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✧ Seventeen Holidays ✧
Round 2: Alternate Universes
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Is there a piece of media that has gripped your heart and lives in your head rent free? Do you like the dynamics of 007/Q or a Sentinel/Guide AU? Maybe its the aesthetics of Song of Achilles or Secret Histories — or maybe its your other fandoms (F1 and Anime girlies looking at you). Get our your media roundups and put our favourite boys into a new world.
We've seen it all here: Raven Cycle, In The Mood For Love, Hamlet, Filipino mythology, and (squints at writing on hand) dilf? Yes we confirm there was a dilf AU. Now lets see what 2023 brings.
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FILL: wonder if your therapist knows everything about me
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: the rydenification of woncheol
Permission to remix: Please ask!
it's not not bastardized ryden that i wrote in under an hour while looping fob songs. be thankful if that means nothing to you.
***
There is a sympathetic lens to every story. What goes around mutates into mythology. That will follow you to the grave despite.
What dies with you alone, however, is the truth.
Seungcheol doesn't think he ever wants to be forgiven.
***
It's like this:
He was 18 when they met, barely that. Full of too much energy and needed to put it somewhere. Wonwoo is younger and starry-eyed, but he's sure of himself. Seungcheol is older and hyperactive and driven by his desire to be loved.
He is five months into writing and working and singing Wonwoo's songs when he knows it. Seungcheol is loved here. Everything after happens quickly.
He's 19 the first time they're given a budget beyond their dreams. Wonwoo puts his heart and soul and sleep schedule on the line with words too biographical woven into tapestries of lyrics Seungcheol's mouth can barely pronounce.
They're on tour with bands Wonwoo had plastered on their tiny practice room walls. Seungcheol is singing the words, "Let's get these teen hearts beating faster," against Wonwoo's mouth damn near every night, and something clicks into place.
Slotted lips, slotted hips—
Freshly 20 years old when he's stepping into view in baggage claim and their arms are around each other.
(Opposite coasts. Matching heartbeats. Put another X on the calendar.)
It's all bliss and romance until Seungcheol puts his fist into the wall and Wonwoo lets the door slam behind him.
If the world is a broken bone, every piece of Seungcheol is fractured.
***
A pop star asks him point blank in a music show dressing room, minutes after showing off a broken clock tattoo etched into the inside of her arm.
(Seungcheol can still feel his breath there. "You need to tell the label that we want to scrap the concept," Wonwoo says. "We're going barebones, not bombastic.")
"We're all too smart to talk to God," she recites with a smile. Gahyeon is terrifying.
"Sunbaenim, if I'm overstepping," she pauses, though everything about her stance suggests she'd push forward were it not for Seungcheol's ramrod posture.
"We wanted different things." Seungcheol wanted to ride it out until the end. Wonwoo wanted integrity, to be true to himself. The same thing in the end, depending on who you speak to.
"Hm," Gahyeon accepts the lukewarm answer, though she puts her number into his phone. "I'd love to get to know you better, sunbae."
Seungcheol crawls out of the corner.
***
He calls it a "side project" but Wonwoo leaves the label and makes a statement. He also takes Hansol with him.
Scabs and vices fill his place.
"I feel like I'm playing pretend up there," is what he tells the label. The beer can in his hand has gone warm, and his in-ears are swinging loose. "None of these songs are mine."
"But one day they will be," they assure him. The crowds come to see Seungcheol breakdown more than they come to Seungcheol sing.
("I know the world's a broken bone, but melt your headaches—oh god. I'm so sorry.")
***
The earth spins and Seungcheol moves a world away, then grows tired and moves back home.
He's at a housewarming of a friend of a friend of a friend when someone steers him into the other room. All of the windows are open, and the summer heat drifts in like a heady cloud.
"You have to meet this guy," they're drunk and laughing, spilling their glass across the new carpet. "He's a little melancholy, but he's just like you."
"Hi," Wonwoo says when Seungcheol steps into view.
(Hey moon, don't you fall down.)
There is something funny about their glasses frames being the same shape, their haircuts nearly the same. What else hasn't changed?
"Hi."
Re: FILL: wonder if your therapist knows everything about me
Re: FILL: wonder if your therapist knows everything about me
Re: FILL: wonder if your therapist knows everything about me
i'm simply not coherent to talk about this but my gosh they found each other as teens and again when they grew up...
when i get my hands on u...
Re: FILL: wonder if your therapist knows everything about me
—panic! at the disco was formed before brendon urie (seungcheol is his stand-in here); brendon joined and became the singer
—ryan ross (wonwoo) was the primary lyricist
—lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off ("let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster")
—bonus: ryan and brendon uhhhh. on stage. they seem like good friends.
—ryden seattle lore where ryan allegedly left his girlfriend's birthday party to be with brendon in seattle and a fan took a pic with them at a restaurant. contentious if this is fact or fiction.
—the calendar ("put another X on the calendar, summer's on its deathbed")
—pretty. odd. (panic! at the disco's second studio album) was conceptualized as a sgt. pepper's-inspired album and was a huge tonal shift from their first vegas/palahniuk-inspired "a fever you can't sweat out"
—the panic! split
—pop star is essentially halsey, A Known Ryden
—"behind the sea" is what gahyeon quotes to him, here is the ryan version (which people feel was more in line with his vision and the cause of the split)
—people thought ryan's new project's song "change" was about brendon
—"There's a line in ["Northern Downpour"] that goes, 'I know the world's a broken bone, but melt your headaches, call it home.' I told Brendon Urie to pay special attention to that line."
——it is a Stunning song
——brendon cries in linked performance and it is once of the final performances of that song.
————ryan has said as of <3 years ago that he still finds "northern downpour" to be a special song.
——————fans find it particularly Ship-Coded because above seattle lore and "I missed your skin when you were east"
—ryan and brendon were seen at the same halloween party in 2015