Hi!! I’ve been loving reading the Minnie Series!!
I’m just curious as to why she calls the other members “hyung” cause correct me if I’m wrong like isn’t that what a male calls his older brother/friend in Korean??
Idk if I missed something or I apologize if this has already been addressed😅 I’m new to reading this series
Awww thank you so much!! I‘m glad you’re enjoying it ˙ᵕ˙🫶🏼
You’re right! Typically, guys use it to address a man that is slightly older than them (brother or friend)! In my AU I once have a short explanation about why Minnie uses “hyung” as well. So, in my head I came up with this: when she started training my with the other guys, to make her feel more included and comfortable around them, Seungcheol offered her to call him “hyung”, just like all the other trainees did. Mind you, she didn’t grow up speaking much Korean, so to use honourifics was already new to her, so he just decided to tell her to call him that. Therefore, over the years the “meaning” of it changed for her and she “hyung” just became the norm (for calling that every older guy) to her. And because of that, the word “oppa” has become kinda more important to her and she mentioned once in their early debut days that she would only ever call a real older brother (if she had one) or a boyfriend this.
Well… her relationship to S.Coups has and always will be much different than to any other of the guys. Don’t get me wrong, she’s obviously insanely close to all of them and she calls them her family in every way possible, but growing up with Cheol in the way she did has just been special to her and she decided to start giving him a different honorific name than the others.
She has been caught dropping the “hyung” with some other members, resulting in quite the gossip around Caratland, but it’s rare. Truth is, her views on the honourifics names has just changed slightly ˙ᵕ˙
Btw, I didn’t come up with this all by myself! I was inspired to do it like that bc of an Interview I saw with the Busted! cast, where Kim Sejeong explained why she calls Sehun “hyung”. I thought it was really interesting and something different for once, so I wanted to use it ˙ᵕ˙
And pls don’t be sorry about asking questions!! I’m always happy to answer them! Thank you for finding this AU and enjoying it, I hope you have fun reading the future stuff too!🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