I'll take even the tiniest little morsels from the dozens au and/or Tarzan au. They are some of my absolute favourites and I need research distractions. Thanks for being lovely 😊
so okay for dozen au, because apparently i like to just change things in all my stories that are like Established, imagine if during the whole “taemin’s brother broke his nose on star king” thing, imagine if it was just 100 times worse than what i previously wrote
like, instead of just taemin and his brother getting into a fight, literally all the siblings started fighting in the middle of the stage because some were taking taemin’s side, some were taking the other brother’s side, and then it just turned into an all out war with the parents and the two oldest siblings trying to wrangle everyone under control
there so much hair pulling, scratching, swearing, punching, kicking, screaming, shirt pulling, and biting. three of them are missing at least one shoe. someone’s shirt is ripped. taemin literally has blood pouring down his face from his legitimately broken nose. someone only has one pigtail still up in her hair while the other was forcibly taken out of the hair-tie.
the dad gets so fed up that he goes to one of the other guests who had a whistle, says “hey can i borrow that for a second thanks,” and just blows it so loud that all the kids immediately stop yelling and moving.
taemin is on the floor on top of his older brother with his fist raised, about to punch him in the mouth, but he’s frozen just like all his other siblings as they all stare at their dad who’s face is turning red.
“get off’a him,” his oldest brother says as he pulls taemin up and holds him close to his chest. “jesus christ look at your face.”
“WHAT THE HELL HAS GOTTEN INTO ALL OF YOU” their dad shouts at them. “TAEMIN, HOW COULD YOU START SOMETHING LIKE THIS?”
“WHY IS THIS ALL MY FAULT?” taemin shouts back. “I DIDN’T TELL THEM TO START FIGHTING EACH OTHER. WHY AREN’T YOU YELLING AT HIM HE’S THE ONE WHO STARTED IT”
“I DON’T CARE WHO STARTED IT, TAEMIN, I’M FINISHING IT”
“NO IT’S NOT FAIR IT’S ALWAYS MY FAULT WHY IS EVERYTHING ALWAYS MY FAULT”
and basically it turns into taemin’s dad pulling him out of his brother’s grasp to grip taemin’s arm and push him back while telling him very loudly something along the lines of:
“life isn’t fair, taemin. you’re not special. you’re not. we have a lot of kids and you’re not going to get any special attention, because when shinee breaks up after five years, you’re going to go back to being a normal person who gets a normal office job and works in a cubicle from 9-5 like everyone else in this country. your little dancing hobby is just that, a hobby, it’s not going to be a career. no amount of whining or complaining is going to change that”
and he just keeps going on and on about how taemin isn’t special, and the whole time taemin is just,
like his dad is gripping his arm so tight it’s painful, and his dad eventually gets so annoyed with taemin’s pleadings that he slaps him very hard, very loudly across the face
“you stop interrupting me right now, or so help me”
“i’m sorry”
and he just keeps saying all this right in taemin’s face about how he’s been a disrespectful little shit and how he needs to get it through his head that shinee is not going to last very long and he needs get this idol fantasy out of his head. taemin’s just very quiet for the rest of his little rant and his eyes are screwed shut and no one can really believe this is happening and why no one is doing anything.
he eventually stops his little rant, and taemin’s oldest brother is just horrified and just, “let go of him. now.”
and the two shinee managers have gotten to the stage as fast as they could and they just guide taemin very gently backstage to take him to the hospital because not only is taemin’s nose broken, but his dad slapped his face so hard while his mouth was still slightly open that he dislocated his jaw. like, taemin is just an absolute mess. he breaks down the second he gets backstage because,
“everyone would just be better off if i never existed, if i was dead. they wouldn’t even care if i was gone, they would be happier without me.”
and he was still wearing a mic when he said that, so the sound people or whatever picked it up, and a lot of the footage and audio may or may not get leaked to news stations across the country because everyone is just so horrified by how taemin’s family treated him.
especially when taemin’s oldest brother and sister start telling off their dad for everything the parents have ever done to him. the brother brings up when taemin stopped believing in santa, because he marks that as the beginning of taemin not wanting to be part of their family.
“he was six,” his brother said, sounding horrified at the mere thought. “he was six years old, and he came into my room on christmas while everyone else was out playing with their new toys because he wanted to know if he had been bad all year, because he didn’t get the one thing he put on his christmas list to santa. everyone else got was on their christmas list except for him, and he thought it was because he had been bad.”
“we can’t always get everything that’s on a christmas list,” their mother tried to reason.
