Yes!!! I'm in love with the new au, I think I might just be addicted to whenever you write cute little bub taemin tbh. I'd love to see more interactions between support junior and taem, maybe an smtown concert or them doting on him in his first solo appearance?
Honestly I just love little baby bub Taemin too. He’s precious and sweet and I need it when I’ve been having a stressful day/week lmao.
The first SMTown concert after Taemin’s group debuts, they’re clearly all bubbling with nervous energy. They’re young and excited and the cheers from their section of fans gives them so much energy and makes them burst with love and pride, and makes them want to perform that much better.
And somehow, despite being the one with the most experience on camera and in the limelight, Taemin is the most nervous. The others are all trying their best to calm him down, to keep him happy and having fun, and Jinki especially keeps a comforting arm around him as they’re roaming around stage at the end.
And the Super Junior members, being the loving, doting, obnoxious honorary uncles that they’ve always been, are quick to run to Taemin and all but force him to have fun. They make him wave at fans, hold onto his arms and carry him around stage, poke at his sides until he’s giggling from still being insanely ticklish and all of them knowing exactly where he tickles easiest. His armpits especially are his biggest tickle spots, and it’s embarrassing how quick he crumbles when Donghae picks him up and Eunhyuk pokes at him.
“Stop, stop!” he laughs, trying to kick them away. Donghae just carries him over to another end of the stage, and Shindong is quick to join them, along with several others. “No no no! DADDY!”
His pleas for Heechul to come rescue him fall on deaf ears, because Heechul is even showing it on Instagram Live and laughing maniacally in the background, watching as Taemin is paraded around stage.
“ONEW GET ME DOWN!” he shrieks, tears starting to roll down his cheeks from laughing too hard and too much.
Jinki hangs back with the other members and just laughs along with everyone else.
They eventually let Taemin go, and he’s quick to scurry and hide behind Minho instead since Jinki failed to do anything leader-like to help him. After several sets of bowing, Taemin is then carried off stage by Leeteuk, and Siwon is walking right next to them making Taemin wave. Taemin, meanwhile, is back to being a heap of giggles, but then Leeteuk pretends to drop him right before they’re off stage, and many fans capture the moment Taemin gasps and holds on tight to Leeteuk to keep from falling.
It becomes a bit of a tradition for a Super Junior member to carry Taemin off stage very unceremoniously at the end of every SMTown concert. Taemin gets progressively more dramatic about it each time it happens, much to everyone’s amusement.
Can we have lil Taem with the suju members? I'm very excited for this au!
“When’s Uncle Heechul coming back?” Taemin whined as he slumped against Leeteuk’s chest. Leeteuk had Taemin held on his lap, and he was holding him close as the two of them watched TV. Heechul was at a show recording, but he wouldn’t be back for another couple days, and Taemin was very unhappy.
“In a couple days,” Leeteuk whispered, running his hand through Taemin’s hair. “Then you two will go back to your house.”
“I like being at the dorm, though,” Taemin mumbled, moving around to bury his face in Leeteuk’s neck. “There’s not enough people at home.”
Leeteuk only laughed, and he hugged Taemin tight.
“We like having you here, too,” Leeteuk said. “But your uncle just wants to make sure you have enough space.”
“You’re sure it’s not ‘cause you all hate me?”
Leeteuk was so sad as he hugged Taemin tighter.
“None of us hate you,” Leeteuk assured him.
“Not even Shindong?”
“Not even Shindong.”
“Even though he scares me?”
“Even though he scares you,” Leeteuk laughed. “No one hates you. We all love you very much. Now come on, it’s time for little Taemins to go to bed.”
Taemin whined and went completely limp as Leeteuk stood up to take him into the room Leeteuk used to share with Heechul. Taemin has been staying in there with him while Heechul was away, in the bed he and Heechul used to sleep in before he moved out.
“Will you buy me ice cream?”
“Yes.”
“And candy?”
“Yes.”
