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Woo!ah!

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Grupo:woo!ah!

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Reader x Kabal- Say Uncle!

I wanted to write a way for the reader and Kabal to be in Liu Kang's new era. When Liu Kang is gathering Kombatants and Titans for the final battle, Liu Kang calls upon Y/n and Kabal. Y/n has a power similar to Raven (teen titans), is also niece to Johnny Cage (daughter of that rotten brother of his :) ). However- your mother was NOT from earthrealm, which Johnny will learn. Post-burn Kabal (but under different circumstances, kind of like how Kenshi was blinded under different circumstances).

Some fluff, some humor.

Warning: swearing, whats new- I cant write without it. Abuse, family member death.

Let us begin-----

You were sleeping comfortably with your husband. You were used to the lull and huff of his respirator throughout the night, his arm lazily draped over your waist.

You lived rather quietly- two former, reformed Black Dragon members. You managed to be able to stay in this last apartment for a while now, although you both know they'd somehow find you again. A brawl, relocation, the same song and dance. You both hoped eventually they would give up. After all, between you and Kabal, you managed to kick enough ass to walk away unscathed each time. If anything, you weren't worth their resources or time, it was all a matter of pride at this point.

Tonight was restless for some reason; you had a feeling something was off. You kept waking up on and off before nodding back. Had they found you again?

You heard whispering in the hallway and an hushed "SHHH!" The moonlight caught a few figures gliding through the hallway. You shifted up immediately.

Kabal did not even stir. For fuck's sake, if there was an intruder- you'd be dead. Well, not really. You could easily hold your own. It was just the principle of it all.

Within seconds you had a knife, formed from your own chaos magic, directly at the leading figure's throat.

"wHOOAH WOOAH. Y/n, its Uncle Johnny!"

"What the fuck are you doing! I could have killed you." You said lowly, "In seconds," The last words containing particular venom. "Also, how did you get in here?!"

Johnny flicked on the lights in the room, then gestured to the hallway. Following behind Johnny was a figure with glowing eyes, causing you to take a step aback. You take a quick look back at your husband, who still hadn't awoken. With an eyeroll, you shoved him awake.

"Shiiwhat..." with a quick glance of the situation, Kabal was up, hookswords in hand.

"Babe, babe...put it down. Its okay," you looked at Johnny, "I think."

The glowing-eyed figure was now in your room. You and Kabal shared a look of confusion before looking back at said figure.

"Forgive the intrusion, that was your uncle's idea. He swore you would be used to his...rudeness. We would not be here if the circumstances were not dire."

You and Kabal raised an eyebrow in unison.

"I am Liu Kang, the God of Fire and the Keeper of Time." You internally gestured for Liu Kang to continue on about what this was all about. Johnny, of course, was looking around the room, completely ignoring the conversation at hand. Typical, you internally muttered.

Liu Kang began to go on a spiel about how the timelines were in danger, which was never an intended outcome of the current timeline which he created, annnnndddd this timeline he created you contemporarily inhabited and it could be destroyed in mere hours.

"We need your help in the coming battle. You and your husband," Liu Kang looked at Kabal, in familiarity almost. Liu Kang gave you a similar look, as though he knew you already knew more than you were letting on. The silence was interrupted by Johnny, of course.

"Husband?! Since when did you marry crispy?"

"Call him that again and I'll have your head, family or not. Second, we eloped. Can't exactly have a ceremony when..." You dropped off. You didn't feel the need to explain your Black Dragon past. Johnny knew anyways, apparent from the sad look that graced his normally cheerful features.

"Also look at this nerdfest." Johnny gestured to you and Kabal's collection of movie posters, figurines, and comic books decorated the room. "You and crispy were definitely made for each other."

Within a second, a black hole appeared underneath Johnny, which with a yelp he fell through. You could feel Kabal's smile under his respirator.

"Where did you send him?" Liu Kang asked with what seemed like a slight smile.

"Oh, just downstairs. I hate our downstairs neighbors, they can have him." As if on cue, you heard a screech from your downstairs neighbors.

--

You, Kabal, Liu Kang, and a now dazed Johnny sat at your kitchen table, explaining what the coming battle would ensue.

Johnny stared at you with anger in his eyes, you returning the glare.

"What's wrong with you?" You questioned, annoyed.

"Oh I don't know, my niece consistently cuts me out of her life. I didn't even know she was married, she's a former criminal and-"

Kabal was about to defend you, but you put your hand down in front of him, to gesture that you had this handled.

"Oh, I'm sorry, you mean the Johnny that didn't know me the first half of my life and left me with his abusive, piece of shit brother."

"I-"

"Oh, and where were you when mom died? I was four!"

Johnny sat silently.

"Kabal helped me go figure that out on our own. We ended up in some strange place, like some entirely different realm...which I guess is where mom's from. That's...thats where Kabal got his injuries, and I've never forgiven myself for that." You stammered, "I don't know what the hell that thing was that attacked us..."

Kabal snapped out of what seemed like a disturbing memory, "Hey hey hey-that wasn't your fault." He grabbed your hand and began to rub your knuckles in reassurance.

"So...your mother was involved in all...this business?" Johnny gestured to Liu Kang.

"Yeah. Its why I have powers and you don't." You smirked slyly.

"Its okay, I got the good looks." Johnny put his hand on his chin.

You actually laughed. Sometimes you actually missed interacting with your uncle. He was definitely a character.

Kabal interrupted the tender moment by stating, "We want to help, but if we come out, the Black Dragon might find us again..."

Johnny smirked, "You've got nothing to worry about on the end."

"What do you mean?" you crooked your head in curiosity.

"Why do you think I'm broke?"

"Your acting in Ninja Mime 4, for one..." Kabal snickered.

With a glare at Kabal, "I paid the Black Dragon off so they'd stay off your backs. Let me tell you, it was one hell of a ransom...."

"Uncle Johnny, I-"

"Shush shush shush, 'uncle' is all I needed to hear. Consider it a late wedding gift. Maybe you two can have a proper wedding after all this mess, given we survive."

--

You stifled a sob. With a little financial aid (hell, you and Kabal weren't making Black Dragon wages anymore) from your uncle, you were walking down the aisle. It was a small ceremony, but lavish no less because of your uncle (he wouldn't have it any other way). You were finally having the wedding you dreamed of having. As you walked down the aisle to Kabal, he took his respirator off for the moment. Prior to the wedding, you insisted that it wasn't an issue- but he said that he wanted to kiss his bride.

You could see tears in Kabal eyes as you walked towards him. You were a sight to see after all, your flowing gown cascading down from your hips, your dress accentuated your body in all the right places. A close friend of yours named Sonya helped make sure you picked out the perfect dress.

Uncle Johnny had one condition however, annoying as it might be. He got to officiate. And speaking of Sonya, you noticed his eyes never left your maid of honor. You dismissed the thought as you reached your husband. Surprisingly, Johnny was on his best behavior. After exchanging your vows, you locked lips with your husband in your little happily ever after.

For the ceremony, you invited all your battle comrades. After all, you didn't have many friends of your own living on the run. Your uncle Johnny kept trying to woo your maid of honor, Kabal got in a drunken nerd argument with Smoke, and Mileena and Tanya were enjoying eachothers company, slow dancing on the floor.

Aren't you glad you said Uncle?

Bonus! Some fun intros:

Liu Kang: "I am glad, much like one of your past timelines, you chose to reform."

Kabal: "I am so tired of this kryptic, Marvel multiverse bullshit."

--

Liu Kang: "I am sorry that you have become burned yet again."

Kabal: "Again? Do you have it out for me or something when you made this timeline?"

--

Johnny: "Since your my nephew in law, I want to apologize for calling you crispy."

Kabal: "You should be apologizing for Ninja Mime 4."

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SR Sebek Zigvolt Lab Coat Personal Story: Part 2

"I will most definitely remove that for you!"

(Part 1) Part 2

[Laboratory]

Sebek: Why did you make me change into a lab coat…!? I thought you would simply be showing me the detergent…

Azul: Yes, indeed. However, the detergent in this little glass vial has been specially concocted to be extra strong.

Azul: If, by any chance, you were to spill some on your uniform, it will turn white in less than 5 minutes.

Azul: In addition, it would be dangerous to not protect your eyes, either. This is fairly serious business.

