bestfriends to lovers | kwon soonyoung
seventeen as romantic tropes series ✩ masterlist ✩
PAIRING: hoshi x reader
THEMES: best friends to lovers, mutual pining, fluff
WARNINGS: fluff
WORDCOUNT: 425
A/N: this didn't turn out exactly how i imagined, but i hope it's okay.
kwon soonyoung, he's always been your number one and he was your friend, best friend in fact. you'd spent a considerable amount of your childhood years together and now you both were adults and in college, busy with your respective lives. but that didn't mean you both still didn't meet up, you guys were best friends after all. nothing could get in between you both.
so when you're invited to your old friend's wedding, you ask soonyoung to come along as your plus one. that was kind of your thing, going to weddings or parties as each other's plus ones. it was fun and gave you both an excuse to spend time with each other.
so here you are, slow dancing under the starry night sky with soonyoung, as you both sway and slowly move to the music playing, looking at each other. soonyoung looks at you like you're the only person in the world right now. his eyes are filled with so much love and adoration as it look at you, it almost overwhelms you and you tear your gaze away, clearing your throat before you look back up at him. suddenly you're hyper-aware of how you both are and the feeling of his hands on you. soonyoung's gaze never once wavers as he gives you a soft smile, making your heart race.
"what are you thinking about", you tease, poking him in the chest, getting nervous under his gaze.
"i think i'm in love with you", he says softly, the words hanging in the air between you both. your eyes widen at his words, at his sudden confession before you regain your composure, only blinking at him, thinking he was pulling your leg.
"very funny", you tell, laughing nervously but he doesn't seem fazed, as he pulls you closer ever so slightly, but enough to make your breath hitch in your throat, his gaze drawing you in.
you'd honestly wondered what would happen if you both harboured feelings for each other, but soonyoung's confession catches you off guard. did you like him back? yes. maybe even love him? yes.
"and if i said i was in love with you too?", you offer and he smiles wider when he hears those words.
"then that's good", he adds, holding your gaze, looking at you with pure endearment, a softness and adoration in his gaze.
"i think we'd make a pretty cute couple, don't you think?', he asks, making you laugh, and he laughs too. and when you look at him this time, the tension in the air is no longer there, replaced with a quiet understanding as you both look at each other.
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So I saw your post about your Azul and Riddle enemies headcanons and how you mentioned that you actually believe they're besties, and as someone who also believes they're besties I'd be very interested to hear any bff headcanons you have about them if you don't mind 👀
Azul and Riddle are bffs even if they both refuse to admit it. I think about their interactions in book 6 frequently. You get a bulleted list because I don't know how else to organize my thoughts this time.
They've literally been besties since they met their freshman year (probably at orientation in the form of Azul trying to get Floyd to leave Riddle alone)
Like, they'd start accidentally hanging out together in the library while they were studying
And then it just became an unspoken meetup at a certain time at the same table at least once a week
When Riddle found out about Azul's study guides he tried really hard to get him in trouble for breaking the rules, only to find out that Azul was not, in fact, breaking a single rule (causing Riddle to gain a new respect for him but also to make sure his whole dorm was wary of him)
Now that they're both housewardens, they have a tendency to inadvertently, or on purpose, team up during housewarden meetings on random topics
Half the time they don't even realize they're agreeing until after they've won whatever argument they were having with the others and they high five (immediately regretting it)
After book 6 when Azul says they're friends Riddle has to think long and hard about what that means and whether or not Azul is trying to pull one over on him
Once they both mutually accept each other as friends they get really awkward around each other because neither of them have ever really had 'friends'
Like, Azul has the twins but they don't refer to each other as friends and Riddle has Trey and Che'nya and Cater but he's never really felt like they were at the same point as him in terms of friendship (mostly because he excluded himself from anything close to friendship)
Azul and Riddle just work so well together and they're just always on the same page (even if Riddle gets offended if anyone compares him to Azul in any way)
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From what I remember in your story, even taking Iroh's initial biases into account I thought part of his intense hostility leading up to his report to Ozai was that he was truly convinced that Azula's true nature was either no better or even significantly worse than Ozai's due to the Iroh's suspicions arc. Azula herself told Sokka she was worried that by throwing him of the trail of their relationship that she may have brought the worst out of him. Honestly this was probably my favorite exploration of their conflict, because if they were truly able to trust each other and talk they could have avoided so much pain and trouble, but both of them over the course of the story had developed genuine and/or biased reasons not to trust one another and viewed themselves as doing the right thing despite their actions ultimately resulting in the worst outcome. Azula was trying to prevent a known adversary from having ammunition to ruin their lives and future plans, and Iroh believed that he was essentially hindering the fire nation by turning what he thought were essentially two Evil Ozais with a good relationship with one another into enemies. I can't lie that I'm not slightly disappointed that in the latest chapter that this aspect of their conflict wasn't brought up more explicitly in the conversation with Zuko when Iroh was talking about his biases. Was I personally thinking that the dynamic was more significant than it actually was or is that dynamic being saved for a future conversation Iroh may have with Sokka and Azula?
