omg you took "my tongue is a weapon" and ran with it didn't you!! jeonghan is this is CUTTING and not in an malicious way but yet there's so much cruelty in the things he implies but doesn't say. like idk how to explain it but there is so much subtext to everything jeonghan says and does and it's all so brutal, and yet because he hasn't come right out and said it, seungcheol can't address it directly and so he is just forced to take it. urgh

you're also so so so good at writing about idolverse, I've said this a thousand times before but the motif of lying/telling the truth is so good and so clever as a way to parallel the idolsona with the... emotional distance between jeongcheol?? like how much has jeonghan internalised the need to maintain the idolsona and projected that onto his approach to all of his relationships? or did the detachment come first and that end up getting turned into his approach to fame?? god it's so good

“You can mean what you say,” Jeonghan answers. “But I just have to get by.”
THIS LINE MAKES ME FEEL INSANE

When he reemerges, the sun has slipped beneath the horizon, leaving Seungcheol in the afterlight of its death. Until the next day, when it will rise again, and again, and again.
BOY THESE ARE CERTAINLY SOME WORDS!!!!

I can't keep quoting bits at you or this comment will be too long but know that every single word had be screaming