IN SUMMARY : Can Louis, Y/n AND Ryul escape the Backrooms?
Pause ⏸ : Plationic all across the board. I love writing this so much. Lowkey was watching sumn about illit lore and it inspired me to continue writing lol. I'm growing to like this little series a lot actually.
Part [1]
“Disrespectful little rat–” Ryul grumbled, looking up from his phone when receiving no response, only to be left stunned.
He was on a narrow street that stretched far out into a deep darkness. Houses upon houses were to the left and right of him, all of them seeming normal but having a very disturbing presence to them.
And it was dark. Even though he was 100% sure it had only been 1:32pm it looked like it was midnight.
“What the hell…” he mumbled, looking behind him, only to see more houses stretching back. He ran a hand through his hair in confusion only to freeze.
As he squinted into the darkness, his eyes started making out the form of something that was most definitely not a human.
He took a few cautious steps back but the thing, whatever it was, didn’t look like it had noticed him.
At least not yet.
Ryul looked around quickly, looking for a source of safety anywhere. He looked at the doors of the houses, thinking of heading into one but fearful that more creature things would be in them.
As he bit his lip in frustration, remaining as silent as possible, seeing more creatures in the area, he spotted a house far down the street.
It was the only one with lights on.
With a deep sigh, he snuck his way over.
Hiding behind houses, trees, abnormally shaped mail boxes, in order to avoid the creepy looking things.
As he neared the building, about to open the door, he heard the sound of childish laughter around him. He glanced around, still seeing the pure darkness, then looked up only to see a kite, flying away from the house.
With a gasp, he quickly pushed the door open, and shut it behind him.
He knew where he was now.
The house was almost empty, the source of light he’d been seeing having been a lamp that was on beside the window. He immediately turned it off, pushing the couch in the center of the room in front of the front door.
He’d finished moving it, about to search the house when he heard footsteps above him. He froze and prayed there was nothing in the building that could kill him.
He’d watched so many horror movies and always wondered why the stupid characters walked towards the source of noise, but it was almost like he couldn’t help but fill his curiosity.
He used his flashlight to guide him around, taking careful steps upstairs. As he got closer to the top of the staircase, he heard soft mumbling.
Not very creature-like behaviour.
He finally made it to the door of the room that seemed to be the source of the noise, he couldn’t fully understand what was inside but he would die trying.
He placed his hand on the door, about to turn it when it opened on its own.
“What thE FUCKK” someone screamed.
“LOUIS SHUT UP–”
Ryul had fallen face first into the floor, leaving him stunned for a few seconds.
The two people in the room had moved to the opposite side, not fully able to see what he was.
“Y/n i think it’s a person….”
“Louis the chances of meeting other humans here is like, i dunno, 20%”
“That’s a pretty big number–”
“There’s like a gazillion levels you idiot.”
“Oh…”
Ryul let out a deep sigh into the carpet. He knew who they were.
With a groan, he sat up on the floor, glaring at the two across the room. Louis' eyes widened as he finally realized who it was.
“Omg Y/n it’s hyung–”
Y/n immediately pulled the giant boy back, “Louis wait. It might be a skin stealer or something…”
Ryul paused, about to make an annoyed remark but nodded, impressed at the girl's caution. Only to almost jump once a knife was thrown in his direction.
“Y/n the fuck!!” he whispered, not wanting to attract any creatures to their location.
“Yea, that’s Ryul” Y/n nodded as she watched a small trail of dark red blood seep out of his cheek.
Louis, with the confirmation, flung himself to the older boy. Tears were already forming in his eyes. “Thank God you’re here hyung. We’ve been stuck here for weeks,” he cried.
Y/n moved closer, hands crossed as she watched the two. Ryul looked up at her, stretching out his arm, giving her full permission to crash against him too.
“I thought we were gonna die here…” she sniffled into his chest.
Y/n and Louis had been stuck in the backrooms for what felt like 2 weeks. After being dropped into level 0, they somehow were able to make their way all the way up to level 8, crawling through tight tunnels when they fell through the floor.
They’d landed in an house, with little to no furniture. Only an old TV that didn’t work, a big couch, a few kitchen appliances and bedrooms that were practically empty.
Louis had been the first to peek out the house through one of the windows, seeing an almost identical house opposite them.
After much deliberation, they agreed to stay in the house, keeping the lights off and only one lamp on just in case they were somehow found. And were they ever grateful that they were found.
Ryul held the two in a hug, gently rubbing their backs to calm them down. “How did you two even end up here?” he asked.
