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🍂 / what taewoo wanted to be when he grew up
if someone were to ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up now versus fifteen years ago, the answers would be very different (hell, the answers would still be different even if one were to have asked ten years ago or even five).
ryu taewoo’s initial dream did not consist of being an idol: it didn’t even cross his mind. the kind of music these sorts of celebrities were singing and the kind of music he fell in love with were completely different – he could never put himself inside of the genre (although a few songs here and there were right up his alley; but they were more for consumption, not something he ever saw himself creating).
when taewoo was very small, he wanted to help people: be a firefighter, keeping people safe and rescuing those in need; a kindergarten teacher, simply because he admired his own teacher and wanted to be just like them; an astronaut, because space is just really, really cool; a baker, because when the house was filled with the smell of his mother and grandmothers’ sweets, it was as if his soul was lifted. later on, though, his answer would change to “poet” and “guitar player”; only after his grandfather informed him that “musician” can encompass both poetry (or, in this case, writing lyrics) and playing the guitar that taewoo truly began taking this path seriously.
but if you were to ask him now – after debuting (albit promotion time short) and after all the training – his answer would be different. he’d say he just would want to have him and everyone he cares about be happy. he’d whisk his family (sans his father) away from changho and surely start his own little unit, having kid after kid after kid and giving them all the love and affection he never received from his own father.
