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# A GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE 、 @jiahlgc .

it’s early morning when jino earns his first rude awakening.

if he thought chuseok was for resting and relaxing, boy — was he sorely mistaken. at the crack of dawn, having spent the night at their grandparents’ place since their parents had arrived on the prior sunday, jino and jiah were jostled out of the warm confines of their beds on that third day of chuseok. after the past two days of visiting ancestors’ graves and performing ancestral rites, he had thought that they would finally be getting to the resting portion of their small little vacation but his grandmother had other plans.

still feeling a bit out of it from last night's rice wine that one of the neighboring uncles had brought over, his morning was starting off a little rougher than per usual. before even the rooster had cawed — he’s sure, he checked! — jino was already awake, yawning in the back of the kitchen helping his grandmother sort out the rice cakes they were to hand out to their neighbors. suddenly all the leftover rice cakes from the days’ prior made sense as he helped shovel a healthy portion of songpyeon into a container; only to be tied with a ribbon by jiah.

and if he wondered why his grandmother woke they up at the ass crack of dawn, it was because by the time they finished it was already a quarter past seven and jino was feeling the crick in his neck and the stickiness from the songpyeon coat his fingers. and from the sheer quantity of it all, he was sure they would not be done handing it out until after noon. ( and even that might be wishful thinking )

“할머니 really couldn’t pass up the chance of showing us around, huh?” he murmurs, for no one else but jiah to hear as they are all ushered out the door and into the cool autumn morning, arms filled to the tops of their heads with the rice cakes they had packed up since earlier.

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↪︎  G'DAY, JINO! _ 5  ▸  HAPPY CHUSEOK EVERYONE! DURATION : 10 minutes, 5 seconds

NOW PLAYING  ▸   HEAD IN THE CLOUDS _ HAYD

the scene opens to jino running through the frame from one side to the other — right to left — dressed in his morning athletic wear (a breathable track jacket and some joggers, cap slung low on his brow). the morning is cloudier than usual, a surprising downcast for an early autumn day. today they were celebrating chuseok, his parents had arrived that weekend — greetings and gifts already having been dispersed when he had gone over to his grandparents’ those days of arrival. 

staying there for the weekend was a hassle, he still had work in the morning and commuting to the company from where his grandparents’ lived would have been a pain so jino decides to stay over only on his allotted vacation days which weren’t many, unfortunately. 

he had wanted to spend more time with his family while they were here but understandably, since it was the middle of the week, jino could relate as to why they couldn’t stay longer. 

so, before he was off to his grandparents’ home for the holiday, he was getting his morning workout in — already knowing the trouble he would be in come that monday night.

NOW PLAYING  ▸   WISH U FELT THE WAY I DO _ FINDING HOPE

snippets of jino greeting his relatives and neighbors plays, it’s very selective and cut up — minimal close ups and many blurred out faces to protect the privacy of jino’s close friends and relatives. 

the last cut is a plate of all the food he had piled on, all homemade and all done by his grandma (with help from jino and jiah). 

NOW PLAYING  ▸   SUMMER IS FOR FALLING IN LOVE _ SARAH KANG

from the perspective of his sister, moon jiah, an uncredited appearance, as they walk down the street from their grandmothers’ home — blurred out streets and notable scnes — with boxes of homemade rice cakes that they had spent the last couple hours handing out.

they’re at their last one — and the second it is received, jino can be scene wiping the nonexistent sweat from his bro and smiling, mouthing:

“all in a hard day’s work.” before running away.

cuts to them enjoying ice cream on the porch of their grandparents’ home. 

NOW PLAYING  ▸   STEAL THIS NIGHT _ ROCCO

jino had woken up extra early that thursday morning; using his grandpa’s old truck to haul the last of his parents’ minimal luggage (if you counted the four carry on suitcases minimal and the wrapped box of his grandma’s banchan) to the airport alongside his parents.

the clips are minimal, just fuzzy cuts between jino shoving luggage in the trunk, him clapping his father on the back, small snippets of his parents hugging his mother’s parents as well as jiah, before they’re all shuffling into the truck for the long drive to incheon. 

sure, it would have been easier to call them a taxi — and his mother had insisted on one when jino had said he had work later — but jino, being jino, didn’t want to send off his parents that way. 

and it also helped that he could get his dad to film him driving amidst the bad lighting and straying city lights.

