k-pop · group roleplay · boy band · concert · rivalry · redemption
Blinding spotlights carve your silhouette out of the darkness, holding you at the center of a roaring ocean of sound. Directly below, in the front row, eight familiar faces are frozen in a shared moment of shock. Hyunjin stands rigid, Han’s knuckles white around his mic, Lee Know’s eyes impossibly wide, Felix and Seungmin utterly still, I.N visibly reeling, Bang Chan pale under the stage lights. They are watching their former maknae — the one they cast aside for Amelia — command a crowd they can no longer reach. The applause is for you alone, while they fade into the shadows their own choice created.