MK Veteran

Fan Yao, but you can call me Vet. Leader of ACE, with a smirk than can kill. Pre-debut member of UNION

[rvsolhee]

“Your methods are ridiculous and so are you, “Eliza said scathingly with a grin, tugging him even closer. She rested her head on his shoulder–or, well, she attempted to. He was a little too tall for her. “Brandi? Um, she really likes tea. You could make her some of that? Or, I mean get her some. I definitely wouldn’t ever let you near a kitchen…I’ll hold you to that, you know. Hoodies and sweatpants. And I’m not wearing any makeup, so get ready for that madness.” She snorted, her cheeks going a little pink, though she covered it pretty well (or, she thought she did. She pretended like she did was probably a little more accurate). “I always look amazing,” she replied, glaring at him with a smile. Yao was so awkward. They’d been friends since she was sixteen, at least seven years by this point. He was less awkward than eighteen-year-old Yao had been, but he was still so, so awkward and it was cute. She played with the window, opening it an inch or so and then closing it, rolling the window up and down over and over again as she held his hand. “I’m sure I will. I still want to know what it is, though, I think I deserve to be told. I’m wearing heels for this, Yao.” She eyed him suspiciously, her eyes narrowing as she squeezed his hand. “Are you going to propose to me or something? Is that why you’re being all weird?”

[mkfanyao]

“I’m good with tea. I can pick some out for her or something. Oooh, maybe I can get mom to send me some specialty tea to give her or something. Something rare or something, I dunno. You could help me pick it out too...” He smiled a little, nodding. “I know, I know. No more trying to cook things for me. I get it. I’m lucky you’re a decent cook--between you and Insoo, I don’t have to worry about starving or anything.” Yao chuckled, straightening her hair affectionately. “Hoodies and sweatpants. And cuddling in bed and watching movies and eating junk food. And definitely no makeup. Oh, shut up---you’re incredible. With or without makeup,” he scolded gently. Hell, she could wear a paper bag over her head, and he’d still see her as the most beautiful woman on the planet. “Yep. You sure do,” he murmured sweetly. He was a bumbling mess, but at least he was (finally) getting more comfortable in his own skin, and Eliza played no small part in that. He was tempted to put on the child lock on the windows, but he resisted the urge, squeezing her hand gently instead. “You’ll find out soon enough.” His eyes widened in turn and he shook his head quickly. “No, I told you, I’m waiting for that. For when it won’t even occur to you that’s what I’m doing. No, this isn’t nearly that exciting.”

[mkdojin-blog]

“Bragging isn’t polite, you know,” Dojin told his student with an eyeroll, taking a sip from his water bottle and spinning idly in his chair. “I’m supposed to be training you right now, you know–is this your clever little way of trying to get out of work?” He sighed. “Fine. Only because you’re buying, though.”

[mkfanyao]

“Yes and no. I really am hungry,” Yao replied with a small smile, nodding to his friend. “I’ve been practicing anyway---I don’t need much training. Where do you want to go? Been craving anything special lately?”

[parkstella]

Yuhye puffed out her cheeks, a little jealous of him and his free schedule, well a more clear schedule than she had. She hummed at his offer, it was tempting but she planned to use this time to nap between schedules considering she had to be off and part of a variety show in 2 hours. “Fine, but let’s go somewhere where the food doesn’t take eight billion years to be made after ordering it.”

[mkfanyao]

He nodded, smiling. “That sounds good to me,” he replied, scratching his nose lazily. “So did you want fast food, then? Or did you have a good place to eat in mind?”

[mkfanyao]

“You know, with all these subunit debuts, my schedule is the free-est it’s been since my debut,” Yao commented with a smile and a little sigh. He’d lost a lot of sleep in the past year with ACE’s insane schedule, and it seemed like he could finally catch up. “I think all this spare time calls for celebration. Lunch--my treat? C’mon, don’t turn me down...”

