#rkyeri
rkyeri:
becoming a set member of eclipse has it’s perks. in fact, she thinks that it’s mostly perks. they’re finally getting closer to their dream, and they’ve been working hard for this for years, so why wouldn’t it be a good thing? she could think about how she hasn’t seen her friends for ages, and how she feels like some people probably think she dropped off the face of the earth by now. she might as well have, with how little interaction she gets with everyone who’s not an eclipse member.
it means that she hardly knows the new trainees either, and only kind of sees them as they come into the building. she’s aware of their presence, but has few opportunities to meet them. so she’s glad when chungha introduces herself. yeri stands up quickly, waving at the other girl. with her signature sunny smile “oh! hi! it’s not a bother at all! of course you should come in!” she gestures around the room, finishing off with a shrug. “it’s not like i own this place.”
“i’m yeri!” she takes a look at the other girl, trying to remember her. she had heard that she was on the mgas, but with everything going on this year she didn’t have time to watch all of it. “weren’t you the one with the boyfriend?”
it’s true. it’s not like she owns the place at all. chungha thought it was better to be polite and ask regardless. the other was a senior trainee and if she didn’t want to train with chungha, she could easily pull rank. she’s seen it happen before. although training with a senior trainee could work in her favour when learning the tricks of the trade, so-to-speak.
“yeri! your name is pretty,” chungha said with a smile and a polite bow of the head. “my name is chungha–” she huffs, pausing and backtracking on her statement quickly. “my real name actually is chanmi. chungha is a nickname all of my friends call me. it feels more like my name now.” it was a reflex to introduce herself as chungha. she’s almost vaguely aware of her doing the same on the mgas despite submitting her real name on the application. she knows while training they won’t go by her nickname. they would only refer to her as chanmi (as it was her legal name). they wouldn’t even refer to her as annie, she’s sure, despite it being her birth name.
chungha pauses before she could even get out anything else, staring at yeri in a bit of shock. her cheeks turn red. she’s annoyed, yes, but she knows that’s what mnet did to her image. she was “the girlfriend” of the season. it completely overshadowed anything else she did. there was no uproar when she was (unfairly) kicked off just before the semi finals because most of the public was angry that she wasn’t (perceived as) a lonely and single loser like the rest of them. bullshit.
“mnet made it seem like i was dating him. we’re not dating,” she insists, exhaling with a huff to calm any annoyance and refrain from it seeping into her tone. “trust me, i’m single.” not that it mattered anyways. if she was dating younghyun, she would have had to break up with him when she signed her kt contract. “besides we have a dating ban. i’m not so quick to break that when i just got here.”
rkyeri:
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“they’re eclipse! they’re super popular right now.” so maybe she’s overplaying it a little bit right now, but she thinks it’s a good time to promote them. if she wasn’t an idol, maybe she would have a career in marketing “did you see the blonde one? isn’t she cute? if you walk a few blocks down you can see her in the chicken store. you like chicken, right?”
eclipse. lucas runs the word over in his head, but he doesn’t recognize the group name for what it is. “eclipse,” he repeats aloud this time, pronouncing it the same way the girl does albeit slower and enunciating each syllable as he familiarizes himself with the name. “like, a lunar eclipse? or a solar eclipse?”
it takes a few seconds for him to understand what the stranger says. he’s not at the level of following along with a native speaker at their natural speed of speaking. not yet. sometimes he feels as though he’ll never reach that level, but that’s an issue to dwell over some other time.
as if on cue, when he turns back to the screen, the aforementioned blonde girl appears mouthing along the words of the song. she is cute, he has to admit. but then, almost immediately after, another girl takes her place and lucas is swayed. he points at a girl with light brown hair. “i like her better.”
lucas only takes his eyes off the screen once the girl is no longer focused on. from the corner of his eye, he keeps watch in case she returns on screen. “chicken store? can you show me where? i’ll buy you chicken as a thank you.”
a charisma starter for @rkyeri
on a warm september afternoon, vibrant scenery and cute girls catch lucas’ eye on the long way home from university.
there’s an led screen in the window of an electronics shop, a bright yellow price tag stuck to the bottom right corner. he doesn’t pay attention to the price; why would he when there are six pretty girls dancing on the screen? he can’t hear the song playing, but he can tell from their fresh and innocent expressions that even their voices must be cute.
this is the first time he’s seeing this group. lucas has been more in tune with boy groups in the current kpop scene. he knows vaguely of convex and per_se, though his expertise lies with the older groups that his mom inadvertently introduced him to. maybe, if all girl groups are like this, it’s time to expand his horizons.
“they’re adorable.” he’s in awe as he says this. eyes shining, lucas turns to the stranger standing beside him—another pretty girl. korea has a lot of those, he notes. jabbing his thumb in the direction of the screen, he speaks in heavily accented korean. “hey, do you know what group is this?”
5kmina: if she notices u pls tell her to follow me, too
scoobybin: LOL like that would ever happen… imagine anna from eclipse noticing me
scoobybin: SIKE
yericlipse: hello love you too
scoobybin: UARGHMDLKMLMLMDLKMKJDMKDKJDHNMDLKM?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?
scoobybin: haha hey ✌