hi! nice to meet you! what you’re describing about mnho and writing the world (and jsvng!) through his eyes is exactly why i he’s my favorite pov to write. i have so much fun with him and i hope you do too! when i first got into 5kz most of my wips were made to be written in jsvng’s pov, but now i rarely write from his pov anymore. </3 one wip i’m working on right now is jsvng pov And jsvng-centric though! so i’m excited about that.

and about my fics, it’s such an honor that you want to read them! lucky for you, i don’t have many (two and one third to be precise). i’d recommend reading “it only takes a taste” first, since it’s my most lighthearted fic, and /then/ “fragments of a boy in blue”, which is both a little more complex And my absolute pride and joy. you can also read the only public chapter of “vitamin, dopamine” and come yell at me here for putting it on hiatus.

i hope you like what you find! thank you so much for this ask. <3

u get it! little hnnie giggling and smiling and filling a room with light. when you’re little your emotions are a lot more fleeting so i imagine there’d be a lot of cold and rain followed immediately by warmth and light (which causes rainbows!), ie: falling, scraping his knee, but getting one of the cool band-aids and having his mom kiss it better. my cutesie. i cry…

i imagine that even if curses and magic exist in this world, having a curse like this since birth can be very isolating, even moreso throughout high school, when /everything/ is an excuse to feel alienated. jisvng learns very young to keep to himself and hide from the world, but this also means that the few relationships he allows himself to have (his mom, a few friends) are as close and strong as can be.

i think there wouldn’t be a cure per se as this is a curse and not a disease, but i never thought of what it would take to really make the curse go away for good. i always imagined that mnho would be someone who would try to help jsvng find a way to “cure” himself (with magic! like you said!) because that’s what jsvng has wanted his whole life, to be normal. but through mnho, falling in love with him and being loved back so intensely and purely, jsvng learns that maybe he doesn’t need to “fix” himself at all, as this is a part of who he is.

thank u for the brainworms please please share anything else u might want (!!!) !!!

HAI. omg. don’t mind if i do!

so jisvng’s mother was cursed when she was pregnant with him and he was born with the weather curse. at its core it’s a little like hanahaki? the curse exists as a consequence or punishment for jisvng’s mother’s decisions in love, but instead of just manifesting when jisvng is in love and it is unrequited, it manifests… always. it’s like an extension to how his body feels and expresses different emotions.

the most basic ones are joy and sadness, which manifest as warmth and cold respectively. pure, unrestrained happiness presents as warmth all over the body and a faint glow that resembles the sun, whereas intense sadness or depression can feel like a freezing, numbing cold. ice can even spread over his skin if it’s /that/ bad.

the one i like the most is love. not only in the romantic sense but in every sense possible, love presents in the form of flowers growing and spreading across jisvng’s skin. each flower represents something different; some grow when he feels loved and appreciated, some when he feels beautiful, some when he’s the one loving and appreciated and wanting someone. the flowers usually don’t last longer than a few days, but they can grow back with any wave of intense love or affection.

of course, pretty and poetic as it all seems, having a weather curse is inconvenient most of the times. frustration and anger cause storms that can at best be bothersome and at worst put himself and others in danger. envy and jealousy make vines grow up his limbs, and they rot with the intensity of the feeling. jisvng doesn’t know how to control the curse completely, even after years of trying. the best he could find was to try and feel as little as possible when he’s in public—but this has consequences, of course. and there are still situations where he can’t help himself; moments where his anxiety is too strong and manifests as a small earthquake, moments where he fills a room with fog from embarrassment, moments where he stands in front of the person he loves most and can’t help a variety of flowers from blooming all over his skin, no matter how ashamed he may be of being seen like that.

so… yeah. those are the basics. i could talk about him literally Forever. i’m not sure where to go with this idea but it means the world to me so please share any thoughts / hcs / questions if u want!!

it really is hard! i think with my job being remote + in tech the fact that i spend 40 hours a week looking at a screen feeling my brain melt out of my ears adds to it definitely. in my free time, the idea of staying inside with my laptop doesn’t feel too tempting. maybe i should try writing at a café or someplace nice… ah idk idk idk. anyway,

i agree with everything else you said, from the kudos thing to developing ideas in my mind and trying to find time to write them to the outlining thing! i think, in general terms, it’s so easy for something we do as a hobby for our own enjoyment to become a little tedious or heavy. for me, i’m a creative, i’m majoring in an art-related, creation-based field. not writing makes me feel weird because i know it’s what i want to do, i know i like to do it, so i feel like i should be able to. but! bills don’t pay themselves.

