This isn't as much a request as much as it is an honest question. You said in an earlier scenario you think that Chanyeol and Kris are actually quite insecure about their looks. What makes you think that? If that's more a request or something, I'm so sorry and I will be perfectly happy to wait and I'm so sorry for cluttering up your inbox! I just couldn't decide if this was a request or not.
No need to worry, my dear, Iām more than happy to answer this and you arenāt cluttering up the inbox at all~ Iāve been in bed moping about with flu all day and this has got me all ready to write :D
Post in question is here~
Reasons Admin M thinks Chanyeol and Kris are quite insecure about their looks - a ramble by Admin M
Thereās a few reasons, to be honest. Some of them may be the result of my over-analysing and wishful thinking, but Iāll leave that judgement up to you! Most of the 2+2 = INSANE THEORY stuff is Chanyeol based, fyi.
There was a post circulating around tumblr/twitter a few weeks ago about Chanyeol, and the back-handed love heās been shown by āfansā (you can read it here if you havenāt already). Now obviously it canāt be taken at face value, as fan statements and accounts tend to be fan opinions, but reading bits of it got to me, as it were. I fully believe that a lot of the time, people as consistently super-happy as Chanyeol arenāt really that happy deep down, if only because it would be exhausting and life isnāt 100% brilliant, therefore giving people reasons to not be all smiles - so I think that our happy-virus isnāt all that happy-virusy. I wouldnāt be either, and I doubt the rest of us would be too, as idol life is utterly insane. And I apply the same ālogicā - I use the word logic very loosely here - with confidence in his looks.
The message from the Chinese fan says that he didnāt smile for days after people said he looked bad with his new haircut. In my eyes, if he was 100% confident in his looks, I donāt think it would have hurt him that much - heād have walked it off because he knew how good he looked, if that makes sense? Iām not saying everyone whoās confident with their face/body is immune to self-doubt by any means, but Iām just not sure it would have affected him as much if he thought he was the living embodiment of Adonis.
Another side of this is the wishful thinking part. It applies to both Kris and Chanyeol - as my two main biases, I hope deep down that they arenāt that boastful, as itās really not an attractive trait in my eyes. I think a lot of the boasting/saying how handsome they are comes from the self doubt mentioned earlier (Iām also thinking Kris has it too, but I canāt really give you a good reason for that - my fangirl mentality projecting things, probably), but I also think it comes from having to make up for other things, and it gives them something to talk about.
Chanyeol and Kris arenāt main dancers or main vocals, and while thatās not the be all and end all, rappers + leaders donāt make for much conversation on shows. So, they bring in the face thing because a) theyāre both handsome (obviously thatās subjective to personal taste) and b) there isnāt much else to say without getting personal, and they arenāt as strong as others in the main areas so it gives them something to balance it out with. They talk about their looks at length because they donāt think they have much else of worth to sayĀ - I think all of EXO have lapses in the self-worth area at times. They have people telling them they arenāt good enough constantly in rehearsals etc (I assume, as apparently telling someone theyāre awful is a motivational tool) and Iām sure that seeps in to their mentality. So that might add to them not having confidence in other areas and going on about their bone structures. Besides, idol rappers arenāt often taken as seriously as āproperā k-hiphop rappers, so they really do have to push the whole attractive spiel.
Also preeeetty sure the face thing is pushed by SM so they can drag in fangirls like myself and make money, but thatās a different, even more cynical story for another day.
I hope this makes sense, and I hope it answered your questions~