Sebek: Are you sure it will be safe to use such a dangerous detergent!? If something happens to my lord's lab coat…

Azul: It has a strong bleaching capability that is only harmful to skin, but I assure you it will not damage the fabric.

Azul: Jade, Floyd.

Jade: Right. I've prepared here some cloth that has a ketchup stain similar to that lab coat.

Floyd: Wooah～ It's red allll over～

Sebek: Since when were you―!? Or rather, where were you two hiding!?

Azul: Don't fret over trivial details. Now, if we were to put regular detergent on the soiled portion of this fabric… What do you see?

Sebek: Nothing's changed at all… I did not expect ketchup to be this resilient of a stain.

Azul: However, if we were to pour this Octavinelle Deluxe Detergent directly on the stain…

Floyd: Like this～

Sebek: Wh-What!? That horribly stubborn stain is just coming off before my eyes!?

Azul: All that is left to do is rinse it in cold water, and it has returned to its original state.

Azul: It may be somewhat pricy, but this vial holds 20 uses.

Sebek: With just this small amount!?

Sebek: B-But you said it's expensive...?

Azul: Indeed, it will cost roughly 3,000 Madol. [30 Thaumarks]

Sebek: What… That's too much! Even normal detergent is only 500 Madol!! [5 Thaumarks]

Azul: Well, I have good news for you, Sebek-san! In fact, this detergent is currently on sale.

Azul: Right now, we are offering it for only 1,500 Madol! [15 Thaumarks]

Sebek: Half price!? Yes, I shall buy it!

Azul: Thank you for your patronage. That will be 1,500 Madol… And, received.

Sebek: Now, I can immediately pour it onto my liege's lab coat...

Sebek: Woah, it turned white in an instant! Thank goodness… With this, I shall not be a disappointment!

Sebek: I must go and show it to him at once!

Azul: Make sure you read all the instructions before using it! …Well, he sure dashed off with some zeal.

Azul: I had called out to him, hoping to be able to use him as an in to gain some of the noble clientele that reside in Diasomnia, but…

Jade: I wonder how that would fare. Sebek-kun himself seemed to be rather naïve and easy to handle, yes.

Azul: Only, I know there are many others in Diasomnia that can be quite fearsome when angered.

Azul: In the end, I do not believe this simple encounter will be enough.

[Diasomnia Dorm – Lounge]

Sebek: My liege! I have returned!

Malleus: Ah, welcome back.

Silver: Have you really been trying to clean off the stain from Malleus-sama's lab coat this whole time…?

Lilia: I don't know if I should say you were faster than I expected, or slower than I expected. So, what were your results?

Sebek: Yes, sir! As you can see, the obstinate stain is no more!

Malleus: Oh, well now… This is astounding. It is much whiter than it was before it was stained.

Sebek: M-My lord…! I thank you for your kind words…!

Sebek: Ah, right, my liege! Please take a look at this detergent. I purchased it from the Octavinelle Dorm Leader, and…

Sebek: Apparently it will turn white any kind of possible stain. If there are any other stains you wish to be free from, please leave it to me!

Silver: You got this from Azul…? Sebek, are you sure you were not taken advantage of?

Lilia: I don't think there's anything to worry about. He may be someone who constantly has ulterior motives…

Lilia: But he wouldn't do anything as reckless as make enemies of us here in Diasomnia.

Silver: That's true…

Sebek: Fufu. My liege, please, try it on!

Malleus: Alright, alright. Now then…

Silver: Malleus-sama, please don't humor him so. You spoil him.

Silver: And, Sebek. You only did what you had to do to rectify your own mistake, it is not anything praiseworthy.

Sebek: Wha…!! Y-You may be right, but…

Malleus: At any rate, the lab coat has been returned to normal. That is enough.

Sebek: M-My liege…!

Sebek: Thank you very much! If there ever comes a time that your clothes are soiled with stains, please call upon me at any time!

Silver: Even though I think Malleus-sama's magic would be able to instantly remove it…

(Part 1) Part 2

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Boys Planet Episode 9: Master Post and General Episode Recap

Hey, fellow Star Creator!

It’s time to talk about Episode 9! 

This post is actually just going to be a master post for the episode, in which I cover:

The great reshuffling of the teams

The beginning of the show (fans outside, returning trainees, etc) 

The field day 

The visit with the parents

An overview of what’s going on with the teams

I’m going to cover the five teams’ rehearsals and performances in separate posts, which means that Supercharger and En Garde will be ready soon, while the other three teams will be covered later.

So, let’s go!

If you want to skip the preview and whatnot, the episode actually starts at 2:37.

We start the episode at the end of the previous elimination ceremony, watching the boys hug and cry and say goodbye to each other. We see a few of the boys sobbing disconsolately, including Brian and Lee Yedam. It’s pretty heartbreaking. 

Later, the surviving boys go back to their dorms and talk. They seem to be gathering in little bunches for comfort. Kim Tae Rae is sitting with Lee Jung Hyeon -- they’re both WakeOne trainees and came to the show together, along with Lee’s good friend, Mun Jung Hyeon, who was just eliminated. TaeRae is telling his younger friend Lee to keep going and keep trying on Mun’s behalf. 

In another room, Kim Guyvin says that he wants to win first place in something so that he can “call the names of the eliminated trainees one more time.” That’s sweet and everything but it sounds like he’s in the Hunger Games. I am kind of worried about Gyuvin -- he was so confident when he arrived and the judges seem to have beaten him down to pulp. He’s always so bummed out and nervous now. I want to see that confident mop-headed kid again. You’re still in there, right Gyuvin-ah? 

That’s my little cousin Kum Jun Hyeon in the bed on the left, and the one curled up in the corner is Lee Seunghwan, based on his pajamas, which we saw in the Ggang segment, but I can’t see the others clearly enough to recognize them. The sign over the middle bed says something like “one chicken per person.” 

But then… in the next scene, it’s a bright and cheery new day! All the sadness is gone completely!

3:48 The Great Re-shuffling Begins 

So, it’s time for THE GREAT RESHUFFLING. Some teams were left with too many trainees, and some teams were left with too few, and now some teams will have to kick some of their own members out, a process that’s so stressful that people actually feel kind of sorry for the team whose entire contingent of ten survived. 

The stakes are pretty high here. There are at this point only three or four days before the actual performance. Changing to a new song at this point could be disastrous for anyone who is slow to learn choreography or lyrics. Also, the song with the most open spaces is Supercharger, which is not only a terrible song,* but also features choreography so difficult that even Haruto had trouble with it after many days of working on it. Anyone who gets kicked out of their team has approximately a and you have a decent chance of being stuck with Supercharger.

*So, I ran a poll on the topic of the song Supercharger, asking people if they liked it or not. A lot of people said they genuinely liked it, so… I guess I stand corrected. For me, just the fact that it got stuck in my head doesn’t mean that I like it.Being sticky isn’t the same thing as being good. I mean, I’ve had honey get stuck in my hair. That doesn’t mean I want it there. But yeah if you like Supercharger, that’s cool -- you do you, boo. I like Danger by Wooah and Firetruck by NCT and Obsession by Exo and Wing Wing by Kepler and a bunch of other weird songs, so I get it. People should like what they like! I’m still not adding Supercharger to my playlist, but I understand why maybe someone else would. 

Anyway, so here’s our team status report:

Team En Garde, wearing light pink, have 7 members remaining and need to lose 1. 

Currently on the team: Kim Gyu Vin, General Park Gunwook, my little cousin Kum Jun Hyeon, Hui, the formerly blue haired Park Hanbin, that peach Lee Seung Hwan 🍑, and Hiroto.

Members who have gone home: Lee Yedam, Oh Sungmin, Ji Yunseo

Team Over Me, wearing white, have 8 members and need to lose 3. 

Currently on the team: Chen Kuan Jui, Jay, Keita, Lee Jeong Hyeon, Ricky, Wang Zi Hao, Yoon Jong Woo, Zhang Hao

Members who have gone home:  Lim Jun Seo, Ma Jing Xiang

Team Say My Name, wearing black, have 10 members and need to lose 5

Currently on the team: Cha Woong Ki, Han Yu Jin, Kim Ji Woong, Kim Tae Rae, Ollie, Seo Won, Seok Matthew, Sung Hanbin, Takuto, Yoo Seung Eon

Team Supercharger, wearing purple, is down to just Haruto from the 11 members it used to have. The team needs five more members.

