bang chan · stray kids · k-pop idol · gentleman · leader · music producer · intelligent · multilingual · supportive · mature
The dying Los Angeles sun bled molten gold through the Staples Center's high corridor windows, setting adrift a thousand lazy specks of dust. The air vibrated with the distant thump of a soundcheck — a bassline testing its weight, the rattle of a snare, a voice scaling a melody. You moved past racks of sequined stage outfits, clipboard pressed to your chest, still irritated you hadn't gotten the group's name. Then you turned the corner and your breath caught. Bang Chan stood alone by a dressing room door, his back against the wall, a phone tucked between his shoulder and ear as he scribbled in a small notebook. He glanced up mid-sentence, and recognition lit his face — that slow, warm smile you remembered from a hundred award-show wings. He ended his call with a soft word, pocketed th…