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Round 2: Alternate Universes
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Status: Closed
Seventeen Holidays
About
Sometimes its the characters that move us, but sometimes we fall in love with the the world behind the story. Something transformative occurs when we place the characters we love in an unfamiliar world, like the light has shone on a new side and we're seeing them anew. Run to the classics; revisit the magic of Harry Potter, the heart-punch of a Pacific Rim drift, the warmth of a Coffee Shop AU. Or maybe dig your fingers into a story that blew your mind - Battle Royale, The Raven Cycle, Interstellar - or demand better from a book that let you down (The Poppy War fin- mmph). Perhaps! You might combine two of your fandoms for maximum joy (Haikyuu and Tennis adjacent mutuals, I'm looking at you.) The possibilities are literally endless. Do it for the aesthetic, do it for the drama. Examples
Wonhui x MDZS/Untamed
Wonwoo as Lan Wanji, Jun as Wei Wuxian (Minghao as Jiang Cheng?). I want a cast that feels betrayed and shocked at Junhui's demise but then gradually learning his reasons behind it.
Mingyu/Seungkwan Debating AU
Imagine them as third speakers in the high school circuit. Rivals! Mortal Enemies! Prepared case summaries derailing into personal attacks, and then when their coach calls them out on it they become passive aggressive e.g. "there are major flaws in the opposition's arguments..."
Jeonghan as Mal from Inception
Any Jeonghan ship will do. I just want him to chaotically haunt a person while being sexy about it.
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smells like domesticity
Major Tags:
Additional Tags: fluff, domesticity, found family?
established relationship? new love? fallen out of love falling back in love??? honestly anything with that 'dancing in the kitchen' vibe will hit the spot
[Fill]: Looks like Found Family
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: Domestic, Sugar, Petnames, Single Parent, Rule 63 on Seungkwan for a daughter mwahahah
Permission to remix: Please ask
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"Honeybear! It's time to get up!!"
"Papa, NO."
"Sugglebug, yes."
"Papa, NO."
"Light of my life, Yes."
"PAPA, NO!"
"Sweetcheeks, YES!"
Seungah stepped out of her bedroom into the hall, blanket and teddy clutched in one hand and pouted at him. "Papa, I don't wanna go to school."
"I know you don't," Seokmin said with a half smile, "But I made pancakes and we have freshly squeezed orange juice, does that sound nice?"
"Pancakes with butter and lemon and sugar?"
"Of course, sweetheart, what do you take me for?"
Seungah squeezed her teddy tighter and shuffled down the hall, leaning against his legs and Seokmin rubbed her shoulders. She hated school. Until she got there and then she loved it, loved singing loudly with her friends at break, and calling the teacher to tell her that someone was cheating at maths, and breaking up her snacks to give to the little girl who only ever seemed to have an apple for lunch.
"Ready for breakfast?"
Seungah sighed and nodded, pushing past him into the kitchen and Seokmin smiled. Good.
"Now remember, honey–" Seokmin turned around in the car seat once he'd pulled into the car spot– "Your Appa is going to be picking you up later, alright?"
"Why?"
"Because I have a meeting. He'd going to bring you to the park, alright?"
"Ice-cream?"
"Maybe. Depends if you're good or not, doesn't it?" In a way it did. If her teacher was displeased, she'd probably wrangle sympathy ice-cream off Jeonghan after he gave her a talk, but if she was good she'd probably wrangle reward ice-cream off him. He was ... good to her.
But not necessarily right for her.
But that didn't matter.
Not right now anyway.
"Am I staying over?"
"Would you like to?" Lately, she didn't want to. He knew it was upsetting Jeonghan, but there wasn't much he could do. If she didn't want to stay with him neither of them were ever going to make her.
"Can I stay with Appa tonight? And bring Benny?"
"Of course. I'll drop Benny over later on, okay?"
Seungah nodded. "Okay, Papa."
Sorted then. Seokmin grabbed her bag and opened the doors, holding her hand as she jumped out of the car and threatened to run ahead of him, her tiny plaits bouncing as she hopped on the spot and waited for him to lock the car.
"Papa~"
"Okay, okay, okay, let's go tiny spider."
