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[rkbaekho]

o: leg day

yutoxrk​:

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being a dancer it is very important for yuto to never skip leg day. although he takes the daily commute to the practice room when not taking dance classes, one day a week is dedicated to physical training. his intention has never been to grow muscles for body building or anything of the sort, and if people look at him fully clothed they might never even expect that he is as muscular as he is. but for dancing he needs both strength and stamina, and although it’s a tedious chore, he has made it into a habit he would rather not be without now.

he has visited this particular gym since he was old enough to use the machines on his own, and while it was distressing in the beginning, he has come to grow familiar with most of the regulars and even find enjoyment in talking to some of them. especially the tower of a man known as kang dongho. yuto often feels as though he takes up more than double the space he himself does in sheer muscle mass, but that is an exaggeration he knows.

upon entering the establishment he sees the older male already well underway with his warm up on the exercise bike, and he greets the guy with a “hello hyung,” before tossing his bag into a free locker, and takes up the neighbouring bike. “did you wait long? today i’ll definitely do more kilometres than you.”

Baekho doesn’t live at the gym nearly as much as he did when he was younger, or even during his service. Other parts of his life have taken priority since he moved back to Seoul, like constantly working on his singing and his networking, and looking for every opportunity to put himself out in the spotlight to try and catch the attention of someone with the power to put a contract in his hands.

But that’s not to say he doesn’t still spend a lot of time at the gym. He makes sure to go weekly, usually multiple times a week, and while his focus has almost always been his arms and chest, he makes sure to spread his workout out and to give other parts of his body attention, as well. Cardio has always been something he pays careful attention to, and his stamina as well, and it’s why he always makes sure to start his visit to the gym with a warm up on either a treadmill or an exercise bike.

It’s a bike, today, with one earphone in place and his phone tucked into a holder attached to the handle bars and a towel draped over the interface of the machine. He’s sitting up with his hands on his legs, and it makes it easy to turn his head and flash a grin when he hears a familiar voice.

“Yuyu,” Baekho chimes, reaching for the towel to wipe his face, his legs never stopping. “I only just started. If you’re quick enough, you might even catch up.”

[rkbaekho]

ooc://

Clearing out replies and starters tonight, so collecting rookies who want rkisac20 starters, and rookies/trainees for rkfrightnight starters. Leave a reply, or a like and I’ll DM if you’re interested in either. Replies to both with take priority over non-event to get the participation done asap.

rkisac20:

baekho: Convex section (organising donation and slogan towels with a fansite)

soleil: Luxe section

rkfrightnight

baekho: Hocus Pocus, Train to Busan, The Nightmare Before Christmas (scavenger hunt on any of the three days, costume tbd)

soleil: Scream, Hereditary, Us  (scavenger hunt on any of the three days, costume tbd)

[rkbaekho]

o: survey

nakork​:

the clipboard held to her chest, nako sucks the left side of her cheek inwards at his counter proposal, chewing on the inside in displeasure. “I’m the one taking up your time though and I’m not poor. I insist,” she continues without leaving much room for discussion unless he wanted to remain stubborn and persist.

nako had her own parents who supported her enough and a big sister who insisted she had to pay no rent. “I think I’ll get something small… perhaps a sandwich and a black coffee. what about you,” she inquires, gaze raising from the menu.

it was kind of part of her questionnaire already but she felt like it’d be better to order first before they got down to the theoretical part of her meeting.

At the younger girl’s insistence, Baekho lifts his hands in surrender. He’s always been raised in a traditional politeness, with chivalry and old school gender roles high on the list, but living in Seoul (both now and years earlier) had knocked at least some of his rigidness around it away. 

He had at least offered, after all, and if she was still going to insist after him offering, then who was he to say no.

“Water,” he says simply, eyes scanning over the menu for something to eat. Deciding on a drink has always been the easy part when he goes out with anyone. The food has always been the difficult decision, especially when it’s someone else’s wallet on the line. He doesn’t mind gorging himself on food when he’s paying for it himself, but when it’s someone else... “And the eggs on toast.”