[rvolly-blog]

He bit his lip, trying to decide what he’d do next. It wasn’t often people were able to stump him and make him want to not be such an asshole, but he was deciding if it was worth it in the situation. Maybe he didn’t want anybody seeing the copious amounts of images Hyosang he had saved on his phone, or maybe he did. Regardless, he deadpanned. “I mean if you think you can handle a thousand text messages from Zhen keeping you up all night, and whatever else you want to do, go ahead.” He said, shrugging, “I’ve got some cool apps on there if you ever manage to figure out my passcode.”

[mkfanyao]

A small smile appeared on his face, and he nodded a little. “As technologically inept as I am, I do know how to work a power button. I don’t think it would be so hard to turn it off,” he pointed out, his hand still holding out the phone for the younger to take. He added sheepishly, “I can barely remember my passcode. I wouldn’t worry about me figuring yours out.”

[jiminsbellybutton-deactivated20]

[myasiaobsession-deactivated2025]

[mkfanyao]

@mkinsoo

“I think you’re cheating,” Yao muttered to the toddler who he kept losing to in rock, paper, scissors, glancing with a smile to the child’s uncle, who was looking on from the side. “This your doing, Insoo? You cheat too. Maybe he takes after you.”

[rvolly-blog]

Somedays Teddy couldn’t be bothered for human interaction, let alone full-blown conversations and today was one of those days. “What were you saying?” He asked, looking at the other for a few seconds before looking up and following something as if it were flying away, “Oh dear, the amounts of fucks I give seem to have left me.”

[mkfanyao]

An eyebrow raised up at the younger’s words and he sighed. There was a time when something like that would terrify him, but apparently Eliza had rubbed off on him. “I’ll return your phone some other time, then?” he said awkwardly, clearing his throat and holding it up. “It fell out of your pocket. Thought it might be important, but I guess I thought wrong.”

[ikchaoxing-blog]

@mkfanyao

“You know, I never liked you,” Jin said, glaring at Yao but smiling–he didn’t mean it, of course, but he was a little fed up. The younger rapper often asked him how UNION was doing and what it was like. Jin got that Yao felt bad. Him getting pulled from the group had been a surprise to everyone. But he was just torturing himself by asking and asking, and Jin wasn’t about to let him keep doing it. “Tell me about your stupid group. Stop asking about the dumbasses in mine.”

[mkfanyao]

“So I’ve been told. By you. A few times, actually.” Namjin’s natural brusqueness and tendency to try to push people away was something that Yao didn’t think he’d ever be used to, but somewhere in the 5+ years they’d known each other, he’d grown accustomed to it. It was just a defense mechanism--one that hurt every now and again, but one all the same. As rude as Jin could be, Yao still loved and missed him. “Hey, I want to know. I can’t help it. ACE? ACE is good. We’re getting ready for another comeback soon. It’s not too busy yet, but it’s going to get really busy really fast....” 

[rvsolhee]

“Oh shut up. You know what I meant,” Eliza said exasperatedly, hitting his arm gently and smiling. “I’m just saying. You look really good. Take my compliment, dammit.” Lize sighed, crossing her arms and shrugging. “You should probably get her a gift basket or something. It took a lot of effort on her part to wrestle me out of my sweat pants and into this,” she muttered, motioning to her dress. She snaked her arm around his, resting her head on his shoulder as they walked. “Can you carry me anyway?” she muttered, glancing up at him with an eyeroll. She climbed in the passenger seat, carefully looking around to make sure there were no paparazzi (or people in general) around. She sighed again, her hand finding his as he got set in the driver’s seat. “You’re lucky that I love surprises.”

[mkfanyao]

“I did. But I mean.....I just got you to tell me again how nice I look, so there’s something to be said about my methods,” Yao pointed out, smiling innocently and taking a little step closer to her, a gentle hand going to her waist. “Noted. Know anything in particular that she likes that I can surprise her with? Hey, we’ll do something tomorrow too. And tomorrow, we can wear hoodies and sweat pants and just lounge around. Tonight is special, though. And you look gorgeous. I think this look is worth the extra effort--you look incredible, sweetheart.” He rolled his eyes, squeezing her and pulling her along. He put the key in the ignition and started the twenty-or-so minute drive, fingers lacing around hers. “You’re really going to love this one--I promise.”