“And chocolate milk?”
“Yes.”
Taemin smiled and held on tight to Kyuhyun’s hand. He didn’t usually hang around Kyuhyun, but he had insisted on taking Taemin out that day while Heechul had a recording. The moment he told Taemin he’d buy him any sort of sugar he wanted, Taemin immediately agreed - he just wasn’t allowed to tell Uncle Heechul about it until after he got back home.
“Can we also get pancakes?” Taemin asked, looking up as he tried to keep up with the pace Kyuhyun set.
“We can get anything your little heart desires,” Kyuhyun said.
Taemin smiled a bit wider, and he held onto Kyuhyun’s hand with both of his own.
But when Taemin saw a particularly happy-looking family walking along the same street they were, Taemin’s smile fell, and he stumbled a bit until Kyuhyun looked over at what had Taemin distracted. Kyuhyun frowned, squeezed Taemin’s hand, and then smirked as he bent over and picked Taemin up to flop him over his shoulder.
“Someone needs an ice cream!” Kyuhyun said loudly, and he went over to the nearest ice cream stall.
Taemin laughed loudly, and he pointed at the ice cream he wanted when they got to the stall. When a crowd started forming because word started to buzz that Kyuhyun was at this particularly area with Taemin, Kyuhyun just held Taemin at his hip and continued walking around. He got Taemin a pair of sunglasses, a hat that was a tad bit big for him, a bunch of fruity, sugary snacks, chocolate milk, little cakes, and anything that Taemin even looked at for longer than a moment.
Fans thought Taemin looked absolutely adorable with an oversized hat on his head, big sunglasses, and chocolate smeared on the corners of his mouth. Photos of him even circulated back to Heechul, and he sent a very angry text back to Kyuhyun that he better not think he can just sugar Taemin up all afternoon and then send him to be a hyper little monster back with Heechul.
“What do you say about getting some cookies and milkshakes?” Kyuhyun said after he shoved his phone back in his pocket.
“Yes!”
Taemin laughed and giggled and wrapped his arms around Kyuhyun’s neck.
Kyuhyun really wished he had a camera in Heechul’s new place, he would love to see the way he was going to have to deal with a hyper Taemin.
I love undercover au so much ♥️♥️♥️ thank you for writing even though you're busy, these are such a treat to read after a long day
Ahh thank you!! I’m glad people like it lmao bc it’s a little Out There when it comes to like being realistic but lmao I have fun w it and everyone reading it seems to have fun w it and that’s all that matters haha
But like omg imagine this high school is like some weird snooty private school right and they make the students do weird talent shows and plays and assemblies and shit like that
And Taemin has to be part of some class show. Like something cringey like a Christmas program. He has to wear specific clothes and sing along to Christmas songs and oh god it’s awful. He didn’t even like that shit when he was a real child and now he’s a fake teenager and he hates it even more.
Even worse, his entire “family” came to see him, including “grandparents” and “aunts and uncles.” Everyone in their department is just sitting in the audience Laughing At Him he hates his life. How are they even all allowed to be in the same room this has to be against some sort of security protocol. He’s going to write an incident report man Screw This he’s going straight to HR.
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.
You are killing me here with all the sad updates to the bullied au. Could you maybe write something where shinee has finally figured out what was happening and they comfort taemin/are super protective of him? You're amazing, keep being amazing!
It was right at the beginning of View promotions that the majority of the idols who bullied him made their big public apology. Not even a full day after it happened, the members of SHINee were called in for a meeting to see if what these other idols were saying was credible. Did it really happen, was this serious, why hadn’t Taemin ever told anyone, why didn’t anyone know? Why were they apologizing now?
The other members were all worried, especially since Taemin wouldn’t tell them anything. He was suspiciously silent, only shaking his head when they asked him if it was true.
All of the managers are in the room with them, along with higher ups and PR people.