AFTER CREDIT CLIP  ▸

a clip of jino and jiah hugging and giving parting goodbyes to their parents, angled from the passenger seat of the truck.

they’re all huddled into one group hug before dispersing into duos, jino hugging his dad first before his mom; watching as she’s wiping away tears that jino laughs at, shaking his head.

“c’mon, you’ll see us in a couple months, if not sooner.”

they wave their final goodbye, bags all tucked and rattled onto the baggage cart that his father pushes as they finally leave towards the entrance of the terminal.

the last cut shows jino and jiah’s backs as they wave goodbye to their parents. 

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🏷️ what’s your favorite event during the year?

Event as in holidays and such? Because I've always enjoyed Chuseok when we travelled to Korea to spend some time with my grandparents, even though my favorite holiday is Christmas. But as in like event EVENT, I've always enjoyed music festivals and before moving here, I had the chance to go to the Rhythm and Vines festival in Gisborne and it was so good. I hope I get the chance to attend it again someday. Can we go on a date there?

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# MOON JINO  、 TREASURE HUNTER  、 UNBREAKABLE PEAK SCHOOL

a man of humbler origins, jino doesn’t remember much of his childhood prior to the accident. whether that has to do because of the head trauma or from some other, more psychological reason, jino can’t say. 

tw: shipwreck. they had been on a voyage between sects, the shipwreck had left them stranded. him and his father had survived with no sign of @jiahlgc and their mother. 

unfortunately, due to the accident, he’s developed an subconscious hero complex where he feels the need to shoulder the responsibilities of himself and others; and for that, he blames himself for why they lost jiah and his mother. to this day, he cares it like a chip on his shoulder.

that had been seven years ago and the accident still haunts him, but jino — being jino — doesn’t lose hope. a part of him still believed that jiah and their mother were still alive, and maybe it’s because of that hope that sparks his wanderlust, his need to leave his father — in the same hands of the villagers and the home they’ve made for themselves these past seven years — and to travel elsewhere, between the sects, in search of something, someone, of the relieve of the hope that he kept within him.

it’s through these travels that he inadvertently becomes a so-called treasure hunter. he hadn’t really thought it over, he kind of just fell into it, literally.

while trying to save a dwarf squirrel from becoming the lunch of a leopard, did he find the ruins of a distant voyage — not his own — ransacked and pillaged with seemingly nothing left to offer; he finds a hidden compartment with riches only he could ever dream of.

and as they say the rest is history.

with his trusty sidekick, rambo, the dwarf squirrel he had saved, when the pocket realm opens up, jino jumps for the chance to explore it and the treasures that awaited.

what he hadn’t expected was meeting his sister again and possibly the many near-death experiences that came along with it.

also he definitely doesn't look like the graphic in the au, he looks a little more like this ....

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I LOST YOU ONCE   /   @jiahlgc

seven years had been a long time. 

the sun had risen and fallen more than a million times in that time. in jiah’s absence he had grown from a no-nothing boy to a man who now stood a head — no, was it two? — taller than her. where she was missing, countless others had filled and gone in her place ; capturing but never once replacing the essence of a sibling he, truly, sought for after all this time.

finding, time and time again, that no one could really ever make up the space that his sister left.

seven years ago he had thought there would be no hope to see either jiah or his mother again — seven years was the difference. in seven years, he grew that hope and never lost it.

because seven years later, here they were, reunited and whole again. and now, grown into the man he wanted to prove he was — that he was going to correct the wrongs he had made from irresponsibly losing her all those years prior — he swore he wasn’t going to lose them again.

not even when the pocket realm rips a shift in the universe and forces the most promising of youth through it’s doors. this time, jino would not leave her behind — if she was this close, it would only make it easier to protect her, is what he thought.

( except jino forgets that he wasn’t the only one who’s grown in the other’s absence )

“누나 — promise me we won’t stay too long here, you know what they say about the poisoned gardens.” he looks around; trying to find the herbs that jiah had mentioned she needed. “if you need anything just tell me and i’ll get them for you.” he didn’t want her to do anything that she didn’t need to — the less she stayed, the less harm she would endure.