Members who have gone home: Bak Do Ha, Chen Jian Yu, Cong, Jung Min Gyu, Lee Da Eul, Lee Dong Yeol, Mun Jung Hyun, Park Hyunbeen, Park Ji Hoo

Side note: For this scene, MNET uses piano music that is so over the top dramatic sounding that it would be appropriate for a story about a family losing everything they owned in a house fire. Because it’s so over the top, a viewer will probably subconsciously disconnect with the very real and reasonable pain and anxiety Haruto is feeling right now. Nice work, MNET!

Team Switch is just Na Kamden and Z-Bo, kind of sitting there looking uncomfortable. The team needs 4 more members.

Members who have gone home: Anthonny, Brian, Cai Jin Xin, Choi Woo Jin, Dang Hong Hai, Jung I Chan, Krystian, Lee Dong Gun, Wumuti, and Zhang Shuai Bo

The teams aren’t totally sure how they will be reshuffled because it has worked in different ways in different seasons. The leader of team Over Me, the comeback kid Yoon Jong Woo, suggests voting. Woongki on Say My Name is worried that it might just immediately be decided by ranking, which, ha ha, it kind of will be!  And everyone is slightly worried that the surviving members of Supercharger and Switch will get to come steal the people they want. 

And in to En Garde’s rehearsal room comes Haruto with big glasses and a clipboard. I love this guy. 

I love how Kamden and Z-Bo can’t quite keep up with Haruto’s complete commitment to his bit. Good stuff. So yeah, Haruto manages to almost convince the teams that he and Kamden and Z-Bo get to steal whoever they want from the other teams and make them join Supercharger or Switch. Of course, they can’t. They can make their sales pitch, however, and they do, trying to poach some of the higher ranked team members with promises of big parts like main vocal or the Killing Part. Haruto will peel off that Killing Part sticker right now and slam it right on your solar plexus if you will just join him in Supercharger, assuming you are Park Gunwook.

So En Garde has to figure out who to eliminate. The team is really strong, and its members survived in a convenient distribution, with one person per part, except for the Killing Part and Main Rapper.

Looking at the roster, I theorize that the team would have voted out Hiroto (who is not only the lowest ranked on the team but by total unrelated coincidence the only non-Korean member of the team) and then made one of Gunwook or Gyuvin the main rapper, and then given the other one the Killing Part + Sub Rapper 1.

But that’s all theoretical. Looking at the part distribution gives us a hint as to what really happens, because Park Hanbin, who won top spot in Law, who led both his teams to victory, who was given All Star ranking both times, THAT Park Hanbin, is currently subvocal 3 with 10 seconds of center time? 

Um, no. 

Park Hanbin tells his team that he has decided to just walk away and join team Switch. 

Naturally, Kamden and Z-Bo are delighted to have him join their team. I think team En Garde is just glad that they don’t have to vote someone out. 

You guys, the story is going to get even better but we’ll get there.

Next, the recruiting teams go to Over Me and pull the same stunt with their clipboards and self-assurance. Kamden makes a passionate play to try to recruit his friend Jay, offering him the main vocal part. It’s like, 10% cringey, but I don’t mind too much.

So, after Hiroto and co. leave, the Over Me team talks about it. No one wants to leave, so they have to vote to decide who will be kicked out. Each of them makes an argument for why they should stay, and Yoon Jong Woo’s mini speech is about how he’s poured himself into this, deciding on costuming, choreography, etc. Hmm. 

Here’s the team as it stood, with their rankings -- those with the Killing Part are marked with a *:

*Zhang Hao             2

*Keita                         8

Jay                         12

Ricky                         14

L - Yoon Jong Woo 15

Wang Zi Hao             19

Chen Kuan Jui 22

Lee Jeong Hyeon 24

They vote for the teammates they want to keep, and Haruto and co. wait in the hallway to see who will be kicked out.

The first to walk out is the smiliest man on earth, 😁Wang Zi Hao😁. Haruto is so happy to him, because if anyone in this whole show can handle Supercharger, it’s 😁WZH😁.

Everyone is shocked to see Keita when he comes out of the rehearsal room, but I really can’t tell if Keita is surprised or not. He’s smiling in a way that is hard to interpret. Last to emerge is Yoon Jong Woo, who is clearly so shocked and angry at the betrayal that for now all he can do is smile.

I have theories on how each of them ended up getting kicked out, because it obviously wasn’t just ranking. Shall we walk together for a while? We shall! Here we go. 

My theories on all this:

First off, Zhang Hao wasn’t going to get kicked out -- he’s Zhang Hao. Jay’s voice is super well suited to this song and they need him. Ricky is well suited to the vibe of the song, as well. Chen Kuan Jui is a fantastic dancer who can dance in this style, and also, he’s really good friends with Zhang Hao. 

As for why they kept Lee Junghyeon, my theory is that it was in part because he’s their maknae and they care about him, in part because he wrote that rap for the song already and they feel like he has to do it, but mostly because even though he’s good during the performances and won’t ruin anything, he isn’t a threat to steal votes from them. 

So in some ways, those who got kicked out are just those who weren’t those five. But I think there were a few other factors in play.

I went back and rewatched the bits of the team interacting from Episode 8, and I noticed that when they circled up for a group convo, Wang Zi Hao ended up sort of on the outside, and they didn’t open the circle for him. 

 Also, look at them sitting in the producer’s office, also from Episode 8:

Left to right: Wang Zi Hao, MJX, Lee Junghyeon, Ricky, CKJ, Zhang Hao, Jay, Lim Jun Seo, Keita, Yoon Jong Woo

I don’t know what order they sat down on the couch, but look at how cozy Hao is with Jay and CKJ. Look at Yoon Jong Woo inexplicably taking up too much space on the couch so that Lim JunSeo has no room to move his elbows? Does JongWoo not notice or not care? Why doesn’t JunSeo say something? And look at Wang Zi Hao sitting politely to the side, just completely separate. So much to unpack…

You guys? I think they voted out Wang Zi Hao because they’re not friends with him. It’s just that simple. I’m sure he could dance in this style, and we heard him singing in the previous episode and he can actually sing just fine. They don’t dislike him, I mean who would dislike him? -- but he’s not their friend. 

Now, Keita. It’s my belief that they voted out Keita because he’s a fucking THREAT. Plus, I don’t get the feeling he’s really their friend, either. 

Consider, in episode 8, when they were voting for the Killing Part. Keita, being honorable, voted for Zhang Hao for the killing part. Who did Hao vote for? Chen Kuan Jui. Come on. We all love CKJ, but in what world is he better at a killing part than Keita? I really believe that Hao is smart and strategic enough that he voted for CKJ not because he thought CKJ should get it, but rather to waste his vote and make it less likely that Keita would get it. And it worked, in that Keita ended up coming in second in the vote. 

And, now that they’ve both survived, Zhang Hao must be worried he might lose the Killing Part after all. So. Remember how Zhang Hao and Ricky are friends from the same agency (Yuehua)? They’re likely to team up. We’ve also seen how much Zhang Hao and CKJ get along -- they’re really good friends. It wouldn’t have shocked me if Hao, CKJ, and Ricky got together the night before and agreed to vote for each other to stay, and to make sure that Keita was out. They might even have gotten Jay in on it.

I actually think that Keita didn’t see this coming. He’s really smart, and he must have known it was possible, but I think that maybe he isn’t as good at social engineering as he is good at literally everything else. He strikes me as a direct and honest kind of person, so maybe it never occurred to him that his team would do this to him because he himself would never try to vote out the best teammates. He’s friendly and always appreciates how good everyone else is. Yet you rarely see anyone hugging him, you know? I think everyone likes him, but not a lot of people are close friends with him. So he’s not in the cool kids clique, and when push comes to shove, he gets the shove. 

So what happened to Yoon Jong Woo? Well. I have a lot of answers to that. 

First and foremost, I think he was a threat too. I think he really really suits the style of this song, and he’s a great dancer, and I think he would have been great at this. He might have even won the vote on D-Day. They weren’t going to risk that. Plus, he keeps climbing up the charts. They don’t want him climbing up into top 9! Tossing him out and having him risk landing in Supercharger is a sure way to sabotage him and keep him out of the Top9 so there is more room for Ricky. 

