#rkharuto

[rkgray]

// careless

@rkharuto​

he didn’t felt too great. the pain in his knee gave him nausea and gray felt sick. the nervous and tense energy that had filled the halls of their company buildings since a while probably played a factor in how he had been feeling strained these past months. in the mean time gray had thought his mood had improved, but after the short energy boost, he had sunken back to the dark shadows of reality. things wouldn’t get better over night and the trial of the last months had made him realize the growing frustration in his heart.

it was distracting, distracting enough to make him, a guy with a lot of experience in taekwondo, loose focus and get careless during his training sessions. in between dancing lessons, gray sometimes would let his frustration out on the sandbags hanging in the company gym, just like today. but today didn’t seemed like a good day to do so, judging on the pain in his knee. 

huffing, he leaned back against the wall and looked over to his bag. normally those few steps wouldn’t be a problem, but at the moment he didn’t quite want to move, so he remained at his spot and internally cursed at himself for being a careless dumbass. the door swung open and a familiar face came in. “ah, haruto! hi!” the older man said and waved shortly, as he was sitting in the corner. “uh, could you help hyung and bring over the water bottle there? i need something to cool my knee for a moment.”

[rkjunhyuk]

. the next generation

@rkharuto

“haruto, collab with me.” 

junhyuk had probably asked the slightly older japanese boy this same question about one hundred times now, and every time he had been turned down. but that was not going to stop him, he would stop asking the same question when haruto finally gave in and let him do the collab he wanted to. he had been bothering him with it the moment he found out he was also a deep toned rapper, and a talented one at that (despite the amount of times haruto had tried to dispute it). 

“pleeeeease,” he whined out the word, flopping over the table somewhat as he stared up through his fringe at the other boy. while he doubted the ‘playing cute’ card would really work with someone who was only nine month older than him would really work, it was still worth a shot. anything to actually make him say yes and give in already. 

[rkhyxnggu]

♆ Photoshoot Frenzy ♆

ft @rkharuto

This evaluation was something Sungmin had never seen coming. He was somewhat thrown by the randomness of it. Usually evaluations were vocal or performance based but this, this was different. He understood the reasoning behind having a few modelling classes but he couldn’t understand why they had decided to make an entire evaluation out of it.

This sucked.

Sungmin was currently sitting with Haruto. He had somehow befriended the younger boy during their evaluation together months ago. He was a kind boy who reminded him of his sister. Plus, he could brush up on his Japanese when he was with Haruto which was a bonus. Sungmin had zero idea of what to do or even how to model. He was at a loss this month. He turned to the younger, wondering if it was the same for him.

❝ So have you decided what you’re doing with this month’s evaluation? ❞

[rkdaehwi]

Summertime record

@rkharuto

It felt a bit suspicious that the companies were actually being kind for a change -- of course they still had to perform, but practically getting a full day of relaxation and fun didn’t seem like something they usually dealt in. Daehwi had only once himself experienced how mischievous the coaches could be when they decided to switch up the tracks for an evaluation, and thus he suspected that something might be up this time too. How genius he was. A true detective in the making!

Of course his suspicions didn’t stop him from having fun though. The water was nice and cool on such a hot day and Daehwi had been spending at least the past half hour swimming around to his best ability (he wasn’t really that good a swimmer but at least he could stay afloat) and starting innocent water fights when he was starting to get bored. That was when another genius thought struck him.

Removing himself from the pool the dripping wet Daehwi walked around to look for a victim when he found one of his evaluation mates, Haruto, casually resting on a pool stool. One step, two steps, and then Daehwi wrung his wet hair right above the other’s resting figure causing the droplets to fall down plentiful before bursting into laughter.

[jkookrk]

『 All For One 』 ⇢ KT Evals May 2k20 | +3 S ; +2 DB ; +1 Wk Live Singing ⇢ Jeon Jeongguk just wanting to do his best | line distrib.

“ Sometimes you had to have differences to come out as a team together. ”

After long hours of discussing and compromising with each other the performance stood at last. They had been working hard on learning their lines, timing their moves and deciding on the type of get up they were going to wear. While both Gray and Haruto had been begrudgingly agreed to suspenders, Jeongguk rounded his own look off with a hat himself solely because of a hat trick he had been dying to do when he first hear the mash up.

Rehearsing it backstage while they waited for their turn to go up on stage, he hummed the lines beneath his breath and tried to keep the air light to brighten Gray’s mood and make sure Haruto wasn’t ready to die when having to perform again. All in all they really were a bunch of chaotic left overs and beneath his  cheerful and light attitude it was hard to not throw a tantrum and throw everything all together.

