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2022 Round 2: AUs
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Status: Closed
This round has closed. It remains open for fills, comments and remixes, but prompts are no longer accepted.
✧ Seventeen Holidays ✧
About
When you put the characters you love in a new world, you end up loving them even more. Sometimes it's about the aesthetic (dark academia). Sometimes it's about straining those ship dynamics to the extreme (Pacific Rim). Maybe life is hard and you need to exorcise something (unemployment/coporate slave AU). Or perhaps you are so in love with the world you want to see Seventeen in it. Shakespeare, My Hero Academia, RuPaul's Drag Race. No problem - just give some context so anyone can fill it. Examples
MinWon - Bittersweet
Ah yes, the ambiguous Bittersweet MV. I'm curious to see anyone's interpretation of those MinWon scenes.
Any / NCT AU
Remember how Seventeen was supposed to be subgroups divided across Korea, China and Japan? What if that happened and the members were split up, only to reunite once a year. Or if they promoted like NCT - thinking about the graduation angst of NCT Dream, the ridiculous schedules of SuperM. Who is Mark and over-employed. Who is Shotaro and stuck in the basement?
Wonhui X Link Click (Donghua)
Link Click is a show about two guys who run a photography studio and time travels to help their customers. Wonwoo knows every event within 12 hours of a photograph being taken and Junhui can time travel and possess the photographer for 12 hours to complete a mission. Wonwoo speaks in Junhui's mind and tells him what he needs to do - where to go, what to say, what will happen. There's a rule that Junhui can't change the past because it will change the future :') but Junhui wants to :'). Would love to see WonHui investigating another sebong's story, or an exploration of their contrasting attitudes to fate (resigned vs headstrong - roles can be reversed if you want).
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Have you considered trying for the 17hols hall of fame? The categories are: Exactly 400 Words, Year of the Tiger, Five of a Kind and the Rarest Pair. ▽ Click for More Info ▽Exactly 400 words: your fill is the absolute minimum word count. Well done you cold curt succinct savage. Year of the Tiger: in celebration of 2022, we will also celebrate anyone who supports this agenda (context: burn your ears). You must seamlessly incorporate a horanghae or wooahae or hahahahanihae (etc) in your fill. You can not regret it. Five of a Kind: You win this if you fill 5 prompts, and each fill is different in the same way. E.g. 5 different ships, 5 different AUs, 5 different mediums. You also win this by doing 5 remixes! The rarest pair: the fill with the rarest pairing at the end of the fest wins. This is based off the number of works in the ao3 tag. For simplicity, this will be the / tag and not &. (e.g. a “Wonwoo & Minghao” platonic fill will be counted by the “Wonwoo/Minghao” tag). The ship must only have Seventeen members and be the main pairing in your fill. We will update the category with the current titleholder during the fest so you know who to challenge~ I anticipate polyamory. (To help us out, please mention that you’re going for one of these categories at the beginning of your fill.) Navigation
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dead boyfriends
Major Tags: Necromancy
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: Nothing too gory pls.
Prompt: Jeonghan is an animated corpse kept alive by his boyfriend who, due to his incredible necromantic powers, has never figured out how to let things go. Maybe Boyfriend thinks it's Jeonghan but it's actually someone else's stripped soul playing the role now or maybe the corpse is possessed by a demon or ghost or maybe there's nothing in there really at all and Boyfriend is deluding himself. Maybe Jeonghan hates him now. Or! Maybe they're actually happy together, Jeonghan appreciates the second life, and they just have to make sure that no one else catches on. You know, a silly little Necromantic romcom. Idk. Go wild, pls
[FILL] the rabbit in the hat
Major Tags: MCD, necromancy (a little?)
Additional Tags: people DIED (jeonghan)
Permission to remix: Please ask
sorry this isn’t quite what you asked for, but i couldn’t stop thinking about this prompt! i did try to make it gyuhan but i ended up feeling distressed LMAO i hope this seokhan is okay…
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Jeonghan always liked warm baths.