Also, I think -- and this is wild speculation on my part but -- I think they were getting sick of him. I really do. I think that Jongwoo’s aggressive attitude toward MJX made the rehearsal room a little unpleasant to be in, and I think stress has made him a little anxious and sharp. His little speech about how he was contributing so much to the song was designed to make them want to keep him, but maybe it reminded them that he’s doing too much (in their opinion)? Something like that…

So yeah, those are my thoughts on what happened with that team!

Anyway. 

Back to the reshuffling!

Next, Haruto and co. go see team Say My Name and again, they make their pitches. Here are the ten Say My Name trainees, along with their episode 8 ranks:

Sung Hanbin               1

Han Yu Jin               3

Seok Matthew               4

Kim Ji Woong               5

Kim Tae Rae               7

Yoo Seung Eon   17

Seo Won               18

Takuto                           25

Cha Woong Ki               26

Ollie                           27

The only one who seems interested in the sales pitch is Matthew, who listens to Switch to see if he likes it, but then also jokes that his name is Seok Woohyun (that’s his Korean name, apparently) and that he doesn’t know who Matthew is. So no Switch-switch there.

However, as we find out, Kim TaeRae does in fact want to switch to Switch, saying: “I think this team [Say My Name] has a lot of members who can do a better job than me. In order to show my strength more, it might make more sense for me to join them.”  His choice is quite interesting and I will get to it in a bit. It’s not clear how he ends up on Switch as opposed to Supercharger, but maybe since presumably all five trainees wanted Switch, the Switch team was allowed to pick the trainee they wanted. Or maybe because TaeRae was was ranked the highest, or because he volunteered to leave, he was allowed to choose.

The other four SMN teammates who get kicked out are coincidentally the four lowest ranked, Takuto, Ollie, Seo Won, and Woongki. I’m sure you’ve noticed that they are the four cutest on the team, so it could also be theorized that they were kicked out for being a threat, but I don’t think that Takuto was a threat. 

I actually think that Takuto and Ollie in particular were kicked out because they’re so young looking. I know that Ollie is older than Han Yujin, but even so, and even though he’s so tall, he comes across as younger. Knowing as I do now that the team is going to go for a “high teen” concept, you can’t have actual teenaged looking people on the team or they’ll make Sung Hanbin look old (he’s not, but he looks older than his age [21], in my opinion). 

If you watched Girls Planet 999, you might remember this performance of Yes or Yes, with the 25 year old Wen Zhe and the like, 15 year old Kim Sein. This is also a high teen concept, and having little Sein there made Wen Zhe look like a 35 year old, which in kpop is the same as being an actual brontosaurus. It made the whole team feel out of balance, too. 

So yeah, it made sense for the Say My Name team to kick the "little kids" out. 

As for Seo Won and Woongki, I really think it was mostly that they’re low ranked. I don’t think that the team viewed them as a threat either, because they’re low ranked and don’t stand a chance at winning the vote compared to them. I mean, Woongki couldn’t win the vote against Z-Bo in Feel Special, you know? I love Seo Won and Woongki too, and think that after the show they will probably have tons of offers to be on reality shows and stuff, because they’re lovable AF! But I still don’t think their teammates viewed them as a threat. 

In any case, all four of them end up on Supercharger, much to their intense chagrin.

Ollie is being sort of comical about his distress, but he also kind of means it. It’s cute to see his friendship with Haruto, but it also makes sense. Haruto is completely fluent in English, as we see in this episode, and Ollie seems to speak English possibly as a first language, so it makes sense that these two friendly, English speaking dancers would have gotten close. In any case, this team is going to have a tough time, as we’ll soon see.

Ok, so here is a final list of the trainees and their songs they ended up in. I include the song they originally had if they switched. Incidentally, everyone originally had the song they asked the audience for, except for Lee Seunghwan, who originally wanted Say My Name but ended up in En Garde. 

En Garde: 

Kim Gyu Vin            

Park Gunwook

Kum Jun Hyeon

Hui                        

Lee Seung Hwan

Hiroto

Over Me:  

Zhang Hao           

Jay                      

Ricky

Chen Kuan Jui

Lee Jeong Hyeon

Say My Name: 

Sung Hanbin

Han Yu Jin

Seok Matthew

Kim Ji Woong

Yoo Seung Eon

Supercharger:         first team 

Wang Zi Hao           Over Me

Seo Won           Say My Name

Takuto                       Say My Name

Cha Woong Ki           Say My Name

Ollie                       Say My Name

Haruto                       Supercharger

Switch:                      first team

Park Hanbin           En Garde 

Keita                       Over Me

Yoon Jong Woo Over Me

Kim Tae Rae             Say My Name  

Na Kamden             Switch

Zhang Shuai Bo Switch

Or, if you prefer an infographic:

And thus ends… t h e   g r e a t    r e s h u f f l i n g.

Then from 17:10 to 17:40 it’s just a preview of the performances, so you can skip that if you want. 

After that, we visit each of the five teams for 4-8 minutes each, to see how their rehearsals are getting started. 

Supercharger (average rank: 21.8)

At 17:40, we visit team Supercharger for almost six minutes.

The gist of what’s going on is that they’re super discouraged, since most of them don’t feel like they’re a good fit for the song. They’re also worried about learning new and incredibly difficult choreography, and they’re sad that they got kicked out of the group they’d been in, especially Woongki, who had a ton of ideas for Say My Name.

For a more in-depth review of their rehearsal and performance, click here.

Say My Name (average rank: 6)

At 23:30, we endure the gut-churningly uncomfortable atmosphere at team Say My Name for a solid eight minutes.

The gist of the situation is that Matthew wants to have a big part and makes everyone feel bad when he is given a smaller part, even though (a) it’s not a tiny part and (b) it suits his voice so much better than the original part that it actually is a benefit to him as well. I know some people think this is “evil editing.” But this is stuff he’s actually doing, and if anything the show seems to be on his side, as far as I can tell. 

It’s ok if you still like him -- in fact, good for you for showing such grace and kindness to him! We all deserve kindness when possible. And his negative behavior is a consequence of an extremely stressful environment, and doesn’t mean that he’s a “bad person.” I am not saying that Matthew can never be forgiven or that I hate him. But I am saying that he’s being immature, entitled, oblivious, and just an enormous pain in the butt right now.

I’ll talk about this a lot more when I post my in-depth review of their rehearsal(s) and performance. When it’s ready, you’ll be able to click here. (It’ll be posted when Ep 10 is up.)

Switch (average rank: 14.5)

At 31:45, we visit with team Switch for four whole minutes!

The gist of what’s going is that Park Hanbin has already learned the choreography to the song, because he pretty much planned all along to switch to Switch. This shit is amazing. He ends up with the killing part, because that’s how good he is at the choreo already. Kim Tae Rae, who has switched here from Say My Name, ends up with the main vocal, so a win for him as well. He also ends up having a bit of trouble with the choreo in the very first lesson, which is hardly surprising in any way. He’s a main vocal, folks. And…? 

I’ll talk about all of this a lot more when I post my in-depth review of their rehearsal(s) and performance. When it’s ready, you’ll be able to click here. (It’ll be posted when Ep 10 is up.) But I’ll tell you right now that I’m super excited for this performance!

En Garde (Ave rank: 14.2, but without Hiroto would be 11.4) 

At 35:50, we visit team En Garde, and spend about 7.5 minutes with them, most of which are unnecessary.

The gist of what’s going on is that they need to pick who will get to keep the killing part, and they choose Gunwook over Gyuvin. Then later on they prank Gunwook and tell him that they’re taking the killing part away and he’s actually pretty nice and mature about it, and then they reveal that it was a prank.

Then Hui says something interesting. “I worried if things were going too well.” Why would you worry about that, Hui? Hmmm…

I’ll talk about this a bit more when I post my in-depth review of their rehearsal(s) and performance. When it’s ready, you’ll be able to click here. (It’ll be posted when Ep 10 is up.)

Over Me (Ave rank: 14.8)

At 43:13, we visit with team Over Me for about 4.5 minutes. The gist of their situation is that they’re trying to shake off the guilt of having gotten rid of Yoon Jongwoo, and they do just that by electing Zhang Hao their new leader and re-distributing the parts. Jay is confirmed as main vocal, and Hao get the killing part. Again, we don’t see them rehearse at all. 

I’ll talk about all this a bit more when I post my in-depth review of their rehearsal(s) and performance. When it’s ready, you’ll be able to click here. (It’ll be posted when Ep 10 is up.)

