ALBRECHT

|| he/him || || ao3: albrechts||

[sidejoong]

— Red Fox Wooyo 🦊

[aibrechts]

CHRYSALIS

• Unrequited Wooyoung/Hongjoong

• Transmasc Hongjoong

• Coming of age

• Hurt/Comfort, angst with a happy ending

• 40k, completed

[aibrechts]

Do you ever find yourself wanting to go back to older fandoms?

i do not control the hyperfixations

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 9: aurora

He isn’t a stupid teenager anymore, too young to know not to take everything so seriously. He’s grown up now, he’s mature now, he’s an adult who should be in control of his emotions and the way he treats the people who love him. 

But he doesn’t really feel like a grown up mature adult right then, caught beneath a sudden pang of selfishness and guilt and the immediate and overwhelming desire to be consoled.

He wants to be reassured, to be held and told it’s alright and you worked hard and I see you, I see everything you’ve done, and I’m so, so proud of you.

He wants it so desperately he aches, and something fragile and weak inside him that he has hidden far away for far too long has been pulled out from behind the steel walls he’s built around himself by Hongjoong’s calm, soft-pitched voice, the mellow feeling of peaceful safety that nudges at him; the insistent lap of ocean waves against the waterlogged pillars of an old sand-dusted pier. 

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 8: armand

“Is that what you do?” Wooyoung asks as he begins. “Just… get used to things?”

“If I like it this much,” San admits, “I think it’s less like that and more like enjoying even the difficulties.”

“And if you don’t?” Wooyoung pushes.

“If I don’t like it,” San breathes a laugh, “then I don’t really stick around long enough to find out what happens next. I’d lose interest too quickly for that.”

“But you’re still here,” Wooyoung says, and San thinks for a moment that maybe they aren’t talking about ballet anymore. 

He rests his elbows on the back of the chair, cups his chin in his hands. Eyes on Wooyoung’s turnout, the liquid flow of his working leg moving against his loose pants. He makes these plain, easy movements look like waves lapping against the shore. “Yeah,” he considers and thinks about how somehow, despite leaving Namhae behind, the ocean has seemed to find its way back to him. “I’m still here.”

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 7: des grieux

"Well," Wooyoung hesitates, dragging his thumb over his lower lip and turning his pretty eyes up towards the ceiling, "the reason is a bit… somewhat to do with I think he might have somehow gotten the impression that we've also been dating for a few years. Maybe."

San's eyes widen, a sudden rush dropping into the pit of his stomach, and all he can think of to say is, "I quite literally kicked you. Off the couch. Onto the ground."

"Yeah," Wooyoung shoots him a sour glance from the corner of his eye, "you did. And he kinda said something like, Oh you must be really close Sannie never tells anyone when they've upset him but he actually snapped at you, and I was like Oh wow lucky me," he half-mocks.

"And he didn't just assume I couldn't stand you," San states, disbelief warring with an almost hysterical instinct to laugh.

Wooyoung raises his hands, helplessly shakes his head. "I didn't say anything! And he kind of didn't say anything outright, and I didn't wanna be whatever the reverse of I have a boyfriend is, so I just kind of. Left it alone. I'm sure it's harmless."

San squints at Wooyoung, struggling and absolutely failing to figure him out. "And you’re just…fine with that."

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 6: rite of spring

San is sure to keep his expression perfectly, neutrally clear. “Do you want me to talk to them?”

“No,” Seonghwa’s answer is quick and firm, and brooks no argument. “I don’t want it blown out of proportion,” he says. “I just want…” He hesitates, his certainty crumbling, just a little. His voice is quieter, softer, when he asks, “Do you think they’ll ever stop hating me?” 

He’s looking down this time, dark star-lit eyes watching San’s hand as it reaches out, catches one of the nervous fists at his side and smoothes it out, links their fingers together. 

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 5: hilarion

Something lurches in San’s chest, and he chooses to ignore it. He shrugs, lowers his eyes down to the path and kicks at a stray rock, knocks it further down the walkway and watches it skitter towards Wooyoung’s side. “He’s my neighbour’s kid, so I looked after him a bunch. He’s like a little brother to me.”

“And you’re like the boy next door to him,” Wooyoung counters, kicking the same rock as they pass it. 

“I don’t see it like that,” San admits, because he’s never seen it like that, and while it kind of makes a lot of things make sense he doesn’t think it changes in any way any of the affection he has for Junyoung. 

“I’m not talking about how you see it,” Wooyoung says, knocking the rock again. 

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 4: giselle

He recognises the pier, waterlogged and sand-swept. He probably wouldn’t have recognised the anonymity of the back that’s turned to the camera but he recognises the dusted bleach-blond of his own hair, the wearied, exhausted bunch of his shoulders with his head dipped down between them.

It’s a beautiful photograph - the pier’s crumbling lines drawn towards the crisp depths of the ocean, leading the eye to San’s defeated form, centred, the sun hanging low over him as though its weight is what is crushing him down. 

It feels strange to be reminded of that day, and of how much he’d been hurting, through a photograph that frames it so prettily. 

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 3: albrecht

This is the only place, the only state where he has ever felt truly and wholly himself. Alive in every way, and not just the ones that matter. 

But still, sometimes…

Sometimes he feels like Icarus.

Sometimes he feels so whole, so overwhelmed by his own freedom that he can’t help but wonder if this happiness is too much.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chaoter 2: lescaut

Wooyoung looks at him and, as with every other part of him, San is reminded only then of the strange power of those eyes, the oceanic pull of them. He is the tide inching back, evaluating and grand, and San is the driftwood and detritus laid out in disturbed lines along the sand. 

He tilts his head in a curious question, playful whitecaps teasing the sky at a distance just too far to reach despite that he is sitting right next to San, despite that he is looking right at him, despite the way he pinches his lower lip between his teeth and drags blunt incisors unthinkingly over the little mole that rests there. “Have we met?”

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

chapter 1: margeurite

San looks at him and wonders if this man is a Giselle, or a Nikiya, or Manon. If he will entice San to come closer and closer still, and lead him to tragedy. 

He wonders why there aren’t so many stories with happy endings.

Like eyes adjusting steadily to the night sky, he notices another freckle beneath his eye and wonders if the longer he stares, the more will appear. 

“You don’t owe me anything.”

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aibrechts]

♧ APOLLO ♧

• WOOSAN Ballet AU

• Slow Burn, 100k+

• Side SeongJoong

• ND found family

• San has ADHD

• He/They Yeosang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[kpopper]

Are you ready for this?

[secnghwa]

YOU’RE SO GOOD AT BEING BAD.

[hualiann]

i’m just gonna put this thread by op here for the jiang cheng loving community @hiiarions

[story-kat]

Art by  Raineemeow

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