pairing: taesan x f! reader, ft. bnd ot6
genre: apocalypse, survival, angst | tw: mentions of death | wc: 870
a/n: requested by @tenshi-sama in this ask.
i might have had to clarify that i meant recs (recommendations) and not reqs (requests),, this is the second time someone’s misread my post ahjajbaka but ykw i love you soso and you’re such a wonderful reader, so i’ll give you my thoughts on this (apologies that it’s not a full fic) 💖
so im imagining a setting like from The Day After Tomorrow 2004 (brilliant movie btw, 10/10 recommend!) which is basically a second-coming of the ice age.
I’ll just do one for one member but with ot5 as side characters ofc :)))
The Earth freezes on a random tuesday in June.
On one hand, you should have expected this—if the ecology student in you ever paid attention to lectures, you’d know the world was doomed to end in one natural disaster or the other. It never felt real…not until now, at least.
“Mom cried last night,” Jaehyun is bundled up in the corner of the library, where someone had started burning books to trade for warmth. “She wants me home…somehow.”
Taesan huffs—he’s too logical, like Sungho, but unlike him, he lacks the softness to his blows. “We’re stuck in the middle of nowhere, and she knows it.”
Riwoo jumps in as Woonhak scoots closer to Jaehyun, maybe out of sympathy, maybe just for body heat.
“You’re the one who convinced the six of us to go on this stupid trip in the first place. Don’t be pissed at his mom for worrying, that’s what moms do.” Leehan stirs in his sleep at Riwoo's loud voice.
The blizzard outside roars even louder, the stone walls doing nothing to stop the sound from soaking in—sending another wave of panic down your throat.
It’s been seven days—since the radio went silent, since the storm surged through the city’s streets, freezing any sign of life. You had seen it happen: the sick bodies that were nothing more than corpses in the snow, too late to escape winter’s wrath, dead animals, buildings morphed into mounds of white, standing like ice-giants above everything else.
It was lucky that the group of you made it this far—trudging through snow with nothing more than company and a couple bags. The phone signals died a day ago.
When Taesan retorts with a venomous scoff, you feel it again—wanting the world to quiet down, even if it means for the last time.
“STOP!” You find yourself shouting. “I can’t do this. We’re running out of fire, out of food.”
Taesan winces at your sound, but decides to hold himself back. He stalks off to a far-off aisle, away from where anyone can see him.
“He’s just stressed,” Sungho adds softly. “Came back with a finger almost missing last night. And he hasn’t eaten a thing yet.”
Your heart stutters at his words, regret beginning to replace the dread.
“I’ll go talk to him, Y/N,” Woonhak supplies, ever the optimist in the face of imminent doom, even when the rest of you have dwindled down to grasping at what hope you had left—which is to say, not much.
You shake your head. “No, it’s…I should do it.” You force a small smile, wrapping the afghan tighter around your body as you get up. It doesn’t do much for your jittering teeth, nor the numbness that begins to claw through your skin the further you move from the makeshift campfire.
“Taesannie…” you call, watching him barely turn around.
When he doesn’t respond, you inch closer, then gently place the fabric over his shoulder—he’d been dressed in just a university jacket and thin shirt underneath, saving the thicker bundles for you and the rest.
“Don’t be stupid,” he says, already beginning to take it off to return back to you. You don’t miss the goosebumps on his neck, or the pained shiver he forces back.
“Don’t be selfless then,” you retort, inching closer, pressing yourself to him. “Ask for help.”
He grunts a response, and you can’t tell if he’s flustered or just cold.
“You need heat, otherwise you’ll—” Freeze to death. Kill yourself slowly, painfully.
“This isn’t just an excuse to touch me is it?” His voice tries to be teasing, but you can feel the tension underneath it.
It might be the last day you get to be this close to each other—alive, at least.
“Sorry for…” he starts, letting you in, closing his arms around you. He places his chin over your head. “Being so moody.”
“I think the cold will do that to a person,” You smile sadly. “I wish you’d stop handling everything on your own… the last time you almost lost an arm trying to get us to safety.”
“Who’s gonna take care of you then?” Taesan sighs, and you hear the crack in his voice.
Tears begin to prick at the corner of your eyes, so much unsaid between the two of you—so much that you might never get to say.
It’s sure as day that you like each other—have liked each other since the beginning of university, from the first day he sat next to you in that lecture hall. You just thought that…you’d have more time.
“I should apologise to Jaehyun,” he continues, “Is he okay?”
“Sungho and Woonhak’s got him, don’t worry. And I got you, yeah?”
“Yeah,” he whispers.
It’s the last day on Earth when you hold each other, in a tucked-away corner of a freezing library. You don’t say you love him, he doesn’t say it back.
The warmth soaking from your skin to his says it for you.
And Taesan sends a single prayer up to the heavens, if they were listening.
Please don’t let us end before we ever begin.
