Ship/Member: Woozi/Taeyong (NCT) Major Tags: aquarium setting, catboys Additional Tags: wooahae, meet cute, jellyfish facts, soonwoo on an aquarium date Permission to remix: Yes
word count: 844 well i just had to. happy new year!
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If anyone asked him, Jihoon would strictly deny spending a good time third wheeling. It’s not even third wheeling, it’s more like babysitting. Catsitting? Who knows. Certainly not Jihoon, not since they’ve reached the jellyfish tanks and he’s been hypnotized by the colors.
They float up and down the column of water, the light at the bottom changing rhythmically and cast shadows of their tentacles on the walls of the tank. It’s one of the most peaceful thing Jihoon has ever seen. He read on one of the explanatory posters that jellyfishes are mostly made of water, and they surely move like it. Makes Jihoon wish he was made of mostly water and could just float around without a single thought. Sounds like an interesting lifestyle.
He spends long enough staring at the jellyfish’s brainless dance that one of the aquarium employees actually comes up to him. His name tag reads Taeyong and he seems to be about as uncomfortable with this interaction as Jihoon is.
“Just came to check if everything is alright?” he says.
Jihoon stares at the jellyfish. He swears one of them stares back. “Yeah, I’m fine. They’re just really fascinating creatures.”
Taeyong seems to relax, his shoulders drop and he comes next to Jihoon, shoulder to shoulder, staring at the tank together. “They are.” He points to one of them, swimming towards Jihoon. “This is a spotted jellyfish. Species with stinging tentacles usually hunt for their prey, but this little guy has a sweet symbiosis going on. There’s a little unicellular photosynthetic organism that lives in its tissue and provides it with photosynthesis, which the spotted jellyfish repays with minerals and nutrients from the water and the soil. But it also has like a bunch of mouths to eat plankton down these tentacles over there.”
“Woah…”
“Huh?”
Jihoon closes his mouth and stares back at the tank. “Sorry. Go on.”
Taeyong keeps one eyebrow raised at him. “Anyway, these guys usually live in pretty tight groups. They’re called smacks!” He giggles. Jihoon just stares, hoping that somehow the right words will magically come to him.
They don’t, and after a moment of silence, Taeyong clears his throat. “Sooo… are you here alone or?”
“I’m here with a couple of friends.” He points to Soonyoung and Wonwoo who are on the other side of the room, squishing their noses against the glass. Jihoon winces. “Sorry about them. I can’t take them anywhere!”
“Oh them! I thought they were on a date.” Taeyong leans in, ready to hopefully get some nice gossip. “Is there anything going on between them or…”
“Yeah, they’re dating. I’m just here to make sure they stay alive and behave properly in society. I’m like… their human supervision?” He can almost see the cogs turning in Taeyong’s brain through his big eyes. Wow those things are big.
“Oh… They don’t seem very dangerous though, why do they need supervision?”
Jihoon shrugs. “They’re cats- well, Wonwoo’s a cat. Soonyoung’s a tiger. And they’re in an aquarium full of good looking fish, so they’re not relying on their self control today.”
Taeyong nods in understanding and his eyes move over to the couple, a single eyebrow raising. He does that a lot, Jihoon already notices. It makes him look really serious, and turns his big eyes into something more intimidating.
Soonyoung is pointing at the small sharks and smiling at Wonwoo. They don’t seem like the kind to succumb to their animal urges and devour an entire fish tank - but you never know what Soonyoung might do if he gets really hungry.
“So you think the fish are good looking?” Taeyong asks out of nowhere.
“What?” Jihoon was too focused on his friends to realize that Taeyong had been smirking at him for probably quite a while now. The attention makes him want to hide his face and never show it again.
“You think the fish are sexy,” Taeyong states.
“No, I don’t.”
“That’s basically what you just said. I know a fish guy, maybe I could hook you up.”
Jihoon shakes his head violently. He has enough animals in his life, and he’s not sure the guy would survive spending too much time around Junhui anyway. “No, I didn’t say that. Fish are just… they’re fish. Why are you trying to make me say that fish are hot?”
Taeyong chuckles and pulls a strand of hair behind his ear. “I was just trying to see if you were single or not.”
“Well I’m certainly not dating any fish.”
“What about fish that moved to the land and evolved?”
“Birds?”
He rolls his eyes, Jihoon bites back a smile. “Don’t be difficult. Or be difficult, if that’s what you want.”
Jihoon looks at the jellyfish. They look just as empty headed as they did a few minutes ago. He distantly wonders if they would ever get to move to the land, evolve so much that they gain consciousness and hate themselves for it for millennia to come. Sounds like quite the dreadful fate.
