heeseung works at an apothecary. hes beautiful. hes making potions. he’s also a bit of a hermit.
there's jars of plants you never even knew existed, yet he never strays far outside his home. you wonder how he sources his materials. but if you were to ask him about it, he’ll smile at you and tell you it's a trade secret.
in reality, he’s largely commissioning his well-traveled friends. jakes always taking bounties in the neighboring kingdoms, so heeseung will gladly take the opportunity to send him off with a list of peculiar roots and harvests to bring home.
(note: heeseung only asks jake for plants. learned very quickly that toad eyes and gryphon hearts were more of a jay commission. you’d think a bounty hunter would be able to stomach taking out animals. but even they have their boundaries)
his business is on the lower level of his home and he resides upstairs of the cottage. he lives in the forest, just on the outskirts of town so he can keep a small stream of customers, but out of the way enough as to not be bothered. most of his money comes from important clients with the large and complicated orders anyway. he’s remedied the oddest diseases, created strangely specific poisons– its always been a natural talent of his to know exactly what ingredients go in the most random potion you can think of
heeseung feels absolutely no need to market himself, no matter how much his bard friend, sunoo, insists on the importance of networking. he makes enough to maintain his quiet life in the forest, and enough to pay his friends for their travels. thats all he needs.
now im branching off into where you fit in. thinking of different possibilities
maybe you’re one of his gatherers. you mistake one of the flowers he sent you to get for something else and the one you grabbed is accidentally poisonous. you turn up to his shop lightheaded and he has to treat you!!!!! you’ve passed out the second you arrived to his shop so he has to carry you upstairs to his bed. he’s never housed another person before!!! his upstairs house isn’t even equipped to let any of his friends visit or more than 15 minutes. but maybe he finds having you up there with him isn’t too bad.
another thought: heeseung will very rarely be found outside of his shop. only occasionally to gather plants and materials for himself at godawful hours in the night when he can't sleep. the problem is. you really like him. and you don't have much business to be found at an apothecary that often. so you have to make up random reasons to keep visiting his store. one day you’ll need a charm to keep your bread from going stale too fast. (thats never been an issue) or. ooooh your plants keep dying… can you give me a potion for that!!! (you don’t know how to garden.) he never catches onto your excuses and instead is oddly attached to helping you out with your little tasks. hes being paid good money to work on this potion for his wealthy client. but instead putting all his energy into helping you nourish your fake garden.
last idea: maybe you’re a lower level thief. you know better than to blatantly steal from a man who has multiple shelves of toxins. so you decide to make up a story about a sick friend whose illness took a turn for the worse and you don’t know what to do!!
and just as you weren't foolish enough to outright steal from heeseung, he’s no different. he’s heard enough lies in his life to know when someone's trying to con him. especially with his profession. but the thing is, he doesn’t care. he plays along and gives you a few balms and tells you it’ll help your friend. he even gives them to you for free, since the situation seemed so desperate. you thank him and take your leave, not thinking too much about the fact that simple balms weren’t enough to save someone on their deathbed. heeseung knows what you're up to, and made something you’d easily be able to sell for a good chunk of money.
you sneak away to a nearby city and end up making a good amount off of his balms. but on your way back home, the bag of coins weighs heavy in your hands.. sighhhsss. thievery isn’t for you…... when you get back, you decide to return to the apothecary and wait for a moment where heeseung isn’t on the floor to slip in. you leave the bag of gold on his desk with a note reading ‘my friend wasn’t actually sick. im sorry’ and quickly exit before he sees you. but to your surprise, the pouch is back on your kitchen counter when you wake up in the morning with a parchment attached. ‘i know.’
heres a loser heeseung headcanon because its my birthday today and i need to spread my agenda
loser!heeseung is the boy who screenshots your instagram note of a song and patiently waits a few months to pass before posting the same song. hoping you’ll swipe up and reply
you do. (he giggles and kicks his feet when it works)
he pretends like he loves the band he posted and when you bring up the concert coming up. he’s a little too quick to suggest you guys go together since you both. love the band. both… haha.
it hits him after he buys the tickets that its going to be apparent he doesnt know a single word to any of their songs. what the hell is he going to do.
heres a stupid au because im a loser theme park nerd. but imagine this. heeseung as the hiccup (how to train your dragon) actor at epic universe… heh…
i like to think he goes viral bc everyone wants him. and they think he really captures the geeky charm of hiccup… but hes secretly crushing on his coworker he doesnt know at all.
he always passes the cute wizard actor (youuuu) who works at the ministry of magic area either on his breaks or after shifts. and you only ever see each other in passing.
on your day off, youre finally able to go visit the other parts of the park with your friends. and you of course get in line to meet hiccup!! you’ve seen heeseung backstage of course. but you never actually get to see him action (aside from the tiktoks you definitely dont have favorited and saved. whoops.)
when you get to actually meeting him hes kinda buffooning around infront of you once he recognizes you out of costume.
cute shit. cute shit……. only cute to me probably. ive never even been to epic universe
now i don’t normally like idol aus but i cant stop thinking about this.
imagine doing a solo livestream in the one of the company’s dance rooms. and niki just so happens to be wrapping up practice when he sees the notification on his phone that you’re live! curious, he clicks on it as the rest of the boys file out of the studio and he recognizes that you’re just a few rooms over from where he is.… hmmm convenient..
