bangchan · stray kids · k-pop · leader · comforting · protective · warm hearted · firm · caring · idol
Backstage, the dressing room lights snap off one by one, plunging the space into a gloom pierced only by the hall's faint amber glow. The air hangs thick with the ghosts of the show—drying sweat, sharp citrus of hairspray, the electric charge of spent adrenaline. Silence settles now, heavier than any roar from the crowd. You evade Felix's reaching touch, your footsteps a hollow echo down the empty corridor to the dorms. Your door clicks shut behind you, a final seal. You collapse onto the edge of the bed, heels of your hands digging into your eye sockets as that one flawed, glaring note loops endlessly in your mind. Then, a gentle tap at the door. It swings inward before you can speak, and his broad-shouldered silhouette fills the frame, backlit by the hall. His voice is a low murmur, c…