He resists the allure of the all-day breakfast plate calling to him. He promises himself to make up for it later when he’s alone and paying for himself.

[rkbaekho]

kkkyeoptaiga uploaded a new video in the playlist - VLOGS! ( ʟɪᴋᴇ - ꜱᴜʙꜱᴄʀɪʙᴇ - ᴊᴏɪɴ - ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ )( ᴄᴄ: ᴋᴏʀᴇᴀɴ - ᴇɴɢʟɪꜱʜ )

It’s Chuseok! Did everyone get to go and see their families? Tell me all about the amazing food you got to eat! I went home and caught up with all my old friends again.

( /the video starts with no introduction from him, or from anyone else on screen, with the camera set in some sort of bracket to allow it to record from a higher angle over the main bench of the kitchen, a gentle fish eye lens allowing more of the kitchen to be seen. ) - ( /there are bowls and plates and ingredients everywhere as three bodies move around the kitchen in a well-practiced dance, the three of them more than used to working together in the kitchen to prepare the many plates of traditional food, as well as the various baking that his mother prepares as gifts to give to long time friends and business partners. )

( /the sped-up clip lasts a few minutes, and he glances to the camera a few times near the start and by the end he’s completely engrossed in what he’s doing, with the songpyeon the last item on the list to finish up, carefully moving them from the steamer to the heated pan his childhood friend is looking over while his mother transfers the completed plates to the large dining table in the dining hall. )

( /there is a brief clip of the final spread, making sure to capture the entire layout in detail of every dish before he backs up to get a view of the room as a whole, completely with members of his family, the current guests of the inn (many of them foreigners) and a few close family friends from nearby businesses. )

( /the next clip follows him as he and his childhood friend wander through the various streets with boxes in hand, presenting gifts of his mother’s baking to other businesses on the inn’s behalf and often ending up leaving with a gift in return - and even more often ending up distracted by the various street food stalls that they pass because he is ever thinking with his stomach when he visits home. )

( /there’s a dramatic change of tone in the following clip as he joins his mother and his uncle and his aunt (and his childhood friend and his little sister join them) to visit the gravestones of their family, and it’s a solemn tone filmed from a distance as they all work quietly to pick weeds and polish plaques and share offerings and pray with each lost family member, with no time spent on sharing the names of any of the deceased - and the clip cuts away almost drastically at the same moment it starts to capture his entire body shaking as he prays to one of the newest grave markers. )

( /the final clip captures a large chunk of the beach near the inn, as well as himself, his childhood friend, and a group of friends they had gone to high school with, messing around with a mix of old traditional games and more modern games - including trying to see just how many of them baekho can carry at one time without dropping anyone or falling over, which he does in the end when he’s one person short from having them all, and they end up in a laughing bundle of limbs in the sand, lulu bouncing around them and barking. )

[rkbaekho]

yuzurk​:

✉ ⇢ tiger oppa

[ ✉ ] heh yep [ ✉ ] ‘s wild that she would’a been in this group [ ✉ ] had she stayed [ ✉ ] n’ now I’m here- [ ✉ ] dunno how t’feel ‘bout it all tbh  [ ✉ ] seungie-ah? u mean yangah eonni? [ ✉ ] but thank u!

[ᴛᴇxᴛ ᴍᴇꜱꜱᴀɢᴇ - ʏᴇɴᴀɴᴀ]

it was all meant to be, clearly~ ah~~ imagine if you’d both been there together~~ seungah, seungah~ she’s my favourite dongsaeng~~ ahhh i’m so proud of you both~ i can’t wait too see what happens~~ i’m ready to be the biggest fanboy

[rkbaekho]

o: long way from home

yuzurk​:

[/yuzu chuckles into her cup, gnawing on her straw in an attempt to keep her laugh down.] no, no I am doin’ what I wanna do but remember- eonni just left n’ founded her own company t'make her dreams come true. she ain’t the type t'put her dreams into the hands of folks. [/the streamer explains, crossing one leg above the other.] I personally ain’t care. I got a career waitin’ for me if this ain’t work out. lowkey just around t'see how far I can go right now.

