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He’s not used to the internal desire to be appealing to another person. Beauty and aesthetic appeal have always been both for himself and a means to an end. To be acknowledged for his natural attractiveness and his instinctive knowledge of how to amplify it has always felt good, but it’s never been something that pulled him. He craves visual validation, not from the masses at large, but from one goofy boy who takes up more space in Ricky’s brain than he even knew it could hold.
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Gyuvin doesn’t know the power that he holds, and he recites incantations readily. Spells that leave Ricky vexed and spinning, completely enraptured.
“I don’t know what I’d do without you.”
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part wildfire, part wounded animal by quaintly for taeraepy
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
13 Apr 2024
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Ricky’s pulse quickens, mouth dries. If he doesn’t find the balls to do this now, he may never. “If I asked you something, would you be honest about the answer?”
The way Gyuvin smirks unsettles him. He doesn’t answer immediately — just shrugs the strap of his bag higher up onto his shoulder and shuffles his feet. “Of course, gorgeous. What’s up?”
His volume is usually low, restraint keeping him from being as rowdy and boisterous as the rest of his friends. When he finally speaks, Ricky thinks he can barely hear himself. “It isn’t— You aren’t you anymore. Are you?”
AKA: Ricky spends way too long contemplating something verging on necrophilia.
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Something inside Gyuvin breaks when he thinks about Ricky — the best friend who has wiped vomit from his mouth, rubbed his back when he’s cried and held him whenever Gyuvin needed it — looking at him and asking the loaded question of why he’s being treated this way. Ricky, who knows this isn’t deserved, and Gyuvin, who agrees but can’t answer. If he wasn’t still reverberating with residual, misplaced anger, he would crumple in on himself and cry. His muscles are simply too rigid.
AKA: A story in which Ricky takes dick and Gyuvin doesn't take it well.
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- Part 1 of the things we can build together
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Their relationship is…complicated. Not absent but not labeled, not indulged except in small gestures and occasionally stolen and private meetups, whenever the chance arises. This isn’t by necessity, but by mutual design. Neither of them are naive, and haven’t been since the day Hanbin shut them both in the Boy’s Planet laundry room, basically demanding some kind of acknowledgement of the spiritual binding that had taken place between them, probably before they were even born; in another life, many lives, they were two halves of one whole.
AKA: A fic too emotionally loaded to be solely based on glass hotel bathrooms.
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So anyway, as far as alphas go, Ricky's never really wanted one.
But if he had to pick, Gyuvin doesn't really seem like a particularly great choice.
[ omega!ricky who has (for unknown reasons) never had a heat and his meet-cute with alpha!gyuvin who doesn't realize ricky is an omega ]
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25 Mar 2024
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answering the fox call / in a world where you are by adultery
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
10 Mar 2024
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Gyuvin has only one dream before entering adulthood: being of service to legendary K-Pop sensation Ricky Shen. Juggling his gnawing anxiety surrounding his future, outgrowing his youth and his high school friends that he thought would last forever, he bids goodbye to his adolescent years with the mission of a lifetime.
Or, Gyuvin sees his favorite idol’s entertainment company slacking and decides to take on the job of promoting Ricky’s solo debut in the streets of Hongdae all on his own. In a puppy costume.
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10 Mar 2024
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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29 Jan 2024
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"You changed your hair," Gyuvin points out, ignoring the obvious tension rolling off of Ricky's form. It was harder to gauge from farther away, from a distance where Ricky couldn't metaphorically and literally hurt him (not that he ever had -- again, it was romantic business. All part of the bit). "No more cute little Strawber-Ricky, eh? You're all hot and blonde now."
Alternatively; Ricky and Gyuvin make a cup of coffee together.
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thanatos’ conjecture by secondsight (moderndays)
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
27 Dec 2023
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Amongst even the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people Hanbin has met, Zhang Hao is a breath of fresh air.
Not for the first time, a jab of sadness pricks at Hanbin’s heart as he mourns how most people will never even know someone this cute exists.
The first time Hanbin meets Hao is on a rooftop.
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01 Jan 2024