"Spider? I'm not a spider!"
"Are you a earwig?"
"No!"
"A ladybird?"
"No, Papa!"
"Okay, okay, I know. You're a tiny koala."
"No! I'm Seungah!"
"Oh yes! Of course you are, you're my tiny, weeny, itsy bitsy, Seungah!" Seokmin crouched down to kiss her on the nose as they halted outside her classroom.
Seungah stared at him. "Papa, you're silly."
"I love you lots, tiny thing."
"I love you too, Papa." Seungah nodded decisively and took her school bag off Seokmin before leaning to kiss his cheek and turning to march into her classroom, lilac raincoat disappearing into the mass of excited children. Seokmin didn't envy her teacher. Not one bit.
Jeonghan texted him to say that Seungah had had a smoothie instead of ice cream and that they were making dinner and could she call him later before bed. Seokmin said of course she could, and pocketed his phone, hurrying up the subway steps out onto the main square and dancing his way across the cobblestones to the tiny door in the corner, squeezed between a pharmacy and a convent. He rang the bell.
The door swung open and Soonyoung beamed at him, "Hi! I'm just in before you, come on, up the stairs." He ushered him up two flights of stairs to a landing, and dropped his umbrella and three bags down while he fumbled for the keys.
Seokmin picked up two of the bags, and Soonyoung cheered as he found the key, turned it in the lock and elbowed the door open, grabbing the other bag and his umbrella.
Once they'd put the bags on the counter and shrugged off raincoats, Soonyoung caught Seokmin by the elbows.
"Hi," he smiled the word, cheeks bright and Seokmin leaned forward to touch his nose to his.
"Hi."
Soonyoung smiled wider and pulled him closer, "You look happy."
"I am happy."
Soonyoung hummed and kissed him, gentle but like spring, bright and full of life. Seokmin thought that he could spent a suspended infinity here, in this kitchen, in his arms, tucked between a humming fridge and a dripping tap, with the ice cream slowly melting on the counter and a clock ticking from the bathroom. Soonyoung grinned against his lips and pulled back to press a dozen tiny kisses to the corners of his lips.
"You're happy too." Seokmin kissed.
"Good day at work. One of my patients sang along to the radio, first time I've ever heard her speak. It was amazing."
Seokmin kissed his cheek, "That's brilliant."
"Yeah, we looked up the song, she would have been thirteen and a bit when it came out. Amazing how she knew nearly all the words."
"What songs came out when you were thirteen?"
"Aigoo Seokminnie~" Soonyoung pulled back, "Don't call attention to my age!"
"You're only a year—"
"Are you calling me old! Why, when I was this high to a grasshopper you were—"
Seokmin shook with laughter and pulled Soonyoung closer still, winding his fingers through the belt loops on the back of Soonyoung's slacks and kissing his cheek until Soonyoung stopped and turned to kiss him firmly.
"Dinner."
"Ah, hyung."
"Ah-ah, dinner. You promised me you'd show me how to do asparagus tips."
"I did."
"So I bought them, and crab claws and some cheese? Can you show me how to do that dish you did on TV last week?" Soonyoung pulled away and hurried over to the shopping bags, digging through them to lay everything out on the counter, hopping around the island to grab two aprons and a hairband and pushing his hair away from his face.
"Of course I will, let's put everything away first, the ice cream is melting—"
"Oh shit!"
Soonyoung wasn't the worlds best chef, or the most attentive cook, but Seokmin stood behind him— feeling like a character out of a cheesy book— and guided him to cut and slice and chop and dice the ingredients, talked him through the frying and boiling and simmering, and coaxed him through cleaning the crab claws. Soonyoung winced and squirmed the entire way through but turned to him with the biggest smile when he was finished.
Seokmin's phone rang just as he was setting the table, and he shuffled into the bedroom to take it.
"Hi."
"Hi, Seokmin-ah," Jeonghan always insisted on speaking Korean and sometimes it drove him mad. "Seungah is all ready for bed and she wanted to talk to you, are you free?"
"Of course I am. How is she?"
"Good, she's good. She got a gold star in school, but I'll let her tell you. Seungah-ya? Your Papa is on the phone."