( /he laughs and gives a nod, because how could he ever possibly forget what a stunt his noona had pulled to get herself right where she wanted to be - and a part of him wonders why he doesn’t just do that himself; why he doesn’t take that inheritance of his and follow her lead and make a name of himself the old fashioned way (it’s because he enjoys the company of others far too much; because even if he wants his name to become associated with a solo singer, he’s never hated the idea of debuting in a group as well. ) it’s always good to have a back-up plan. ( /hums as his gaze wanders. ) mine’s back home again. family business. ( /and it’s not as though he hates the idea of working in the inn full time, or even taking over after his uncle - it’s just not his dream. )

[rkbaekho]

ooc:

just a small heads up that replies and dms will be really slow on baekho and soleil for the next week or two. not hiatus, i have some drafts done on them both to go, but only one or two a week. no vlogs for baekho either this week or next week.

(surgery tw under read more)

i’m due for a root canal in a week and i’m off work for like three days for it bc my body usually reacts Great or Really Really Badly to surgeries so idk what i’ll be like after, but atm i’m in a lot of pain esp where my glasses sit, so writing is impossible due to headache while wearing glasses and too blind to write without them. i have a second surgery a couple weeks after the first one, but i should hopefully be okay in the time between to smash out replies and queue them up on both of my muses. if it’s still really bad after next week’s, i’ll prolly go on hiatus then but hopefully i won’t need to.

[rkbaekho]

— chewing gum ;

rkpjs​:

pj had expected to be met with a scowl, or, at the very least, a simple ‘no’. he was already preparing to leave the gum on the counter before making his exit, returning to his run without satiating his craving for sweets. what he received, however, surprised him: a bright smile accompanied by warm laughter. while he typically wasn’t one to look a gift horse in the mouth, pj simply didn’t understand how he had gotten so lucky, given he expected that most people working the night shift would be miserable.

“wait—seriously?” he asked with wide eyes, slowly reaching for the chewing gum he had left on the counter. “this isn’t some prank where you tell me to take it before calling the cops, right? because that would be super uncool.” despite the hesitancy in his words, pj got the impression that the clerk was being genuine, which was enough to have his own lips rising into an excited grin. if this guy was legit, pj would want to shop here much more often. please be serious, he thought to himself, looking down at the pack of gum he was now holding.

The surprise that he gets in return simply makes Baekho laugh again (the same warm, reassuring laugh as before). He’s not surprised by the surprise, because who would expect something said probably as a joke to have such a response, but he is amused. He likes having an effect on people, a positive one. Something about making someone else’s day through small, seemingly insignificant gestures that always makes his own day a little better, as well.

“I won’t tell anyone if you want,” he says with a chime, and he lifts one of his fingers to his lips in a hushing gesture - though he’s sure that even if this kid did say anything, it’s not as though anything major would likely come of it. Worst case scenario, his boss reprimands him - and even then it seems unlikely, given it’s a single pack of gum, and he’s genuinely planning on slipping some cash int the register to cover it himself anyway. “It’s all yours.”

[rkbaekho]

o: f(avours)wb

ᴄʟᴏꜱᴇᴅ ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴇʀ ꜰᴏʀ @rksungmin

If Baekho had to name a minor magic that he was capable of, it would be impossible for it to be anything but his strength in social interactions. Even he knew he had something of a gift for getting along with most everyone he ever crossed the path of (Dokyun is an exception that neither of them have figured out the reason behind yet), and even the briefest of encounters with people on the street are always looked back upon as moments with friends, even if he never meets them ever again.

So being asked to hang out with a friend of a friend is nothing in comparison. There’s little to no detail from Yena, simply a name, a photo, a phone number, but already Baekho is considering this Sungmin a good friend. It doesn’t feel remotely like he’s inviting a stranger around to his apartment at all, more like he’s catching up with an old friend he hasn’t seen in a while, or seeing a long-term online friend face-to-face for the first time.

