hmmmmmm for one thing i think 0421 and 7726 bear... certain similarities. tbth... the reason why i'm drawn to them was for a really silly thing though; i was going about absorbing a lot of past 🌱 content in my slop head and i came across some r/s chart dy had drawn out for a jp fanbook iirc... i didn't have much of an opinion i would say of jh at this time i was a bit of a d0ta3 absolutist as MANY were during its peak year in 2020 (conversely, the year known as ja3d0's most pronounced divorce year)

so i was kind of surprised that dy's opinion of jh in this chart (which was 2018 empathy era?) he had simply written that it was a relationship where they made each other laugh a lot... and i was like... ❓❓❓❓. like smth about this was just SO so striking to me as someone who didn't have much of an opinion on jh and then also of jaedo as this mysterious bulwark of a ship in the fandom that i didn't quite understand then (due to their divorce/distance in 2020) so i had written it off as this purely horny ship of making up THEE most about them... from then on i rlly started to dig my heels in. that's when i rlly started paying attention. these two that on camera were very rarely interacting but that dy says is one where they joke around a lot... smth he CONSISTENTLY says as recently as one of the latest jp fanbooks (the detective one)!!! anyway i could somewhat credit the development of my analytical skills to jaedoists. it's their brand of narrative crafting and evidence collecting right down to the slowed down 3 second clips that made me see the pair in a much different light as well as the whole group dynamic of nct.

anyway... like baekchen. it's a dynamic where someone really, very, truly, adores the other. and that person is jaehyun. a lot of jaedoists are valentines (jaehyun fans first and foremost) and i think vals care a ton about jaehyun's emotional state and how he's doing because he's quite open about his feelings--when he's moody or happy, you can immediately tell by his face. i think this was a pretty bombastic revelation on their ends when they noticed a rather consistent pattern of jaehyun... having a lot of specific emotions and approach to doyoung that is just DIFFERENT from anybody else in the group. there is just a WAY jaehyun is with doyoung that is legit different when you pay attention. can be attributed to multiple things: them having predebut schedule as joint hosts for showchamp in 2015, doyoung joining smrookies on the later side compared to the others but being the one who helped taeyong considerably and helped him open his heart again (taeyong's words.) sort of suggests that he also had some kind of effect on jaehyun (but idk what) given the stranger history of jaehyun and taeyong but i digress... so many smrookies pictures where jaehyun and/or taeyong are just like. "look it's doyoung!!". and that puts a read of the whole taedojae dynamic into overdrive for me. it's also baekchenny in the way there is so much documented on jaehyun's jealousy and possessiveness over doyoung it could make ur head spin a bit but what also drives a fascinating question for ME there is like... why?... because baek sort of called dibs on jongdae based off them joining sm together and jongdae also being a singer he holds in tremendous regard. but jaehyun himself is kind of coy about why he's like that about doyoung in contrast to how blatant he is that he feels that way, whatever that way appears to be... it's... hard to read it as anything else but sexual/romantic sometimes. but in a platonic way i guess you can just be weird and possessive about a friend, especially if that friend lowkey ices you out a good bit on camera because he is somewhat "concerned" about how the relationship might be perceived on camera which then makes you even MORE weird and possessive on camera because you are a true romantic full of feelings. but platonically.