omg hello anon ;; first of all it is very sweet that you go back & reread namwoozi fic + thank you for all your kind words, it really means a lot to me c':

i've been thinking abt them recently too! esp bc wooga suchwita anniversary yesterday & i was rewatching & brain was whirring ykwim

if i were to outline a bit more of their story/paths: i think nj & wz both know how much of a bad idea it is to keep going with what they're doing; and they both feel the weight of it but wz has all his members that he's directly affecting too, doesn't he--but i think that makes nj feel guiltier.
nj was the one that started this but he's also the one who asks to stop, and i think wz isn't so much hurt by it as he knows it's coming. he's almost relieved by it.

nj channels a lot of it into his music (yk how indigo feels like a breakup album. & while obv i was not thinking of it when i wrote this fic...even rpwp feels like that in a way...) i think the music helps, i think him taking time away and travelling and chasing his art helps him kind of come down from the anger and the hurt, yknow. he mellows out. and he meets yg again after all of that & i think they're both at a better place for them to get what they want from each other.

as for wz & mg. i think wz...well wz represses and it also shows up in his music and the members are a lil worried abt him for a while but they don't ask outright, i think hs probably figures a lot of it out towards the end of the arrangement/once nmwz stop.

i don't think mg is being intentionally malicious abt anything--i think he's also young & it takes him a while to finally put it to words in his own head, this hyung likes me but i don't think he would ask or act on that. to me the svt of this fic have one or two sets of members where ur like...hmm...something is goin on there...but none of them are lasting or much more than a physical thing, bc to all of them the group comes first every time. they aren't going to pursue anything else amongst themselves.

but i think they both grow up eventually, yknow? mg apologizes to wz after a while. and wz loves him but he'll find somebody else. (it feels kind of sad to end it like that but. To Me, that's how it goes...and he will be happy. there are a lot of ppl that lov our wooza)

wow i'm horrible i started writing out an answer to this and thought i'd posted it but i guess i never clicked answer . . . god i'm sorry

ok ok ok firstly. i know it sucks to mention a deleted work but 'champion of the realm' by [now anon] is such a staple for me not only for seokgyu but also re: mg and dk characterization & group dynamics. and also mg HYUNG..👁️

& for fics! in no particular order:

life's just another rom-com by wonsteapot

gold fever by xiajin

king of baking, kim mingyu by yoonbot (iverins), also have your cake (and eat it too) 

you know you should — by notspring

175°C for 60 minutes by geguri (tofuflower)

i want us to eat well by volta (sunwalker)

lights out by evenings

a sober moment cameo, you know i can't refuse ya by dogyeom

okay the below include 🔞 content so please keep that in mind + pls read the tags

sinking/synching by radicchio, also bite back which is rated T!

wax & wane by citadis

number one with a bullet by deadwine

mirror test by sunburst

Good To Me, Good For Me by preciouslittletime

exactly where i want me (underneath your body) by drownedincovers (devotions)

ah! love, you. by 2ndstartotheright

i also want to post a seokgyu fic reclist on dw w/more notes+any fics i've forgotten so i'll link that when i get around to it! for now you just get a list of links w/ no commentary though bc i'm writing this on my lunch break 💀 please know i love all of these a lot & thank u to the seokgyufic writers for feeding this community. hope to become one of u soon.