Love love love fanboy au!!! I’m just curious on if there’s ever a time where taekai’s relationship almost gets caught or exo’s fans are curious about their interactions online? Or does Jongin’s star status ever threaten the relationship?
Hi, my dear.
I am sorry that it took me so long to answer you… & I hope you’ll still be able to see that message at some point.I’m not completely healed yet (it’s taking forever …….) but I still wanted to take some time to write you an answer because I started to feel really bad with how long I kept you waiting ugh…
First of all, thank you so immensely for this message! I’m glad you like the Fanboy!AU so much.I remember I felt a little shy when I got your message because that was just the time when I decided to bring this story to an end & it somehow made me feel anxious. There are only two posts left for it that I still have to write & share.
But anyway, here is for your questions:
Jongin is struggling to decide what he can do about his relationship with Taemin considering he’s an idol & after a while, it gets really sad to constantly stay inside & hide… So, Nini goes to Jongdae because Jongdae is the one (1) member who’s had a LOT of relationships & somehow managed by some freaking magic!! to never get caught!!!!
& Jongdae goes all Rafiki on him, trying to advise him as wisely as he can & be like “basically you’ve got 2 options, mate… either you hide in plain sight or you go under the radar & pray no one ever finds you…..”& Jongdae has tips to stays under the radar (because that’s His Thing) but the problem is that they can’t ever get too relaxed & confident because if they do get caught… well… that’d be really bad because Jongin would have to publicly come out as gay & uuuh are we ready for that? The other option being to let themselves get caught immediately, come out as friends & hang out & if they’re careful enough & people get suspicious they can just deny everything again&again… & in both options, there are pros & cons so Nini has to make a choice.
So Jongin is here processing all of this & trying to figure the best way to deal with it & Taemin is a little shy about it, just saying that he’ll support whatever Jongin decides but he doesn’t feel that good about choosing since it’s Jongin’s career at stake & he doesn’t want to impose a choice on him ;; (what a sweetheart).
Jongin eventually goes with option number 2 because it somehow feels easier & less stressful to decide by himself how & when they’ll be seen. It gives them more control. & SO just picture this!!! Jongin finally taking his Taeminnie out!! IN A RESTAURANT!! them just walking around!! them going on (subtle) DATES!! & of course, once some pictures come out, fans are quite quick to recognize ig user kimtae!!! the one who made the Love Shot dance cover!! the one Chanyeol is following!! the one who got so many videos liked by Kai!!
So Taeminnie is invaded on his ig by people asking him tons of questions & he’s all “uh-ho…”
Taemnini sitting on Taemin’s bed, looking through all the comments flooding on their ig about those pics of them eating ice cream together & trying to figure out how to calmly say they’re friends & Jongdae is screeching at Jongin because “I told you not to be alone with him at first, you dumbass!!! You should have taken Chanyeol with you or like… anyone really!!”
“but i wanted to be alone with taeminnie =3=“
“… Why are you like this, Jongin-ah? Why?”
But then Taeminnie appears briefly in a zkdlin ig live & that’s when Nini explains that he met Taemin somehow (he’s staying really vague about it) & they started to talk about dancing & they became friends & then, asking people not to be mean to Taeminnie because some sent quite mean comments to him already & that’s not okay.
Them starting to interact on social media & Jongin deciding that now that it’s all out it’s okay to follow Taemin’s ig, right? So he does just that & Chanyeol throws a TANTRUM & Junmyeon is here shaking his head like…
“Didn’t Jongdae tell you to be careful?”
“but everyone knows we’re friends now… why does it matter?”
“BECAUSE!! JONGIN!! You follow none of your other friends!! You big idiot. That’s so suspicious!!”
“… i don’t wanna follow you, hyung =3= stop insisting.”
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So yeah, from here a small bunch of Intellectuals would probably suspect them of things & support them silently but Jongin still is very careful because he truly doesn’t want Taemin to get in trouble & Taemin is a lot more careful about what he posts on his ig too.
But every time he gets a comment of someone asking him if Jongin is doing okay, if he’s happy, if he’s smiling enough, Taeminnie gets really, really soft. It makes the few mean comments he still get so insignificant.
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I’ll probably answer the last question in the very last post of the Fanboy!AU, which I wanted to write to wrap up the story ♥ So I hope you’ll be okay to wait even more. I hope this post gave you some comfort after waiting for so long. Once again, I’m truly sorry I was silent for so long.
Thank you for your support & for sending me this lovely message… truly.
I hope you’re doing alright ♥