#❛ queue

[rkjordan]

bae jinyoung s-pop after mom is asleep recording with nsg u / @rkxrm, @rkxkjd, @rkjohnny, @taeminrk, @rkxhyunjin, @aronrk​

the first thing jordan did when he saw the members arrive on set was congratulate them on their recent debut

it just seemed like the right thing to do. he couldn’t imagine it would have been easy having to debut date set the the teasers all coming out and then the whole thing suddenly being put on hold for another couple of months. he supposed it must just be a relief to all of them now that they finally could say they were debuted and now it was just all about getting the exposure the company wanted, which was why he supposed they were here right now. and jordan was not going to disappoint and was going to make sure this was an entertaining episode for them and one he was sure the fans would enjoy as well. 

“i really enjoyed the song,” he made sure to add, smiling at the guys as he greeted them, “it was an instant add on to my playlist i have to admit.” it was not the natural sort of sound you heard from the industry and that was something he liked about it. sometimes the typical sounding song could get incredibly boring, so it was nice to have something fresh and new. he just hoped that kt stuck with that and didn’t just go back to making songs which sounded the same as everything else.

“but don’t worry too much about today,” he went, on trying to calm any nerves about how this might turn out, “i’m sure it’s going to be just fine. you just have to be yourselves and completely embarrass yourselves more than i already am wearing a dress, a wig and pretending to loudly snore in the background.” joking seemed to always help the mood, especially as he was sure they were nervous about things as this was probably one of the first variety performances they were filming as their debut had only been just over a week ago by the time they were filming.

one last smile as he bowed again, “but i’ll leave you to get ready. i need to get myself all nice and pretty.” and with that he turned on his heel and headed to the small dressing room in the back to get himself ready. though it only took a moment to put the wig and dress on, taking one last look at himself in the mirror provided before he was heading back towards the main filming to take his usual position on set on the rather comfortable sofa behind the guests. 

the filming went pretty smoothly and jordan was up to his usual antics of trying to make the guests laugh and adding in funny quips and loud snores, the occasional sleep talking and itching his nose as he rolled over. at the end of the day he wouldn’t say he would have done anything different and, as usual, he was always sure to thank the filming crew and rest of the staff as well. just one more recording under his belt, many many more left to go, but at least he was still having fun with it. 

as much as you could not being able to talk very much. 

[rkharuto]

❛ and a happy debut

@rkxrm

with everything that the members of nsg had gone through, haruto was honestly more than happy for them now that they could finally say they had debuted. it had been a long trip and he couldn’t really imagine what it must have been like to go through it and wonder if debut was ever going to happen in the first place. but they had made it and that had to mean something. and as the good younger trainee he was, he thought that it was only right that he went out of his way to congratulate them and wish them well for the no doubt tough journey of an idol which would come. 

but it was hard to catch any of the members around these days with how busy they now were with new promotions. so, the second he did happen to round the corner and catch a glimpse of namjoon, he wasn’t going to waste any time. “hyung, hold on a second!” he called after the older rapper, jogging a little down the corridor to try and catch up to him. and he was just a little out of breath when he did finally catch up, but he smiled all the same. “i just want to say congratulations on finally debuting and all. i’m going to be cheering for you guys from the sidelines.” 

[rkjordan]

❛ imposter

@hyunark

 jordan wasn’t usually very big into mobile games, but when all his friends started playing amoung us, well, he couldn’t really be left out of all the fun. besides, he had always thought he was pretty good liar in the first place so it should be easy enough to pull in some wins. that had been the idea, anyway, but it seemed as though all his friends knew him too well and he was usually the first one ejected regardless of whether he was the imposter or not. which he supposed was fair, he was hardly very trustworthy. 

“oh come on! again?” he couldn’t help but complain out loud as, once again, he got himself voted off first, despite being a perfectly innocent crewmate. jordan simply huffed, putting his phone down on the table in front of him. then he glanced up, looking around for a moment to see who else was around. that’s when he spotted hyuna, beckoning her over with a quick waft of his head. “hey, quick question. do i have an untrustworthy looking face to you?” 