thank u again ^^ love love love to talk to other people about this stuff. makes me feel like i’m not going crazy hehe

hi hi hi! thank u so much for taking the time to send this, it really means a lot. ^^

i would say it’s a mix of not writing because i’m tired (i’m a part time uni student, i also work full time in front of my laptop and it is killing my brain little by little), and writing itself feels more tiring because i haven’t done it in a way that felt fulfilling (ie, how i feel after writing it, kudos or not, feels proportional to the effort and time spent doing it). because i’m tired i don’t write, and the longer i think about writing and how badly i miss it without actually doing it, the more dreadful and frustrating the idea of sitting down and trying to write becomes.

but your point about just writing without a care for grammar and punctuation and structure is really good! i do tend to get carried away by outlining to the point i find it hard to go back and Rewrite Things Properly, but i think i’ll keep trying to find some middle ground where i’m writing more than just planning what to write but in a carefree enough way that i’m not killing myself over every little sentence. i hope that’ll make me feel better and make things seem easier in general.

sorry for the mini essay. thanks again for ur message ^^

i like a lot of ships that aren't mnsvng!! i just. must keep them together. do not separate. the other six members in all their possible combinations are wonderful to me. here's my favs (not censoring since it won't make the cut):

1. channie: fav ship - chanlix | fav friendship - 3racha, minchan
2. minho: fav ship - minsung | fav friendship - hyunho, minchan, minbin
3. binnie: fav ship - hyunbin | fav friendship - 3racha, seungbin
4. hyune: fav ship - hyunbin | fav friendship - hyunsung, hyunho
5. hannie: fav ship - minsung | fav friendship - 3sauce, seungsung, hyunsung
6. lix: fav ship - chanlix | fav friendship - jilix, hyunlix
7. seungmin: fav ship - seungjin | fav friendship - seungsung, seungchan
8. innie: fav ship - seungin | fav friendship - minjeong, jeonglix

hi fin! let me think. ummm. this could be super wide or super specific depending on how deep i dig in the little mnsvng box in my brain. ummmmmmm.

1. rough with everyone but careful with each other - this is mostly talked about on mnho's side but i lovee when we see it from both of them. how they're not afraid to get rough with anyone else (either by talking harshly, the way they touch or don't touch their other friends, etc) but with each other they're careful and always know how to stop. they get close enough to each other's boundaries that they can have fun without ever crossing it. they don't treat one another like they're fragile, it's more like... the way you'd treat something that is precious to you, something that's one of a kind. you still like it the most and want to have fun with it but always in such a way that you would never cause it any harm.

2. everyone knows they're dating except them - AAAAHHHHH. one of the mnsvng tropes i've read most and also. kind of. descriptive of how they are irl (in my humble opinion). being so comfortable with each other that the lines of how to define their relationship are blurry but they don't care, they don't even think about it. sure, they spend their every waking moment with each other in some way, either physically or through text, calls, little notes, acts of service. they think about each other whenever they're apart, include them in every thought and decision. so naturally, everyone thinks they're together - especially the people that met them after their relationship had evolved into this. friends and family and acquaintances at work assume that they're dating. people at bars and clubs don't even try to flirt with one of them because the other is always There, making it very clear that they belong to each other. add a little "but everyone does that, we're just best friends, sure i love him more than anyone in this world and would rather die than be apart from him but - ohhh" moment and you've got the perfect trope.

3. "i hate everyone in the world but you" - this is pretty personal as it's from a wip that never saw the light of day, but i particularly like it when one of them (in my head it's usually jsvng because of said wip, but it can be mnho, too!) has become cold and distant from people because of the experiences that they've had, they've spent years of their life trying very hard and very consciously to build a wall between themselves and the rest of the world, and yet here comes mnho (or jsvng!) to tear that all down without even trying. they don't make each other softer; they still hate the world, but they hate it together, hand in hand. the intimacy that comes with letting your walls down for just that one person, allowing yourself to trust, allowing yourself to be cared for, looked after, known. learning that there was nothing /wrong/ with them, that it was just a matter of the right person coming along to show them that they could and should be loved the right way, to show them that the world can be a beautiful place if they let it.

i'm so fucken wordy when it comes to them. like. you could ask me what i think their favorite color is and i would write a 10 page essay. Anyway. hope this answered your question :] would love to hear your favorite tropes as well!

!!! i love this question. i don’t know what it says about me that i already have an answer for this:

it only takes a taste: easy, caramel lattes and coffee shop brownies (the ones that come all wrapped up?) and homemade cheesecake with berries

fragments of a boy in blue: the ocean and the sky, like i said, but also warm sand under my feet, the smell of dirt roads after morning dew, sunscreen and chlorine and the smell of shampoo and soap in the shower after a long day in the sun

vitamin, dopamine: this is gonna sound gross but sweat—more the sensation than the smell, sweat from so many bodies sticking together in the audience before a concert, sweat from exertion after long hours jumping on stage, sweat from being under the spotlight. but also perfume, a little on the fruity side, and scented candles, and key lime pie.

i don’t know if this makes any sense. it has a lot to do with how i’m feeling when i write, how much i’m able to see and hear and feel these stories as i write them. thank you for such a lovely question ^_^