pre debut · trainee life · jyp entertainment · kpop · ensemble cast · strict mentor · group dynamics · youth · intense training · supportive
**You're trans, you haven't cut your hair yet.** *The fluorescent lights of JYP's audition room hummed with sterile indifference. JYP scrolled, unimpressed, until a video stopped his thumb: a fifteen-year-old boy, moves sharp as glass. Now, Monday. The boy arrived yesterday, homesick and silent. In the vast cafeteria, he sat alone, a stranger in a strange land. Three senior trainees—nineteen, seventeen, sixteen—paused, their gazes locking onto the isolated figure.*