Louis looked pointedly over to his female friend who looked away sheepishly.
“Y/n tried to grab my phone when we were playing among us and we somehow no clipped here.”
After two weeks with y/n, he’d gotten a tad bit better at using the proper terminology for their situation.
Ryul nodded slowly as the two sat up next to him, “I didn’t know this stuff was actually real,” he chuckled.
“Neither did I,” Y/n grumbled before looking at Ryul, “do you know how to get us out of here?”
Ryul leaned his head on the door as he thought hard. All those theory videos were now flashing through his mind as he fought hard to remember their location.
Dark street, identical and similar houses, a bunch of entities, Y/n had mentioned a skin stealer, the creature he saw outside was probably a hound, all the lights were off so there may have been smilers on the level, and the amount of the kites in the sky could only mean the level was infested with even more entities.
“We’re on level 9,” he decided. “To get out of here, we’re gonna have to leave the house.”
Louis immediately shook his head, “Hell no. I am not going out there–”
“There’s danger coming this way Louis,” Ryul informed, “I’m pretty sure there was a warning kite right above the house when I came in… which was a while ago…”
The house shook.
“What was that?” Louis whispered.
“The danger the kite was warning us about,” Ryul whispered back.
“And that is?” Y/n asked.
“The neighbourhood watch.”
Approximately 20 houses down the street was a disturbing creature. It was about half the size of a house, an 8 legged creature, with all its legs extending from a singular eyeball that seemed to be scanning for something.
A strider.
Ryul quickly got up, dragging the other two up with him. He quietly opened the door, heading to the kitchen that opened up to a backyard with an empty field.
Before they left the house, he turned back to face the two who were obviously shaking with fear.
Though they had been dropping through levels upon levels the entire week, they had yet to truly come in contact with an actual hostile entity. Even Y/n who’d mentioned a skin stealer earlier hadn’t actually seen one yet and was only putting up a brave front.
“I know you two are scared,” he whispered quietly to them. The strider was 15 houses away now. “But you’ve survived this long, and trust me, it would be way better to die by drowning or literally anything else than what’s coming for us okay?”
Y/n nodded shakily, Louis still in an anxious panic.
“We can’t use our flash lights or else something else might come after us, but–”
He was cut off by the sound of childish laughter around him once more. The three of them looked up and outside was a kite, flying into the direction of the dark forest the backyard led to.
“That’s our sign?” Y/n asked.
Ryul nodded.
“Follow it.”
With that, the boy took off into the yard as quiet as he could. Ensuring to stay on the same path the kite was floating into.
The kite’s lazy speed hinted that the danger was still a safe distance away, but it was in the sky and they had to run. It was better to be safe than sorry.
Y/n and Louis followed after the kite, not knowing where they were going but sticking to the direction it led them in.
‘I am never EVER going to a sleep over again’ Louis screamed out in his head, tears pricking at his eyes as he headed deep into the forest.
The only sound that could be heard amongst the three was heavy breathing and the occasional breaking of sticks and their feet against the wet ground.
Y/n briefly looked behind her, eyes widening in fear at the smiley face a few paces behind her. A fucking smiler.
It dissolved as soon as she saw it and she faced forward, running into the distance.
None of them knew how long they’d been running for, adrenaline could do amazing things. But soon enough, they were out of breath and speed.
The kite was far behind them but still moving in the same direction, meaning they were as safe as one could be in a dangerous level.
Ryul, who typically didn’t get scared, felt his heart pounding in his chest. He didn’t want to die. His eyes squeezed shut as he pushed through the pain, running as fast as he could.
Only to trip on a rock.
He gasped, bracing for the harsh pain of the ground only to fall into a large barrel of hay.
“Fuck–” he gasped. Face scrunched from the little sticks poking at his face.
Hay?
He immediately got up and out of the pile, looking for the other two he came with. He saw y/n hunched over the floor, dry heaving and shaking in exhaustion.
His eyes scanned the area for the tall boy.
“Louis!” he called out, looking around worriedly but not being able to find him.
He looked to y/n who’d moved closer to him, an equal amount of worry in her eyes.
Louis was missing.
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IN SUMMARY : Can Louis & Y/N escape the Backrooms?
Pause ⏸ : More silly than scary for now.... This is going off like official backrooms lore btw! I'm learning more about the backrooms as I write this too lol, there will probably be more parts... PLATONIC!Louis x Y/n (for now?) Not proof read!
Part [2]
Their sleepover had been approved.