Time passes, and now it’s…

Showtime (47:50)

Fans are waiting outside the studio, holding up signs, excited for the show. There’s a sign that just says “Yujin” and one that says “Park Hanbin” in Hangul and then in English “PHANBIN”. 

I know most of you can’t read Korean so here’s a few screenshots with translations of whatever I was able to read:

By the way, I’m doing my last editing pass on this and I just noticed that that light blue rectangle that says “Lee Sunghwan” in the top image should be in the middle of the bottom image, over that light blue sign in the middle. Don’t know what happened there. Sorry. Oh, and the red and black sign says Keita I think.

There are signs for Kim Gyubin, Ollie, Lee Sunghwan, Zhang Hao, Kim Tae Rae, and tons of other trainees. There are Na Kamden signs in English, Keita signs in Japanese, and look, it’s Haruto’s mom with a group of Haruto’s fans! Aww, she looks so much like him! (That’s his dad in the back, with the tinted glasses.)

As the fans go inside, we spot some of the eliminated trainees, here to see the show and perform in it, too.

In the top photo, that’s Wumuti waving, then Choi Woojin in the dark jacket, then Lee Hwanhee partly hidden by Jung Mingyu (who is wearing a white shirt). I can’t quite place the guy in the blue and white shirt or the guy in the middle with the reddish hair. 🙁 In the bottom photo, that’s Hwanhee, Brian, Ji YunSeo, Wumuti, and the guy in the blue and white shirt again. If you know who he is, or who the guy with the reddish hair is, let me know! I feel bad that I don’t recognize them. 

Mingyu says that they will get to show off the performance they’ve been practicing, which is nice! From what I’ve heard there are lots of long pauses in these performance stages while the show is filming reactions and stuff back stage, so while they’re doing that, management could let these guys perform to entertain the audience. It’s win/win! 

So, then the teams start entering. Switch team is super brightly colored. I’ll have to see what it looks like when they’re in motion -- I mean, Exo’s Obsession outfits were a LOT but they worked on stage. 

Then Team En Garde comes out, in military-esque leather outfits that aren’t thrilling me, but I reserve judgment. Supercharger jumps up and down with the audience, who seem happy to see them. And then the Say My Name team come out in a “cool school boys after school” look -- a  style they call “high teen” in Kpop land. It’s designed to be immediately loveable to the majority of the age groups and sexual preferences of the audience. Finally, Over Me comes out, and Chen Kuan Jui sees something in the audience that really gets his attention. 

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It’s such a weird moment. Ok, he’s been making hand half-hearts and stuff, right, but then he stops and almost reflectively makes a butterfly hand gesture, while staring in amazement, then his hand goes to cover his mouth while he continues to stare. It happens at 49:20 or so -- I can’t figure out what he saw. I assume a fan was holding up some sort of fan art of the Butterfly performance, or was dressed like a butterfly, or something…? I wish I knew! It obviously really surprised and touched him. 

We see that each fan has been given a light wand that they can also use to vote.  I’m not going to say what I think those light wands look like, but they definitely look like sex toys.

The boys are all gathered on stage, and it looks like the performances will start any minute…

… but nope. Instead, it’s time for… 

52:09 A special video of a special surprise fan meeting

The boys are out at a sort of field day event and find out that they have a surprise fan meeting later that day. They have to win prizes they can use to prepare for the fan meeting.

It’s hard to recap this kind of thing because there’s no point to it, so I’ll mix recap with just random stray thoughts!

🌟I thought it was funny when boys joked that they might have to be in a “zoning out competition” and we see a montage of Na Kamden zoning out. Fun fact -- I showed my fella the dance practice of Switch and he was like, “that guy” (Kamden) “needs to show a facial expression of any kind.” 

🌟I loved Woongki going “woooOOOOoooh!” 

🌟What happened to Keita? Why does he have a band-aid on his nose? 

🌟I’m glad that they’re all performing as a big team instead of competing against each other. Yes, a common enemy!! Co-op board games keep me and my fella from getting too competitive! Co-op games for the win! 

The game where they wore party hats over their eyes to restrict their vision and have to try to match childhood photos to their subjects was pretty cute. They end up getting 5, which means they get to give their fans some tissues. I love how at the start of the game, the staff tells them that the other boys can’t help the searchers, and how they do anyway and no one cares.  

I also love how someone says, of elementary school aged Hui, “He looks like he would’ve liked potatoes.” I have no idea what that means or if it’s a Korean saying or what. But I love it and am going to start saying it about people given the slightest opportunity. 

🌟Aww, Ricky says of his 11 or 12 year old photo, “I was so ugly.” Every human being is a little bit ugly at that age. And he already had great eyebrows! I bet girls had a crush on him. 

🌟Aw, Woongki was the same as a kid! But hold on, I’m still not clear on whether or not that kid in the swimming pool really was Hiroto. 

Next game is a quiz game, whether they’re shown random photos and have to recognize them -- other trainees, the judges, etc. They managed to win the mics. I think the show threw the game to make sure they at least got mics. 

The third game is to win food for the visitors -- they have to throw each other candies and catch them in their mouths. If they get 20, they win a steak dinner; if they get only 15, they get galbitang, which a beef short rib soup; if they get 10, they get only gimbap, which if you’re not familiar, is a bit like sushi in that it’s seaweed wrapped around rice, but it has a really different flavor -- there isn’t vinegar on the rice, it’s sesame oil instead, and the fillings can vary a lot. It’s tasty and all that, but it’s considered a sort of casual comfort food in Korea -- not exactly fine dining. It’d be a bit like serving your guests PB&J (USA) or beans on toast (UK) or whatever the version of that meal is where you live. Anyway, turns out Jay is really good at catching candies in his mouth, and catches 11, and hey, gimbap is better than nothing. 

🌟 I liked them joking that it would have been great for TaeRae to be the one who catches the candies, because his mouth is so big, and TaeRae just being like, yep. 

Then all of a sudden they tell us that the boys won hair and makeup and costumes in games we didn’t get to see…? What the everlasting fuck, MNET? Was Haruto just too charming in the bit that you had to cut it? 

So, with the field day over, the boys return to the dorms to get ready for their show and put on regular but nice looking clothes, then get their hair and make up done. Then they go to the venue and hang up balloons and other decorations for their guests. But who will their guests be? 

When the guests are revealed, my first thought was, “there’s more men than I thought there’d be.” My second thought was, “wow, they’re all middle aged, or a little older -- where are the screaming teenagers?” and then I was like ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It’s their families!

🌟 I love Haruto’s mom -- of course his mom would be so outgoing and silly.

🌟 Park Hanbin’s mother is saying, “Our son became this pretty? Our son became so pretty!” First, if you’re not aware by now, the Korean word translated as "pretty" (it sounds like "yeppo") is applied to men and women alike in Korea, so don’t be throw off by the word choice or think it's a veiled insult. Second, hey, Hanbin’s mother, he’s always been pretty!! And he looks just like you so…. I mean… 

🌟Seo Won’s parents make bunny ears at him -- he looks almost irritated at them. Maybe it's a family joke he's really sick of.

🌟We get to see 😁Wang Zi Hao’s😁 dance teacher, who is named Trix. In an interesting coincidence, my fella recently sent me a video of this dance crew called Monster Woo fam. Well, Trix is a member of that crew. Since he’s Korean, it's probably much easier for him to come to something like this than it would be for 😁WZH’s😁 parents to come, and I'm glad that 😁WZH😁had someone to support him, but I'm sorry it couldn't be his family. It's also kind of interesting that he had a Korean dancer teacher, but seems to still be not that great at speaking Korean. Maybe he understands a lot more than he can say. 

🌟Keita’s dad, who looks exactly like MMA star Choo Sung Hoon, is also there. (My fella came in while I was writing this and was like, “wait, why is Choo Sung Hoon on your Korean singing show?” My fella watched Physical 100 and recognized him from that.)

🌟 Wumuti is also there! Wumuti is everywhere. Wumuti is IN YOUR BRAIN. I love that Wumuti is so glad to see who is on team Switch -- it’s like, he can relax knowing that if Keita is there, it’s going to be ok.

🌟Woongki is crying, and in a kind of a surprise, so is TaeRae. TaeRae’s mother, who totally has his exact cheekbones, is like, “Oh no, our TaeRae is so sensitive.” P-Hanbin is also tearing up. 

