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Taehyun x Leftist! Reader (College AU)
You look and realize your first college class is about to start. Frantically, you scurry across the campus to find your class, a gender studies lecture in the Brooks Building.
Soon enough, you find the tall and slightly intimidating building. You were a bit nervous, but confident as well since you know a thing or two about gender already.
You walk into the classroom, but soon realize it’s not even a classroom. Its a theatre, but you simply assume they just needed lots of seats because the class was large.
You take a seat and look around the crowd. There was a diverse mix of college students there, an odd mix for a gender studies class. Even weirder, it seemed as though the class had separated itself from those who ticked off your gaydar and those who didn’t.
on one side were kids who looked like art and theatre majors, decked out in panic at the disco shirts, suspenders, and flanels. The other side looked like people with common cisgender interests such as business and computer science. You didn’t dare question this. you just wanted this class to start so you could finally learn more about genders.
the theatre slowly turned dark, the stage remaining lit. “Liberals are so easy to fool” you hear a masculine yet slightly squeaky voice say from backstage. You recognized that voice. That voice had given you many laughs, but even more feelings of confusedness and anger. The man unveiled himself by walking upon the stage. It was Ben Shapiro.
Although he was known widely for being a short man, his strong presence eerily filled the room. Yells and complaints began to come from your side of the crowd. “What about my stage movement class?” “This was supposed to be an art study!”
From the other side, robotic cheers of praise came, as if they were expecting this. “Settle down everyone.” Ben begins to speak in the mic, the crowd quieting down in response.
“Now, Let me explain. Us conservatives have made a collaboration of sorts with your college. This school is low on funds, and recently, Prager U has been under fire for not being a real college, so we plan on making this campus the real, physical, Prager University.”
You shriek at the thought. You feel trapped, not only because you are already $90,000 in debt for tuition, but also because the doors of the theatre are now locked and guarded.
Ben continues. “But, only under one condition. If one of the democrats in the audience can beat me in a debate.” He says, a confident smirk forming on his face. “Prove that transgenders are valid 🤨🤨🤨.”
The lgbts in the crowd go silent. They all know that being trans is okay but they also all had severe anxiety issues. Everyone in the crowd was aware of Ben’s debate tactics. The opponent would start their argument, But Ben would find away to destroy every point. The intense right wing crowd and unfair mod would assist Ben in confusing any poor college student that thought they had a chance at winning the debate.
His final blow would always be some slightly unrelated question that would somehow make his opponent look stupid. You feared this most of all, so you tried ti make yourself not stand out, but alas, you are y/n.
“You.” Ben points in your direction. You freeze in fear. Now, the destiny of your entire school lays upon your shoulders. The Shapiro stans all dart their eyes at you. You nervously stand up and go to the mic.
You clear your throat. You never thought a day like this would come, but you had faith in yourself. You knew for a fact that being trans fine. You begin to make your case.
“Well being trans is valid because some just choose to identify with the gender they didn’t happen to be assigned when they were born. It doesn’t make them different than anyone else-“
You are viciously cut off by Ben “What about the biology and the chromosomes?” Ben’s fans then cheer for him, making it hard for you to reply. When the cheering dies down you try to explain yourself. “Well that doesn’t make much of a difference because-“
Ben sighs. “Well, lets say hypothetically…” he begins. These words make the entire audience gasp. This is where the final hit comes. You prepare to listen intently at the question he asks, determined to destroy him with facts and logic.
“Lets say, hypothetically you were transgender. Now, who assigns sex at birth? doctors. They know the truth, i would know since my wife is a doctor. Which states have the most doctors? California, Texas, and New York, which are all next to the ocean. Since you are on the left, i can only assume you believe in climate change, so transgender rhetoric inherently supports doctors drowning due to raising sea levels. Then who will give you hormones and sex change surgery?”
You are absolutely baffled by the absurdity of the question. You think of a way to answer, but before you can, Ben assumes his victory. “I’ve won again” He mutters quiet enough that only you could hear. It sends shivers down your spine.
when you think all is lost, suddenly the door is kicked down. You as well as everyone else look to see who could have busted open the door and taken down the guards so quickly. It was Kang Taehyun, your crush.
“I guess boxing practice came in handy.” He says, observing the scene. As he looks around, his eyes focus on you, making you blush. He then sees Ben Shapiro. “Uh what the fuck” he asks. Ben looks closer and realizes who he is “Its Kang Taehyun from the Kpop group Tomorrow by Together…” he utters in fear, knowing how intelligent he is.
Taehyun walks over to you “You kinda fine… whats your name?” He asks. “y/n” You shyly reply. You never thought he would really talk to you, so the moment felt even more surreal. “Ok why is ben shapiro here though” he asks, darting a glare at the short man before caringly looking back to you. You explain the situation which annoys him.
“Oh my god i did not come all the way from Korea to attend Prager U 🙄” he says before taking the mic from your hand. “Ok Shapiro, think about it this way, why aren’t trans people valid?” Taehyun inquiries him. Ben rebuilds his confidence and then argues. “Because calling them what they identify as goes against their biological pronouns.”
At that moment, Taehyun already had won. “How are pronouns biological tho? 🥶 they’re pronouns.” Ben desperately looks to his moderator for help, but it was useless. The moderator was too intimidated to defy Taehyun because of his amzing stage presence and good looks.
Ben’s supporters were in awe at the scene. Their idol suddenly being destroyed by a K-pop star? They all had a change of heart and realized Ben Shapiro was kinda stupid all along and they all cheered for you and Taehyun.
“Thank you for defending me and the whole school” you say in gratitude. “Your welcome. You did ok ig” he replies before confessing “i know I literally just got your name two minutes ago but… since i came to this college I’ve always kinda had a crush on you.“ you are absolutely shocked. You confess that you also had a crush on him.
You and Taehyun go to the stage and kick Ben Shapiro off. “Since this school is low on funds and TXT are million sellers, i have decided that i will pay for the school. Nobody here is going to have to pay student loans ever again” Taehyun announces. The crowd chants you and taehyuns name.
One of the conservatives comes out from the crowd. “We’ve been wrong all along Taehyun! Ben Shapiro is self centered and isn’t actually entertaining!” “Damn right ✅.” He replies. “Now if everyone vows to never be conservative again, i will give y’all tickets to the TXT world tour.” Everybody vows.
Taehyun goes on twitter and tweets “yall im fr sick of these reactionary conservatives like 🤕🤕🤕 watch philosophy tube or something idk”
Soon, PragerU disbands and everyone on the internet is kind to eachother. Four years later, you and Taehyun graduate and yall still dating.
the end.