After weeks of coordinated dances, stupid debates and handwritten speeches, both teens had finally worn their parents down enough to let them use the L/n's furnished basement for one night, which, given they were already next door neighbours, was a whole lot of effort for not that much ground covered.
It was already 2 in the morning, and they had been lounging on the wide king mattress deep into a round of among us. One of their friends, Ryul, had somehow enabled a mod to let them play with 100 other people so best believe they were locked in.
“Louis it’s been 20 minutes, just tell me if you’re the imposter or not,” Y/n grumbled, completing another task as she side eyed the boy on the other side of the bed.
Louis shook his head in immediate denial, “Hell nah, you always win in this game, I’m not giving you no clues.”
Y/n paused, her lips pursed in suspicion. She knew he was an imposter but couldn’t baselessly accuse him without making herself the center of attention.
So she made a decision.
She leaped over to his side of the bed, trying to grab his phone out of his hands. Louis, who did not expect this in the slightest, immediately jumped back, almost falling off the bed.
He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to protect and shield his screen.
“JUST LET ME SEE IT”
“WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU Y/N–”
For a moment, their voices seemed to cut out. The they suddenly fell to the ground, which was odd cause they had just been on the bed a few moments prior. Y/n, feeling a cold and damp texture squish under her hands immediately got up, looking around in confusion.
Louis, sensing he had been freed, immediately looked to his phone only to find he had been disconnected. “Y/n you do this every time,” he whined loudly. Huffing in slight annoyance as he tried to reconnect to the game. It took him a few minutes, but he soon realized his friend had yet to speak. “Y/n?” he called out, finally looking away from his device (iPad kid lmao) and taking in his surroundings.
They seemed to be in a hallway. A very long one.
The walls were some desaturated yellow, the floor was a tan, damp and gross carpet. Upon the realization that his pants were getting all wet, Louis immediately scrambled to get up, drawing his phone close to his chest like it was some sort of weapon.
As a light flickered above his head, he immediately stepped back and right into–
“AHHHH” he screamed as he turned around quickly, only to be met with Y/n’s unimpressed glare. He immediately calmed down, clutching a hand over his chest, “Why’d you scare me like that”
“He bumped into me, mind you,” Y/n rolled her eyes, speaking to herself before turning back to continue inspecting the room.
She had a feeling of where they had landed. Hands pulling at her hair to ground herself as realization set in. “Louis… I need you to not freak out okay?”
She hadn’t heard a response so she looked around only to realize he was gone. “Louis?” she called out, panicked.
They could not get separated.
She saw faint steps in the carpet that lead to the next hall, she immediately ran in said direction. “LOUIS?!”
As she turned the corner, she saw the tall boy staring at what seemed to be writing on the wall. He turned to her in surprise, as though he hadn’t heard her calling.
“Yea?”
“Don’t fucking do that! Oh my gosh, what if we got separated???” Y/n scolded him, grabbing his hand and intertwining their fingers.
Louis briefly looked down before he glared at her playfully, “I’m not five you know?”
“You got lost in like two minutes idiot.”
“Touché” he murmured, nodding slightly. “Sooooo where are we?”
“The backrooms.”
Louis paused, turning to face her before laughing. “The backrooms,” he mocked. “Yea right. And i’m a kpop idol,”
Y/n looked at him unamused. “Dude really? We’re obviously not home, this is obviously like the first level of the backrooms or something, what other explanation is there???”
Louis paused, taking in her words and slowly understood. “We’re in the fucking backrooms….”
“There it is–”
“Y/N!” He yelled, gripping onto her shoulders and shaking her back and forth, “WE’RE IN THE–”
“Are you trying to get us killed?!” she shushed, silencing him with her palm. Y/n didn’t know much about the backrooms, most of her information had come from watching theoretical videos when hanging out with her friends, Ryul (again) and Woojin.
The most she’d known about the place was that there were supposedly an infinite amount of levels, with different entities, and a few rumored exits. She knew this room? Place? Whatever it was, she knew this level was safe. Well, for the most part at least.
All she could do now was either figure out a way to end up on a different level, try to get home, not that she knew of any possible methods, or just wander around.
She dropped her hands, seeing Louis shake in fear. “Okay, relax. This level is safe okay?”
He didn’t speak, too anxious to form words.
Y/n noted he still had his phone, she took it, smiling when she noted it was still at full battery, connected to the powerbank in his sweater pocket. “Bless you and your giant powerbank,” she smiled.