[rkjordan]

bae jinyoung s-pop after mom is asleep recording with BOL4

slowly but surely, jordan was starting to get used to how these recording sessions were going to go.

and it was actually a lot more fun that he thought it was going to be. not to mention after mom is asleep was probably the easiest segment on the spop channel to actually host. he didn’t really need to say much and the whole time he got to just lay down on the coach behind the guests and pretend to be asleep, only occasionally cutting with some some funny comments when he saw fit. the only thing he had to do which no one else did was dress up in a funny outfit, and honestly he didn’t mind that part in the slightest. it was actually amusing to him to wear a wig and put on a dress. 

an added bonus was he also got to walk around telling everyone that he was their mother, which brought him infinite amusement and was not something he was going to be stopping anytime soon. this is what the guests and staff were just going to have to put up with for the next six months of their lives and jordan couldn’t be happier about it. 

for the recording he was just all smiles, making sure to politely greet his guests before things started, getting quite a kick at how amusing they thought his getup was. but it was not long before he was settling into his usual position on the coach just behind the guests, wiggling to get comfortable as he was going to have to lay there not really doing anything else for quite some time. but he was not going to let it get boring for him, though he was supposed to be pretending to be asleep he could still have some fun. in moments of quiet he would making sure to snore extra loudly, hoping to get an extra giggle or two, also taking the opportunity to perfectly interject with some funny quips when it made sense to do so. 

all in all, the recording had been fun and jordan was feeling quite good about himself as it ended, making sure to bow politely and thank all the recording staff for working hard and he of course gave an extra thanks to the guests for that episode. but with that over all that was left was to take off the dress and wig and look forward to the next week where he got to go and do it all over again. 

[rkharuto]

watanabe haruto’s sep 20′ eval aries - passionate, confident, motivated august d buffy - daechwita

this eval was going to be tough, haruto knew that from the start. 

he was someone who knew very little about the zodiac signs and didn’t even know what sign he was under, having to take to google to even find out. and when he did find out and read through his sign’s supposed traits, he did have to double check he was looking at the right thing. none of the traits listed on the page in front of him sounded like him in the slightest. a confident leader and motivated and passionate? and upon reading all of this he was sure that this was going to be a tough one. not to mention he couldn’t even find one other single aries so couldn’t even hide himself in a way in a group and was just going to have to take to the front by himself. probably his worst nightmare, if he were being honest. 

it took more time than he wanted to admit to even find a song he would be happy to do. though even the final choice was one he had a lot of time to think about, unsure if he could even pull off something like this. it was supposed to be a powerful and confident performance like his sign was telling him he was supposed to be. but anyone who knew haruto knew that he was usually a nervous and quiet wreck every single time he was asked to perform. 

but he had found out that now he had picked a song he didn’t actually have that much time to practice - let alone pick something else at the last second. so, stuck with his choice, haruto simply decided to fuck it. what the hell. he was just going to have to do this and put on the best damn performance he could manage and that was the end of that. while he had no confidence that he would actually be able to pull it off successfully he, frankly, didn’t care anymore. maybe if he showed off how rubbish he was at everything they might decide to cut him loose. 

 still, he practiced his choice all the same, going over the fast rap over and over again. paying extra attention to his breathing, making sure he was pronouncing everything properly, that he wasn’t about to go and stumble over his words and make a total idiot of himself. the coaches wanted him to be a rapper more than a vocalist, so he supposed they were going to get their wish. 

the day of the evaluation he was pretty chill about the whole thing, not nerves, no twitching fingers, he was just completely indifferent to the whole thing. and even when it was his turn and he was stood in front of everyone he looked completely unbothered by the situation. which was a stark change to how he usually was standing waiting to perform in front of people. maybe he should have this complete indifference every single time he performed, it would make life easier and stop him being so nervous about everything. 

“apparently, i’m an aries,” he introduced with a shrug of his shoulders, “and the traits don’t suit me in the slightest, so whatever, i guess.” he couldn’t exactly change the month he was born in so he was just going to have roll with what he had been given. “let’s just get this over with.” 

even as the start to his song choice started he didn’t seem in the least bit enthused about the whole thing, just stretching his arms up above his head, rolling his neck to get a little looser before dropping his arms again, starting to pace from side to side just a little, head bopping ever so slightly with the music as the intro played. but when it finally came to actually starting to rap he was just on full concentration mode, paying full attention to what was coming out of his mouth as he kept up with the fast pace of the rap. 

and you can bet he didn’t even bother to make it a clean version of the song, almost happily keeping in the swear words as he rapped along with the song. standing still also wasn’t much of an option for him, either, unable to stop his hand from moving, the tap of his foot, the bop of his head, the slight passing from side to side as he rapped each word just like he had practiced.

the whole performance, surprisingly, went quite well for him. apparently, not worrying about every little thing and just letting it come naturally helped with the nerves. who would have seen that one coming? he was pretty sure he had just managed to get through that whole rap explosion without saying anything incorrectly and may have even looked as though he knew what he was doing as the centre of attention. 

maybe he should give less of a shit about things a little more often. 