“all he wanted was an h.o.t cd! that was all he wanted, was the new h.o.t cd! they were everywhere, you couldn’t walk two feet without seeing one for sale!” his brother shouted. “you got him some generic pirate set or something! he hated pirates! all he wanted was one cd and you couldn’t even do that! i had to confirm to my six year old baby brother that santa claus didn’t exist, that it was mom and dad who put the presents under the tree, because he knew santa would get him what he wanted, but mom and dad wouldn’t be able to,” he said, practically crying. “he was six and he knew that you guys didn’t care about it him, that you always forgot about him! and you did, if you ever forgot a kid, it was him. you don’t understand why he doesn’t want to ever come home, but it’s been your fault since he was little! noona and i have been better parents to him than you two ever were.”
“why would he even want an h.o.t cd?” their dad asked.
“BECAUSE HE LOVED THEM,” his brother said. “he loved them, he was obsessed with them, they were why he started dancing in the first place! he would copy their dance moves whenever they came on tv, and he was good at it. he’s always been so good at dancing and you treat it like it’s some bad habit he needs to grow out of.”
and just, imagine if one of the old h.o.t members was a guest that day as well, and imagine him hearing about it and talking to the brother afterwards. the brother eventually sends an old video he filmed of taemin when he was seven to him. it’s the cutest video ever, because taemin’s in these cute little dragon ball z pajamas and his hair is a little damp and you can tell he’s probably about to go to bed.
but he’s so smiley and you can tell a couple of his baby teeth fell out recently because his adult teeth are starting to grow in at a couple places, but they’re not all the way grown in yet so they look like little tooth nubs and it’s just really endearing.
and taemin’s brother’s voice is in the background, and he’s obviously the one filming and he just, “taemin, who’s your favorite band?”
and taemin just giggles and goes to hold onto the couch and flop over the top of it and he just, “h.o.t”
“what’s your favorite song?”
“candy!”
“dance to it, taeminnie! dance!”
and candy starts playing and taemin just laughs and giggles, but he starts dancing and singing along to it and it’s so cute and he’s so good at it.
and then at the end, he’s slumped over the couch laughing and his brother just, “who’s your favorite member?”
and taemin hides his face and giggles before his brother asks him again and he just, “tony!”
“why tony?”
“because he’s cool!”
and it’s just such a cute video, and maybe a few days later, when taemin’s still got a splint on his nose and everything, the h.o.t members personally deliver an entire set of all their cds and everything.
taemin is fucking starstruck. he can’t believe he’s meeting every member of h.o.t. holy shit. he’s in his pajamas when they come to the shinee dorm, and he had been doing his homework at the coffee table while some tv show played in the background.
but also, while taemin had been in the car on the way to the hospital, his manager is just so worried about him because he’s saying all these near-suicidal things and he’s just really so worried about him.
“if there was a way for you to not be their son anymore, would you do it?” his manager asked.
“what do you mean?”
“if there was a way for you to take care of yourself, legally, would you do it?”
“yes”
“you’re not even going to think about it?”
“they don’t want me to be their son,” taemin whispered. “they’d be happier without me.”
so his manager talks with a few others within the company and he brings up taemin getting emancipated, so that his parents can’t do anything to him like legally, and once they figure out everything they would need to do for this to work for taemin, they bring it up to him
he agrees immediately
after everything that they’ve witnessed taemin’s family/parents doing to him, they all let him know that they’ll be there for him if he ever needs anything, even if he does get emancipated from his parents.
taemin’s never been happier than the day the courts decided he would be better off without his parents.
For dozen au, im sure there were some ups and downs to being from a big family for Taemin, right? Like does jt make him used to sharing and being patient. But makes him super possessive of things that belong to him, like techy things or even snacks?
taemin is a super patient for someone his age, and he’s also very understanding of the whole “sharing is caring” rule. he doesn’t bitch about having to share a bedroom with four other boys in the shinee dorm, he doesn’t complain about having to share a bathroom, and he fully understands the “you snooze you lose” rule when it comes to things like taking a shower first or getting the last “good juice box” out of the fridge.
that being said, he is super possessive of things that are “his.”
“THOSE ARE MY SNACKS DON’T TOUCH THEM”
“DON’T TOUCH MY SOCKS ASSHOLE GET YOUR OWN”
“D O N ‘ T. T O U C H. M Y. L A P T O P. IT’S MINE.”
he also eats really fast because if you didn’t eat fast at dinner with eleven other siblings, that meant you didn’t always get as much food as you really wanted. he’s super possessive of his food at meal times. and he eats super fast so he can get seconds if he wants. he’s practically a vacuum.
however, despite being super possessive of his food, he is very willing to share if it’s part of trading food.