The connection was horrible but she didn’t need wifi, so she opened up his notes app and began writing. She wrote down everything she’d known about the disturbing place they were trapped in.
Louis sat next to her, gently rocking himself back and forth, refusing to leave her side even though she had assured him it would be alright.
“We have to get to level 1,” she mumbled, as she continued typing into his notes.
“What’s that?”
“Not sure, but I think that level actually has food…” As she’d mentioned it, she realized she hadn’t once felt even a bit hungry or thirsty. “Not that I think we need it but it’s better than possibly starving to death,”
Louis had been whispering to himself repeatedly, lightly hitting his head. y/n grabbed his hand to stop him from the disturbing act.
“Louis, I know this seems crazy, but you have to try your best not to go insane here.” She warned, her voice pleading. “There has to be some way to escape,”
“Why didn’t we force Ryul hyung to sleep over with us,” Louis mumbled sadly.
It was true, Ryul was the most knowledgeable of their friend group when it came to games and creepy theories such as this one.
“No time to worry about that,” Y/n sighed heavily, putting the phone into the pocket of her pyjama pants. “We have to find a yellow wall,” she said, pulling the boy up from where he had been.
Louis immediately stood behind her, using his shorter friend as a shield. “Aren’t all the walls yellow?” He noted.
Y/n smiled a bit, “One that looks weird. Like a brighter yellow or the pattern looks odd.” She then perked up slightly, moving to the wall with writing and using her earring to make a noticeable indent in the wall.
She turned to see the french boy looking at her in confusion, “So we don’t get lost. We should try walking in one direction till we hit a wall or something.”
So the two started walking in a random direction.
"How did we even get here?" Louis grumbled as Y/n dragged him along.
"We no-clipped through your bed," Y/n responded, keeping her gaze straight.
"And that means...."
"Like, you know how the flash like, phases through walls?"
"Yea?"
"Something like that"
"..."
"..."
“You’re sure nothing here can kill us?”
“Well, there are pits, red rooms and dark rooms, but as long as we don’t go near those we should be fine.”
“What if we fall into a pit?”
“Let’s not talk about that.”
“...Sorry for making fun of you for watching this stuff,”
“You’re good Louis,”
“Y/n what if i start to hallucinate?”
“You won’t”
“What if you randomly disappear?”
“I’m not gonna– Well there is a theory that people can time travel–”
“Y/N?!”
“Jeez, relax! That’s why we’re holding hands dude. So we don’t get separated."
❛ 𝓦𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒+𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒. ❜ angst ⠀·⠀⠀swimmer!keonho x volleyball player!reader ⠀·⠀⠀non-idol!au ⠀·⠀⠀ right person, never the right time
❛ 𝓝𝐎𝐓𝐄. ❜ a short old wip to commemorate blue lips mv release today 🥹 ⠀·⠀⠀sorry in advance guys i cried while proofreading this (it probably still has mistakes, idgaf i just want yall to cry with me) 😓 ⠀·⠀⠀also this is slightly different from my writing style but i’m tryna figure out what kind i like better :<⠀·⠀⠀and special mention to this bitch too @ramenoil fuck u
❛ 𝓦𝐂. ❜ 2.8k
the cruel thing wasn’t that you and keonho never dated. the cruel thing was that everyone around you assumed you would.
you were sixteen when it started—not officially, and definitely not dramatically. it just happened in the gymnasium after school—the heavy, echoing sound of a volleyball bouncing rhythmically against polished wood while a swimmer sat on the bleachers pretending to do his homework. his textbooks were always open to some random page he never actually turned, a mechanical pencil balanced between his fingers. he was just watching practice, and you were a girl who kept pretending not to notice how his eyes followed you across the court lines.
at first, he came because his practice ended earlier and his house was empty. then, he came because he liked the noise, or so he claimed when a teammate teased him. really, though? he came because you were there, but neither of you ever acknowledged the fact.
you’d look up after a particularly brutal drill, wiping sweat from your forehead with the back of your wrist, and there he’d be—dark hoodie that was too big for him, a huge swimming bag dropped carelessly by his feet, hair still damp and curling slightly from the pool, with one earbud in. he was watching—always watching—not creepily or obviously, but just enough, like he wanted to memorize the exact way you played before the world got too loud.
one day, your coach went completely ballistic, screaming at everyone to run suicides and laps and dives and whatnot until the gym floor felt like it was spinning. you collapsed beside the bleachers afterwards, your face completely red, legs burning, and entirely convinced you were actually dying right there on the hardwood.
suddenly, a freezing cold bottle of sports drink appeared in front of your face, condensation dripping onto your kneepads.
you looked up, blinking through the sweat. keonho, the boy whose presence you’d grown accustomed to, stood in front of you.
