not) and then be close again the next.

This was especially the case with you and Tae. You were just younger than him and just older than Jungkook although Jungkook was definitely more little brother material, whereas Tae acted like the teasing big brother/best friend type. The rest of your oppas/hyungs treated you and the youngest maknae dotingly, joining in on your jokes and antics now and again.

After several rounds of Mario kart, the maknaes won overall and the hyungs decided to depart to bed. All except Hobi who volunteered to stay up and make sure no one got into too much mischief but he promptly fell asleep on the couch.

He was in such a deep sleep that he didn’t notice you switching games to something a bit more scary.

“Dead by daylight anyone?” Tae suggested scrolling through the game catalogue.

“Oohh yes put it on taehyungie hyung” Jungkook said.

“But what if Hobi hyung wakes up? He’ll give us into trouble for playing it with yn” Jimin said.

“I’m not a child Minie, I can play a silly game”

“Oh really? What about last time?”

“What time?”

“The time you slept on Jin hyungs floor for 3 nights after we played it because you were so freaked out” jimin popped an eyebrow.

“That was a year ago”

“It was this summer yn-ie” Tae reminded you.

“Thanks Tae” you said through gritted teeth.

“You’re welcome” he said throwing you a finger heart.

“I promise Minie, I’ll be fineeee” you smiled trying to look convincing.

“If you get scared I don’t mind you sleeping on my floor noona/hyung” Jungkook said nonchalantly.

“That’s very generous kook” you giggled.

“Okay let’s play”

You had to admit that even though you weren’t TERRIFIED of the game, the background music and character design was especially unsettling. Especially with the tense objective of the game, trying to lurk around the abandoned dark yard evading the creepy looking villain from capturing your character. And the fact the dorm itself was dark from it being nighttime outside and the boys preferential low lighting inside.

You let the boys go first - Jungkook won his game but Minie and Tae failed theirs. Then they gave you the controller. After first putting on the game, that was their second mistake.

The minute your character started to get chased by the villain and the sound of the thumping heart and screaming played loud over the speakers, you gave a loud squeak (well, a noise halfway between a squeak and a shriek).

“Wha- what’s wrong…” a sleepy Hobi rose up to his elbows with eyes half open from being alerted awake.

“Nothing hyung everything’s fine, go back to sleep” Jimin hushed.

But Hobi had already wipes his eyes and sat up, looking around for the danger. His eyes landed on the massive flat screen playing the game which had been put back onto the game menu now that your character got captured. Then he took a look at your guilty faces.

“Alright whose idea was this?” he asked unimpressed but too tired to go full pelt.

Silence. Guilty silence.

“Ah… Hobah… it was my idea” you said eventually and sheepishly.

“You sure it wasn’t one of your brothers here?” he asked with arms crossed and eyebrow arched.

“No, no oppa/hyung… and really it’s fine, I can handle horror games now” you tried to convince him.

“Mhmm” he sounded decidedly unconvinced, “so I suppose you don’t mind me telling your oldest oppa/hyung about this tomorrow?”

The boys paled a bit and so did you. They and you knew how protective Jin could be over his two youngest members.

“Ah well I don’t think Jinnie…” you struggled to find the words, “… he might be annoyed so maybe don’t tell him?”

“Mhmm” Hobi sized you all up again, standing like a bunch of mischievous children even though you were all adults (the hyungs could just get overprotective of you all even now).

“Well I think it’s late enough and we do have work tomorrow, so everyone off to bed” Hobi shut the gaming system off and ushered you all in the direction of the bedrooms.

Usually there would be huffs of complaints at being sent to bed these days but no one protested.

But you wanted to protest. Now lying in the dark of your room you could still see the game monsters face and envisioned it coming into your room, a dark bulging shadow coming to sweep you away. And the screams and the heart thumping sound effects. It was all very unsettling.

You tried to scroll through Instagram and tiktok, play some relaxing music even but nothing worked to settle you. So you resorted to the thing you said you wouldn’t.

BunKook💪🏽:

🦊: you still awake koo?

🐰: yeah noona/hyung, you okay?

🦊: soooo… I might be a bit freaked out again

🐰: aww no noona/hyung! I’m sorry was it the game?!

🦊: yeah😅

🦊: is your floor by any chance still available?

🐰: I won’t make you sleep on the floor… come do top and tail

🦊: are you sure???

🐰: yes!!

🦊: absolutely positive?✋🏼

🐰: yes…✋🏼

🦊: it won’t annoy you?

🐰: noona/hyung…

🦊: yeah?🥹

🐰: get in here

🦊: thanks koooo I’m omw 🧍🏻‍♀️

You shuffled down the hall to kooks room, blanket, phone and water bottle in hand.

He peeled back the bed covers for you to slip in and he switched round to the foot of the bed, giving you the head end, though you protested. But you were both about ready to fall asleep anyway.

“Night yn-ie” he yawned.

“Night koo”

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(Next time on The 8th Member of Bangtan)

“I told you not to play that again unless you want to have nightmares baby petal!”

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A/n: a chilled out, hopefully enjoyable fic… I added the tiniest teaser known to tumblr for literally no reason but next instalment of this fic series is coming soon soon, it’ll fun a fun one, back to filming for run bts I think? Maybe some drama with the shady staff member? We’ll see💖

[chaninfused]

hi furat! i loved the changbin so much!! i was re-re-bingeing your masterlist, and i just wanted to ask, how do you incorporate mythology and culture into your fics so well? i’ve tried so hard to do it in my own writing as a way to overcome cultural disconnect as a desi-american, but it never works out. i always feel like no one would read it, or it would be too weird or unexplainable. your world-building is always immaculate. you are the only blog i’ve seen on stayblr do this and you always execute it flawlessly. do you have any tips? (also, happy AAPI month!) -a distressed writer

hello! first off, thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the changbin fic 🤍✨

second, regarding your question:

I just mimic what I've seen be done in published books. so, I'd recommend finding a book that incorporates the culture you want to include, and seeing how the author did it.

there's a very specific balance that you would want to achieve when world-building. you wouldn't want the world to overwhelm the plot, especially when it's something new and unfamiliar. this is why I personally rely on graphics to introduce the world and its major traits, so that going into the story, I can focus on the subtle intricacies. so, if you're able to make graphics, I feel like that would help in the world-building process quite much.

language is also important when you want to include culture into your writing. throwing in simple words into the dialogue and narration helps immerse the reader into the world you’ve depicted. things that could be guessed (almost) without having to refer to a glossary because again, we don’t want to overwhelm and scare readers. for example: names of certain objects that relate to said culture (clothing, weaponry, food, etc), greetings, honorifics and titles (mister, miss, prince, etc), exclamations (yes, no, etc), and so on.

world building is intimidating when you face it head-on, so I would suggest breaking it down to smaller elements and noting them. I know it’s tedious work, but it helps massively. for example, these are the things I work on when I begin world-building: locations (figuring out names, terrain, history, etc), magic systems (is there magic in this world? how does it work? its types, its history, and all that), culture and history (how do these people act? are there any beliefs that base their society? any folklore?), clothing and items and food (how would the characters’ clothing reflect what we determined for culture? what kind of food do these people eat considering their environment?), characters (what roles do they play? their relationships, their motives, their backgrounds), and whatever else that needs to be worked on (for example: maybe there’s a competition so what are its rules and why does it exist? language, perhaps?). when you put all these smaller blocks together, you end up building a bigger world.

I know I rambled a lot and I don’t know if my advice would be of any use, but just know that people will read. so don’t worry! and don’t overthink it 😤 I’m sure there are many out there who would appreciate a fic that incorporates their culture!