studiobondurri Chapter 49: Your Idol
Chapter 49: Your Idol
A/N: Here's the new Chapter! Which also means the next FIVE chapters are up on my Patreon for early access!
Mira/Zoey POV as we finally get to the Your Idol performance!
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Okay yeah, Mira could see how the Saja Boys had managed to be a very real threat to the Honmoon in the other timeline. She says as much given that Jinu asked for feedback.his performance after the HUNTR/X breakup in the other timeline, right?
Heh, why had they even needed to perform at that point? Hadn't they already won? Really- oh, it's starting!
Zoey's eyes widen in even greater excitement as the penthouse falls away and they're suddenly at the edge of the massive stage at Namsan Tower. This isn't the Idol Awards venue, no sir… this is better.
Looking around, Zoey sees that the stadium is packed to the gills with fans, all of them holding up Saja Boys Light Sticks. Fifty thousand just like Rumi had said. Meanwhile, there's a truly massive screen behind the stage with a stylized logo that could have either been a lion or a demon.
Clever really, considering Saja was the word for lion but Jinu and his constructs had all looked like Jeoseung Saja when he'd originally petitioned Gwi-Ma down in the demon realm.
"Pray for me now
Pray for me now, pray for me now (dies irae illa)
Pray for me now, pray for me now (vos solve in favillam)
Pray for me now, pray for me now (maledictus erus)
Pray for me now, pray for me now (in flammas aeternum)"
Suddenly, the music starts and Zoey faces forward again just in time to see the Saja Boys rise out of the floor of the stage looking exactly like Soul Collectors as well. Oh shit… they weren't even wearing human disguises anymore. No, they were full mask off at this point. This… this wasn't going to be anything like Soda Pop, was it?
Jinu and the others reach the apex of their little floating act… and Jinu lifts his head, his eyes glittering as he looks down and makes eye contact with the three of them in particular.
"I'll be your Idol."
Zoey would swear until the day she died that his voice reverberated through her very soul on that line. But she didn't have very long to contemplate it, because the song immediately leaps into it and... and she finds herself hanging off of every word.
"Keeping you in check (uh), keeping you obsessed (uh)
Play me on repeat 끝없이 in your head
Anytime it hurts (uh), play another verse (uh)
I can be your sanctuary"
Holy shit this is good. The lyrics… fuck, she almost wants to call for Jinu to pause the whole memory just so she can dissect every line. At the same time, she doesn't want him to stop, not even for a second.
"Know I'm the only one right now (now)
I will love you more when it all burns down
More than power (uh), more than gold (yeah)
Yeah, you gave me your heart, now I'm here for your soul"
Okay yeah, Rumi was right, these weren't exactly subtle lyrics. Given the context, it was actually very, very literal wasn't it?
"I'm thе only one who'll love your sins
Feel the way my voicе gets underneath your skin"
At the same time, Jinu is going crazy with it. Frankly, all of the Saja Boys are. Zoey's face is red hot and when she chances a glance at Mira and Rumi, they don't look much better. Rumi only has eyes for Jinu just like always, but Mira… Zoey has never seen Mira look more starstruck and stunned.
"Listen, 'cause I'm preachin' to the choir
Can I get the mic a little higher?
Gimme your desire
I can be the star you rely on (you rely on)
내 황홀에 취해, you can't look away (yeah)
Don't you know I'm here to save you?
Now we runnin' wild
Yeah, I'm all you need, I'ma be your idol"
And then shit gets really wild. Suddenly, the three of them are repositioned on the outer edge of the stage as Jinu and the rest of the Saja Boys teleport forward to right in front of them. The rapper of the group looks so… well, not nearly as 'cute and bubbly' as he did in Soda Pop, that's for sure. His deep voice suits him MUCH more now that he's dressed as the Korean equivalent of a Grim Reaper.
"Uh, 빛이 나는 fame, 계속 외쳐, "I'm your idol"
Thank you for the pain, 'cause it got me goin' viral
Uh, yeah, 낫지 않는 fever, makin' you a believer
나를 위해 넌 존재하는 아이들"
This is also when Gwi-Ma shows up and Zoey's heart clenches in fear and concern for all of the people in the stadium. But she calms herself down, remembering that it's all just… well, a memory. And more than that, the other versions of them had all saved the day in the end, led by Rumi into the original rendition of What It Sounds Like.
Keeping that in mind, Zoey focuses back on the song, biting her lower lip as Jinu stands right in front of the three of them, singing along with the rest of his boyband.
"Living in your mind now
Too late, 'cause you're mine now
I will make you free (I will make you free)
When you're all a part of me~"
He tilts his head back and gives them this grin that makes Zoey clench her thighs together, especially as the lighting flashes across his demonic face. Then, just as suddenly, he and the others are back on the main stage, floating back up into the air again.
"Preachin' to the choir
(Now) can I get the mic a little higher?
Gimme your desire
Watch me set your world on fire (world on fire)
내 황홀에 취해, you can't look away (yeah)
No one is coming to save you
Now we runnin' wild
You're down on your knees, I'ma be your idol!"
She'd get down on her knees for Demon Jinu any day. Demon Rumi too, hehehe… ooh, could Rumi do a full demon form? Was that a thing? What would it even look like?
Finally, the song comes to an end on an eerily familiar woman's cry from back at the front of the stadium. Zoey twists around to look, but Jinu cuts off the memory there, forcing her to instead look to the real Rumi.
"Was that you at the end, Rumi?!"
Rumi just blushes and nods, smiling slightly even as she continues to stare at Jinu. Jinu, who right now looks exactly like he did in the memory, complete Grim Reaper ensemble and everything. Silence reigns for a moment as Zoey tries to get her thoughts in order. Because… damn. Soda Pop was good, yeah. Perfect for a debut. But Your Idol? That shit was transcendent.
Before she can say as much though, Mira cuts in with a confused noise in the back of her throat.
"… At the end there… did you guys throw in a dab?"
Jinu furrows his brow as Zoey looks back in her memories and realizes Mira is right.
"Uh… yeah? Dabbing is an innate gesture of triumph in the modern era. I did my research, thank you very much."
Oh. Oh. Zoey has to cover her mouth with her hands to keep from bursting out laughing. Mira though, has no such compunctions because she's Mira.
"Holy shit! Even your memes are old!"
Jinu pouts and Zoey finally lets herself start to giggle. Just a little bit. As a treat.
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A/N: The dab at the end of Your Idol dates Jinu more than any of his Joseon Era stuff, let's be real.
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