“you looked like you were about to pass out,” he said, his mouth twitching slightly into that stupid, affectionate smile.
“i wasn’t,” you defended, your voice sounding breathless and pathetic.
“you were.”
“i wasn’t.”
“you literally couldn’t stand two seconds ago.”
“that’s unrelated,” you rolled your eyes, snatching the bottle from his hand.
he laughed properly this time, head tipping back slightly, a low, genuine sound that usually got lost in the rafters of the noisy gym. you hated that laugh—you hated it because every time you heard it, something inside your chest shifted, and it made you feel completely defenseless.
after that, it became routine. it was just an unwritten rule between you—he’d bring blue sports drinks, you’d dig through his bag to steal his chocolate snacks. he’d carry your knee caps when you forgot them under the bench, and you’d send frantic spam texts reminding him to actually eat a real meal after his morning swim meets.
small things. tiny things. things that didn’t mean anything to anyone else, and yet meant absolutely everything to you.
nobody confessed, and nobody asked anyone out. you were young, you had practice tomorrow, and you had games next week. there was always time… or so you thought.
by seventeen, people knew. not officially, because there was nothing to put a label on, but everyone in your year knew.
“are you two dating?” your teammate asked during break, leaning so far over your desk she was practically sitting on your notebook.
“no,” you said, without looking up from your sketches.
“then why is he waiting outside class right now?”
“he isn’t.”
“he literally is. he’s leaning against the lockers. he looks ugly, by the way.”
your chest tightened. you glanced outside through the small glass pane of the classroom door, and keonho would immediately look away, rubbing the back of his neck, caught red-handed.
“no idea,” you muttered, turning a page to hide the flush creeping up your neck. your teammates never believed you, and honestly, neither did his.
at competitions, the gravity of it got worse because somehow, out of all the chaotic sports complexes in the city, you always found each other. different venues, completely different schedules, entirely different sports, yet somehow—always.
you’d lose a devastating match, and your phone would buzz against the bottom of your gym bag before you even finished crying in the locker room.
ahn 🩵: you played well
no greeting, no explanation. just that small message that made you feel just a little better.
after he finished a grueling freestyle race, you’d instantly send him a text.
you: you looked nervous before the start.
ahn 🩵: thanks?
you: it was cute.
you’d watch the screen. three dots. disappear. reappear. disappear again, as he probably choked on his water bottle on the other side of the city.
ahn 🩵: shut up.
you laughed into your palm for ten minutes straight in the back of the team bus.
it should’ve been simple—teenagers fall in love every day in cramped hallways and dusty gyms, the world keeps turning, and nobody notices. except by eighteen, the world had started noticing keonho.
it happened in a flash: national rankings, local television interviews, articles online, athletic sponsors, followers multiplying by the thousands overnight—people started calling him the future of the sport, the next big thing, a prodigy, a star. and the higher he rose into that suffocating atmosphere, the smaller his actual world became. every single hour of his day was scheduled by adults, every public appearance managed, every single word monitored by a PR team.
you noticed the cracks before anyone else did, because you noticed everything about him. you noticed the way he started looking entirely exhausted under the fluorescent school lights, the way his real smile appeared three seconds later and disappeared much faster, the way he checked his phone constantly like he was waiting for the leash to tighten, and the way he stopped laughing as loudly in the corridors.
one evening, you found him sitting completely alone on the concrete steps outside the swimming centre, still in his damp training clothes, staring blankly at nothing in particular.
“bad day?” you asked quietly, stepping into his line of sight and sitting beside him.
he jumped slightly, then smiled. the automatic kind. the fake kind. the polite, professional kind that never reached his eyes and was meant for reporters. “just tired.”
neither of you spoke after that. students passed in a blur of motion, streetlights flickered on one by one, and the city grew darker and colder around you. after a while, he leaned his head back against the cold brick wall and closed his eyes, his breathing heavy.
and for the first time in months, he looked his age. not a future olympic star, not an athlete, not a headline—just keonho, eighteen, exhausted, and human.
your chest hurt immediately—a sharp, ridiculous ache. it was unfair how much you loved him. you wanted to reach out, take his hand, and tell him he didn’t have to be extraordinary when he was with you, but you didn’t.
he wanted to ask you to stay right there beside him forever, to stop the clock from moving, but he didn’t.