[exo-darkside-blog]

[rvteddy]

task: dress to impress

@mkfanyao

Kieun was quite surprised when she was asked to attend an awards show representing the company - it seemed surreal to her. Surreal that she would be representing MK Entertainment alongside one of their well established idols. Maybe it was her own experience as a celebrity, having seven or so years of experience under her bealt. Or maybe it was down to the show being a perfect chance to showcase her as the newest signee to the entertainment - her redebut in a sense. It was the only thing she could think about whilst the stylists made her up, because how did she end up with being hand picked to go to an awards show of such a high calibre?

She didn’t know exactly who she was accompanying, only knowing it was a member of ACE. It was planned that the two would arrive together and ascend the carpet together to highlight the company’s unity with one another which is why she stood near the entrace, leaning agains the wall as she waited for the other to come. It wasn’t long until she spotted him in the corner and a small smile graced her lips.

“You were picked too?” she asked, quite glad it was someone taller than her because of course she had to wear heels which made her tower over so many of the possible male choices.

[mkfanyao]

It wasn’t his first awards show, and it wouldn’t be his last, but that didn’t make him any less nervous. As the leader of ACE, he was expected to be at more of these types of things than the other members were. It was times like these when he needlessly questioned why he’d even been picked to be the leader in the first place--thoughts he did his best to push right out of his mind. If Eliza knew this was what was going through his head, she’d kick his ass into next week and lecture him for an hour on how great she thought he was.

Dowoon drove him to the venue, and he got out, pushing his hair back and looking around for his partner for the evening--Ara, he was pretty sure. He didn’t know her very well, but she seemed plenty nice. It gave him a chance to talk to her and everything too, which was a bonus. He liked being friendly with the other idols signed to the company.

He smiled, nodding. “Yeah--it was pretty last minute. I kind of wish they’d given me more notice...” he trailed off softly, shaking his head a little before offering her his arm. “Should we go inside, then?”

[rvsolhee]

She raised her eyebrow at him as he entered, looking him up and down and nodding, admittedly impressed. “Damn, you clean up nice. I mean….I’ve seen you in a suit before, but….damn,” she repeated, grinning and reaching up to straighten his hair affectionately. “Thanks. Brandi said this was important and that I wasn’t allowed to wear sneakers, so I borrowed them from her. I’m probably going to twist my ankle or something–I hate walking in heels. I’ll have to hold onto you while we’re walking,” she told him, laughing a little. “Speaking of getting going, you have yet to tell me where the hell we’re going, and I’m very curious.”

[mkfanyao]

He rolled his eyes at her, muttering, “What? Am I usually not good-looking or something? I’m hurt, Lize, I really am.” He was teasing, but he did his best to make it look like he was relatively upset. “Remind me to thank Brandi the next time I see her. For making it easier for me to reach you and for making you dress up nice. “ He held out his arm for her, chuckling. “If it really comes down for her, chuckling. “If it really comes down to it, I can carry you.” Once they were out of the dorms and the door was locked, Yao began to lead her to his car. “That’s for me to know and you to find out, hmm? We’ll be there soon-ish. It’s not that long a drive.”

[rvsolhee]

“Fan Yao, what the fuck is going on?” Eliza asked, sighing deeply. Why she was standing in the doorway of his dorm, dressed to the nines and all made up? She had no idea, but that was what he had requested. And when she had let herself into the ACE dorm, he was nowhere in sight, and she was left completely and utterly confused. She could hear him moving about in his room, but what he was doing? Yeah, she had no clue on that one either. “C’mon, hurry up! Or I’ll go home, I swear to god…”

@mkfanyao

[mkfanyao]

He was excited. It’d been a long time since they’d started dating, and ever since that first day in the park, they’d never really been on a real date. And he wanted to. He loved her and he was excited for a little but of normalcy. She deserved to be treated like a princess and get to do normal things. So he had scouted out a nice private restaurant that did well to hide celebrities---he’d gotten good reviews and apparently there were VIP rooms. The owners were ex-idols or something so they did their best to help idols uphold their private lives, so it was perfect. Straightening his tie, he finally went out to greet her, leaning down to kiss her cheek. “You look beautiful,” he murmured. “An tall. I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen you wear heels offstage.” He took her hand and pulled her out the door, closing it behind him. “Alright, lets go.”

