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# 지노 : the man, the idiot, the nasa conspiracy theorist

[lgcjino]

meet ! moon jino ( 문지노 ), '03 — younger bro, professional idiot & perhaps the clingiest tall boi you'll ever meet.

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[lgcyushin]

yushin cackles at that comment, looking at jino with a feigned scrutinizing expression. "you seem to know a lot more about animated ducks than i do, but that's fun for random factoids. almost too much. did you have a part time job with either one of those animation companies before? or a collaboration?"

"i'm not usually on variety alone typically... usually with my group." but his group was getting smaller and smaller over time. so truthfully, it felt like he as an individual had more area to cover nowadays, but thankfully years of training and experience made it second nature. "although there are some variety shows i'd like to appear on. speaking of, how's your youtube channel going, bud? need a... duck feature?"

[lgcjino]

“did you not have a childhood of being disney whimsy? donald has so much lore!” jino laughs, shaking his head. “none of the above, just the good ol’ tossed in front of a television with cartoons on a saturday morning.” an hour or two of cartoons before breakfast and then a day full of clubs and activities. the moons of new zealand were nothing of the homebody-sort, jino had a jam-packed childhood — maybe this is where the treasure-trove of random facts came from. “don’t you know daisy duck?”

“ah,” jino had almost forgotten, alongside his momentary employment pause, erm — vacation — was also a break from his youtube channel. it had begun to be too much for him at the tail end of filming martine corporation, so he and his manager had agreed that it was a good time to step back. “that would have been a fire collab but i’m taking a break from that youtube stuff, i got so busy by the end of filming martine corp that i was kind of neglecting making videos. now would have been a great time for them but i think i need to just relax, focus on me and less ... stretching myself every-which way , y’know?”

[lgcjino]

@answlsh just posted a photo

home is wherever my heart is, or in this case, where the nearest london bagel museum is

[lgcjino]

FILE: MOON JINO _ PRE-SUMMER BREAK TIME

ah, the unemployed life — is what jino thinks the moment he’s told that he’s been given reprieve. whether this is a good or bad thing is hardly a matter to be discussed because in jino’s mind all he’s thinking about is the high school musical 2’s ‘what time is it? summertime’ song playing. 

three months is a lot of unsolicited time to be had and at first jino doesn't know what to do with it, especially when his girlfriend is no where to be found for the latter half of it. timing just was not their friend, her being busy with practice had given hima lot of more time that would had preferably been filled with dates. and jino was not a boy who was used to being left alone.

instead, jino fills it with practice — it’s been ages since he picked up his guitar, so he’s back to having a space of his time occupied by just strumming. he sees friends that he hasn't seen in ages, frequenting their homes unannounced, playing catch-up and enjoying lunches and dinners with people he enjoys spending time with.

having no work scheduled has left him with a lot of time at home and rather than dropping his dog, meong meong, at day care — her schedule changes to every other day and her off days are spent with him, spending times at parks and dog-appropriate cafes. 

when minseo leaves for nova’s world tour, jino makes a short trip back home to new zealand to see his family and friends. staying for the month amidst jokes of his friends saying he’s become an unemployed recluse and that he must have washed out of seoul — before heading back a couple days before june.

june was spent watching love island ( yes, he watches ) and facetiming minseo his reactions — it’s not going well, lol — and watching fifa world cup, go new zealand! go korea!

as of june 27, he is currently mourning the loss of korea and new zealand, he is not doing well. please send care baskets.

[lgcseona]

”i could have another,” she tells him, lips parting to form a smile. “but i’m not a fan of making a fool out of myself. i wouldn’t consider myself a lightweight, but,” seona’s eyes glance around at the various drinks available, temptation rising. “someone offers you a drink, then another comes, then another. it’s easy to go from one to two to three in a split second. i’d rather cut myself off now, before my speech, and then let loose after when there’s less to worry about.” she laughs.

”i did think about what i was going to say.” seona tells him. “probably too much,” she confesses with a laugh. “but at the end of the day, how much is there to say? thank you to this and that person for whatever they did. i’m grateful for the opportunity, i had such an amazing time, blah blah blah.” she shakes her head, letting out a sigh. “i think that’s what they expect from us. do you have anything revolutionary written down?” she raises an eyebrow, looking at him curiously.