Uuuuuh, as for the last question... I don't really know if I'll bring it up some more since I do think I've had Iroh acknowledge why and how he fucked up in that respect in the past + exteriorized that if Azula had acted differently he might just have done it too? Am I crazy for thinking so? Did I write that or didn't I? That's a complicated game to play when you're almost at 5 million words of a story... 🤣
Azula and Iroh miiiight have one more conversation in the future and maybe this will come up there, but I haven't written it yet so I won't make any promises on that front. Admittedly, I don't expect their future encounter to be particularly fruitful. Iroh is 100% genuine in what he has understood and learned, though, that can't be denied and I always have hoped to portray him not as a super wicked villain but as a character who thinks he understands far more than he actually does, with motivations that push him into making mistakes he very much comes to regret.
This being said, the Azula-Iroh and Zuko-Ozai parallels in this story are and always have been 100% intentional. Those two tugs-of-war have been going on forever, and the crux of them was very much the fact that Azula and Iroh distrusted and second-guessed and suspected each other soooo much... because they have similar natures, similar thought processes, and they're both intellectual, suspicious, hiding what's REALLY going on underneath the surface, and immediately wary when they recognize all those traits in each other too. Likewise, Zuko and Ozai have some REALLY ugly parallels and one of those parallels, already given away by the chapter you sent this ask over, is going to be the driving force of the conflict between those two, much as a similar thing was the driving force between Iroh and Azula, in its own way: the more they fight to push the other away, the harder they reject the other, the more they end up embodying the flaws they see in that other person, to an extent where they could do absolutely TERRIBLE things just out of wanting to push the other one as far away as possible.
So yeah, the point was never for Iroh to feel like some sadistic mustache-twirling villain who wanted Azula to suffer just for shits and giggles. He had his reasons to do what he did. Doesn't mean he was right. Doesn't mean he should've done it. What it means is it made sense in his head due to his biases, the information he had at hand at the moment, and the particularly awful relationship he had with Azula. Likewise, Azula's rejection of Iroh back in "Iroh's suspicions" caused her uncertainty and anguish because she KNEW she had taken it too far. She was afraid of the consequences. A part of her KNEW that if she acted differently, there was a chance, however slim, that Iroh might not have made the choice he did. And that's why this is such a messed up situation! :')
Ultimately, I want my characters to have motivations that just... add up. That can be traced. That, upon looking at their actions and choices, anyone can go "oh yeah, this is why they did whatever they did". This is good when it comes to establishing ultimate goals, and it's also good when you want to put characters to the test: how far are they willing to go, what are they ready to do to achieve whatever they're trying to achieve? How much are they willing to sacrifice for it? And the answers to those questions can be VERY extreme and painful. Just so, we can find characters who decide to back down and simply surrender over their goals when they realize that there are other things that matter more. But it's a manner of game a writer plays when it comes to gauging and figuring out what a character wants vs. needs, what a character will fight for and what it will take for them to surrender, and so on. Fundamentally, that's how I built up Iroh and Azula's chaotic dynamic. Whatever comes from that in the future, ultimately, their biggest problem may just be that they were just too smart for their own good, tried to outsmart each other a little too much, and never allowed themselves to just... accept each other properly. They came close to it once, yes! But... they failed. And it's depressing as hell, but complicated characters will always be challenging this way...
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how much money can i throw at you to write starcee hate-fucking each other? askjsaksjs i am just obsessed with the idea of those two fucking and arcee being spiteful and bitter and starscream being both smug and an asshole the whole time. i dont even ship them romantically but the idea of them kissing and going hard on each other while insulting each other seems so entertaining to me lmao?? does that make sense??? i have such mixed feelings for them but then again i love *any* fic where starscream is Fucking or Being Fucked by somebody... he's got the legs for it... im sorry if this was a weird question btw :')
Listen. I. I have the first chapter of a 'Starcee hatefucked once and Arcee accidentally knocked Starscream up and now they have to live with the consequences' fic right here on my laptop ready to go slfkghsdfgkljdsfgkjsdkfhgshglksjdgkjdshfg
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“He could take that thing he was singing, and just sledgehammer it through somebody’s heart,” Shinoda said with reverence. “I’ve grown to appreciate what we had even more, because it’s hard to get that. I work with people where I go, ‘Oh, can you sing it this way?’ And they just can’t.”
Brad Delson, the band’s guitarist, called “Lost” a “surprise gift” from Bennington. “The performance is so beautiful, delicate and clear,” he said. “I’ve heard a lot of great Chester vocals, and this is among the best.”
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But the process of assembling the reissue has provided another means of considering how Bennington may have wanted the band to proceed without him. In particular, Shinoda said he “felt confident” that the singer would have endorsed these expanded editions. “Historically, he was always way more bullish about putting out stuff,” he said. “A typical Chester reaction would have been, ‘Why not just make the album 15 songs?’ When I thought about that, it was very reassuring.”
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