Effigy
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“Minho and I were recruited for a romance drama,” Jisung blurts out. “Like, romance between us. Our characters, obviously,” he's quick to add, suddenly feeling like he needs to justify it.
Chan and Changbin exchange a look that Jisung can’t decode.
“Are you sure you’re going to be okay?” Chan asks. His voice is unnaturally gentle, like he’s soothing a crying toddler or breaking bad news to a friend.
Jisung isn’t sure. “Of course. Why wouldn’t I be?”
Chan pauses, uncertainty momentarily clouding his features. “Never mind, yeah? It’s nothing.”
His words belie the concern of his tone. He can’t think acting with Minho will change the nature of their relationship, can he? It’s not unheard of — co-stars falling in love — but Jisung is straight. Everybody knows that.
Jisung knows he and Minho are a pair. Coworkers, best friends... Soulmates, if you will. He just didn't think anyone would seek them out because of it.
After getting scouted to play the lead couple in a BL drama, Jisung has to navigate his ever-evolving relationship with Minho and come to terms with something he's kept locked away since childhood.
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10 Mar 2026
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Minho could not stand Jisung, finding him too loud and obnoxious to enjoy his company, until they find a way to really enjoy being around each other. But once they start spending more time together, Minho discovers there is so much more to Jisung than what appeared on the surface. Not just about the person he is under his brash personality, but about aspects of his life that trouble and worry Minho.
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12 Feb 2026
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Minho is cursed. He has to be. There's no other explanation for how he ended up with a ruined career, busted leg, and is now sitting across the table from the ex-boyfriend who broke his heart. And did he mention how he just learned said ex-boyfriend had a threesome with his best friend? Yeah... one hundred percent cursed... and definitely, one thousand percent not still in love with Han Jisung... maybe...
_________The roulette wheel of emotions, spinning since the week before when he’d first seen Jisung again finally slows to land on one… want. His bruised soul rustles inside of him at the realization. He still wants Jisung…
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Minho is just as beautiful as he remembered. Just as perfect. A flawless collection of delicate lines and sharp angles that had never failed to steal his sanity away. It’d been like that since the first time Jisung saw him. The handsome bartender the forbidden fruit in his garden of Eden. Tired of denying himself and desperate for a taste of sin he’d sworn it would only happen once.
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20 Jul 2025
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“So then—” Minho says, a smile blooming on his face, “I’ll be the charming prince of your dreams who rescues the romantic beast from your jaded, withered heart.”
“‘Rescues?’” Jisung laughs, trying to stamp out the butterflies rising behind his ribs. “Not ‘slays?’”
“Why?” Minho asks with a puzzled frown. “He deserves a happy ending just as much as anyone else.”
“Oh.” Jisung is definitely blushing. “That… might be the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard.”
“Oh,” Minho echoes. “Then we’re off to a good start.”
(or: Jisung has a bucket list full of his deepest, darkest, most embarrassing romantic desires and a lost hope that he will ever experience the fairytale romance of his dreams. Minho changes everything.)
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Bookmarked by Effigy
31 Jan 2025
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“Minho.” Chan breathes out, heart crashing at his feet.
Minho stands there, soaked from head to toe as though he had jumped in the Han river. The bags under his eyes are purple. His lower lip is cut; wet blood paints his chin. His eyes, Chan will forever be haunted by them, are hollow. They look dead; devoured by worms that had settled in them a long time ago.
Chan stares without really comprehending the sight in front of him. It looks so absurd. So out of order that his brain lags to give him the proper signals to make him move. It feels like a scene right out of a nightmare, or a very inappropriate prank.
“I didn’t know where else to go.”
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19 Sep 2024