The manager who saw him getting molested a couple years earlier was in there as well, and Taemin felt his chest tighten when the man started talking about it and telling them what he saw. The other members were all turning to him, asking him if it was true, why didn’t he tell them?
“It was nothing,” Taemin whispered. “Nothing happened.”
“It doesn’t sound like nothing,” one of the managers said.
“During your Ace promotions,” his manager said, “what really happened to your leg that one time? When you could barely move it?”
“I - I hit it,” Taemin stuttered. “On - on a corner. Clumsy.”
“You said you tripped.”
“That’s what - I meant to say that I-” Taemin stammered, and he looked anywhere but in the eyes of the people who were all staring at him.
No one said anything for a while. Most of them just stared at Taemin, wondering how no one could have known this was happening. How long had this been going on? Why didn’t anyone notice?
“When did it start?” Jinki asked in a soft voice.
Taemin didn’t say anything for a while. If he answered, that would be admitted that it actually happened. He didn’t want to admit it, because then he couldn’t just pretend it wasn’t happening anymore. He couldn’t pretend that everything was alright.
There was no escaping it, though.
“Since Amigo,” Taemin choked out, his voice barely above a whisper.
He heard more than one person gasp.
Had it really been happening that long? Had it really gone on for so many years without anyone noticing? Or did they notice, but they just didn’t want to admit it? Which would have been worse?
“But it stopped during Ace?” another member asked. “That’s what they said, on the broadcast.”
Taemin shook his head, and he stared at the floor.
“It got worse,” he whispered. When everyone started mumbling to each other, he snapped his head up. “But it’s fine! It’s fine, nothing’s wrong! I’m fine.”
“Taemin, you’re shaking,” Kibum said quietly, putting a hand on Taemin’s arm.
Taemin flinched away.
“I’m fine,” he whispered harshly.
Except he wasn’t fine. Nothing was fine. Everyone knew about it, now, and he couldn’t hide it anymore. The whole world probably already knew by then. The more he thought about it, the more he felt like he couldn’t breathe. It was like the whole world was watching him, and before he knew it, he was hyperventilating and Kibum was pushing his head between his knees.
“Breathe slower, Taemin, breathe slower,” Kibum told him. “You’re gonna be okay. Just breathe. Deep breaths.”
He told them as much as he could before he had biggest breakdown in his life. It was worse knowing that other people knew about it than it was just keeping it to himself. At least when no one else knew, he could pretend that it wasn’t happening.
During the entirety of their View promotions, SHINee kept Taemin as close to them as possible. He wasn’t alone for a single second when they were at schedules with other idols. Still, Taemin pretended that none of the bullying ever happened. It was easier that way.
“I need to go to the bathroom. Come with me?” Jinki asked when they were waiting to go on stage at a music show.
Taemin nodded his head, and he got up to go with the leader. Jonghyun said he had to go, too, and Kibum and Minho both said they wanted to get out of the dressing room.
While it was sort of embarrassing to have them all walk him through the halls backstage, Taemin had to admit that he felt better knowing that they knew what was going on. It made life easier.
Hi lovelu, I'm so sorry you had a bad day and I hope you have a better one tomorrow!
I mean. Considering tomorrow is Not A Work Day it will be exponentially better. But I’ve already had so much wine so I’m pleasantly numb. Thank you though!!! For actually sending a message!!! I’ve been v sad bc work was Not Good today but you rly gave me a little boost of happiness, I appreciate it so so much 💖 I hope you also have a better day tomorrow (even if today was great for you!! I hope it’s just an amazing day tomorrow for u!!!)
I'm rereading some of the old au's again (vampire and tarzan have my heart) and they're just as amazing now as when I first read them. You are so unbelievably talented, and I'm so glad you post these au's just for funsies♥️♥️♥️♥️
Aww thank you so much!!! I’m always so happy when people tell me they like my aus
I wish I was writing more lately but its been a lil hard thinking of new ideas lmao
But I rly am so glad you like the aus t makes me so so happy!!
