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“Your ship,” Seungmin redirects. “What's its name?”
“The Asylum.”
“Like for crazy people?”
The corner of Minho's lip turns up. “Fun play on meaning? No, like protection from enemies. Every person on the crew is somebody we've saved from a bad place or bad people. We saved Hyunjin from where he'd been left for dead on that beach, and we saved Yongbok from being executed for a crime he was framed for. All that stuff. Asylum, as in sanctuary.”
He pauses.
“As in home.”
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- Part 6 of things written in a midnight daze
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“He comes from seven thousand levels below,” Jisung replies, dumping his helmet out of cement pebbles, and ignoring the way Felix is now gawking at him.
“That's impossible! Not even—Nobody has ever even gone to the floor below or above us, what do you mean he's from seven thousand levels—”
“I want to know too. He and Chan are probably talking about it right now.”
(or, Jisung’s village is going to either starve sitting idle or die to the dangers right outside the perimeter, but the appearance of a total stranger—an unbelievable sight given the fact wanderers can't survive on their own—and a dead scientist will change all of that.)
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Jisung stumbles through the foliage, wincing from the amount of sound he's making. Earlier that morning at the break of dawn, he was caught stealing from some random shop owner to get something to eat, not having expected two nearby men to not only recognize him as an enemy, but also to be armed with a weapon society had only recently created. Guns, they called them. Used for the war across the ocean where he'd come from.
(Tools, he was told as one was placed into his little hands, to win. Go, Jisung, and kill every man you don't recognize. The ones who wave white flags mean they're prime targets.)
(or, Jisung is running through the forest—finding not just asylum from his pursuers, but a reason to forgive himself.)
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- Part 4 of chan's cabin
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A soft breeze whispers through the window left ajar. The chiffon curtains float away and off the wall, filling the space with an elegance identical to that of a silk dress. Everything is bathed in a pale, serene yellow. There's not much else to interrupt the silent welcoming of the new day, other than Chan's feet coming down off the bed and onto the wooden floor, creaking ever so slightly in the way it always does.
(or, a gentle Saturday morning.)
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- Part 5 of things written in a midnight daze
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The cabin has been silent. Minho's locked himself away in his bedroom—no, actually. He lingers relentlessly in Chan's, always kneeling on the floor, always muttering something between bated breaths and wet hiccups, and it's the most painful thing to hear from down the hall.
(or, Minho, Hyunjin, & Changbin must come to terms with reality’s harshness when it comes crashing down on them.)
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- Part 3 of chan's cabin
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“He hit me over the head again!”
“I did not! I was just trying to get something behind you, and you were in the way!”
“Not true!”
(or, Chan raised Minho as a child, and now Minho takes the torch by raising two more.)
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- Part 2 of chan's cabin
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But there's one question that catches Chan and holds him tight, because it's inevitable to happen one day, but he didn't want to think about it too much.
“When you die, what should I do?”
He snaps around in Minho's direction, only finding him continuing to gnaw at sunflower seeds in the neighboring rocking chair. Minho notices his gaze a few moments later and innocently meets his eye.
(or, Chan discovers a boy on his doorstep one day, then finds that the child is so incredibly attentive to the world around him that it makes him think and reflect on a few things.)
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- Part 1 of chan's cabin
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Minho remains silent for a few minutes; a detail which Jeongin is sure of, since he watches every second on the clock come and go. Besides, he's not sure where else to look. The rain depresses him, reminding him of how much it'll delay his other tasks, the clouds are too gray, and he'll be forced to notice Minho in the window's reflection.
“Do you want to get dinner with me?”
“...What?”
(or, Jeongin works at his brother’s — Minho’s hotel. He also has a distant and frankly estranged relationship with said brother, and is confused when he’s pulled out of his shift to come see him in his office. The chat they’re about to have is more than just business, however, because it’s a lot more personal and emotional than he expected.)
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- Part 4 of things written in a midnight daze
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“Do you want hot chocolate?”
Minho gave him an unbelieving look. “I’m not a kid.”
“Neither am I.” Chan responded, halfway through dumping a packet of cocoa powder into a mug.
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It’s the cusp of fall and the weather is starting to numb their fingertips. The current situation — figuring out their past and finding a way to run from it — means things have finally got to pick up the pace and change, but everyone knows it’s much more complicated than that. Especially Chan and every other program kid he meets (or rather, invites into his home.) It’s hard on one hand to keep their secrets from literally the entire district, but even harder to figure out who to trust with them. It’s fine. He’ll be able to do it. And once their safety begins to be threatened again… well, somebody’s got to protect a house full of kids, right?
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A group of lost boys try to find a home amidst a heartless district.
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"Do you promise to take care of yourself?" Jisung asked quietly, straining his voice so it would come out calm and steady. "Felix. Felix, listen to me. Look at me."
Slowly, Felix's teary eyes did as requested.
"I want you to promise."
"...What?"
"That you won't go off and be stupid."
Poor world conditions have led to the ban on families having more than one child.
Jisung and Felix, brothers and twins, are running for their lives.
Or at least, they tried.
The bullet in Jisung’s side says otherwise.
[ABANDONED]
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- Part 3 of things written in a midnight daze
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Chan held out a dandelion. "Here, make your wish on this. Make sure you don't say it out loud, or else it won't come true."
Minho, fully ready to beg to visit his family again, leaned forward on the grass and sucked in a deep breath. The dandelion fuzz coated his throat as he choked, and Chan stifled a chuckle before going to pat his back. After they finally calmed down, Minho let himself collapse backwards to stare up into the leaves of the tree above providing them cool shade, and sighed happily.
It was an old memory.
He wondered if he would ever be able to wish like that again.
(or, Minho betrays the emperor, defecting from his position as the palace advisor to go with Chan as they leave everything behind in search of a new life. Unfortunately, all of this happens right before their pasts come back to haunt them.)
[ABANDONED]
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"Please help, I am alone in this subway car and this strange kid keeps asking me random questions that I don't have the answer to, along requests for the food in the bag which is meant to be my roommate's dinner."
(or, Jisung is just trying to get home. Felix wants to have a brief chat.)
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- Part 2 of things written in a midnight daze
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why would i try to rob anyone, do you even know what my major is by acrawlingdove
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band)
21 Oct 2023
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It has been a long day. However, it is about to get even longer, as Jeongin realizes his neighbor’s house is actively being broken into.
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Jeongin is an art major. There is also another art major who he hasn't met yet. That detail is going to change in around five minutes.
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- Part 1 of The College Experience™
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Felix has always loved taking photos of the others. There’s something so calming about the snapshots of memories within one small camera, and he’s often found himself looking back on them just for fun. The feeling of holding the preview up to his eye is practically muscle memory, as he aligns the framing to fit the subject of his photo, counting down from three… two… one…
Click.
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- Part 1 of things written in a midnight daze
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this sequence; your zenith by acrawlingdove, thunderkissed (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band)
07 Sep 2023
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“—but you can call me whatever.”
Felix looked up at him again. A long silence passed as Chan looked him up and down, seemingly trying to read whatever ill intentions he didn’t have.
“Sure,” Felix replied, very weirded out. “Thanks. I… Is this…?”
“Feel free to head downstairs. If you’re looking for a place to stay, which is what I’m assuming.”
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A strange, broken down hotel gets a visit for the first time in years.
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aka did you like the oddinary trailer? me too lets talk about it