that was the ultimate problem—you both kept choosing later, assuming the world would wait for you. it wasn’t going to.
you figured that out the hard way, because three months before graduation, the articles finally flooded the internet like a tidal wave: ahn keonho signs with major management company. olympic prospects. young swimming sensation rumored to be preparing overseas training.
you stared at your phone screen in the quiet of your bedroom, your heart sinking straight into your stomach, because he hadn’t told you a single word about it. not yet.
you convinced yourself he was just waiting for the right moment, that he would tell you after practice, but he didn’t—not because he wanted to hide it from you, but because the reality of it made every conversation feel impossible.
how do you tell the girl who knows your real laugh that you’re moving across an ocean?
suddenly, the calendar bled out. there were only two weeks left, then one, then three short days, and the silence between you was growing heavier than the pool water.
the night before graduation, you found him in the school gym. it was empty, dark, and completely silent—the same place everything had started. he was sitting in your usual spot on the bleachers.
you sat cross-legged beside him. for a long time, neither of you spoke.
“you’re leaving.” it wasn’t a question.
he nodded. “yeah.”
you stared ahead at the court. “okay.”
it was a pathetic, devastating word, because what you actually wanted to say was ’don’t go’, and what he wanted to say was ’come with me’, but neither happened.
“i watched your first practice here,” he said quietly into the dark.
you laughed softly. “that sounds creepy.”
“it probably was.”
“definitely was.”
he smiled, looking out at the court. “you were terrible.”
your jaw dropped. “i was not!”
“you missed, like, seven serves.”
“it was one serve.”
“it was seven.”
“it was one!”
the argument felt familiar, comfortable, and warm—the kind of conversation you only have with someone who matters, someone you’ve loved for years, and someone you’re about to lose.
the realization hit both of you at the same time. the laughter faded, and the heavy silence returned while rain began tapping against the windows outside.
keonho swallowed. you noticed, because you always noticed. his hand was resting on the bleacher between you, and your hand was only inches away—just inches. your skin practically buzzed from the proximity, the heat of him right there, but it was a distance neither of you crossed.
“you’ll do well,” his voice was incredibly quiet, almost swallowed by the sound of the storm outside.
“so will you.”
another pause.
“i’m going to miss watching your games,” he admitted.
you looked down at your knees, blinking rapidly because if you looked at him now, you might cry. “i’m going to miss your stupid texts.”
a laugh escaped him, small and broken. “those were good texts.”
“they were terrible.”
“they were excellent, because they made you laugh.”
the rain grew louder, but neither of you moved. neither of you left, and neither of you confessed, because somehow a confession felt too small for what existed between you.
love wasn’t the problem; you were already there. the problem was timing, distance, fame, and the entire world standing between two teenagers.
eventually, he stood up. his joints popped slightly in the quiet gym, a harsh, grounding sound that meant time was up. you stood too, and the gym suddenly felt enormous—too much space, too much air, too much ending.
he looked at you—really looked at you, his pretty eyes hidden slightly under his bangs, as though trying to memorize every detail. and you realized, helplessly, that was exactly what he was doing—memorising the shape of your smile, the curve of your eyes, the way you tucked your hair behind your ear when you were nervous. everything.
he reached out, his hand hovering for a fraction of a second like he might actually touch your cheek, trace the line of your jaw, do something. your breath hitched. but his fingers just twitched, dropping back to his side as he clenched his fist into his pocket.
“good luck,” your voice cracked, small and pathetic.
he nodded once, his throat bobbing as he swallowed down whatever else he wanted to say. “you too.”
then he turned and left.
he didn’t look back. you watched his back—the broad slope of his shoulders under his dark hoodie, the heavy swing of his swimming bag—as he walked toward the double doors. the click of the latch echoed like a gunshot in the empty space. and then he was gone.
just like that. no confession, no kiss, no dramatic movie ending. just a boy walking out of a gym, and a girl left standing there, looking at the empty doorway like he was still something extraordinary.
you hated it—you hated him. you loved him so much.
years passed, and the world outside that gym caught fire. your volleyball career exploded, but his swimming career became an absolute monolith.
by nineteen, keonho wasn’t just a boy who smelled like chlorine anymore; he was a brand. he was a national asset.
the change was dizzying to watch from a distance. suddenly, you couldn’t walk into a convenience store without seeing his face plastered over billboard advertisements for luxury watches, sports drinks, and skincare lines. he had stylists who tamed his messy hair that you loved, managers who curated his public captions, and media trainers who taught him exactly how to smile for the flashing cameras without actually revealing anything at all. you realised you hadn’t seen him actually smile for years now.