Before, it was Seokmin who’d always gotten home first. It was fun then, to wait for Jeonghan’s text, and then to run the bath and toss the spell inside until fragrant clouds of steam crowded against the tiles. And to wait until Jeonghan announced himself with a rap at the front door, and clicked his tongue at the way Seokmin had left all the lights on, again.
Seokmin doesn’t leave the lights on now. And he’s still in charge of running the baths. Hotter than before, watching spells crowd the bottom of the tub until they dissolve and the water stings.
Sometimes Jeonghan will remember to smile at him and say, “Aish, Seokmin-ah. Next time let me pay for these, okay? You’re going to go bankrupt buying all these spells.”
And Seokmin will say, “Ah, hyung, you know I don’t mind. I used a voucher last time and got a great discount.”
Usually though, Jeonghan says nothing. Stripping slowly, exhausted, until he sinks naked into the water that cooks Seokmin’s skin pink when he touches it, and sighs. Then Seokmin stops watching. It’s fine, then, to leave and go cook dinner, or check his emails, or go back to his book. But he leaves the bathroom door ajar every time, just in case.
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When Jeonghan died, Seokmin cried so hard his head hurt for days. At first he thought it was grief, until he realized that he was just angry. Angry at the cancer that wouldn’t go away, angry at the witches at the hospital who couldn’t do anything, and angry at Jeonghan for dying quietly in his hospital bed while Seokmin had been buying Chapagetti at the convenience store on the third floor.
“Don’t do anything you might regret, hyung,” Seungkwan said, although it was a little hard to understand through his small, hiccuping sobs. They were sitting in line at the hospital’s billing and payment center, waiting for Jeonghan’s papers to be released.
“I don't know why everyone thinks I’m going to do something stupid,” Seokmin said stubbornly. The thin skin of his undereyes felt rubbed raw. Someone over the PA was calling for Dr. Park to please go to the pediatric ward. “It’s super annoying.”
“It’s not— stupid,” Seungkwan’s voice started shaking, and Seokmin felt his eyes filling up again. “It’s not stupid to be in mourning. I miss hyung, too—“ Seungkwan hiccuped, and then blew his nose, “— But you know how Park Jiwon’s cousin died and her aunt went kind of crazy—”
“Okay,” Seokmin said stubbornly, blinking away tears. He scowled at the floor. “I don’t see what that has to do with me, though?”
“She, like, took out a loan,” Seungkwan insisted. “It’s taking forever to pay back and the interest rates are so bad and she had to sell their house and move into an ugly little apartment. Hyung, you don’t even have a house to sell.”
“Okay, so?” The lady at the counter called out Jeonghan’s patient number. Seokmin stood up and shook his head. “She was happy, right?”
Seungkwan’s face, pink from crying, paled quickly. “Lee Seokmin,” he said, “Don’t do what I think you’re about to do!”
“I’m just saying,” Seokmin grumbled, and then he went up to the lady at the counter and said, “Um, how much for a resurrection package?”
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Jeonghan likes to joke around and call himself Jeonghannie Number Two. It gets him giggling when nothing else will, the sound of it high and tinkly. He likes to pull it out for whatever, but especially when his body won't work quite right.
“Oops,” he’ll say, after his hands shake so hard he knocks a glass of water onto the floor. “That’s Jeonghannie Number Two’s fault!”
“Wah!” he’ll say, after his knees give out on a walk. “Jeonghannie Number Two isn’t working quite right!”
It makes Seokmin feel a little crazy, but he laughs along every time.
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They didn’t really talk about it when Jeonghan woke back up.
Same hospital, same cool white lights, same scratchy hospital blanket. The witches beside him were watching the monitor, but Seokmin was watching Jeonghan’s face. Pale, waxy-looking under the bright lights, and then shuddering as his heart started back up.
Jeonghan gave a little gasp. He opened his eyes and looked straight at Seokmin.
“Ah,” he said after a moment, and then sighed.
“Yoon Jeonghan-ssi,” the head witch said, leaning over to take his pulse. “Can you tell me your full name and how old you are?”
“Sure,” Jeonghan said, “why not.” The flatness of his voice, the way he flexed his toes and fingers, the way he turned his head to answer the attending witch’s questions— it was all a little wrong. Seokmin had to look away, then.
