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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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Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: liminal spaces, the stresses and joys of travel, gose levels of comedic opportunity + dramatic irony
Do Not Wants: None
Prompt: The Amazing Race is a reality competition show where teams of 2 race around the globe completing difficult or funny challenges. Person A and Person B are teammates determined to win the next leg of the race. Bonus for Person C their beleaguered camera person. (The relationship between A and B is up to you but please consider: bickering newlyweds, exes who need the money, or strangers thrown together by the film crew)
[FILL] In-betweens
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: soft rookie cameraman mingyu, overnight airport stays, peaceful acceptance that ur a filler team on a competitive reality show
Permission to remix: Yes
This one might have ran away from me but you totally captured my nostalgia AND my 97z favoritism... not at all intended to have a mega serious tone i might just be bad at writing funnies LOL i hope it's at the very least sufficient<3
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Mingyu had not expected the sheer amount of waiting that this gig entailed.
He was aware that the idealized “fast-paced travel around the world with a side of filming some fools running around completing tasks sometimes” image that had popped up in his head at first was faulty. He had still quietly thanked himself for the networking efforts from his internship, starry eyed, for getting him into the crew of a major show straight out of his degree. But god, the difference between the screen and the reality was never as apparent as the hours upon hours spent in stiff airport seats, staring into space, somehow still expected to have the camera up and ready to catch footage for whatever narrative was being built in post production.
Thankfully, his and the sound guy’s assigned contestants seemed like a better luck of the draw, if the things he had heard during one of the unofficial shit talking sessions during the crew’s hotel breakfasts were true. He had thought it over, then, tipping the last of the coffee into his mouth. Seokmin and Minghao were two men, roughly his own age, and if he were to guess what the editors would write in little subtitles under their names, it would be something flowery and vague like “Life Partners.” They were easily manageable and polite without being boring, to the point where Mingyu had to remember to keep himself professional sometimes. Like when he had almost gone off on a ramble upon hearing Minghao ask about the camera lens they used, or the camaraderie he felt when Seokmin hastily dismissed the bungee jump choice at a Detour.
That’s the other thing: the job entailed that he would have had to have followed them up there. Having to stay within a regulated distance of contestants running for a cash prize while it’s just another day at work for you proves to be a workout, both mentally and physically. It’s typical, the way Mingyu would inadvertently end up soaking up everyone’s stress like a sponge.
It was the one thing he would have to complain about if he had the guts to speak up among the veteran camera crew, at those breakfasts. He was athletic, but perhaps not made for it. It showed frequently, like during the last leg: all 188 clumsy centimetres of him crumpled into the passenger seat of a shoddy taxi, just fucking praying to god that the look of desperation in Seokmin’s eyes at the notion of running out of money for the ride was not a sign he was actually planning to beg the driver to let them off the hook. (He didn’t have to. The crew carried an extra credit card for emergency situations like these, but Mingyu was not sure he would be able to stomach the sight before they could intervene. Turns out Seokmin was just being paranoid and very ready to sacrifice his pride. Thinking about it makes Mingyu feel ill, but mostly because he can’t convince himself that he wouldn’t have done the same.)
There would, however, not be much more of this.
A series of minor missteps had caused them to slip behind, narrowly missing the opportunity to book a flight that carried the last couple of teams just ahead of them. A classic, Mingyu had heard from a more weathered producer after the same fate befell another team a couple rounds ago. It made for fun drama for the screen, he had said.
Mingyu is not having fun. They’d been told that the next available flight was in the morning, and he did not feel any satisfaction about catching their reaction on camera.
That’s where he’s sitting now. Barely lit by a never-ending sunrise, in an empty airport, lens set on Seokmin and Minghao. The sound guy comes back from taking a call from the producers, and whispers the news to him: the second team has arrived at the Pit Stop, with more expected to trickle in in the coming hours. At this point, it’s a question of whether they’ll even let their team finish or if they'll cut their pitiful flounder short at the airport.
As per the rules, Seokmin and Minghao have not been informed of this, but there’s this feeling that they’ve known for a while. They haven’t spoken much, idly leaning on each other in a way that might have felt too personal if he hadn’t seen it all for the last week or so, or if the numbness of sleep deprivation wasn’t sitting on his brain like a fog. Mingyu manages to wonder for a second, if they’ll make him be an extra in any of the future challenges, if he’ll have to film Seokmin and Minghao clapping and smiling for the winners in the final episode. He hopes he gets to sleep better. He hopes he gets to pick up his own camera.
His coworker slumps back down and makes a face at him, shrugging. You know how it is. Right.
Another eternity passes. The sun has not moved, and the loudspeaker cracks open the stagnant air.
"Flight 26 departing from Gate 5 is experiencing technical issues and will be delayed. New departure time is calculated to be 10:22 AM. We thank you for your understanding."
They don’t move. Seokmin tilts his head upwards, the sides of his mouth tugging down. His eyes go shiny. Mingyu has seen this before.
Minghao moves to embrace him, mumbling something like, hey, why, thumb to his cheek.
“I’m such an idiot,” sniffs Seokmin, mouth cracking open into a wide smile. “I love you. I’m sorry.”
Minghao just laughs, warm, clinging on to him. He’s draped across him, hand finding Seokmin’s. He raises his head to kiss him, and rests there.
Mingyu subtly, sheepishly, slips the lens cover onto his camera.
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if he were to guess what the editors would write in little subtitles under their names, it would be something flowery and vague like “Life Partners.” - seokhao through the eternal heart-eyes of Kim Mingyu and his background knowledge of the crew and producers... THIS IS JUST SO PERFECT. + feeling camaraderie with Seokmin because he passed the bungee jump Detour oh my GOD when I tell you I literally almost asked for that SPECIFICALLY in the prompt I'm not even kidding I feel like you read my mind op this is crazy. It's so clear how Mingyu Cares, how he struggles to watch them struggle,, I love the way you captured his big bleeding heart here. Especially, Mingyu was not sure he would be able to stomach the sight before they could intervene. Even when he's exhausted himself, he's thinking of them, of how difficult the race is for them. Are you kidding [yelling forever]!
I love your descriptions of the airport, the never-ending sunrise (!!!), the melancholic atmosphere that is still somehow full of love because that's just how 97z roll... I can't get over how tender it is, their reaction to the flight being delayed yet again, how they're still just supportive and soft with each other. My heart is EXPLODING at Mingyu imagining filming seokhao clapping for the winning team, the whole last lines, Minghao just laughs, warm, clinging on to him. He’s draped across him, hand finding Seokmin’s. He raises his head to kiss him, and rests there. / Mingyu subtly, sheepishly, slips the lens cover onto his camera. Please excuse my language but fuuuuuuuuuck. YOU GET IT! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS I FEEL LIKE I WILL NEVER RECOVER!!
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i did actually blow through a season while writing this on and off and once they showed a bungee jump i knew i had to go there somehow... too perfect..... And I'm glad the Mingyuisms came through!!! This poor man. Someone get him on the food network or something.
Airports are some of my favorite places IRL which was another aspect of the way this prompt baited me LOL. you get it... i get it... WE BOTH GET IT...🤝🤝🤝 Once more, most of the last day has been me trying to come up with a way to thank u for each and every way in which your response has made my week but it's immensely difficult without babbling too much!!! this is but a fraction of what i have to thank you for!!! I'VE ALREADY GONE ON TOO LONG!!!!! Thank you <3 <3 <3