he patiently waits for the boys to fully leave, claiming he needs to get extra practice for their upcoming cb and then makes his way over to where you are when he knows they’re gone. he sees you sitting on the studio’s floor just talking to the chat so he pokes his head in, where the viewers can't see him.
his abrupt entrance makes you jump, not expecting anyone to have been in the studio this late. when you whip your head around to see niki standing by the door awkwardly, you laugh, embarrassed that he had just scared you.
you signal to him that you are live and he mouths a ‘sorry!’ as if he didn’t know. (he glances at his phone briefly to make sure his screen wasn’t showing your current live stream he was watching)
voice slightly above a whisper, he makes up some lie about checking if he left his water bottle in the room. he childishly prays he has a fan in your chat that can recognize his voice and maybe clip this moment.
you look around the room and tell him you haven’t seen it and he quickly thanks you and excuses himself. shaking your head when he’s gone, you read the comments questioning the intruder- in which you’re quick to explain how it was just a staff member! you’re trying your best to avoid unnecessary rumors (niki is not!)
you carry on with your live after that and niki heads home for the night. as he’s going to bed, he scrolls through the social media searches to see fans have already picked out his voice and started getting carried away with their theories.
‘they have to be dating since yn lied when they said it was a staff member at the door!’ he bookmarks a few posts.
a little bit after, he receives a text from the boys with a screenshot of one of the tweets.
“you needed to ‘get extra practice’ hmm?” -jake
instead of responding to their teasing, he opts to open up your new message apologizing for what is happening. he assures you that everythings fine and he doesn’t mind at all and it leaves you awake that night.
he doesn’t mind at all? whats that supposed to mean?? you wonder if he’s just as giddy as you about these rumors.
last one for today. ignore the fact that heeseungs actually like really good at games. this is mostly inspired by mmie heeseung. i like to make him a little pathetic in my Mind.
loser!heeseung overhears you talking about your favorite video game and immediately goes home and downloads it to see why you like it so much. he discovers pretty fast that he’s dogshit at it so he spends the rest of the night watching a full youtube gameplay video of it so he can pretend like he’s played it when he sees you next
you get really excited when he talks to you about it. and then you bring up a boss fight that took you forever and heeseungs stuttering because he might’ve fallen asleep for a few parts of the gameplay and he’s trying to pretend like he knows what you’re talking about
so jisungs pretty much a regular at the bakery you work at,, you see him every shift you have. he always gets the same thing around the same time of day. well one day he comes in later than normal and ur all sold out of his usual order. he’s caught off guard by this and you can tell he doesn’t want anything else, but feels too embarrassed that he came all this way just to not buy something so he reluctantly orders an overpriced cake slice or something. as ur ringing him up, he opens his wallet, accidentally flashing all the cash in there and his card in the front pocket…. jisung looks you dead in the eye and says ‘sorry i forgot my card in my car, let me go grab it’. slowly, he turns around and walks out of the door. once he’s sure it’s shut behind him, he starts sprinting away from the cafe, not realizing that the windows aren’t tinted and the whole cafe could see him booking it down the parking lot. he never came back. and you mourned the loss of the fine ass regular who came in every day to order his three dollar cookie
boyyy I'm such a sucker for coffee shop aus ik how cliche it is. but imagine barista haechan working at cafe dream on your college campus,, and you come into shop frequently after your noon classes and order the same thing everyday!! except your order has all the baristas groaning everytime you walk in bc they hate making frappuccinos,, especially during the rush time you come in at. not haechan- well maybe he does absolutely hate making your drink- but that doesn't stop him from making it every single time you come in. except haechan makes sure theres a different ingredient missing in your drink each time because he hopes that you would come back and complain….. just one conversation.. that's all he needs!! he doesnt care if he has to make that god awful drink again,, hes just been waiting to use that corny plan he made to give you his number. he planned that you would go back and ask him to remake the drink and then he would give you the drink and his number, a little gift in apology for making your drink wrong. but ur too nice to say anything… and in your mind, this really cute barista boy is so bad at making coffee that u just gotta pretend to love his drinks and guarantee he makes ur drinks everyday so he doesn’t get fired. you can let the other people in the rush hour have him make their drink or their gonna complain about how bad he is at his job!!! so slowly as the days go by, you add more and more ingredients just so it takes him longer to make. that way, his risk of serving more customers minimizes,,, but it gets so bad to the point where your friend has to intervene. she saw ur order one day and was so sure it was literally radioactive that she took it from your hands, threw it away, and marched to the line and paid for a new drink. and when she walks up and complains about the drink, haechan lets out the biggest sigh of relief. he's so grateful that someone is putting an end to this torture that lasted two months. he confronts you about it and asks why you never said anything about him making the drink wrong everytime and ur like…. ur doing this on purpose?(U)UD98eyfr973 and he says ofc what did you think i was doing?? and you tell him you thought he was just the shittiest barista ever and you were pretending like the drinks were good so he didn’t lose a job. he then spills his entire plan to get ur number,, and you were just standing there…. baffled… completely trolled. you get a shout from behind you, breaking you from your bewilderment- you’re taking up time in the line. so you quickly order the drink you originally got all those months ago and he gives it to you on the house,,, with his number and a small message written on the cup.
“this didnt go as i originally planned, but hopefully i can repay it for you. dinner? -haechan”
watching fantasy dramas with jaehyun but u have to stop halfway thru bc u get in a heated argument about kid names. no jaehyun we are not naming our future child baelfire- yes i know it’s cool! and u groan everytime the character appears on screen bc jaehyun can let it go