🌟15 year-old Han Yujin says “my heart just felt strange” when he saw his mom. I can imagine that -- you kind of build up a wall and almost convince yourself you’ve never been anywhere but here, and then you see people from your old life and the wall crumbles down. Side note: his mom is really pretty. She looks like she could be an actress or something. 

🌟Na Kamden has an identical twin brother! Wild. Kamden is the younger of the two (by however many minutes) so has to call his twin “hyung.” 

🌟Ok, this is weird -- when the staff is bringing out the gimbap, we see that Haruto’s manager and Dongmyeong from k-band Onewe (check out their song “Gravity”) are there. That’s random. But Dongmyeong’s been on ALL the reality shows so maybe he’s just there because he gets it? But I really don't understand -- Haruto is under WakeOne and Onewe is under RBW, and I double checked but neither of those companies owns the other so really, this is super perplexing.

They’re all nervous to perform in front of their parents and other family members. Keita says it’s the first time he’s ever performed for his parents, which seems wild to me -- they’ve never seen Ciipher perform? 

🌟We find out that Kamden’s brother came all the way from the US to be here. And I love the way the two of them greet each other -- like vague acquaintances. I have cousins who are twins, and they’re like that with each other. They ask the brother if he’s ever seen Kamden’s “aegyo” (over the top cute behavior) and the brother is like please no.

🌟TaeRae is crying so much he almost can’t sing. 

🌟Oh, that’s Cai Jin Xin in the audience! Maybe some of the Chinese trainees had a hard time booking the flight home or had a flight home scheduled for some weeks from now, so they’re stuck in Korea for the time being -- something like that? Anyway, CJX was on the original team Switch and can’t help but dance along. It's cute. Both CJX and Wumuti look great styled in their natural personal style (I assume). I'm low-key obsessed with CJX's bizarre hoodie cape thing.

🌟Oh, Keita’s mom is also so pretty. Keita says he had a hard time preparing for this mission, and I think he’s just so exhausted on every level, giving it his all this whole time. I'm voting for you, sweetie.

When it’s time for “Over Me,” I couldn’t help but think about how embarrassing it must have been for the trainees to perform that song in front of their parents! Here are some sample lyrics, from the video on a youtube channel called ms start+ . The parts that were in English originally are in green -- the rest is translated (kind of poorly, I think) from the Korean.

I swear that I won’t leave without you / this breathless emotion is through/ come closer and hold me tight, tonight with you / I want to stay with you … Burning more and more we’re on fire, you and I are going to the end of the night. / We don’t need to hide our desire/ to wake up with you over me

Doesn’t matter whether you speak Korean and no English, or English and no Korean, you’re going to understand this song. Seriously, I would be so uncomfortable performing this in front of my parents. I noticed that they didn’t use the red fabric ties -- did they just not have them, or did they scrap them at the last second to make the dance less overtly sexy?

🌟We see that Zhang Hao and Ricky’s agency manager is here, watching proudly. She’s wearing a gray hoodie over a white turtleneck with a black coat over the hoodie, so I hope she’s warm enough. We also see that some of Yoon Jongwoo’s chingus are there, finding the whole thing pretty cringey. Love that.

Then they do this awful thing where they make Han Yujin tell his mom he loves her, and he cries, and I hate all of this, but his mom is also really pretty! So is Gyubin’s mom -- we see her at 1:14:53. Aw, all the moms are pretty. Yay! But no one is eating the gimbap -- ha ha. First time I watched this I may have been a bit... lofty... and I was like, damn, if you guys don't want that gimbap, give it to me...

So the families all love the performances, and then the boys are told that this is actually an evaluation performance and that their families will be filling out evaluation sheets. The boys go back to their rehearsal rooms to read their evaluation forms. The show seems to vastly overestimate how much suspense they can eek out of this as the trainees react to the eval forms. It’s so obvious why they’re reacting the way they are, I mean, duh, MNET. Shock of all shocks, the families really just wrote notes of support and love instead of criticizing them harshly! WUTTT?????? It’s still really cute and made me tear up a little because as you know, I’m a light touch.

🌟We never see Takuto reacting to any of this -- I think maybe his parents weren’t there? If they had been, I think that the show have focused on that. Poor Takuto, not being able to see his parents! He's like, a high school sophomore. He's not even old enough to take the SATs.  

Side note: we get to see a bit of the note that Keita’s dad wrote for him, and it’s almost all in hiragana. That’s a Japanese syllabary, kind of like their alphabet, as opposed to the kanji characters, which are the more complex characters that have been adapted from Chinese. It’s considered a sign of good education to use kanji where applicable, and just supplement with hiragana as needed to conjugate verbs and stuff. So Keita’s dad is either maybe not super well educated, or is just writing very casually to his son and chose a more simple method of writing. I remember in a few animes, characters being made fun of for writing in just hiragana -- like Sailor Moon, noted ditz, only uses hiragana -- but I don’t want to base my cultural understanding just on anime, so if anyone knows the sort of ins-and-outs of writing quick notes in Japanese, and whether people are likely or unlikely to use kanji in a casual note, let me know! The reason I’m interested in not at all to insult Keita’s father -- it’s more that knowing that Keita comes from a more working-class background makes what he’s doing all the more special. So many idols come from super upper class backgrounds -- Jay from Enhypen, Tzuyu from Twice, Wendy from Red Velvet, Umji from G-friend, those are just a few that pop into my head. Keita being able to develop his talents without the financial backing of rich parents -- that’s just extra cool. We stan a self-sufficient talent. 

Anyway, that was a cute interlude, but I’m glad I was able to skip it when I watched the episode the first time to get to the next segment! I don’t mind filler per se, but when you’re dying to see what happened to team Supercharger, you just want to go to…

1:21:28 Supercharger

The team introduces itself as “96.” Subtle. 😛We see their rehearsals -- a study in misery, desperation, and hard work -- and then their performance, which is… surprisingly good?  We all knew Haruto would nail it, but this is the first time I feel like I saw Wang Zi Hao look like an idol, rather than just a really good backup dancer, and everyone (but poor Takuto) really pulled it off.  I’d say Woongki surprised me, but he didn’t really -- if you watch some of his performances with T01, you’ll see he can totally rock this kind of thing. Hiroto comes in first with 852 votes, which is well deserved.

For my more in depth discussion of their rehearsals/performance, click here.

1:41:57 En Garde

The team introduces itself as "En! Butter." It’s apparently kind of a reference to redbean butter bread, and makes sense with the name of the song. This team really had nothing to worry about, so they kind of invented problems to overcome (at least, that’s my take on what happened) and then put on a perfectly good performance that oddly doesn’t sway me much, despite the fact that I like all these performers a lot. I think it’s just that the song is kind of boring to me, personally. I know other people like it and that’s totally cool. We all like different things. Gyuvin comes in first with 742 votes -- I suspect this is controversial because apparently a lot of people don’t like Gyuvin, but I like Gyuvin just fine and don’t mind. 

For my more in depth discussion of their rehearsals/performance, click here for my En Garde recap!

1:58:43 Say My Name (not really)

We see the team backstage, then immediately flashback to their rehearsal time. It’s all really uncomfortable. I know people probably are curious about what I have to say about Matthew, but I don’t want to go into too much detail here and now. My short answer is, again, I don’t see this as evil editing. I see this as immature unpleasant behavior from Matthew. It’s not unforgivable or beyond understanding, and there are times that certainly we can see that he’s trying his best, but overall, I don’t love what I see here. I mean, his team is still super uncomfortable even as they go up onstage! 

I’ll talk more about it in a separate post, linked in the episode 10 recap!

Side note: Ok, hey, LipJ, like, I thought it was kind of funny how you found the boys attractive, but back off from Han Yujin, ok? He’s a child. You’re twice his age. It’s really not ok. Alright! That’s enough of that. 

Interim ranking posting:

And then the show posts a few of the current ranks, just enough to achieve some nefarious purpose. This is what they show:

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Keita

Ricky

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Park Hanbin

Lee Jeongyheon

Kim Gyuvin

Yoo Seung Eon

Cha Woonki

Enhh. You guys, the purpose behind this seems so obvious I almost feel like I don’t need to say this, but I’ll just say it anyway, in case you’re thinking the same thing as me and wondering if you’re imagining things. You’re not imagining things. MNET revealed that Keita and Ricky are ranked so high in order to hurt them, and revealed that those five Korean trainees were ranked comparatively low in order to help them. The idea is that people won’t want to vote for the trainees that are ranked high, because they don’t think they need help, and will want to vote for the trainees that are ranked low, because they think they DO need help. And no, it’s not a coincidence that the higher ranked trainees are foreign and the lower ranked trainees are Korean.  