“hey i’ll give you some of this if you give me some of that”
“gimme a bite of yours and i’ll give you a bite of mine”
also, even though he’s very used to being the youngest with shinee, sometimes he just sort of forgets, and because he has six younger siblings, sometimes he just tells the others what to do
“i don’t like this flavor trade with me” he’ll say while he’s mid-swap of his and jonghyun’s drinks
it’s not very often that stuff like that happens, but the members all think it’s pretty funny, so it’s not really a big deal to them
taemin, in dozen au, again sometime after he’s been emancipated, but this time at school
he’s going to his math class for the first time in literally two weeks and his teacher is Not Having It
“taemin you need to take this note home and get it signed by a parent or guardian” his teacher tells him. “you haven’t shown up to class in two weeks, you haven’t done any homework, and you’ve missed four quizzes and two tests. get this signed by tomorrow”
“oh i’ll get it signed right away” taemin says, and he takes the note and signs it himself. “here you go, straight from my very own guardian: myself”
“taemin this isn’t funny”
“emancipation of minors is a very serious legal matter”
“taemin you’re in danger of failing this class”
“and as my own guardian, i am very okay with this fact”
“you’re going to have to repeat this class again next year if you don’t bring your grade up”
“can’t repeat a class if i never go to it”
“go to the principal’s office get out of my classroom”
so he just sits in the principal’s office like “seeing as i am my own guardian, i would like to sign myself out of school for the day”
“do you have a doctor’s appointment or a pre-scheduled idol event?” his principal asks.
“no, i just really don’t wanna be here right now”
“taemin, i understand what you’re trying to do right now, and i have to tell you that i feel like i would be failing you if i let you do this to yourself”
“what, you mean let myself go home to take a nap?”
“no, i mean watching you let you take your education for granted.”
“i’m just not the academic type. never have been, really. my guardian can attest for that; ah yes, taemin, he’s never been the academic.”
“do you think this is a joke?”
“i think geometry is a joke. none of it makes sense. it’s a triangle, i don’t care how many degrees its corners have. and what’a a proof? no one knows, and no one cares.”
the real reason taemin ended up transferring to an arts high school: his normal public school was sick of his Shit(tm)
dozen au, the post-emancipation series part like idk 5 maybe
so far, taemin being emancipated was all fun for him. he had no curfew, he could sign his own notes and report cards for school, he could call in sick at school for himself, life was great
but then when shinee had a schedule that ran really late into the night and one of the managers took key and minho home because of child labor laws, taemin stared at his managers
“why don’t i get to go home?” he whined. “i’m tired too”
“you’re no longer legally a minor,” one of the managers explained, “so you get to stay late just like the big boys”
taemin just stares at them, mouthing a little “what?” as he shakes his head and tries to wrap his mind around this fact
“that wasn’t part of the deal!”
“it’s what being emancipated means. you get treated like an adult.”
“but i’m tired! i have school tomorrow!”
the manager that was staying with the three of them just looked at him and said, “we all know you’ve been going the movie theater to play video games instead of going to school, taemin. you’re staying”
“i can’t believe you’re calling me out like this,” he whispered, but onew just scoffed and pulled on his shoulders to bring him back to where he and jonghyun were waiting for the next shoot to start
Ooohh I LOVE Dozen au! What was Taemin's family's reaction to SHINee winning their Daesang?!? BTW you are one of my favorite content creators for SHINee, youre so authentic and talented ❤ you 💎
i’m like tearing up this is so sweet thank u so much ❤❤❤
as for when shinee won their daesaeng, the siblings who were always super supportive of him - so basically his oldest brother and sister and then the little twins - were so happy and they just yelled and celebrated and of course called or texted him right away to congratulate him and then maybe his oldest sister brought him cookies or something to celebrate and his oldest brother brought him a bottle of champagne, and then the little twins just hugged him so tight and yelled their congratulations right in his face and taemin just laughed and hugged them close to him
his parents were happy for him of course, but they just texted him to say congrats and taemin lowkey thought it was sort of cheap
his other siblings will congratulate him on it if they see him, but they don’t go out of their way to really say anything to him, and it just makes him sort of upset
OKAY SO i just read thru like all of dozen au and i just. Love it so much. It is such an in-depth and unique au like holy shit it's such a detailed view into the life of large families. Im so glad taem gets emancipated!! Love it!
l m a o if u read through everything then u know it came about solely because i was channel surfing and saw cheaper by the dozen and was like “okay but taemin”
like i’m really glad people think it’s good like lmao i know a lot of it is Wild and Very Unrealistic but?? that’s the whole beauty of a fanfic isn’t it lmao it doesn’t have to be 100% believable
but yeah i’m glad i made it so taemin gets emancipated like he still sometimes talks to his family but after the whole Star King Debacle™ he just did not want to be part of the family like he was so Depressed and Unhappy being “number six” that everyone could tell how much happier and relieved he seemed once he was legally emancipated from his parents
but anyways just thank u so much for this nice message it really made me so happy thank you ❤❤❤