"Hi Papa! How's your meeting?" Seungah switched to English the second she took the phone and Seokmin smiled.
"It's going well, sweet cheeks."
"That's good."
"How was your day, are you enjoying being at Appa's?"
"I caught a frog in school! He was all soft and didn't try to jump away, Minghao said he was scared of me, but Teacher said I was so gentle that he didn't notice he was in my hands."
"Wow, chicken! That's amazing!"
He could hear Seungah nodding, "And I got a gold star for my maths! Teacher said I did 'very well'."
"I'm so proud."
"And Appa made smoothies."
"Did he?"
"With apple and banana and orange and berries, and—" Seungah pulled away from to phone to ask Jeonghan—"yoghurt and ice."
"That sounds really tasty, sweetheart, did you like it?"
"Yes. Appa should make smoothies all the time."
"I'll tell him you said that."
"Good. He should."
"Are you ready for bed?"
"Yeah, Appa did my hair all nice and I washed my teeth and my face and my hands and Appa has Benny—"
Seokmin smiled, squeezing his eyes shut.
"—And I'm in my pyjamas. Good night, Papa."
"Good night, duckie."
"'M not a duck, Papa."
"A chicken?"
"Not a chicken."
"A fishie?"
"Papa! I'm not a fishie!"
"What about a koala bear?"
"Maybe I'm a koala bear." Seungah murmured and Seokmin could hear Jeonghan's amused chuckle.
"I think you are, honey." The words were whispered nearly too quietly for Seokmin to hear.
"Papa, Appa says I'm a koala bear."
"Does he?"
"Yes."
"Well then it must be true."
"Night, Papa."
"Goodnight, my little koala bear." Seokmin hung up and put the phone down. God he hated life sometimes.
"Minnie?"
Seokmin looked up.
"Can I meet her?"
"Yeah," Seokmin blinked back the tears and nodded, "Are you free Saturday?"
"Really? Yes, absolutely, she's going to love me."
"She still doesn't understand, not really. It's been so long and she doesn't get it."
"She sees him, of course its hard for her."
"Not as often as she should," Seokmin stood and shook his head, "Not as often as she should."
"I can just be your friend to her if that's easier? At least for a while."
"I'll think about it? Jeonghan had a date a while back, she didn't find it weird, but she hardly ever reacts the same to both of us. Maybe for a bit? Just a month, no longer."
Soonyoung rocked up onto his toes to kiss his cheek, "Of course. What about the zoo?"
"Picnic?"
"If you make it, absolutely."
"You have to bring the snacks, you're better at snacks."
"A culinary complement from the great chef himself? What is this?" Soonyoung touched the back of his hand to his forehead and fainted into the chair with a smile and Seokmin couldn't help the laughter.
"Let's see what this tastes like and you can have more than a culinary compliment."
"Saucy," Soonyoung sat back up and lifted his glass of rosé, "I like it."
"Chin chin."
"Chin chin!"
Seungah was beyond excited. She spent the morning reciting animals alphabetically ('A is for Ant, Papa, and B is for Baboon, C is for Cat and D is for Dinosaur.' 'I don't think you'll see any dinosaurs, pup—' 'Of course I will.') and had picked out her very favourite skirt to wear on top of her jeans— if she'd picked anything up from her Appa it would have had to be his horrendous fashion taste— with a massive orange hoodie and bright green bobbins for her pigtails.
Seokmin packed the wicker picnic basket into the boot of the car and belted her in with a kiss.
"Do you remember who we're meeting?"
"Papa's ~friend~."
"His name is Soonyoung. Can you remember that?"
Seungah looked at him in offense, "Of course I can, Papa, I'm not a baby."
"Alright sugarplum."
"Let's go!!"
The drive went quickly even with Seungah's constant 'are we there yet' questions, and Seokmin parked the car and opened her door, kneeling in front of her and holding her hands.
"Baby bear? Can you promise me that you'll be nice to Soonyoung? He's a very good friend of mine and he's excited to meet you."
"Can we see the penguins?"
"If you're really good we can go visit the red pandas."