So, that's my ep 9 general recap. Here's a link to my general recap of episode 10! As always, thanks for reading and stay tuned! You're the best.

[justdancekid]

Karaoke Night is Reserved for Adults - A JD Fanfiction

Series: Just Dance 2023 Edition

Characters: Sara and Wanderlust (Can't Stop The Feeling), Brezziana (Physical), Mihaly (Rather Be), and Jack Rose (Locked Out of Heaven)

Relationship: Brezziana/Mihaly

Rating: T

Type: Fluff, Song Lyrics, Karaoke

Description: The Danceverse 5 decides to go to the new Karaoke place where Mihaly sings a song that describes their true feelings towards Brezziana (AN: Curse you, Walking on Sunshine)

The Danceverse 5 was just sitting around the house, bored as ever.

"I can't believe that I'm gonna say this" Wanderlust started to speak "But, I wish that Night Swan would have a plan to attack us right now"

"There's nothing to do!" Sara said

"There's nothing good on TV." Jack said

"I don't know how many protein shakes I could make before my boredom's gone." Brezziana said

"And, I think I've done enough meditating." Mihaly said "I think my legs are asleep"

"I think we might have to go out and do something" Wanderlust said

"But, where to go?" Brezziana asked

"Oh, I know!" Mihaly start to say "Rubika told me that they've opened up a new Karaoke spot. We can go there!"

The entire group nodded

"Okay, let's go there" Wanderlust said, they took the boat, and started to fly to Rubika and her crew's new Karaoke spot

"Thanks, Mi! You saved this crew from a day of boredom" Brezziana said as she hugged them

She's so close... Mihaly thought as they start to blush

"Don't mention it, Brezzy." They replied

1 Hour later

They arrived at Rubika's Karaoke spot which she named it "Wannabe Singers"

"I'm positive this is the spot" Wanderlust said before the crew walked in

"Yo! Yo! Yo! Yo!" They heard Rubika greet them "Welcome to Wannabe Singers! Where you sing and drink! But, drink too much, you can't sing at all! What can I do for you?"

"We would like 5 drinks!" Mihaly said

"5?!?" They all asked

"In order to sing, you have to order a drink." Rubika explained, with Jack nodded in respect

"Okay. Now that would be 5 for each person, or one for 5 people?" Rosaria asked. They all gave a quick look before they answered

"One for each"

"Perfect! Now that would be $5" Eteria said

Wanderlust paid for the drinks. And, they got a chance to sing a song of their choice.

Wanderlust and Sara was just having fun singing along to Danger! High Voltage - Electric Six, even if they didn't know the words

Brezziana sang Mood - 24kGolden, and was feeling herself with this song

Jack sang Gorilla by Bruno Mars, and couldn't help but to turn his charisma up to 15

And then, it was Mihaly's turn, and they were more hesitant to sing, not because they don't like to sing, it's that the song they chose hits a little close to their feelings to Brezziana

Brezziana puts her hand on their shoulder and said "It's okay, just go up there and sing your song out!"

That's all it took for them to go up there and grab the mic

"Rubika." They started to speak "Play the song"

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves plays

As soon as the Danceverse 5 heard those beginning beats, they all knew why they chose this song, then they started to sing

I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby, I'm sure

And I just can't wait till the day when you knock on my door

Now everytime I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down

Cause I just can't wait till you write me you're coming around

But, they wasn't done, yet. They've pushed their vocals a little more for this

I'm walking on sunshine, wooah!!

I'm walking on sunshine, wooah!!

I'm walking on sunshine, wooah!!

And, don't it feel good!

The Danceverse 5 was surprised that Mihaly could sing this well, as far as they known them, they never heard them sing before. But, this was a pleasant surprise for them

I feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real

I feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real

I'm walking on sunshine baby oh, oh yeah

I'm walking on sunshine baby oh

And, then they pushed a little more

I'm walking on sunshine, wooah

I'm walking on sunshine, wooah

I'm walking on sunshine, wooah

And, don't it feel good!

Everyone clapped as the song faded out, The Danceverse 5 giving Mihaly props for singing that well. They just smiled and blushed.

4 hours later

"Alright, party people! It's closing time! Finish your drinks, and come back tomorrow" Rubika announced

Everyone left and went home, with the Danceverse 5 being no different, but before Mihaly went in the house, Jack stopped them "Hey, Mihaly." They spoke

They turned around and faced him

"So, who was that song towards?" He asked as Mihaly blushed

"N-nobody!" They tried to lied their way out of it

"Bullshit it's towards nobody. As a singer, the love songs are always towards somebody or, in some cases, something. So, who it was towards"

They were blushing madly, they were trying to lie some more just trying to get back inside as they didn't want their secret to fly out

"I-it was towards Wanderlust!" Mihaly lied

Jack just stood there in a stunned silence or 5 seconds, before he started to laugh the same way back when he used to work for Night Swan

"KYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I knew who it was towards, I just wanna hear you say it" Jack then leaned closer, then say "It was towards Brezziana, wasn't it?"

Now, they're blushing at an all time high

"I knew it, I've been knew it since my second day on the team." He said "But, also understand, it's not healthy keeping away your feelings like this. Maybe, get her alone in a room, and sing another romantic song, maybe Just The Way You Are, then she'll catch on" Then he whispered in their ear "Because I also know she loves you." Then, he walked in the house

Mihaly just stood there in a stunned silence, just thinking She loves me, She loves me, She loves me, She loves me, She loves me, She loves me

They ended up sleeping outside that night, being caught up in their own thoughts

The next morning

Sara walked out and saw Mihaly sleeping in the grass

"Mihaly, what the heck you doing sleeping out here?" She asked

They remembered all that what happened last night, they blushed and only said

"I don't remember"

[dinomites]

Announcer Aelia quotes....... for funsies

Deployment | "Aelia here! That's the right thing to say right?" Turn Start | "Do your best! I know you can do it!" Special | "Yikes... are you guys okay?" Enemy Staggered | "Get'em while they're down! Go all out!!" Sinner Staggered | "Oh no...! Please endure what's coming!" Enemy Death | "One down! Now let's get the rest!" Sinner Death | "I'm sorry... Dante." Disadvantageous Battle | "This seems a bit dangerous. Stay on your toes!" Advantageous Battle | "These are just small guys! You can take 'em out easily!" Danger | "Hey... I'm getting scared. Please be careful!" Enemy uses Special Skill | "Incoming! The bad guy has something up their sleeve!" An Event is about to trigger | "I can hear that piano... please be careful." Sinner attacks using Skill 3 with Advantage | "Hit them again! Smack 'em! Slash 'em! Or something like that..." Sinner attacks using Skill with Disadvantage | "Try something else... I don't think that weapon works." Sinner attacks using Skill 3/E.G.O with Sin Advantage | "Another job well done! That was very effective!" Sinner attacks using Skill 3/E.G.O with Sin Disadvantage | "Let's not use that again." Enemy Buffed | "The bad guys are making strange faces! Think carefully about this!" Enemy Debuffed | "That one looks weakened! Take advantage of that!" Sinner Buffed | "Rev'd up and ready to go! Hit them hard!" Sinner Debuffed | "You don't look... alright. You need to rest." Abnormality Part Broken (Combat) | "You guys broke a part! Things should be a bit easier now!" Abnormality Part Broken (New Turn) | "Hey look! That part fell off!" Sinner Near Death | "Dante...! You'll revive them right?..." Enemy Near Death | "This is that and that is this." Sinner kills multiple Enemies in one Skill | "Wooah, that was strong as dad's Furioso."

[enjomo-arch]

❝  Portgas D Ace.. One of the most dangerous pirates to ever sail the seven seas. I have just one question for you... How are you so cool?  ❞

❝ wooah wait a moment you're the legendary john cena ?! goddamn man, big fan of yer' wrestlin' techniques! ❞ this surely was an honor, even more to be called the most dangerous out on the blue seas by a true champion,

but to answer his question ace's finger tipped the brim of his hat with a grin spreading across his features and two fingers like a gun pointing at him only for a spark of fire to embrace his hand and shoulders with a burning passion carried by the whitebeard's second commander. ❝ answer is, s' the spark of real wildfire. ❞

[ningning101]

DANGER! ➯ Woo!Ah!

