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@rkleedongminie
it isn’t an impulse buy — not really. he’s been keeping an eye out for something like this ever since before he moved into the convex dorms. he’s wanted to have something to tie him to his newly formed and unique little family, something they can each hold on to when times get hard, as they’re always sure to. he gets something for everyone, including himself, because he knows he’ll need the reminder sometimes too.
for rachel he gets a necklace — it’s a gold chain with a small pendant of the sun. the stars hold more symbolism for the two of them personally, but the sun is more suited to their little makeshift family, with the way the three of them bring so much light into kibum’s life, and with how easy it is to fall back into the old darkness when they’re not around.
for jaehyun he gets a pocketknife. he’s watched jaehyun grow up, from the time he was just a kid trying to save a stranger to now, when he’s part of the glue that holds them all together. it’s the same knife he handed jaehyun on his first day in royal to carve his name into the tree, and the same one he himself used to mark his own with a crown on the day he left. he wants it to show jaehyun that he’s grown up, and that it’s time for him to lead dongmin into the world, as kibum tried so hard to do for both of them.
for dongmin, he got a fuzzy keychain shaped like simba from the lion king when he was a cub. he knows dongmin has more stuffed lions than he can count, and kibum wanted to get him something he could carry around with him. not that dongmin wouldn’t carry around a full size stuffed lion, but that’s beside the point. for himself, kibum got the matching keychain that’s either adult simba or mufasa — he can’t really tell, so he’ll let dongmin figure it out.
for now he enters the younger’s bedroom in his and rachel’s apartment — he’s come back this evening for dinner and to give them all their gifts, though he knows dongmin doesn’t know he’s here, so it’s with a playful grin that he knocks on the door and pushes it open. “knock knock, can i come in?” he calls, poking his head around the door to see the teen lounging on his bed.