Sleep takes you that night, the seven of you in each other’s embrace.
a/n: okay, so this was very quickly written and not my best (its 5 am helpp). i may end up using this as a baseline for some fic in the distant future, but for now, my wips are my priority. tysm @tenshi-sama for requesting. you will be my first, and last (for the time-being haha) i truly hope i did some justice for your idea but if there's any specific brainstorming you wanna do, come by my inbox again. i just don't fare well with ideas that aren't my own due to added pressure.
genre: marriage contract, comedy, angst (i can very much see twisting the knife towards the end where they both catch feelings but the contract is up and they need to dissolve it huhu)
pairing: hmmmm myungjae would hurt... i think he's just made for relationship angst sorry T-T
plot: okay okay so... initially i was thinking very rich x rich chaebol vibes BUT since i said twist the knife, imma go with the literal route and make it insane haha.
princess x prince who are forced into an arranged marriage but neither of them like the idea so they secretly decide to draw up a contract to end their legal bond within a year or smn (just to satitate their families and then they can run off abroad or smn to go their seperate ways).
BUT yn is crazy and ambitious and she plans to put a blade through jh's heart before the year is up so she inherits the throne of both their kingdoms and basically rules over all the land (u need to forget royal inheritance laws for this part bcs its fiction and this is rosyland)
BUT ALSO BUT myungjae is also crazy and he has tricks up his sleeve that illegitimizes the contract in the first place bcs idk....he spelled his name wrong on purpose or smn 😭... but u ask why? BECAUSE HES HAD HIS EYE ON READER FROM THE VERY START dude is borderline yandere/lh. so he umm has no plans to end this thing and is determined to make her fall in love with him before the year is up but she's trying to kill him and he keeps thinking she's flirting and and and...
as part of my efforts to convince y'all that howl!taesan is superior:
guys howl's moving castle is such a beautiful story !!!! it's a comforting hug about loving yourself as you are and finding the strength to show that side of yourself to the people around you !! and theyre so in love !!! its such a pure and sweet and fun story!!!!!!!! please vote !!!!!!!!!!
(okay im going to sleep this was fueled by 3am impulses )
GUYS VOTE FOR HOWL! SAN FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE HVGESAGVKGEGE
the abosulute genius of this all......🤯🤯🤯🤯.....the storm!! THE CINEMATIC CAMERA ANGLES???!! ALYLIN BRO BRO BRO ILY!! THE SIDE CHARACTER PLUG OMYGODDDDDDDDD (rosy does love her side characters u know me so well i feel so known and seen gasppp) 🫶🥹 please have the sweeetest howl-filled dreams tonight my lovely aylin im very tempted to write this thing whether it wins or not now-
hey so pitting howl!taesan and ariel!leehan against each other is actually insane. How dare you rosy user taestulipss. 😐
mayabee aka user mirouie pls forgive me and direct all your frustration towards @starriniqhts who is the requester of howl! taesan (mb for throwing u under the bus aylin.....oopsie 😅)
OKAY BUT I forgot to mention that u can campaign for your votes btw! appeal to the voters! rn one is leading over the other with 5 votes and we have like 48 hours smn left.........there is still plenty of time for a turnaround 🥰
also the other fun little thing about a death match is that u should never trust the gamemaker I may some wild cards up my sleeve heheheeh😈
hi rosy👋 can i request a 125k word hyukmyungz fic where jaehyun cheats on riwoo w sungho but sungho dies and then jaehyun finds out riwoo killed him but thinks thats hot so falls further inlove w him but they both cheat AGAIN! this time w gfz and they all become one big poly thanks. make it high school secret mafia boss au add a y/n in there too. also not too many em dashes and make sure riwoo is pink thx bye.
hi minnie the de facto admin (dictator) of gc that *cough* I made 🙄
i will do u one better and give u a snippet of your request, except it will be in my native language :))) read below!
Hiii! Since the year is coming to an end, may I know what's your favorite fic from each of your moots? 👀 Thank you!
hi anon! as much as i'd love to give you a lengthy answer, my list of moots is quite long and i am currently too sick to go over each and every one of their blogs 😭🙏
HOWEVER, i do have a rec blog @rosycanread where i've reblogged my favourite moot fics under the tag #my moot's fics —̳͟͞͞💗 so do check that out! (but please mind the nsfw/sfw tags for ur own comfort and safety ofc)
i do want to recommend some of my favourite fics in general that i can think of off the top of my head:
schrödinger's cat by my levy @pupillary changed the way i looked at bnd fics actually. I REC THIS SO SO MUCH so please give it a read if u haven't already. other honourable mentions include study buddy, body study! and when did you get hot? for which i left a not at all chalant review :))
smoke show by @lovehakie --- the prose is so well written and the chemistry palpable af! also he loves me, he loves me not with my review here!
june @mwotgata's persimmons & copper coins and my review! i am the court appointed #1 fan of p&cc taesan and if anyone wants to challenge that, meet me outside and square up :) its honestly hard to pick a june fic out of all the other awesome choices but i'd have to go with not just anyone which is one of my most fav woonhak fics on tumblr.
@ilysungho's panic or lust? [NSFW]--- i just love how all three characters are written here,, love this one!
@coriihanniee's FUSEBOY (her entire LCA series actually!)
SMAUs--> @hollyoongs's mjnad (my all time comfort read!), @moesthinking's 10 reasons why I hate you, @nemoihan's but i like you, @coriihanniee's TACA
there are a lot more that i can't think of rn but i have read at least one fic of each of my moots so do check out my rec blog to see which!