He takes the weekend off from work, and he attends kumdo earlier in the afternoon than he usually plans to. Baekho’s own schedule is more malleable, far moreso than that of a trainee (and the fact he still remembers the exact schedule from his own time tugs at a heartstring he had almost entirely forgotten about in his busy Seoul life). He cleans what little mess is in his apartment, neatly rearranges his recording equipment so it’s further out of the way, makes sure there’s no light coming in front the balcony window behind his television that will make it annoying to watch movies.

Baekho showers last, finally freeing himself of sweat that had been sticking to him since training (no point in showering before he had finished cleaning) and only once he’s dressed (and meticulously dried his hair, and ordered a delivery of pizza) does he finally drop down onto the sofa to wait.

[rkbaekho]

road not taken

lixrk​:

it may be a good idea to hang out with baekho like this more often. it’s not like felix has a long list of friends to do this with, even though the list is steadily growing. he’d never be able to make as many friends as a lot of the people in his life, but he knew enough. he wants to establish a sturdier connection with each person before finding someone new, in the end. it’d be much more meaningful that way.

his conversations with baekho are usually centred around music, they don’t often talk about things outside of it. auditions aren’t exactly outside the topic of music, sharing their thoughts and hopes regarding their future surrounding it has never really appeared within conversations before though, and felix appreciates that small shift. he’s a bit slow when it came to talking face-to-face, articulating his thoughts into words have been a struggle whatever language he’s speaking in. practicing with friends won’t hurt.

when baekho leans forward, he does as well, mimicking the older, as if they’re about to share a secret and felix is more than willing to listen. his eyes shine, imagining that future. “you’re right. that’d be a dream come true.” the idea of debuting along with a friend never really crossed his mind, he’s always too stressed about the idea that he’d need to compete first and foremost. it’s nice to think about, now that he has the idea planted in his mind.

“i think it’d be cool to start as backup dancers.” he says, reeling back in to take another sip of his drink. “i haven’t really danced on stage. seeing those who do that for a living up close might help.” he looks down at his body, then back at baekho, laughing a little. “somehow, i doubt i’d be able to become like you. can’t dream small, though. are you going to drag me to the gym?”

The way Felix’s eyes shine just drives Baekho on, and his glad that his somewhat ridiculous idea is well accepted. He’s one who has always dreamed of dominating a stage alone; of being the sole person on an entire stage, carrying a performance alone, but none of that has ever meant he’s ever been against sharing with friends (he did, after all, have a long-standing promise with Hyun to share a stage one day with him, as well). It means a whole lot more when those friends seem to enjoy the prospect of it just as much.

“I’ve done it once before,” Baekho admits, almost non-chalantly and with a shrug of his shoulders. “Been a back-up dancer. It doesn’t feel the same.” And he’s downplaying it, really, if only because it had been all those years ago in his earlier months in Sphere, and, at the time, his focus had been more on supporting his friends who had gotten the spotlight (and, oh, how far Sunmi had come).

A laugh escapes, though, right as he reaches for his drink, and his hand changes pathways from his glass to instead reach across the table to Felix’s arm. He prods the other’s upper arm first, then gently squeezes it.

“Maybe I should,” he says with a tease and a grin. “Introduce you to protein and bulking powder. Get you all big and beefy for the next time there’s a chance to audition. They wouldn’t be able to say no if they saw you dancing like that.”

[rkbaekho]

kkkyeoptaiga uploaded a new video in the playlist - COVERS! ( ʟɪᴋᴇ - ꜱᴜʙꜱᴄʀɪʙᴇ - ᴊᴏɪɴ - ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ )( ᴄᴄ: ᴋᴏʀᴇᴀɴ - ᴇɴɢʟɪꜱʜ )

Willyecho - Monster

( /the downside to changing up his hair lies in the fact that most of his prerecorded cover vlogs are now, in his opinion, useless, and he has to record a whole bunch of new ones with his current hair - and, really, it would be fine to simply continue to use the ones he has already prepped because it isn’t as though he’s ever been secretive about the way he keeps a stash of songs recorded and ready to go, but it just doesn’t feel right to (and it’s not as though and of the songs he’d already prepared take long for him to record again, anyway). )