[lgcjino]

jino was no friend of alcohol, four was definitely pushing it. he could feel his brow begin to bead with sweat; was it from the utter over-capacitated room of movie crew or the alcohol slowly digesting into his system? ( more likely the latter ) “definitely, definitely a slippery slope to something no one outside you and your close circle should see.” least of all people who had extensive power over your reputation and career. ah, he gulps down a heaping of water and immediately refills it — his only defense mechanism against the wolves that were the production team making their rounds and filling cups to the brim with anything above a 10% alcoholic percentage. 

“you’ve done this before, eh? what is it, fifth time’s the charm? thank this person, thank that person — crack a joke here, raise a glass there?” he laughs, an eyebrow crooked upwards as he jokes; “ah, trying to cash in on my wisdom?” he pulls his speech — barely more than a paragraph, and in typical jino fashion: short and sweet. running through his speech, he reaches for one of the more special lines: “oh — i did throw in a line from shrek in here.” 

[lgcxnoeul]

"It might be too late for that..." He delivers the news with a comical expression on his half, and a smile repressed from finding the situation comical albeit worrisome. However, the instructor saved them from coming out looking like lobsters, and that was a small victory for the two of them. He tosses the small tube of sunscreen towards his friend, shifting his attention to the pictures of previous instruction sessions. Some people look worse for wear, but he was hoping that he would end up on the other side of the spectrum. "But at least it's not a goggles tan. Now those are hilarious!"

"Should we make a bet?" How shocking that he couldn't go a single moment from betting on something with Jino. It was a reoccurring activity between the two of them at this point. He finds it hilarious to make a bet when it comes to finding balance on water when he was standing across from a man that had spent his youth in New Zealand, but confidence was an infinite source within him when it came to sports. "Over, or under... Who will gulp water more by the end of the session?"

[lgcjino]

“ah,” a ghost of a curse is at the tip of his tongue, bitten away as he rubs sunscreen carefully across his nose and around his eyes. “well, it can’t get worse, right?” he laughs, knowing in the back of his mind that his mom would definitely tell him that it can and probably will get worse the longer they’re out in the sun. jino sucks in his teeth, “okay, let’s not jinx that.”

his ears immediately perk up at the proposition of a gamble — now, jino wouldn’t call himself a gambler but there was truly a fun time when it came to betting between friends. “okay but how are we going to measure that … should we keep a tally of who falls in more? what if a toe dips in a bit? or a pinky? and does it count when we’re like … slowly sinking when the boat comes to a stop?” he laughs, “or, or — maybe how long we can stay upright?”

[lgcjisoo]

jisoo chuckles, turning over to jino which was actually quite a feat since he had become one with the sofa. thank you to former him who decided that yes, it would be a nice thing to furnish his apartment with pieces that he could lug around with him from place to place. long gone were the days of the one-room. ah, he still remembered.

"you are the living embodiment of mope." he only found it amusing because jisoo recalled the pain of relationships and the distance, especially in this industry. sneaking around. all that stuff that came along with it. the burdensome life of being in a relationship, and not being in one. but he'd rather return to the long distance bit than the whole... not knowing situation. "yes. it wasn't fun at all. it worked until it didn't, i guess. not that i'm trying to cause you the whole doom and gloom thing, because each relationship is unique. but i prefer being face-to-face - which can be difficult for people in the entertainment industry after all."

he pops over to the fridge to collect some more ice for both their drinks, before taking a seat back down. "is this the first time you guys are apart for a period of time?"

[lgcjino]

“i don’t mope,” says the mopester, chin falling deeper into his chest and the confines of the pillow in his arms. “i just miss her.” after months of only getting a couple hours in between schedules of time together, going days felt like torture. not actual torture — jino was just pure exaggeration at this point — but it was close enough! 