-
For a while, Seokmin felt awful that he didn’t feel awful, but eventually he stops thinking about it. The truth is that everything isn’t worse or better than before. And that’s fine.
Jeonghannie Number Two isn’t quite Jeonghan, but he isn’t not Jeonghan either. Seokmin keeps a little tally of all his new quirks. It gets a little longer as time passes.
Jeonghannie Number Two eats a lot less than before, and sometimes spends days sleeping. And he always gets cold at the end of the day, even at the height of summer. They haven’t had sex since Jeonghan woke up, but truthfully Seokmin feels like it’s a little rude to ask. They still kiss.
It’s all fine. Resurrection is a little different for everyone. When Seungkwan started talking to him again, he told Seokmin that it could have been much worse. For instance, Park Jiwon’s cousin only likes to eat raw meat. Gross.
“What are you thinking about, Seokmin-ah?” Jeonghan whispers suddenly. The light spell is still running, throwing long shadows at the bedroom ceiling.
“Work,” Seokmin lies. He reaches over the blanket to hold Jeonghan’s hand, running his thumb over the bony knuckles. A little apology for the untruth. “The end of Q2 is coming up. I just don’t want to make a mistake.”
“Aish,” Jeonghan says. He squeezes Seokmin’s hand unsteadily. “Our Seokmin is so diligent. Of course you’ll do well.”
“I hope so.” A little pause. “What were you thinking about?”
Seokmin doesn’t have a house to sell. Instead, he doesn’t renew his actor’s contract after the end of the first run. He applies to a company with a neat salary, raises every two years, and a good health insurance package. He stops shopping online, except for hot water spells and groceries. He keeps the lights off as much as he can.
Everything’s a little bit different now, but different doesn’t mean bad. It feels a little heroic when he thinks about it that way.
“I don’t know,” is Jeonghan’s reply. “A little bit of this and that.”
“Oh,” Seokmin says. He blinks up at the ceiling, watching the dimming light. “That’s nice.”
Seokmin should feel grateful, and when he tries a little he does. It could have been much worse.
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So many things stood out to me that if I started listing them I’d be quoting back the entire story. Like. The ominous domesticity at the beginning, tossing the spells into the tub (which is SUCH cool worldbuilding), the suddenness of the death (… angry at Jeonghan for dying quietly in his hospital bed while Seokmin had been buying Chapagetti at the convenience store on the third floor. ), the bit about Jeonghannie #2 being at fault every time Jeonghan’s resurrected body gives out. And Seokmin Laughing Along. Akdkjak, and I really loved how you did the resurrection. When he was talking with SK, I was totally expecting the classic, “lies that he won’t do it, does it anyways in secret, keeps it secret”, so when you pulled out the resurrection package… that’s SUCH a cool idea. And rooting it in real world debt. That’s is such a good concept and adds such a good layer of real world tension and heaviness, oh my god. And then the ENDING. How much is he Jeonghan, how much does it matter, how it’s just life as it was.
This really was so good. I’m at work (sry for typos) and thought that I’d just take a peek at it but got totally swept away…. I seriously love this. It’s so inventive and fresh and clever. I wish it was on ao3 so that I could bookmark, I’ll save the link somehow!! Thank you so much for writing and sharing!!!!
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i was thinking about expanding this a little more before eventually posting on ao3 because the universe is so fun to play with, but i'm not sure! either way if i do upload it i'll definitely add it to the fest collection. again, really happy you enjoyed this, and thank you for the cool prompt!!
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“Oops,” he’ll say, after his hands shake so hard he knocks a glass of water onto the floor. “That’s Jeonghannie Number Two’s fault!”
“Wah!” he’ll say, after his knees give out on a walk. “Jeonghannie Number Two isn’t working quite right!”
So very jeonghan 😞
🥲 Seokminie hope you will be happy with jeonghannie number 2 in the long run 🥲
Thanks for this i love it so much!
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re: jeonghan, this really wasn’t his preferred ending for sure! i think seokhan have such big, deep love for each other that it just seems so much worse when they’re out of step. i’m really happy people seem to like this fic, and thank you for such a lovely comment 💗
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