his world became hyper-curated, clinical, and completely suffocating. every interview was a rehearsed script. “i’m just focusing on the upcoming trials,” he’d say into a cluster of microphones, his eyes blank and polite. “i owe everything to my coaches and the fans.”
you hated those interviews. you hated them because his smile appeared too late and disappeared the moment the camera panned away. you knew the exact cadence of his real laugh—the raw, head-tipping-back kind that made you laugh too—and you never heard it on television. not once. never after high school ended.
sometimes journalists asked him about high school memories, trying to find a human angle for their articles. he’d mention volleyball—only volleyball, every single time. “there was a great energy in the school sports department,” he’d tell a reporter, keeping his voice perfectly level. “the volleyball team trained right next to us. it kept me motivated.”
the internet went wild trying to decode it. rumors flew quickly across forums—was he dating a volleyball player? did he have a secret first love? but he never dropped a name, never gave them a single crumb to follow. people never understood why he was so fiercely protective of that one specific, mundane detail of his youth.
neither of you explained.
at twenty-three, you sat cross-legged on a hotel bed halfway across the world, your laptop screen illuminating the dark room. your own team had a major match the next day, but you were wide awake, watching him stand on an international podium.
the arena was deafening, and you could hear it thrugh the screen itself. thousands of people were screaming his name, waving banners with his face on them, camera flashes exploding like miniature stars in the arena.
he had a gold medal heavy around his neck, flowers in his arms, and the entire world looking at him with absolute adoration. and all you could think, your chest aching immediately with a ridiculous, familiar pain, was that he was still biting the inside of his cheek. right there on global television, surrounded by endless applause, his jaw was tight, his teeth catching the inner lining of his mouth.
he was terrified and exhausted. and some habits never changed.
that same night, oceans away, keonho sat in the back of a sleek black car, the city lights blurring past the tinted windows. his phone buzzed in his palm; not with a text, but with a google alert—an article about your team winning a major championship.
there was a photo attached: your hair was messy from practice, your face flushed, a heavy trophy raised high above your head as you laughed with your teammates. you looked pretty when you were tired… which was completely unfair.
he stared at the screen for a long time as the driver silently navigated midnight traffic.
his thumb hovered over the keyboard, ’congratulations’: fifteen simple letters. he typed it out. his thumb shook slightly above the send button. but then his screen flashed with a notification from his head manager, reminding him of a 6:00 AM press conference and a commercial shoot. the corporate machine waiting to swallow him whole the second the sun came up.
he looked back at your photo. you looked so bright, so grounded, so entirely untouched by the artificial gold cage he lived in.
he deleted the text.
he never sent it, not because he didn’t want to, but because he wasn’t sure if reopening that door would save him—or completely destroy the one pure, quiet thing he had left.years later, people would say ahn keonho had everything—fame, success, medals, recognition. and maybe they were right. but sometimes, late at night, after the endless applause died down and the managers left him alone in an empty luxury apartment, he’d remember a nearly empty school gym. a girl laughing beside him, pen ink smudged against her hand, and a distance of just a few inches that he had been too afraid to cross.
he’d wonder, for the rest of his life, whether the greatest thing he ever lost was never actually his to lose. while somewhere else in the world, sitting in the quiet of your own room, you’d wonder the exact same thing.
⌣ ﹒ ୨ৎ ﹕an. hey so 😂😂😂😂😂 i cried. like a fucking baby. ⠀·⠀⠀also this reminded me 2521 sb i want to cry all over again 😁
this blog posted nsfw for martin and is planning to do one for juhoon too.
another nsfw blog posting for martin
how many times do coers have to say that martin and juhoon just recently turned 18 and aren’t even legal in korea yet? have some shame. we’re tired of repeating the same words over and over again. this isn’t right.
this blog posted nsfw for martin and is planning to do one for juhoon too.
another nsfw blog posting for martin
how many times do coers have to say that martin and juhoon just recently turned 18 and aren’t even legal in korea yet? have some shame. we’re tired of repeating the same words over and over again. this isn’t right.
hi, so?????? tf. genuinely what happened to shame 😭
every time i open tumblr there’s another nsfw fic about martin or juhoon and like?? those are actual people btw???
like fanfiction is one thing but writing explicit stuff about real people WHO JUST TURNED 18 and posting it is genuinely so weird to me. especially when these are real teenagers/young adults who did not ask to be turned into characters in somebody else’s fantasies.
and before anyone starts typing “just scroll”, that is NOT a good argument, my dude. like, not to be a hater (yes, i do mean to be a hater, actually) but if your hobby is writing nsfw fanfiction about kids and then posting it publicly for the entire internet to see, i need you to look me in the eyes and explain the fuckass thought process.
these are actual human beings btw. not wattpad ocs. not fictional characters. actual people with functioning internet connections. because at the end of the day they have lives, families, friends, boundaries, and the ability to google themselves. i don’t know why we’ve reached a point where taking a real person and turning them into the subject of explicit fantasies is treated as a completely normal fandom activity.