[crayonverse]

transgender aadit...... love of mylife. + some duvos soldier aadit :3

some more headcanons regarding rogue knight as well!!

i remember seeing someone else on the mtap subreddit say they think of aadit/rogue knight as like the winter solider and like . wooah big brain angst time

he has a trigger phrase spoken in whatever language duvos speaks (idk what country duvos is based on but i think. it could be Russia? bc of the heavy military campaign plot + displacement of people). Ursula and the sky sharks triggered the rogue knight when the knowledge of the all source got leaked and knew they needed someone on the inside of portia to get more info.

he can be shocked out of rogue knight, usually by really loud noises (mimicking on the conditions he probably wouldve faced on the border between ethea and duvos.) i think if he was married to the builder they could help him snap out of it but not like all the time

i think he lived in colder conditions since ethea has lots of winter symbolism and clothes n stuff. he's very used to the cold and portia is almost always way too hot for him

he lost his hand during the attacks from duvos and when he was taken in by their military, they replaced it with a hook-like one. it was meant for extra damage during fights and is also slightly relic powered. in portia he has a hand prosthetic, and only dawa + dr xu know about it. then the builder if they end up dating

i like to think post main storyline in mtap aadit is travelling the free cities, because he thinks that being in portia will only bring them danger or he'll hurt them again, so he is searching for a way to "fix" what he's done wrong and he's also afraid of what will happen to him.

post main storyline he can't even wear anything on his face, because it reminds him so much of his mask as rogue knight. he is terrified of accidentally triggering the rogue knight because he doesn't know what will happen

[lunarshifting]

Look, I know how we can easily forget time settings, but like.. imagine trying to have a conversation while using Gen Z lingo to the welcome home cast.

Groovy = Slaps

Example: "Wooah! That's so groovy!" Vs "Woah! That slaps so hard, no cap" (I know this context might be cringe but so am i)

Imagine the other person just going "huh???"

that would be so funny..

imagine introducing wally/Barnaby to rap music. That's funny.

Imagine introducing all of the technology we have to Poppy, and she's just like "but thats.. dangerous?!" And then showing her the trends of the past 10 years or so and she goes "WHAT??"

[yonghoontual]

Yonghoontual's Favorite Releases of 2022 Part 1

I'm gonna do this in parts again, with the categories being: Title Tracks (Group), Title Tracks (Solo), B-Sides (Group/Solo), Debuts, Non-Korean Releases, Full Albums, Mini Albums/EPs and last but not least Special Tracks.

Let's get started with the top Title Tracks. I'm going to include Pre-Releases in this as long as there's an official MV, too. These are my top 50 title songs in order from most to least favorite!

1. Love Dive by Ive 2. Universe_ by Onewe 3. Antifragile by Le Sserafim 4. Feel my Rhythm by Red Velvet 5. Last Sequence by WJSN 6. Flip That by Loona (Fuck BBC) 7. Ditto by NewJeans 8. Generation by Triple.s Acid Angel from Asia 9. When I Move by Kara 10. RUN2U by Stayc 11. Copycat by Apink Chobom 12. Flash by Rocket Punch 13. After Like by Ive 14. 458 by Cix 15. Athletic Girl by H1-Key 16. Love in Bloom by ILY:1 17. Forever 1 by Girls Generation 18. GingaMingaYo by Billlie 19. Super Yuppers by WJSN Chocome 20. Du Du Du by Tan

Places 21-50 are gonna be under the cut <3

21. Monochrome (Color) by Atbo 22. Shut Down by Blackpink 23. Nerdy by Purple Kiss 24. Talk that Talk by Twice 25. Attention by NewJeans 26. Wanna Know by Irris 27. Tap by Secret Number 28. DM by fromis_9 29. Higher by Fifty Fifty 30. Eye to Eye by Limelight 31. WooAh HIP by Mamadol 32. Catch the Stars by woo!ah! 33. Tick Tick Boom by CLASS:y 34. Ascension by Kingdom 35. Young Boy by NINE.i 36. Daydream by Highlight 37. Fearless by Le SSerafim 38. Thank You by Brave Girls 39. Dilemma by Apink 40. Pop? Pop! by CSR 41. Ven para by Weeekly 42. Feelin' Like by Pentagon 43. Same Scent by Oneus 44. Limbo by Nature 45. Creature by E'LAST 46. Danger by woo!ah! 47. Venom by Bvndit 48. Villain by Pixy 49. Stupid O'Clock by Victon 50. Cheshire by Itzy

And that's iiiit! I'm sure by tomorrow I will already have changed my mind about some of these placings but either way I love all the songs on this list (and more) <3 Onto the next one!

[mephinomaly]

[TL] Memories of a Doll/Chapter 3

Time: 2 hours later

Aira: Haa…haa…! I thought my heart was going to stop!

Today’s my day off, so I thought I’d sleep in late.

I never thought I’d be able to see Sakuma-senpai’s sleeping face so close up the moment I woke up!

Because of that, I got into a fluster, changed my clothes, and left in a hurry…!

Uuu. It’s an everyday thing, but I still haven’t gotten used to sharing a room with Tenshouin-senpai and Sakuma-senpai…! There’s a lot of happiness, but the pain is tenfold!

Pah, haa… (takes a deep breath)

Fuah. I’m calmer now. Only by a little bit…

Nn~. But, what now? I don’t have any plans, so I dunno what to do.

…? Is that park holding a flea market?

I wonder if there’s a partition I can buy to put in my room. If I surround my bed with them, maybe I’ll have some peace of mind…

Hajime: Thank you for your purchase…♪

Aira: Eh, is that-? What’s Shino-senpai doing here!?

Hajime: Ah, Shiratori-kun. Have you also come to check out the market?

Aira: Uhhh, yes. I was just in the area, and I was a little curious-

Not! Why are you at a flea market!? It’s dangerous for idols to sell their possessions you know!

Hajime: Dangerous…? Fufu, it’s nothing of the sort. It’s a very peaceful event.

Aira: No, it’s not that… There’s no security or sales staff either. Doesn’t it make you uneasy to think what might happen if trouble arises…?!

Gahh, I can’t really explain it to you Shino-senpai, but idol fans will scoop up everything here since they’re idol goods…!

Mitsuru: Are you okay, Hajime-chan? Somethin’ happening?

Adonis: It appears a customer is concerned about safety. Are any of our goods defective?

Aira: Owaa, Otogari-senpai and Tenma-senpai… You two came to the flea market too?

Hajime: Yup. Us three came together so we could sell our unwanted things.

After a while, once everything had calmed, Otogari-senpai and Mitsuru-kun went around the park and checked out some of the other stalls.

Adonis: I never thought Shiratori would be one of our customers. What did you say a moment ago…? That there’s danger around here?

Aira: N-no. If Otogari-senpai is here, there’s nothing to worry about! You’re way too intimidating!

If super brawny Otogari-senpai is here, no weirdo fans will approach us, y’know.

Mitsuru: ? Maybe I’m not gettin’ the full picture, but isn’t it better if there’s no problems at all~?

Ai-chan is better. We’re both here, right…? Y’know? Let’s go look at stalls together!

Aira: Is- is that okay? I mean, I’d love to join you, but surely I’ll be getting in the way?

Mitsuru: Getting in the way? Whadd’ya mean?

Ai-chan took the trouble to come here! Come onnn, you’re looking for real bargains too~☆

Aira: Wooah, alright then!

Adonis: Fufu. Tenma is having a lot of fun here.

By the way, Shino. Are sales doing well?

Hajime: Yes, it’s slow but I’m selling things off steadily.

With the way I’m doing it, I sell the products to whoever wants them.

It would be good if we could approach some people and advertise our stall to them. It feels like sales are dropping off a little.

We are idols, after all. It wouldn’t be good if we created confusion by standing out, and I really don’t intend to advertise things as “Shino Hajime’s belongings”.

Adonis: You must be getting tired tending to the stall, Shino. Could I lend a hand?

You can look around the grounds if you’d like. Everything has price tags, so I know how much to sell it for.

Hajime: Well, if you insist ♪

There might be some things that I need that other people don’t. I’ll take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…♪

Adonis: Ah, yes, please enjoy yourself.

By tending to the store, I may be able to understand the feelings people have towards things. I want to do it.

Surely this experience will allow me to get a deeper understanding of animism.

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