[rkjordan]

bae jinyoung’s sep 20′ eval taurus - uncompromising, possessive, devoted baekhyun doha - un village 

being the only taurus did sort of suck for jordan

he had almost come to miss getting to performing with other people, going solo for a couple of evaluations now. but it looked like it was just going to have be another solo shot for him, unable to find anyone else around to form a group with thanks to the limit of being able to only group up with people under the only star sign. though he did try, but everyone else seemed to be born in different months and under different signs. so, after a week of looking to see if he could find anyone to perform with, he had to just give up the idea and start his search for a solo song he could do. 

it also didn’t help that he didn’t really pay attention to any of the zodiac stuff in the first place so knew nothing about his star sign. but it only took one quick google search and one webpage to find a list of traits to work off of. though he didn’t really think any of them suited him very well, he supposed it didn’t really matter very much just so long as he found a song he could sing. which shouldn’t be hard, he could sing pretty much anything. and would sing pretty much anything even if his vocal range really wasn’t suited to it. but maybe not for an evaluation, he supposed he should at least try and do something he could comfortably sing and not pick something with hundreds of high notes he could only dream of reaching. 

picking a song was a little harder than he thought it would be in the end. eventually he simply took to youtube, searching for songs compatible with zodiac signs until he found something he liked the sound of. it was also amusing that this would not be the first song he was doing from unit black, or in this case, a member of the group. though it had been a little while since he done a song from one of them so he didn’t think it mattered all that much. 

with a song picked it was just back to the daily routine of things and practicing whenever he could get the time in. going over the lyrics over in his head until he was sure they were ingrained in there and he would be able to remember them years from now. and the vocal practice to make sure he could sing it well enough to perform. and he was thankful this was not a dance focused eval as well, allow him just to focus on his singing instead of his less than amazing dance skills. while he had gotten better on the dancing front, he was hardly a master and still had his struggles when it came to dance and actually performing without falling flat on his face or standing on his own foot mid choreography. 

finally, the day of the evaluation dawned and jordan was simply confident that he could get up there and show his stuff with little problem. there wasn’t really anything for him to worry about, it wasn’t an incredibly challenging song or anything so he was sure he would be able to to do it. and when it was finally his turn to perform he was pretty chill about the whole thing, just grinning as he introduced himself, “i’m a taurus. the only one around, evidently. guess that makes me special, huh?” though it was still a shame that he was the only one, but there was nothing he could do about it. 

instead he simply decided to focus on his song choice, making sure he at least showed a proper performance. no messing around, which was rather a chance for him and he was sure people would be surprised to see him taking something seriously. but the whole performance wasn’t that much of a bother for him and he easily made his way through the song, actually enjoying himself while it lasted. 

and with this evaluation down and marked off the list he could look towards the next one, maybe hoping that he would finally get a chance to perform in a group for a chance instead of having to fly solo. 

[rkjordan]

❛ compatibility

@rkseunghun

this eval was just a little bit of a pain in the ass, especially when he had come to realize that he didn’t actually know any other trainees born under the same star sign as him. and while he didn’t really mind doing the whole thing solo, it was still a little annoying and he would have preferred finding a group to slip into. but he simply supposed that he didn’t have much of a choice in the matter and he was just going to have to make do by himself. but at least he didn’t have to worry about the planning by himself as well and could still get some other opinions. 

“did you know that taurus and pisces have great compatibility?” he offered with a grin as he glanced up over the table where seunghun was currently sitting. “it’s probably why we get on so well.” not that he had ever bought into any of the zodiac crap to begin with, but this evaluation did require just a bit of research to find a suitable enough song. though he certainly wasn’t against just taking to youtube and finding something that way. it was probably easier than coming up with his own idea.