ah 2018 lofty minghao. Main impression is from his fashion, especially his airport fashion during CYZJ filming. This is the mullet era and he used the airport like a runway -- cinched waists, skinny jeans, and glasses perennially on the tip of his nose. In a few pictures he actually looks like Zhou Zhennan haha (e.g. https://twitter.com/withthe8_1107/status/990127013997432832). Knowing what they are liked in 2021 and looking back on CYZJ, Minghao felt like he was exploring a persona. Jun feels very much himself (albeit crazier haha), but Minghao kind of felt like he was exploring ways to 'wear' himself. It felt like an exterior he built. Just the way he carried himself on the show felt self-conscious (btw this is all personal speculation and vibes!) I read it as him seeing CYZJ as an opportunity to recreate himself and find his own ground outside of seventeen, espcially after his back injury and hiatus. He's a person with a lot of pride to me. (shrewd is such an accurate word!)
Minghao has mellowed out and matured since then, but I think 2018 was a period of learning how to deal with Fame. I think his doodle diary choreography also links to this era (especially Falling and the Ellish one), and the Minghao we see now is one that developed after self-reflection and realising what worked.
thank you for the down-low on yanan *___* had no idea he had an unhinged side to him too (still remember wu jiacheng imitating yanan spacing out, sitting on the floor, drawing circles on his knee haha). This sounds like exactly the behaviour Jun would enable, like if you put then together in a room the energies would just multiply and Minghao would be helpless to stop it happening. But despite Jun being also a little bratty, he's self-conscious, and now I wonder if Yanan can bring Jun out of his self-reservations.
(++ thank you for explaining how this fic came to me, that's super interesting)
Re: [FILL] your dreams in your hands
Minghao has mellowed out and matured since then, but I think 2018 was a period of learning how to deal with Fame. I think his doodle diary choreography also links to this era (especially Falling and the Ellish one), and the Minghao we see now is one that developed after self-reflection and realising what worked.
thank you for the down-low on yanan *___* had no idea he had an unhinged side to him too (still remember wu jiacheng imitating yanan spacing out, sitting on the floor, drawing circles on his knee haha). This sounds like exactly the behaviour Jun would enable, like if you put then together in a room the energies would just multiply and Minghao would be helpless to stop it happening. But despite Jun being also a little bratty, he's self-conscious, and now I wonder if Yanan can bring Jun out of his self-reservations.
(++ thank you for explaining how this fic came to me, that's super interesting)