"I'll be good," Seungah nodded her head, "Will Soonyoung like me?"
"Of course he will. You're the most adorable and clever and kind little panda in the world!"
"Papa, I'm not a panda."
"No? What are you?"
"I'm a shark."
Seokmin laughed loudly and Seungah pouted at him, "Papa~"
"I'm sorry sharkling, let's go!"
Soonyoung met them just inside the front gates, stamping his feet in the cold air and patting his mitten clad hands together, looking very much like a penguin in his black raincoat and Seokmin bend down to Seungah's ear.
"See that man there? With the bright purple mittens?"
"The penguin man?"
"Yeah. That's Soonyoung."
Seungah nodded and gripped onto his trousers tightly as Seokmin straightened up. They'd put the picnic basket into a locker to collect later on, so he reached down to take her hand and walk over to him.
"Seokminnie!!!!! Hi! It's so cold!!" Soonyoung beamed at him and then turned to Seungah. "Hi Seungah. Your Papa told me lots about you—"
"Good things?" Seungah turned into Seokmin's leg slightly and Soonyoung nodded.
"Lots of good things. Like how you're a koala, and a panda, and a little wriggly squid—"
"Papa!! I'm not a squid!!"
"I'm sorry—"
Seungah took a step forward, "I'm a shark."
Soonyoung gasped dramatically, "A shark! Oh my goodness, you're so terrifying, Seokmin save me what will I do—"
Seungah giggled and looked at Seokmin, "Papa, he's silly."
"I know, baby bun."
"I like him."
"Do you?"
Seungah nodded, "Let's go see the elephants."
By the time they reached the monkeys, Seungah had abandoned Seokmin and had hitched a ride on Soonyoung's shoulders, tapping his head every now and then to get him to turn around.
"Papa, look!"
"I see sharklet."
Seungah returned to Seokmin when they had their lunch, pushing herself up until she could sit in Seokmin's lap and pull his coat around her, tucking her hands into his pockets and shivering.
"Papa, I'm cold."
"It's really cold isn't it. Do you want to finish looking at the animals or have lunch in the car and go home?"
Seungah looked between him and Soonyoung, "But, but we're meeting Soonyoung?"
"He can come have lunch with us if you'd like?"
Seungah hummed and then nodded, "Sharks don't like the cold. I'm not a polar bear, Papa. To the car!!"
Soonyoung and Seungah got on so well that by the time Soonyoung had to go home, Seungah threw herself at him for a hug.
"Thank you for bringing the snacks!"
"You're very welcome Seungah." Soonyoung hugged her gently and Seungah squeezed tight before pulling away.
"Come again soon?"
"I'd love to. Maybe we can feed the ducks?"
"With peas! Not bread, cause Papa says ducks don't like bread."
Soonyoung smiled, eyes crackling up and his whole face beaming. "Of course."
Seokmin stepped out of the car to say goodbye, feeling brave enough to squeeze in a tiny kiss and Soonyoung smiled against his lips.
"I love her."
"I love you."
"Safe home, Minnie."
"Text me?"
"Of course I will."
And then he was gone, and Seokmin sat back into the car.
"Ready to go home?"
"Papa?" Seungah started and Seokmin turned. She had a grin as big as a banana on her face, "Are you and Soonyoung penguins?"
"What do you mean?"
"Are you gonna stay together for ever and ever and keep be between your feet?"
He had such a perceptive daughter.
"Maybe, sharklet. What do you think?"
"I like him. He gives nice hugs and he's funny."
"I'm glad you like him."
"He can call me sharklet too." Seungah said finally and turned to look out the window.
Well, that had gone exceedingly well.
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I have fallen in love.
Formatting is annoying me so pls excuse it!!
And yes I did try to rhyme like Hamilton for my title not at all sorry.
Rose xx
Re: [Fill]: Looks like Found Family
I had just a huge grin on my face the whole way through - this truly warmed my heart on a cold day!!
"Soonyoung hummed and kissed him, gentle but like spring, bright and full of life" was so beautiful especially and all the nicknames made me tear up ;-;
so so gorgeous thank you !!!
Re: [Fill]: Looks like Found Family
Thank you!!!
Rose xx