I can see the truth No, you don't have to lie to me Don't fill your head with things And think you're free I can smell the fear I think you made clear

( /it brings a nice change, as well, going back to singing an English song after the past few weeks of churning out Korean songs - and it’s not that he prefers one over the other, but rather that he focuses on different genres in each language, and it’s nice to come back to something a little more rock-heavy after reminding people just how much of a consta he is. )

I can be rude Be in a mood I can be rotten I can be cruel Might act a fool But never forgotten Creeping in the dark Waiting for you You won't like what you see

( /it’s an easy enough set up, as well, against the same wall in his apartment (though the sheet he has hanging up today is a darker grey rather than the white to help his camera’s white balance not completely wash him and his pale hair colour out), and when he performs alone like this, the only person he has to worry about himself, and maybe his neighbours - he still hasn’t figured out how thick or thin the walls are just yet. )

Yeah I feel like a monster And I'm just here to haunt ya' I'll become your nightmare Stepping in your dreams I'm the definition of the worst kind of mean Yeah I feel like a monster And I'm just here to haunt ya' I'll become your nightmare Stepping in your dreams I'm the definition of the worst kind of mean Yeah I feel like a-- Monster Monster Monster Yeah I feel like a--

( /a song like this makes it less stressful to have to re-record, as well, requiring nothing more than himself and his microphone and his stand, and it’s not the most difficult song, either, with fairly repetitive lyrics and extended moments in between lines, and the only real challenge is when the notes drop down further than he normally sings, but even then, the tempo is slow enough for him to be able to scale down and then back up safely. )

You can't hold me back Yeah I'm coming for ya' I'm a heater on ya' No, I'm just telling you the facts Oh, this chains can't hold me down  I can be rude Be in a mood I can be rotten I can be cruel Might act a fool But never forgotten Creeping in the dark Waiting for you

( /the simplicity of the song allows him to focus his attention on the delivery of each individual note, as well as the pronunciation of each individual word (something he’s found himself slipping in, again, with a lack of people around to continue his old everyday practicing speaking English like he would back home), and it leaves his eyes closed for the majority of the song. )

Yeah I feel like a monster And I'm just here to haunt ya' I'll become your nightmare Stepping in your dreams I'm the definition of the worst kind of mean Yeah I feel like a monster And I'm just here to haunt ya' I'll become your nightmare Stepping in your dreams I'm the definition of the worst kind of mean Yeah I feel like a--

( /it’s only when there’s a sudden change in the song’s tempo and mood that his eyes finally open, a brief exchange between voices left in the instrumental that he’s using as a backing track, and his eyes open to focus directly on the camera recording him. )

See me change into something darker

( /it’s a low, slow line, that almost comes out as though he’s speaking more than singing, and there’s a hint of desperation behind (and he’s not quite sure where it comes from precisely, but he has a fairly good idea given the pit of buried frustrations he keeps tightly locked away for years on end), and when the line is done, there’s more life in his movements for the rest of the song, treating it like the rock ballad it is. )

Yeah I feel like a monster And I'm just here to haunt ya' I'll become your nightmare Stepping in your dreams I'm the definition of the worst kind of mean Yeah I feel like a monster And I'm just here to haunt ya' I'll become your nightmare Stepping in your dreams I'm the definition of the worst kind of mean Yeah I feel like a-- Monster Monster Monster Yeah I feel like a--

( /there’s more voices on the track, borrowed from the original but also from his friends from the first time he had prepared this song for being covered, and it gives him a bit more confidence to take a step away from his usual smooth, velvety singing towards something rougher and more aggressive, something that translates into his eyes and stays there even as he steps away from the microphone and the video fades to an end. )

[rkbaekho]

o: survey

nakork​:

the suggestion to sit down somewhere after she’s been on her feet all day actually seemed like a good one. shifting from one foot to another, nako laughs lightheartedly. “sitting down would be lovely actually,” she admits before her gaze drifts across the area.