“nah, it’s okay." jino hopes the doom and gloom will never reach him, "if you don’t mind me asking, what didn’t work for you?” 

what also did not help was that finally getting a break in his busy routine meant not knowing how to fill his time, especially when he was used to spending whatever available moment he had with minseo. ah, if only he could hop on a plane to … where was she again? he collects his phone to check the countries she had said her tour was going to stop at -- oh, she was still in japan.

( hey! that was only a couple hours away, should he … )

immediately he opens the google flights tab, “yea, timing hasn’t really been on our side lately. she’s on tour, i’m on break, there’s no time for a proper date.” 

[lgcxnoeul]

heatwave

Instead of fueling his adventurous spirit, he should have planted himself in front of a fan with a cooler of icy treats. He had invited @lgcjino to take a wakeboarding beginner class on the hottest day of the month yet. He should have turned around the moment the wetsuit was handed to him, but that would mean the two of them wouldn't have shared the hilarious experience of struggling together while putting them on. He glances down with a grimace at the sunscreen mist in his right hand, contemplating whether he should spray it on his face. He recalls the irritation that lingered for hours when he did that the last time playing soccer, and yet, he still hadn't bought sunscreen lotion for his face.

"Do you have sunscreen for your face?" He asks as a last hail mary for his eyes. He figures he could cover his eyes and then spray his face, working in the sunscreen into his skin to avoid irritating his eyes. "I'll be prepared better next time..." He mumbles, knowing that was another lie, or wishful thinking. He would mature eventually in that regard. He rejoices when the instructor tosses him a small tube of sunscreen lotion. "I owe you one!"

[lgcjino]

“ah, good question.” jino muses, instantly tugging at his backpack to rummage through its contents despite knowing that he had not packed sunscreen when he had tossed his necessities into the bag that morning. "and i've got nothing," their savior comes at the hands of their instructor for whom jino’s mom would forever be grateful for because jino would never remember to put sunscreen on — twenty-three years later and jino decided it was too late to change this fact. 

“toss it here,” he raises his hands for the catch, already ignoring the nagging that he knows his mom will be berating him for once he sends the pictures of their lesson through text later that day. “just a little — last ditch effort to save me from that sunglasses tan.” he laughs, shoving the glasses that were currently perched on his nose to sit at his crown. a shadow of a tan can already be seen.

[lgchyoseop]

nintenduh

while hyoseop’s dad was a famous model, hyoseop did not share his love for modeling. hyoseop was confident about his looks, very confident, and you didn’t need to be close with him to know that. but hyoseop fully believes that cameras can’t capture his beauty, which is why he never posts a selfie, and only does modeling gigs when legacy tells him to. he’s well, not the biggest fan of having his pictures taken, and even though fans tell him he looks good in photos, he still shakes his head at that comment.

he’s drinking a vitamin drink before he spots a kind of familiar face next to him. “jino?” he says as he turns to look at the other, “it’s been a while, huh? hasn’t it?” while the two have interacted before, hyoseop can’t even properly remember when, so it must’ve been some time. “how are you feeling about modeling for nintendo? it sure is a big brand to model for…” he hums.

<3 @lgcjino

[lgcjino]

to say modeling has become second nature to jino would be a lie, far from it, but the awkwardness he feels about being in front of the camera lessens when he’s surrounded by people he knows — it also helps that the shoot today was for a brand he’s known all his life. being able to model for nintendo had never been the plan but he liked the perks of it. 

“hey! yea, long time no see, being busy probably doesn’t cut it. i heard you guys are coming back soon, you must be exhausted preparing for that.” word around the street had gotten around fast and jino was not immune it to — especially when fans had already begun campaigning around the company in anticipation for it. “so psyched, last year i thought would be the end of it but to be invited again to promote is always fun. at least this time i won’t have an audience if i end up losing a ‘game’, it’ll just be you, me and the camera.” he laughs, nodding his head to the makeshift set up of a living room with the nintendo switch 2. “have you played any yoshi games?”

[lgcjino]

FILE: PROJECT WR     :    PROMPT B AUDITION

his eyes run over the prompt twice — and he thinks, fuck, now ain’t this a pickle. some might think improvising should be a piece of cake for jino by now — but those who knew him knew that preparation was key, a little fake it ’til you make it never hurt anyone, y’know? 

after introductions are squared away and the prompt has been made in stone, all that is left is for the dust to settle and for the acting to begin … so when does it … begin?

