humph!

[rvnathanwoo]

“i know my room has turned into a bit of a storage space since i was promoting non stop, but i was wondering if i could...claim it back,” nathan asked sheepishly. “i can help clean everything up and find a good place for it all, but the dorm isn’t a great long-term living space...” @rvlucille​ @rvjinhwa​ @rvhojung​

[rvnathanwoo]

“is it alright if we took a little break?” nathan asked with a sigh. he hated to ask it. he prided himself on being able to do good work no matter the circumstances. but honestly, he was exhausted. “i’m running into a lot of block, and i think i just need to sleep for like...a week. and spend time with my family. not like a long hiatus or anything but just... a vacation.” @rvjaebin​ @rvminhyuk​ @rvnoah​

[rvjoonie]

“i think maybe we should reshuffle the dorm arrangements,” joonie admitted. “like, i know we’re all used to the rooms we’re in, and like who we room with and all that, but let’s be real– we have one room in this dorm where all three occupants aren’t even sleeping there half the time. we probably should spread that out, so that the members who actually do sleep here have more room…” @rvnoah​ @rvxnathan​ @rvjaebin​ @rvminhyuk

[rvnathanwoo]

“yeah... especially if jaebin’s gonna start bringing girls home... might as well give him some space,” nathan admitted with a blush. joonie and noah had girlfriends, but frankly, nathan spent most of his nights in the bedroom at his dad’s house. there was more space, less people. even with an actual newborn, there was less noise. he just liked it more. “we see enough of each other as it is; i doubt anyone is going to miss anyone, you know.”

[rvnathanwoo]

rvseungjin​:

he passed nathan the baby, sinking down into the seat next to his son, arm resting around his shoulders. “lucy is good. exhausted. the doctors are just checking to make sure everything’s good,” he answered, rubbing his forehead with his hand before glancing to his son. “are you good? you look exhausted.”

“she probably should sleep after everything’s all good. she deserves a good nap more than anyone,” nathan said with a little laugh. he sighed, looking at his dad and shruggin. “oh, you know. occupational hazard,” he said dismissively. “just have to push through the dark circles for another week.”

[srvnyi]

sunyi tried to not look too much like a deer somehow still caught in the headlights as she walked backstage once the music show finished wrapping, now quietly passing dressing room doors on her way to hand back her cue cards. in the years since rejectz had debuted she certainly couldn’t count as a newcomer to places like this anymore, but she rarely was in production studios representing her group on her own; this was one of few times that she had served as a special guest mc for a music show when higher needed to send another one of their artists as a substitute, and once she mentioned it to her sister, sunjoo didn’t pass on the chance to use sunyi as an excuse to see jaebin as well.

as she rounded the corner to hand her cards back in the right place, she saw nathan wrapping up the wires from his mic pack so he could hand his equipment in as well. “oh, uh, hi,” she stumbled over her greeting slightly, feeling a little bad about possibly interrupting whatever he could be doing but wanting to take to him nonetheless. “congrats on juno’s comeback, the vocals in the song are really amazing,” sunyi just started to not feel self conscious before she stumbled over herself half a moment later, “i mean, not that the rest of the song isn’t also great, i just really liked the harmonies you guys built.”

@rvnate

[rvnathanwoo]

it was so nice to be rid of river’s sound.

river was a nice dude, and nathan definitely felt him missing in the group, but in the songs after his departure, spotlight seemed to push so hard to make sure that someone did raps in the same way, despite how much it didn’t always suit the song, and how much joonie and nathan both hated it. and now, finally, they were putting out songs where the two main vocalists didn’t have to moonlight at rappers, and it just felt like a burden was off his shoulders. in his opinion, the songs sounded better anyway. it was refreshing knowing that he’d been right all along, and spotlight was having that shoved in their faces.

as soon as they stepped off-stage after the win presentation, nathan took a minute to breathe before slowly putting away his equipment, mind on what they’d get for food, and who all would be eating together (because he was certain jaebin was off fooling around with sunjoo– he’d seen the younger idol make a beeline for her after they were done onstage. jae wouldn’t want to waste time getting pizza with noah and nathan and the others, surely). those thoughts left his mind, however, when he saw sunyi. it was like he’d forgotten how to speak momentarily.

“oh… thank you,” he replied, giving her a smile. “that means a lot. it’s nice to finally get to focus on those instead of half-assing a rap verse. uh… you did a really good job as mc. are you the new permanent mc for this show?”