“I believe over there is a cafe we can sit down and talk peacefully. I’d insist on treating you. after all you’re kind enough to participate in our study,” she insists before motioning for him to follow her.

the cafe looked cozy and cheap enough that the student wasn’t worried about being unable to afford it. instead she sat down at a table with a relieved sigh, shoulders rising and sinking with the motion.

The smile on Baekho’s lips remains warm as he gives a nod and follows her lead to the cafe. He lingers in the doorway for a moment, looking around and scanning over the faces (he always likes to see if there’s familiar faces wherever he goes), before he follows her to a table.

“And I would insist on treating you,” he finally responds, one hand patting his pocket to check his wallet was still where he had left it. “I was a student not that long ago. I know how it can be.”

Even if he has always been in a better financial situation than most his age, and never really got to properly experience the broke student lifestyle thanks to his parents. 

“What do you like?”

[rkbaekho]

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강백호 ʙᴀᴇᴋʜᴏ @kkkyeoptaiga: #DWC1STWIN #CONVEX #RIGHT:WE

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강백호 ʙᴀᴇᴋʜᴏ @kkkyeoptaiga: baby baby hyunnie~ isn’t he so precious~ and lulu diligently helping us review our own training~ ah it was so long ago now~

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강백호 ʙᴀᴇᴋʜᴏ @kkkyeoptaiga: more wins~? lets go, consta~ we still need to get those mv views all the way up~~

[rkbaekho]

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강백호 ʙᴀᴇᴋʜᴏ @kkkyeoptaiga: new hair, new me

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강백호 ʙᴀᴇᴋʜᴏ @kkkyeoptaiga: sorry hyunnie, i gotta promote my own image as well~ i’m still supporting #CONVEX #RIGHT:WE #현

[rkbaekho]

kkkyeoptaiga uploaded a new video in the playlist - VLOGS! ( ʟɪᴋᴇ - ꜱᴜʙꜱᴄʀɪʙᴇ - ᴊᴏɪɴ - ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ )( ᴄᴄ: ᴋᴏʀᴇᴀɴ - ᴇɴɢʟɪꜱʜ )

Everyone needs a little change now and again~

Pyon~ ( /the day is bright and his smile is brighter, and his tone is warm and gentle as he welcomes the audience through the camera, and then the hair stylist and her assistant waiting for him as he steps into the salon - another of his old acquaintances who helped him with his various experiments with hair colour in the past, so who better for him to seek out with this impulse. )

So a friend of mine gave me an idea~ An idea I haven’t been able to do in a long time with everything going on~ And now that my hair has grown out enough, I can finally do it, with the help of these lovely noonas who wouldn’t let me do it myself since I’m so out of practice. I’m excited to see how it all turns out~ They won’t tell me exactly what they’re going to do, so it’s a surprise for all of us.

( /the camera is set down on it’s stand on the bench as he takes his seat, and playback begins sped up with royalty-free instrumental music over the top and the faces of the pair of stylists blurred out. ) 

( /the process follows the bleaching process of his hair, then the colour ( what starts as a hot pink and washes out to a baby pink), and then the cut as they expertly thin out his outgrown military cut, shave the sides almost all the way down, and style the longer strands left on top - and all the while he chatters away with the stylists and scrolls through his various social networking feeds and does his best not to shy away from the threatening sounds of the clippers right beside his ears. )

( /even when the video slows all the way back down, the music continues as he poses a few times and picks the camera back up to get a better view of the new cut, a grin plastered on his face giving away his sheer joy at the outcome, and it never shifts even as he waves to the camera and the video fades out. )

[rkbaekho]

kkkyeoptaiga uploaded a new video in the playlist - COVERS! ( ʟɪᴋᴇ - ꜱᴜʙꜱᴄʀɪʙᴇ - ᴊᴏɪɴ - ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ )( ᴄᴄ: ᴋᴏʀᴇᴀɴ - ᴇɴɢʟɪꜱʜ )