( it’s not like jino knows how to turn it on or off a la superhero powers )

another once over the prompt —

you and your friend just saw something weird, you’re trying to figure out what happened but you and your friend disagree —

and go!

“okay, okay.” jino stresses, a hand up to disarm but the hasty movement of it all appears more hostile than placation. a hand pushes long strands of dark hair behind reddened ears, a subtle anxiety-filled tremor clinging to his fingertips that get pressed away into the rough planes of his denim. “let’s think about this, i can’t be the only one who thought that was weird!”

a pause, muttered retort has jino’s eyes widening in shock at such a rebuttal. “what was weird?! everything!” he delivers in a hurried, if not panicked, whisper. “now call me crazy but bookcases don’t just open at the drop of a hat — or well, book if we’re speaking frankly but you know what i mean!” his hands raise, exemplifying his words with every enunciated syllable. 

“and then when we come back to try it out, it doesn’t work! there has to be something going on here. why would there be a need for a secret passageway if you’re not keeping secrets!” hands on his hips as he hopes to make his point across. “and why make it so others can’t replicate it — at least put a sign up! we’re in a coffee shop for christ’s sake. sure, we broke in but we can go over technicals later.”

“i’m telling you — they’re hiding something and it doesn’t seem like some speakeasy business from the looks of it.” 

[cherrylgc]

lgcjino

( prev. ) with a loud thud goes cherry’s head and jino knows he’s not alone in his fret over mixed up words and the inability to become a professional tongue roller — he wonders if that’s a learned or birthed trait, maybe he should practice — but he bites said tongue rather than saying so. “i was going to say something but unfortunately all that comes to mind are bad bunny lyrics and i don’t think that would help either of us.” jino laughs, “shakira would be disappointed.” badly butchering spanish was something he’d rather save for the comforts of his home rather than a classroom with ears, eyes and witnesses. “let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. the professor didn’t say anything …” or had he? everything had happened so fast that jino wasn’t even sure from his para or his por.

cherry was very surprised back when she had learned japanese. when cherry came to korea, her korean was… very bad. she’d struggled like hell back then when learning the language, and had told herself she would never study a new language again, then legacy forced her to learn japanese. it repeated, cherry promised herself she’d never learn another language again, three was more than enough. weirdly enough she ended up learning a bit of german (storyline; her and a friend learned german to secretly speak with each other, cherry did in fact barely learn german). now at last, she was forced to study a new language once again, this time spanish.

“well… does shakira speak three languages?” she asks before shaking her head “i can’t help, but be confused though… what in the world do i need to learn spanish for?” she tilts her head a bit to the side. “i don’t think we’d be able to hold a conversation witg just bad bunny and shakira lyrics…. thinking further about it, maybe just learning shakira songs wasn’t the perfect way to study spanish… maybe i should… listen to jenifer lopez songs too or something?”.

[lgcjino]

now cherry surely had jino stumped there because for the life of him, he couldn’t quite figure it out either. was the agency branching out in the western arts? would the actors be embarking on their own spanish-infused tour? the possibilities were quite literally endless and jino often remarked that his overactive imagination would surely be lost trying to figure out just what production had in mind. 

“give me a second, google has not caught up to your question.” he jokes, pretending to type in said question into the search engine as he lets his phone screen fade to black. “while it did not help me learn the language, i definitely feel like it has given me a drop into the culture aspect and that counts for something, si?” don’t @ jino, he’s not sure if he’s used the right context there but he pretends for the sake of the lesson they just tried to learn. 

[lgcjino]

( prev. ) with a loud thud goes cherry’s head and jino knows he’s not alone in his fret over mixed up words and the inability to become a professional tongue roller — he wonders if that’s a learned or birthed trait, maybe he should practice — but he bites said tongue rather than saying so. “i was going to say something but unfortunately all that comes to mind are bad bunny lyrics and i don’t think that would help either of us.”

jino laughs, “shakira would be disappointed.”

badly butchering spanish was something he’d rather save for the comforts of his home rather than a classroom with ears, eyes and witnesses. “let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. the professor didn’t say anything …” or had he? everything had happened so fast that jino wasn’t even sure from his para or his por.

