Using this prompt and considering the fact that there’s a small cast of characters for Mystic Messenger, I just had fun doing all the characters! I hope you’ll enjoy!
The character wakes up next to you in the same bed after a night of drinking. What is their reaction?
So, I’m going into all these reactions assuming that you’re either a complete stranger to the character or you’re a friend who they are not in a relationship with, because if you were in a relationship, the characters would be largely unbothered. Going with that assumption, I feel like it would be insanely rare for this to happen to Jumin and, if it did, he’d be horrified when he woke up to find another person in his bed and really disgusted with himself, especially so if it was a complete stranger. Regardless of how he’s internally feeling though, he would push down those emotions and would be a complete gentleman about it. He’d immediately get dressed and leave if the bed wasn’t his own, and if you were a friend, he would apologize to you afterwards and would put some distance between the two of you for a little while afterwards, just until he could sort out his emotions regarding what happened. If it was his own bed, I feel like he’d still get dressed right away and probably head right into a shower. He’d offer you Tylenol and breakfast if you wanted it when you woke up and would arrange to have you driven home afterwards. If you were just a complete stranger, I think he’d want little contact with you afterwards, just because he is feeling that shame in his actions, and if you were a friend, I feel he’d behave very much as mentioned above.
Zen has gotten drunk and found himself in this situation at least once before in his life. It isn’t a completely new experience to him and he’s more casually cool about it. He’s never thrilled about it, because he does feel like he might have potentially taken advantage of a drunk person, regardless of the fact that he was also drunk. He’d definitely have some weird healthy juice concoction he makes to take the edge off the hangover and he’d probably scour the kitchen of either his or your place to try to make it for both you and him. He’d never just leave and pretend it didn’t happen because that isn’t okay in his mind so he would stick around and wait for you to wake up if it was your bed. He’d need to check to make sure you were okay with what had happened the night before and he’d probably check to see if there was any connection with you if you were a stranger, to see if there might be an opportunity for this to develop into more than a one-night stand. If you were already his friend, he’d definitely feel the need to make sure that you were okay with whatever had happened the night before. He might even apologize for whatever had happened right off the bat, just because he feels a little guiltier about the situation if it happens with someone he does know and already cares about in some form. I could also see him, with someone who was already a friend, being really open to seeing if there is potential for a relationship to come out of a drunken one-night stand.
Saeyoung is disturbed. Like, the boy is not at all mentally okay with this, no matter who you are to him. He doesn’t drink often, and he already hates the fact that he got drunk, since he’d always promised himself he wouldn’t do that, wouldn’t risk turning into his mother. The fact that he’d probably had sex with either a complete stranger or one of his friends after getting drunk makes him feel sick, to be honest, and I think the mixture of that guilt, self-loathing, and the hangover might send him right to the bathroom to throw up. He’d either be really short and curt with you or would be tossing out bad jokes but either way, he’s going to try to leave the situation as quickly as he could. He wants out of wherever he is, he doesn’t even care if it’s his own place, just as fast as his legs could carry him and he’d probably ghost you completely or at least for a few days and he’d do everything he could, if you were his friend and when he got back to talking to you, to pretend it had never happened.
His brain breaks. So hard. He’s already got a terrible hangover, because he’s a quick drunk and gets really plastered easily, and to deal with both that fogging his mind and the realization that he isn’t alone in bed…it’s way too much and he definitely wakes you up just kind of trying to not freak out as much as he wants to. He wants to check under the covers to see if he’s naked, but he gets embarrassed because what if you’re naked so he’s slipping his hands under the covers to try to feel if he’s dressed or not and trying to remember what all happened and he’s moving all over the place and just making a general ruckus. If you guys had slept together, no matter if he knew you or not, he’s blushing redder than a tomato and stuttering and stumbling because he just doesn’t know how to react or what to do and he’ll definitely need you to calm him down in the moment.
Jaehee probably is one of the most mature about the situation. She’s embarrassed, of course, but she has a talent for remaining level-headed. Her first step is to look for her clothes and get dressed. Then, it’s coffee. She’ll make coffee for both of you and will wake you up with coffee and Tylenol, just in case you have a hangover like she does. She’ll be very polite and will apologize to you if you seem at all uncomfortable with the previous night or the situation. Because she probably has a lot of work left to do, it’s a good excuse for her to leave an awkward situation and she’ll tell you that she has to be leaving for work but will thank you for your hospitality. If you are a friend and someone she will see, she will request that you keep what happened just between the two of you and will want to act as if it hadn’t happened moving forward.
V’s the other really mature one in this situation. He doesn’t get overly drunk, not to the point where he doesn’t remember what happened at least, so he knows what went on and while he does feel a large amount of shame for his actions, he’s able to remain calm in the situation. If you’re awake, he will say good morning and ask you how you are feeling. He thanks you for sharing the previous night with him and genuinely does want to know what you’re feeling emotionally in regards of what happened. That being said, he’s going to let you down as easy as he can, explaining that he’s just not in the right space to be starting a relationship, even just a sexual one, and that while he appreciates the previous night, he’d like for this to be a one-time thing.
Saeran would not react well to this at all, honestly. He’s hungover and that makes him uncomfortable and already puts him in a bad place mentally and then he feels a lot of self-disgust for having casual sex with someone he either doesn’t know or has a friendship with. There’s just way too much that goes on in his head when he finds himself in that situation and I really thinks he can’t even talk to you, if you are awake, and he’s just laser-focused on getting his clothes on and getting as far away from the situation as fast as he can.
Rika…Rika just sees this as more proof of the darkness inside of her and she fully embraces the situation. Out of all of them, I feel like she’s the one most comfortable in the situation. She’d actually either snuggle up to you closer or would attempt to seduce you all over again, regardless of any hangovers, just because she feels like she can and feels like it’s slightly self-destructive to do so, which is something she is actively seeking.
Vanderwood isn’t too shook up by the situation. It’s happened to him before, probably more than once. He’s either in your apartment or a hotel room, so he doesn’t really have to worry about kicking you out. Truth be told, he’s another one of those who are going to bail with as little follow-up interaction with you as possible.