The fact KT was now also making money of him by sending him to record that stupid commercial as well as letting him be an assistant for a photography workshop- he didn’t need a stupid company for these kind of opportunities. He could get so many more gigs without their help if he wanted to. None of that was why he signed with KT. He wanted to perform, to indulge himself in the art form of music and do that with his friends by his side but apparently that was too much to ask for.

The bitter dancer was thankful that their turn came up before he could lose himself in a negative spiral of his own thoughts. The setting of the performance itself was thankfully on the charismatic and intense side so the dancer didn’t have to be light, nor cheerful, nor bright. Letting himself flourish in the concept, his movements were swift while his vocals remained steady and on point. Even in higher registers he provided to have shown quite the improvement. Even though he doubted they would acknowledge it and even if he was sure they wouldn’t win either with her begrudgingly Haruto was following along, Jeongguk himself was content with his progress.

When even the hat trick worked out well for him and his gaze remained steady, confident and alluring even when meeting the eyes of the ceos’, jeongguk couldn’t help but smirk to himself. Yes, he didn’t care how this would turn out. With the help of the boys he managed to deliver the best of his ability and for that in itself he felt accomplished.

[ncbodyknows]

➟「久しぶり」homecoming。

@rkharuto

The thing about remaining in the area you’ve become used to even after suffering an emotional turmoil was that the people you knew didn’t seem to change despite your emotions doing so. He was embarrassed. Ashamed of being so weak. And most of all afraid to answer the question of “how have you been?”.

Youngjae hated being sappy. He hated listening to stories of woe-be-me, and even worse was it to fire them off himself, but would he even be able to give a convincing “I’m okay” anymore? Once upon a time he could -- he didn’t care who he lied to and it didn’t matter anyway. But when he saw Haruto in the train he wanted nothing more but to get off immediately, run away before the kid could see him and he had to indulge in pointless mandatory formalities about this and that and where and what not. It seemed that digging his nose further into his book didn’t help much in passing my unnoticed as the younger had already laid eyes on him. Sighing, the artist closed his eyes for a moment and then directed them to behold the youthful face.

“Watanabe,” he called the other’s surname and closed his book around his thumb as to not lose his place. “I’ve taken this train every morning at this hour for three years, and this is the first time I see you in here. It leads me to think that this isn’t your usual morning route, so why are you here? It can’t be some stupid reason like you getting on the wrong train.”

[rkbgyu]

♠ How (Not) To Flirt ♠

Charisma starter (1/5) for @rkharuto

Choi Beomgyu was a very bright and energetic boy. Probably, too energetic and bright for some, but he didn’t care. He was the kind of boy who was easy to please and who was the class clown. He was known in his class and in his friends group as the jokester and most of the time that’s what he did, joke. He used joking and laughter as a way to hide his past and his insecurities. He didn’t care what he did as long as it kept people happy and got people to like him.

Dance has always been the one thing he excels at. He can express through dance things that words simply could not. Dancing had always been part of his life, even from a young age. It was the one thing he didn’t feel insecure about. It was the one thing he was confident in. Attending lessons only improved on his skills and allowed for a social aspect. Through classes, he could meet people (and show off). 

There had been one boy who attended the same class as him that Beomgyu was curious about. He was quiet and seemed shy and awkward, something he was not. At first, he just thought he wanted to befriend the boy, but then something kept pulling at him and he found himself practicing pickup lines to use on the younger. Today was the day he would use them. They were in the middle of an exercise and needed to pair up. This was hs chance.

Walking over to the boy, Beomgyu smiled brightly. ❝ Hey! Wanna pair up? ❞

[rkwxnb]

—- new kids

starter for @rkharuto

It was strange to think that she was no longer a part of the ‘new trainee’ batches. The thought had hit her awhile back when she met Sihyeon and had been helping her settle down- which frankly speaking, aided Naeun more than she would have ever thought. This also meant that she was getting closer to when she actually got signed, in a few months she would be a trainee for a whole year. Now that was definitely a more astonishing thought.

Nonetheless, she still knew how it felt like to be in this “new” life altogether. When she heard from other trainees that there were new kids who recently got signed, Naeun thought it would be nice to go out of her little daily routine and welcome them in KT. After all, the company has someone become her first home and bonds were definitely created similar to a family structure.

She spots him fairly quickly. Walking towards the empty seat opposite him, Naeun smiled as she greeted him, “Hello, I’m Son Naeun and I thought I’d come and say hi,” she could have done better, but first meetings can undoubtedly be awkward. Gesturing towards the empty seat, she makes the universal ‘can-i-take-this-seat’ sign. Smiling patiently as she politely waits for his confirmation.