[mkjimin]

Jimin is quiet for a few minutes, completely paused and lips pursed as he thinks carefully about each member of the group. “Actually– yeah, you’re right. I’m fucking adorable, but that kid has the age card.” Jimin admits after a while, pushing himself off the couch to go dig around in his bag for the tablet. “And the height card.” He adds a little quieter, sounding a bit bitter. “But it’s because us tiny ones are filled with so much rage– it evens out in taller people, but us short kids just sit here and boil with anger. And it’s probably something to do with being closer to hell, but you know.” A little shrug and he’s bouncing right back over to throw himself on the couch, already bringing up the file he had so lovingly titled “ACE as furries.”

“Okay so listen. You would be a giant chihuahua. Freakishly large.” Pasted on the first slide were various pictures of chihuahua’s, some compared to other dogs and various little texts that seemed to make almost no sense. “Look.” Shoving the tablet at other, Jimin insisted. “Can’t you see it? Tell me you see it.” 

[mkfanyao]

“He does. And he plays it--you flip-flip between being cute and then sexy so like...by default, he’s cuter because he sticks with the cute,” Yao mused, smiling a little bit. “He’s still short though. You’re all short. I’ve got at least half a foot on all of you,” he commented, smiling and pushing his hair back. He was definitely the tallest at the company. The person who came closest was Hasik, and he was an inch shorter. “You know, I think she’s used that argument before--must make it true, I guess,” Yao said with a little laugh, scooching closer so he could see the screen.

He looked at the tablet with a raised eyebrow, glancing at the picture of chihuahuas and trying to decipher the text or some sort of meaning with no luck at all. He sighed. “Fine, I guess I’d be a chihuhua. I’m pretty skinny--I guess it kind of fits. Who’s next?”

[rvsolhee]

“Hey, Yao? You wanna know what kind of person works loopholes like this? Cheaters. Cheaters try to find loopholes so they won’t get in trouble. So they have an exit strategy. You are basically telling me you’re a cheater here, which means, by default, I win the Scrabble argument too. I could too resent you. It’d kill me deep down inside and I’d miss you but I’d be able to do it. You’d cry more than me, and that’s all that matters,” Eliza shot back, rolling her eyes at him. “You’re such a dork. ‘Life is fun enough’….Yao, I love you, but you’re such a dork.” She hated being so short. Or, well, so much shorter than him. She hated wearing heels though, so that was out of the question; half the time she ended up standing on chairs or sitting on tables and counters so she could reach him. It was kind of funny–her standing on a chair so she could reach him. It cracked Zumi up, anyway. “I mean, I guesss. But it’s not really the same, you know? And it kind of hurts the head. I think I’ll grow it out again, maybe. Might go brown for a while. Might switch it up and go silver–who knows?” She sighed. “I guess that’s the best deal I’ll get, huh?”

[mkfanyao]

“Says the person grasping for straws, desperately trying to find a loophole. I already told you that you’re right, babe. I already admitted defeat, even if it pained me to do so. There’s no need for you to push how right you are anymore. You win. But why would you put yourself in so much emotional strain when you can just stay here with me. No tears, no resenting. Just hugs from your giant, very tall boyfriend. Which, really, have to be the best hugs because I’m so much bigger than you,” he chuckled. “So I’ve been told.” He thought their height difference was kind of cute. You know, when his back wasn’t being bent out of shape so he could lean down and steal a kiss, that was. But her climbing to reach him? Very cute. “That makes sense. Silver? What, do you want to look like an elderly old lady? What’s wrong with the blonde? I think you look hot with blonde hair, Lize.” He nodded. “Yep. Best you’re getting. Sorry.”