Ara & Chan Things
Content Warning: 18+!! There are talks of sex in this!! Chan and Ara were both underage the first time they had sex. DONT DO THAT!! Be responsible kids.
- They met in 2010, the year they both started training, but they didn’t become attached at the hip until 2011
- They argue about who confessed first. Chan says it was him. Ara says she did. Truth: they confessed at the exact same time. Loudly. Accidentally.
- Stay have two ship names for them: KangBang and ChrisRielle (mix of their English names)
- Chan rests his chin on her shoulder when he’s tired. She calls it his “low battery mode.”
- She can calm him down faster than anyone, just by saying his name softly.
- They share a secret playlist no one else has heard.
- Chan lets her sit on his lap when he mixes because she fidgets less that way.
- He writes producing notes with tiny hearts near her suggestions.
- When she cooks, he hugs her from behind the entire time.
- They trained together for so long that they speak in full conversations using only eye contact. The members call it “married telepathy” and swear it’s terrifying. Chan insists it’s just “efficient communication.” Ara calls it “years of shared trauma bonding.”
- They have a shared notebook of music ideas they’ve been writing in since they were teenagers. It’s messy, covered in doodles from predebut days, and filled with lyric scraps, dumb jokes, emotional venting, timestamps of the moment they met the boys. They guard it like it’s the crown jewels.
- When Chan’s confidence dips, he trusts Ara to see the parts of him he forgets. She has a handwritten letter on her phone notes titled “Read this when you forget who you are.” He pretends he never cries reading it. He absolutely cries.
- Ara is Chan’s unofficial physical therapist. Shoulder tight? She massages it Neck stiff? She stretches him. Back hurting? She tells every member: “Do NOT touch him today! I gotta fix him first.” Chan says it’s the closest thing to heaven.
- They have a little ritual before every performance. They rest their foreheads together, inhale and exhale twice, then say: “Together.” It started during their trainee days to calm nerves.
- Ara is one of the only people Chan actually trusts to hear unfinished songs. She’s brutally honest but always kind. If she says, “This line needs to be softer,” he changes it every time.
- They have been public about their relationship since the survival show. Chan proposed the idea of going public. Ara chose the timing. He wanted to protect her. She wanted to stand beside him openly. Their decision was mutual, steady, and full of trust.
- Chan visibly softens when she walks into a room. Like the tension noticeably leaves his shoulders. Their boys have a running joke: “Ara entered and Chan updated his firmware.”
- Their boys often say that their love feels gentle, steady, mature. The kind that grew quietly and strongly over years.
- Chan will be giving a heartfelt speech and Ara will whisper something stupid like:
“You missed a belt loop.”
“WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT RIGHT NOW?”
- Ara once thought about quitting after an injury. Chan walked her to her dorm every day until she recovered, terrified she’d disappear if he left her alone.
- They fought once, TRULY fought, during the survival show. They didn’t speak to each other for three entire days. Chan finally broke, showing up at her room crying, telling her, “I can’t do this without you. We can’t be Stray Kids without you.”
- They leave each other loving and encouraging notes EVERYWHERE. Han personally makes it a mission that he collects them like Pokémon cards.
- Ara is the only one allowed to organize Chan’s chaotic studio cables. Every time she does, he says: “This must be what true love feels like.”
- Ara has mastered the art of “soft scolding Chan.” She’ll say “Chris…” in a certain soft tone and he immediately becomes obedient.
- If Ara disappears from view for even a few minutes, Chan instinctively looks around to find her. It’s not possessive. It’s more habit. They spent so many years side by side that he feels weird when she’s not in his peripheral vision.
- Ara once joked that she’d marry him “when he stops losing his socks.” Chan has been suspiciously organized ever since.
- Chan can’t handle when Ara ties her hair up. He looks away, clears his throat, or suddenly “needs water.”
- Chan’s voice drops an octave when he talks only to her. Their boys have recordings. Stay have recordings. Staff have recordings.
- Chan bites his lip when Ara is performing. He tries not to. He fails.
- Ara once jokingly called him Daddy. Chan didn’t speak for a full 30 seconds.
- Ara loves teasing him by leaning close when she doesn’t need to. Chan’s revenge? Saying her name low and slow. She hates how well it works.
- They have a “three-second stare” that everyone fears. If they hold eye contact for longer than three seconds, the tension becomes explicitly illegal and someone has to intervene.
- Ara and Chan have a habit of talking with their foreheads almost touching. Private whispering. Soft laughter. The kind of closeness that looks like a kiss waiting for permission.
18+ Only!!
- Ara and Chan lost their virginities to eachother when they were both 16. In Chan’s studio. And they have not told a single person.
- Ara is very much the sub in their relationship but every now and then, usually on her birthday, he will let her have control.
- They have, and still continue to do so, invited their boys into their bed. They both have their favorites. Don’t tell the boys.
- Ara has exactly one weakness: Chan when he’s tired. If his voice gets low and raspy from overwork, she cannot function. She once dropped her phone because he said the word “yeah” too softly.
- Once during a ‘Channies Room’, Ara walked into their room, fresh from her shower, completely nude with no cares. She was hidden from camera but Chan went eerily silent and just watched her for an entire 4 minutes. Stay timed it.
- Ara has mastered the way to get Chan to fuck her harder. She’ll whimper “Channie..” in a whiny voice and it drives him feral every time.
- Chan found out accidentally that she likes when his chains dangle in her face. Now he makes it a point to wear them when he fucks her. He relishes in the fucked out look she has when the metal touches her mouth or tongue.
- Chan’s favorite way to tease her? Saying “Come here” with his delicious accent and a deep, low tone. The one that sounds like a command. The one she always, always listens to.
- They have a live that lasted fifteen minutes and allowed Stay to ask whatever question they wanted. No limits. Stay took full advantage and learned many things about their resident mom and dad. To this day NO social media has video proof it ever happened and the Stays that do have clips understand not to post it out of respect.
- Minho and Chan have had a detailed discussion about Ara’s ass. On stage. She finds it hilarious. Stay we’re eating it up. Their publicists were fearing for their lives.