“they’ll never see it” is such a strange defense because why is the standard for acceptable behavior whether you get caught. if the only thing making something okay is the assumption that the person involved won’t find out, maybe that’s a sign to rethink it?
also ‘don’t baby them!’ does NOT mean you go ahead and sexualise them‼️
i don’t care if it’s in the tags, behind a keep reading break, on a sideblog, locked in a vault at the bottom of the ocean, etc. just don’t do it, bro, IT’S NOT THAT HARD TO BE A NORMAL PERSON WHO DOESN’T ACTIVELY SEXUALISE THEM 😭
some of the people on this app have gotten way too comfortable forgetting basic facts and human decency.
i absolutely love downbad! reader because it’s basically a reminder (more so reality check) to myself that WE yes WE are actually the ones yearning after these idols and not the other way around 😭🙏 but don’t get me wrong i like them boys yearning but what about us lover girls.. the lara jean coveys??
#NEEDMORE she fell first/he fell harder content where she thinks he doesn’t reciprocate but they’re end game like… sunjae with im sol from lovely runner and or setoyama with nozomi from our secret diary
PART ONE ─── everyone either has a guardian angel or guardian devil. what keonho has is a guardian devil named seonghyeon sitting on his left shoulder whose favorite thing to do is annoy the lovely guardian angel (you) that sits on his right.
or newbie guardian devil!seonghyeon has a crush on you, the prettiest guardian angel ever, and makes it his job to annoy you (but at the same time, he’s also obsessed with you?). ++ also you guys babysit keonho (the worst kid ever) who apparently sent his former guardian angel (juhoon) to the psych ward, chased the tooth fairy, and played with the underworld's dog, cerberus ... (｡Ó﹏Ò｡)
or texts with your fellow guardian, seonghyeon & the 17 yr old (terror) kid you guys are babysitting, keonho.
contains guardian devil!seonghyeon x guardian angel!reader. ft. human!keonho, angel!juhoon, devil!james, human!martin, angel!lesserafim. romcom, crack smau, fantasy au. lowk enemies to lovers (depending on the situation ig). basically cortis if they were angel/devils. keonho is like timmy turner, you’re wanda, & hyeon is cosmo (from fairly oddparents). mentions of hades and his dog, cerberus!
( 🪽 ) —— i can't believe this smau has gmail, discord, whatsapp, imessage, & all in one.. another draft done! (yes there will be part 2.. and part 3...) i enjoyed making this & i actually laughed reading my own texts... anw, enjoy! likes, comments, & reblogs r always appreciated <3 mwah
( 🪽 ) —— thank you for reading till the end! <3 wanna be tagged in the next part? comment or send me an ask!
How would chat feel about me writing Unstable Universe x reader fics? ฅ゛
However, I will strictly only be writing it with c!characters (as an example, c!wifies x reader either platonically or romantically.) ― Up until I am made aware―with proof, that the Content Creators themselves have allowed the creation of fanfiction of their actual social media pressence.
Alongside that, under NO circumstances will NSFW suggestions, anonymous requests, and work be tolerated in this blog. That means no sharing, creating, or showing others.
PS: I am very open to being educated whether the fandom would like, or dislike this idea! I have grown very fond of the fandom for quite some time now, and have quite the hyperfixation. This is one of my ways to share my love for this media, and would like to know if the Content Creators that are included in this very media, comfortable with this, and alongside that, if ever the fandom would like these kinds of media be shared in their community. Feel free to let me know!
“obviously my bias in cortis is seonghyeon, i literally have him as my tumblr username!”
i said to myself while having two martin photocards, keonho set as my wallpaper lockscreen, liking juhoon x reader posts, and talking about how fine james is almost all the time on every social media platform..
sean as a genie LMAO bro is a cutiepie.. overall the acai mv is amazing i rlly love the concept!! the dessert part was giving me dune vibes specifically
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