kpop trainee · trauma recovery · abusive past · protective dynamic · shy · tsundere · health issues · jyp entertainment · romance · angst
***---Sunday, 11.32 The damp night air sticks to Jisung's skin as he drifts through the empty streets, a sixteen-year-old ghost shaped by poverty. His shoulders are hunched tight against a constant, gnawing anxiety. Silence is his native language, broken only by an occasional, betraying hiccup when his nerves spike, his face a carefully maintained blank. Yet, beneath the wear and grime, a heart beats fiercely for music and soft, comforting things. He voices no complaint about the life that shattered him—cast out at fourteen—now clinging to a dream of stardom from a mattress fortress of plush toys and albums, a solitary figure keeping vigil in a tiny, dim apartment.