Archive of Our Own ^beta

8 lives, 8 voices, telling a single story.

A story where a group of boys run along the beating feverish sun, only for everything to eventually fall apart.

A story where each of them thrive to achieve their destiny, finding their treasure, only to receive a far calling from the cruel, distant reality built over pain and agony.

A story where they bleed to fight for their lives, shed away their innocence, all for the name of the world they were born into.

A story about sacrifice, revenge, identity, freedom, strength, purpose, love and the haunting price of time.

A story that takes the hopeless end to a brand new beginning.

(An Ateezlore-based series, which attempts to incorporate potential theories and flesh out the characters, diverging from the canonical storyline.)

This series contains all my fics that are related to the ateez storyline, heavily based on my own theories and headcanons. My theories mostly align with Tiny Bug Ink’s theory about the entire ateezlore being set in the same universe and timeline, rather than two distinct universes. I also base my interpretations on this post.

Everything in this series will only include diary entries up to The World , and everything is my retelling of the lore based on everything we have up to The World diaries. This series also does not include any new canon information from the lore book. (no I haven’t read it nor bought it unfortunately 😔)

Timeline
The works in this series takes place based on three distinct eras: FEVER, TREASURE and THE WORLD.

FEVER is referred to the events in the Fever diaries and anything before it (including their backstories and all). The Fever diaries are set in a span of one year.

TREASURE is a 5-6 year age gap after the events in FEVER, where the members contemplate on what to do with the revolution and the Cromer. TREASURE is set in the same World A as FEVER (since Hongjoong said that’s the case), where the members continue to live their normal lives in World A, though they are now aware of an alternate dystopian reality that may or may not happen in the future. It ends when they all decided to go back to World Z and join the revolution.

THE WORLD is referred to the events after TREASURE, including The World diary entries, set after a year since Ateez joined the revolution. This portion would also include events that happened after The World diary entries.

Some works will have overlap between two or more eras, and some works are only set in one particular era.

A more detailed timeline of the works contained will be listed here once I’ve uploaded everything (I promise I’m working on it 🥲)