[FILL] wooahae
Major Tags: aquarium setting, catboys
Additional Tags: wooahae, meet cute, jellyfish facts, soonwoo on an aquarium date
Permission to remix: Yes
word count: 844
well i just had to. happy new year!
***
If anyone asked him, Jihoon would strictly deny spending a good time third wheeling. It’s not even third wheeling, it’s more like babysitting. Catsitting? Who knows. Certainly not Jihoon, not since they’ve reached the jellyfish tanks and he’s been hypnotized by the colors.
They float up and down the column of water, the light at the bottom changing rhythmically and cast shadows of their tentacles on the walls of the tank. It’s one of the most peaceful thing Jihoon has ever seen. He read on one of the explanatory posters that jellyfishes are mostly made of water, and they surely move like it. Makes Jihoon wish he was made of mostly water and could just float around without a single thought. Sounds like an interesting lifestyle.
He spends long enough staring at the jellyfish’s brainless dance that one of the aquarium employees actually comes up to him. His name tag reads Taeyong and he seems to be about as uncomfortable with this interaction as Jihoon is.
“Just came to check if everything is alright?” he says.
Jihoon stares at the jellyfish. He swears one of them stares back. “Yeah, I’m fine. They’re just really fascinating creatures.”
Taeyong seems to relax, his shoulders drop and he comes next to Jihoon, shoulder to shoulder, staring at the tank together. “They are.” He points to one of them, swimming towards Jihoon. “This is a spotted jellyfish. Species with stinging tentacles usually hunt for their prey, but this little guy has a sweet symbiosis going on. There’s a little unicellular photosynthetic organism that lives in its tissue and provides it with photosynthesis, which the spotted jellyfish repays with minerals and nutrients from the water and the soil. But it also has like a bunch of mouths to eat plankton down these tentacles over there.”
“Woah…”
“Huh?”
Jihoon closes his mouth and stares back at the tank. “Sorry. Go on.”
Taeyong keeps one eyebrow raised at him. “Anyway, these guys usually live in pretty tight groups. They’re called smacks!” He giggles. Jihoon just stares, hoping that somehow the right words will magically come to him.
They don’t, and after a moment of silence, Taeyong clears his throat. “Sooo… are you here alone or?”
“I’m here with a couple of friends.” He points to Soonyoung and Wonwoo who are on the other side of the room, squishing their noses against the glass. Jihoon winces. “Sorry about them. I can’t take them anywhere!”
“Oh them! I thought they were on a date.” Taeyong leans in, ready to hopefully get some nice gossip. “Is there anything going on between them or…”
“Yeah, they’re dating. I’m just here to make sure they stay alive and behave properly in society. I’m like… their human supervision?” He can almost see the cogs turning in Taeyong’s brain through his big eyes. Wow those things are big.
“Oh… They don’t seem very dangerous though, why do they need supervision?”
Jihoon shrugs. “They’re cats- well, Wonwoo’s a cat. Soonyoung’s a tiger. And they’re in an aquarium full of good looking fish, so they’re not relying on their self control today.”
Taeyong nods in understanding and his eyes move over to the couple, a single eyebrow raising. He does that a lot, Jihoon already notices. It makes him look really serious, and turns his big eyes into something more intimidating.
Soonyoung is pointing at the small sharks and smiling at Wonwoo. They don’t seem like the kind to succumb to their animal urges and devour an entire fish tank - but you never know what Soonyoung might do if he gets really hungry.
“So you think the fish are good looking?” Taeyong asks out of nowhere.
“What?” Jihoon was too focused on his friends to realize that Taeyong had been smirking at him for probably quite a while now. The attention makes him want to hide his face and never show it again.
“You think the fish are sexy,” Taeyong states.
“No, I don’t.”
“That’s basically what you just said. I know a fish guy, maybe I could hook you up.”
Jihoon shakes his head violently. He has enough animals in his life, and he’s not sure the guy would survive spending too much time around Junhui anyway. “No, I didn’t say that. Fish are just… they’re fish. Why are you trying to make me say that fish are hot?”
Taeyong chuckles and pulls a strand of hair behind his ear. “I was just trying to see if you were single or not.”
“Well I’m certainly not dating any fish.”
“What about fish that moved to the land and evolved?”
“Birds?”
He rolls his eyes, Jihoon bites back a smile. “Don’t be difficult. Or be difficult, if that’s what you want.”
Jihoon looks at the jellyfish. They look just as empty headed as they did a few minutes ago. He distantly wonders if they would ever get to move to the land, evolve so much that they gain consciousness and hate themselves for it for millennia to come. Sounds like quite the dreadful fate.
“I won’t be difficult,” he decides.