[lgcyushin]

"that's a wild question," yushin laughs, pulling his eyes away from a brown mallard duck, raising his brow at jino, clearing his throat. the sun is a welcome hello because it's been such a dreary winter, and at the first chance of free time (does that exist?) and sun, he changes his dhampir-esque lifestyle back into being a human. until he squirrels away in the studios again... "i think donald duck. because he sometimes seems happy. although why are the two ducks so stressed out all the time... is there a non-stressed out duck? scrooge looks stressed too," he trails off, hand on his chin in thought.

"but in all seriousness, donald duck. he seems to have a good foundational support system built up, but to be frank, i don't know all that much about him." yushin moves over to poke at jino. "that beats the question where people ask me about cheese, but i'm always all prepared for those. this- this is new."

[lgcjino]

jino raises his hands, a mimic of a scale in a way — or was it reminiscent of the 6-7 meme — the question raised a million questions in gauge of personality, backstory, love interests and friendships. “donald does have a girl,” and maybe in his book that put him above daffy. daffy also seemed out of sorts, always, in the cartoons while donald seemed to carry a happy repertoire with his bestie, mickey.

“and he does seem happier.” jino laughs, eyebrows wiggling as he pushes back at yushin’s shoulder. “gotta keep you on your toes, y’know? who knows what the hosts are gonna throw at you at the reality shows.”

[lgcjino]

BAILE INOLVIDABLE

it is unfortunate but jino has not been particularly well-versed in spanish — unless you include watching the super bowl halftime show which featured bad bunny — but jino didn’t think that meant much, nor were the constant replays of baile inolvidable or me porto bonito on his playlist. tapping his pencil along the table, he lazily looks over the notes he had taken during the workshop and was wondering just how much he would be able to successfully recite if ever prompted on the spot.

yea, languages were definitely not his strongest of suits. 

“you don’t think we’ll have some sort of presentation at the end, right? like come up with a conversation in spanish and speak it without note cards?” he wonders aloud, looking from his notes to those of @cherrylgc who had sat beside him at the start of the lesson.

it was basically acting, reciting, memorization — all things jino could do but doing it proficiently without butchering the accent might take him another few weeks. he could hardly roll his r’s!

[lgcjino]

THE MIGHTY DUCK WARS

introducing the scene: a spring day, two dudes on a bench, minding their business. han river lay peaceful in the background, people in and out, loitering about, some on picnic blankets, others running in the humidity; jino sits, with his shades on — admiring the sun as it beats on them. damn, it was hot, but hey — at least he'll get a nice tan out of this day. his fingers flick at the ends of his hair, it was getting long, maybe he should also schedule a barber session while he was at it.

amidst this peace, a quack echoes in the distance and it brings a question to mind. his finger points to the distance, drawing @lgcyushin attention to the duck in question. “donald or daffy?” then the question gets more specific, “who’d you want to be if you could choose.”

[lgcjino]

DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART YODEL? WEIRD

it is day ten of missing minseo and 424823 day of his break and he has moved from moping in his home to now moping on jisoo’s couch. “is this how it feels to be in a long distance relationship?” jino wonders aloud, he’s never been in one before and now he feels like there’s this depth in his chest that continued to grow deeper and deeper the longer he hasn’t seen minseo in person. 

he reaches for a pillow by his feet and hugs it to his chest, turning his body this way and that as if trying to find a comfortable space on the cushions provided to him. this won’t do — he missed her too much, should he call her? would that be rude to @lgcjisoo? jino turns his head to look over at the male, eyebrow arched as he gauges the other’s reaction to him whipping his phone out and calling his girlfriend …. maybe this wasn’t the time or place for it.

“have you ever been in a long distance relationship before?” 

[lgcjino]

@answlsh just posted a photo

this little man stole my looks! just kidding, what a blast from the past. happy children's day everyone ~