CONVEX - SIMPLE

( /if the last had been last minute, then he doesn’t know what to call this, and he knows for a fact that if the album had been released any later in the week, then he wouldn’t have been able to do this at all - and, as it is, he’s sure it will show through that this is something a little more rushed and less perfected than a lot of his other covers that he’s put together, or maybe that’s just a bit of self-consciousness slipping through, because how is anyone meant to know that he’s made any mistake when no one else has seen his plans for this video. )

오늘의 마지막 이 길에 서 있다 매일은 이렇게 ooh 드넓은 세상엔 난 먼지만도 못한 걸 잘 알고 있지만 쉬운 일 하나 없는 출구 없는 미로인듯한 세상

( /but no matter how short the time was, his strength has always been in learning songs in a matter of hours, his musicality lying in an understanding of what sort of lyrics are most likely to follow, and a purely vocal song like this, with no need to add any sort of dancing as he performs once again in front of his one bare wall in his apartment with a microphone in his hand, means the only real difficulty had been in getting an instrumental version of the song - and Junsu had come through for him on that within a few hours, as well. )

행복은 그냥 말만 있는 거고 모두가 원하는 Dream일뿐이라고 말도 안 되는 얘긴걸 yeah 믿고 싶지도 않아서 yeah Yeah I just want it SIMPLE SIMPLE oh-

나를 숨쉬게 하는 모든 것이 그저 간단했으면 해 내게서 멀리 더 멀리 더 보이지 않을 때까지 I call you baby yeah Baby’s called my happiness yeah Yeah I just want it SIMPLE SIMPLE I want it SIMPLE

( /it helps, as well, that it’s not one of the most difficult songs that he’s sung, and that it falls comfortable into his range, and even the sudden jump into a much higher note in the chorus comes easily once he’s practiced through the song a few times, and it’s almost the sort of song that would fit into his list of warm-up songs. )

쉬운 일 하나 없는 출구 없는 미로인 듯한 이 세상

행복은 그냥 말만 있는 거고 모두가 원하는 Dream일뿐이라고 말도 안 되는 얘긴걸 yeah 믿고 싶지도 않아서 yeah Yeah I just want it SIMPLE SIMPLE oh-

나를 숨쉬게 하는 모든 것이 그저 간단했으면 해 내게서 멀리 더 멀리 더 보이지 않을 때까지 I call you baby yeah Baby’s called my happiness yeah Yeah I just want it SIMPLE SIMPLE I want it SIMPLE

( /but even songs that aren’t difficult are ones that he likes to sing and enjoys performing, and any worry about seeming rushed and unprepared is long gone by the time he’s reached the first chorus and by the end of that same chorus, he’s so deeply lost in the song and the performance that his eyes are closed and there’s a smile on his lips and it’s a comfort that continues as the song goes on. )

Em- I want it simple yeah- 내가 틀린 거라고 yeah 모두가 말해도 이 밤이 지나면 함께 웃을 수 있길

나를 숨쉬게 하는 모든 것이 그저 간단했으면 해 내게서 멀리 더 멀리 더 보이지 않을 때까지 I call you baby yeah Baby’s called my happiness Yeah I just want it SIMPLE SIMPLE I want it SIMPLE Oh I want it SIMPLE oh yeah I want it SIMPLE

( /there’s another thing he likes about the song, as well, in the form of the multiple lines entirely in English giving him the opportunity to show off just how fluidly he can swap between both Korean and English, and even if he’s always been able to show off how good his English pronunciation is in fully English songs, it’s nice to show off something like this, as well, where swapping between the two doesn’t affect his pronunciation in either - yet finishing in English is the same as finishing in Korean when it comes to a song like this, and his eyes remain closed and the smile stays on his lips even as he lowers the microphone from his lips and continues to hum along to the fading music as the video fades out as well. )

[rkhyun]

kkkyeoptaiga: @hjonghyunn maybe i’ll release that photo without the mv count 

hjonghyunn: @kkkyeoptaiga … what …. what do you mean ………. what photo …… dongho. kang dongho

[rkbaekho]

kkkyeoptaiga: @hjonghyunn what photo indeed~~~~  ㅋ shall i give you a hint~? it’s pre-doco~