not really related to new year's buuut can i request the RFA members + Saeran + V and their reactions when they find out MC is a well-known fiction writer? thankies! c:
Aha, when MC is living my dream, you mean? :)
Sorry this took so long, I kept stopping and starting because of a sudden urge to draw. :/
Yoosung
He knows that you write, but since you never specified he just assumed you’re a blogger or maybe write freelance; it didn’t occur to him that you might actually be popular?
Of course he noticed that you have a lot of nice things, but he’s constantly surrounded by people with nice things so he doesn’t think too much of it. It’s not like you’re living on Jumin’s level, anyway. You’re living like a “commoner,” just with nice things.
So he’s a little caught off guard when you casually drop into a conversation that you have a meeting with your publisher for your next book.
Wait, what?
Now he’s asking all sorts of questions - what do you write, how long have you done it, why didn’t you just say so
“I did, Yoosung.”
“But you didn’t say you wrote books. Or that your books were popular.”
He’s so excited to find this out, especially once he knows what you write because he knows sooooo many people who like them and ohmygod he can brag that he’s dating you???
Except please don’t, because you don’t want a line of people suddenly showing up at your place. Or his.
He’d been considering reading them but had been devoting most of his free time to LOLOL. Now he has a reason to make time to read them.
“Do you need a beta reader? Because I’ll totally do that”
Zen
He’s calm. It’s pretty cool, he definitely thinks it’s awesome but he’s not as easily excitable as a certain blond boy.
It’s wonderful that you are both low-key famous though?? Like, he’s not well-known off the musical route and your books are bestsellers but again, you’re not well-known outside of those who read your brand of fiction.
It works out well with how much he works because you just pour all your time writing into the hours he’s gone and then chill with him when he’s around.
He really likes that part.
He reads your books whenever he gets the chance and loves them.
“Babe, can we turn them into musicals?”
“…Zen, I can’t write songs. Or music.”
“But think of how amazing I would be at play RandomName Character!”
That calmness dissipates whenever you release a new book; then he’s your biggest fan and is telling anyone and everyone who will listen about your new book.
Number One Fan and Number One Salesman™
Jaehee
She had no idea how successful you were because you’d never exactly stated that you were a bestselling author. She assumed you were good since you lived off of it - great for helping organize the RFA parties - but she didn’t know you were that good.
It isn’t until you two get into deep discussions about the cafe that you mention it, and even then it’s just kind of a casual “hey, if you want, I can put down the same amount of money you are to help fund it.”
She’s floored.
She’s shook, flustered, discombobulated, the whole shebang.
You see her extreme shock and confusion to it and laugh, explaining to her that your books are very popular. If things keep going the way they are, you’ll kind of be like Korea’s J.K. Rowling
That’s a huge accomplishment.
She encourages you to use the cafe once it’s opened as a place to write and you oblige, happily basking in the atmosphere when you’re not busy helping her.
She’s surprised that you still want to help with the physical labor of it all, since you definitely don’t need another income, but you tell her that you love it because it’s with her.
She is so supportive and will close the cafe to go places with you when you tour.
Jumin
Fiction isn’t really up his alley, but he respects you for writing it.
It takes a lot of effort and ingenuity to break out among the vast ocean of writers to become well-known, and he applauds you for both of those things.
He does manage to read your books but you both know they’re not really… his style, so he opts to keep most of what he has to say to himself, since it wouldn’t exactly be helpful. But the fact that he did read them means a lot.
The fact that you’re popular enough that you live comfortably already helps ease any nagging fears that he has that you just might be like all the others he’s met. Especially once you two officially get together because you never ask him for money. Never.
It’s also nice that you’re successful because it means that he doesn’t have to fight with his father about it at all - you may have started out as a commoner but you’ve obviously worked hard to get where you’re at and even Mr. Chairman can respect that.
He offers to find a way to have C&R sponsor you, but you decline. You understand that it’s just him trying to find a way he’s happy with to support you, but it’s really not necessary (and you don’t want to be responsible for poor Jaehee getting more work)
707
He’s like, super duper excited when he finds this tidbit of info out during his background search. SUPER excited.
He doesn’t have a lot of extra time to read but he will download audio books to listen to at times, and after reading some killer reviews about your sci-fi space series, he just had to check them out.
The boy may have become mildly obsessed with them.
And now you’re here
In his chatroom
Talking to him
OMG he’s fanboying hardcore
He drops lots of references to your books in the chat, wondering if anyone else will catch on (he does this in other routes too, fyi :D) but the only person to ever play along is, of course, you.
It’s hard to believe that the author of his favorite book series is just a down-to-earth, genuinely kind and funny person? And that you bother talking to him and memeing with him and all that jazz? Like whoa
It makes it all the harder when he comes to Rika’s apartment to save you and you make it very clear that you’re interested in him romantically.
Talk about adding another layer of angst onto his already warring heart and mind about what to do with you.
When it all works out, he ends up spewing word vomit about how much he loves your books and telling you all of his metas and headcanons and whatnot. When he finally realizes what he’s doing, he tries to shut up but it’s already too late.
But you love discussing it with him and go back and forth all the time. He even gives you new ideas to incorporate in the future (though you don’t tell him until he reads the book and is like ‘hey!’)
He’s thinks he may have died and gone to heaven
V
He’s so proud of you!
This is the man who considers himself a father figure to most of the RFA, and while your position in his life is… a little different than that, he still has a lot of the dad-like qualities in how he reacts to things.
There’s no shock, no awe, just him being incredibly proud.
He pulls you into his arms and kisses you, just beaming at your admission.
Reading is a little tough for him these days (he can do it, it just strains his eyes a lot) so he asks if you’ll read your stories to him. He wants to know what they’re about and he loves your voice, so win/win? Of course, you agree to this.
At the end of every book,he will sit thoughtfully for a bit before gently giving you his opinion. It’s never negative, but he’s good at analyzing the story and characters and you genuinely find what he says interesting and sometimes take notes to file away for future use.
It takes a while to go through them all - after all, they’re not shorts and you’ve published quite a few - but eventually you make it through the ones that are already out there.
You start to go through the WIPs you have, asking his opinions and thoughts and incorporating some of it to make your stories even better.
He ends up contributing enough that you mention putting his name on them too but he declines, saying it’s all yours and he just helped push you forward.
He’s really such a cinnamon roll.
Saeran
At first, he doesn’t really care.
No, scratch that, at first he actually hates it.
So you’re successful. That’s great. He’s not. Just another nail in the coffin that guarantees you’ll leave him one day for him not being good enough.
Of course, that isn’t the truth but his mind doesn’t let him believe it for a long, long time. He wasn’t worthy of good things before and now, after all that he’s done? Definitely not.
It takes a lot of time and patience to convince him that your career has no bearings on your feelings toward him; it’s just something you love to do and are good at.
When he gets over the initial insecurities, he decides to read one of your books without telling you that he is. He’s not sure what to expect and doesn’t want to get your hopes up in case he doesn’t like it.
Turns out that was a needless worry. He’s sucked into it with your thrilling plot line, fleshed-out, realistic and relateable characters (wait- is that one modeled after me?) and reads through it faster than he’s ever read anything before.
JFC no wonder you’re popular.
You find him on the couch one day, completely immersed in your newest release. He’s so into it that he didn’t even notice your entry which is incredibly unusual for the usually super-attentive man.
When you place a hand on him he jumps and looks ashamed, getting angry at first before realizing he has no reason to be.
It’s a large turning point in your relationship when he starts to openly support you and show excitement, and you know that you’re finally past the original resentment he felt.
