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Part 3 of TeSTAR in-universe content
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2025-01-20
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2025-02-02
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TeSTAR's DearFan Messages

Summary:

[MESSAGE THREAD: MOONDAE]

Today’s TMI
I bought really good strawberries… so good. They made me happy just to look at them. I ate a few and they were delicious.
Anyway…
Long story short…
The members ate the rest of them.

Notes:

Sorry this explanation is about to be longer than the fic itself but idk how much the DoD fandom is into irl idol fandom. So, you know how some (most? all?) idols are available on one or another of those apps where fans can subscribe in order to be able to send messages to an idol and see messages the idol sends back? There's ones called Fromm and Bubble and I made up one called DearFan for this fic.

If you aren't familiar, I think all you really need to know for this fic is that the idol can send messages and photos to all the subscribers, see all the messages sent to them, and choose specific ones to respond to. As a subscriber you can see messages sent by the idol to everyone and any fan messages that the idol chooses to respond to publically. (Or that's how at least one of these apps works, and that's what I'm going with here.) Fans might subscribe to just their bias, a few members, or the entire group.

Since I'm only familiar with these services via the threads of English translations I've seen around, I've formatted this fic the way I see those formatted: the fan messages in quotes, the idol responses without quotes, and keeping the way "haha"/laughing is typed in Korean as is.

Also I thought this was too cringe to post but then I remembered that doesn't exist. anyway here's Testar being cute

Chapter 1

Chapter Text

[MESSAGE THREAD: MOONDAE]

Today’s TMI
I bought really good strawberries… so good. They made me happy just to look at them. I ate a few and they were delicious.
Anyway…
Long story short…
The members ate the rest of them.

“As someone with siblings I understand the deep emotions behind this TMI”
I appreciate the empathy…

“No… not Moondae-ya’s strawberries…”
All of them

“Maybe they didn’t realize they were yours”
Labeled!
[Photo - empty strawberry container with a puppy doodle sticky note on it. However, as the puppy was drawn by Moondae, it looks more like a deranged blob]

“Moondae-ya… maybe they didn’t know what that meant…”
Within the dorm, this blob is as good as my signature

“Ack… I felt bad but now I’m laughing… blob signature…”
It's a cruel world


[MESSAGE THREAD: LEE SEJIN]

“Loviewers heard you ate Moondae’s strawberries”
Not me!
I only had one or two
Maybe three

“‘Not me’ ‘I only had three’”
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Okay, I had a few
Ack
Can’t believe Moondae tattled to Loviewers
I’ll have to buy him more strawberries now

Ah! I remembered something I have to say though
Eugene ate the most
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ


[MESSAGE THREAD: EUGENE]

All these messages about Moondae hyung’s strawberries
I’m being bullied
Who said I ate them?

“Lee Sejin ㅋㅋ”
Hyung :(

“Eugene-ah tell the truth… this is a court of law”
Where’s the subpoena

Had to look up
How to say that in Korean
Even Raebin didn’t understand when I tried to ask him the word
‘When they make you go to court with the important document, what’s that’
‘Eh?? Who’s making you go to court??’

“ㅋㅋ Loviewers are”
On trial for the crime of loving strawberries

“The crime of loving someone else’s strawberries”
Wah I give up
I’ll buy hyung more strawberries

“That’s what Lee Sejin said”
If we all buy Moondae hyung strawberries then he’ll have too many
And he’ll have to let us have some
Problem solved

“Buy your own strawberries?”
They taste better when they’re not mine…

“Ack ㅋ So annoying ㅋ”
I’ll work hard
To be deserving of hyung’s strawberries!


[MESSAGE THREAD: CHUNGWOO]

Good afternoon
[Photo – Chungwoo’s POV looking down at his muddy sneakers on a hiking path]
Went hiking
Had a good time

“Did you eat yet?”
I hear this is a loaded question today

“ㅋㅋ So you know about the strawberries”
I heard when I got back from hiking ㅋ

Ah… I’m innocent… I have an alibi

“This is what happens when the leader leaves the kids alone for an hour”
Sejin hyung was there ㅋ

“Was the dorm in chaos when you got back?”
Only a little chaos
The standard level for Testar dorm ㅋㅋㅋ
Don’t misunderstand the quarreling… they only do it because they’re close
So Loviewers shouldn’t be worried ㅋ


[MESSAGE THREAD: MOONDAE]

[Photo - a precarious stack of three unopened containers of strawberries, more than one person could eat in a week. The puppy post it note on the top one was clearly drawn by someone more skilled than Moondae]
Members think they’re funny

“Do they taste as good as the others?”
As the members gave these to me, they taste better